You've got 11 days until rapture

[be-bop]

We're all having a good laugh at the end of days
But what if?..............................................................

[infinite monkey]

I had a sobering thought. What if, precisely when the rapture starts, it also starts raining men?

[Flint]

"We budgeted everything so that, on May 21, we won't have anything left," Adrienne adds.

There were some folks within recent memory, my grandfather's grandfather, I believe, on what I call "the crazy side" of my family, who believed that the rapture was on a certain date that had been predicted, and there was no reason to plan to have any material possessions past that point.

Obvioulsy, it didn't happen. And for some reason, there continues to be religious people on that side of the family who are (surprise) batshit insane.

This is where I formed my ideas about religious people. I've never met one who isn't, on some level, deeply flawed in a very troubling way.




In my opinion.

[lookout123]

Originally Posted by Flint

This is where I formed my ideas about religious people. I've never met one who isn't, on some level, deeply flawed in a very troubling way.




In my opinion.

My flaw is my unusually large cock. We all have our crosses to carry.

[HungLikeJesus]

Exactly.

[Pete Zicato]

Originally Posted by Flint

This is where I formed my ideas about religious people. I've never met one who isn't, on some level, deeply flawed in a very troubling way.

The Venn diagram of religious people and batshit insane has some overlap, I'll grant you. But the one is not necessarily the cause of the other.

The folks I sing with in the choir are all full of faith. And they're also some of the nicest people I know.

[HungLikeJesus]

Originally Posted by Pete Zicato

The Venn diagram of religious people and batshit insane has some overlap, I'll grant you. But the one is not necessarily the cause of the other.

The folks I sing with in the choir are all full of faith. And they're also some of the nicest people I know.

Ted Bundy was described as "well known and well liked."

[Pete Zicato]

Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus

Ted Bundy was described as "well known and well liked."

I realize this was intended as humor. But you just took a pot-shot at my friends.

[lookout123]

You've been around long enough to know that faith/religion is really the set up to a punchline in the cellar.

[HungLikeJesus]

Originally Posted by Pete Zicato

I realize this was intended as humor. But you just took a pot-shot at my friends.

Sorry PZ. No offense intended.

[HungLikeJesus]

Originally Posted by lookout123

You've been around long enough to know that faith/religion is really the set up to a punchline in the cellar.

Anything is a set-up to a punchline in the cellar.

[Flint]

Originally Posted by Pete Zicato

The Venn diagram of religious people and batshit insane has some overlap, I'll grant you. But the one is not necessarily the cause of the other.

The folks I sing with in the choir are all full of faith. And they're also some of the nicest people I know.

I didn't mean to suggest that there was a causal realationship. This is more about the formation of my own ideas.

Funny thing, I've played in many church bands, myself. As a volunteer, not a paid performer. I got along with people very well, and yes there were some nice ones and some not nice ones, just like everybody else.

I even agreed on and shared many of their values, which are all pretty common sense stuff. The point where I agreed to disagree was that something supernatural was required to enforce the supremacy of these ideas.

I've always thought that good ideas support themselves, and don't need "magic" to bedazzle me into following them.

That's just me. I don't compromise on this, at any point, on any level.

[ZenGum]

Originally Posted by lookout123

My flaw is my unusually large cock. We all have our crosses to carry.

CRUCI-COCK!

[infinite monkey]

Originally Posted by infinite monkey

I had a sobering thought. What if, precisely when the rapture starts, it also starts raining men?

OK fine, it's a visual. You got all these people floating upwards, see? Then (as the song goes) it starts actually RAINING MEN, see? They're bound to crack into each other. Bodies breaking and bouncing and splitting in two, blood and guts everywhere, screaming, thrashing, gnashing of teeth. Those of us left behind at once appalled that we are left behind but thinking "but, it's actually raining MEN!"

The rapture is gonna be AWESOME.

[HungLikeJesus]

But the men that are raining down, those are like rapture rejects?