End of Daze

[anthrobabe]

Ok it is now Friday here in the USA and allowing for the fact that the entire earth isn't always on the same day anyway (they never seem to get that fact in their day of doom predictions) Wednesday had most definately passed
so one of two things has happened

1: the person is a nutter
2: the rapture occured and we are all actually in either heaven or hell

as I don't see Ghandi anywhere (speak to various people and as he is non-christian he would be in hell-speak to others and an exception would have been made and he would be in heaven) so how would we know anyway, plus I haven't had to show anyone a gate pass either, so I have no way of knowing where I am so I'll have another beer thank you--
also no sightings of  virgins en mass

[Aphos]

I suppose it is possible that the Rapture has come and the only person that passed muster was a nun in Lithuania.  All the rest of us have been Left Behind.



(Sorry...any mention of those horrid books does that to me.)

[Opsa]

Well, who can blame you?

They say "in heaven there is no beer, that's why we drink it here", so if A'babe is having a beer and we're still reading her posts, we must not be in heaven with the Lithuanian nun and the carping virgins. Hope they're having fun.

[water nymph]

He was man enough to show up afterwards.  That gets points from me.
Many would have left and never come back out of shame.
He said he would think more about any other revelations he has before posting them.  So he learned something in the process.
That's what we're here for, huh?

[Opsa]

Ooh, almost humble enough for Toadfish.

[Sibling Chatty]

The thing I wanted to tell him, but never got the energy to...that Bible which he claims to believe SAYS that 'no man knoweth the time' of the end, and that those that prophesy it are...not speaking from divine inspiration. (Liberal paraphrase, it's been mumblesomething years since I've read the exact translation from the earliest source.)

Yes, it's possible that he indeed had an' inspired' look forward, but to a God who says that a day shall be as a thousand years and a thousand years shall be as a day...you don't pin that Deity of Choice down to YOUR timetable. (Especially on a Wednesday, when the Southern Baptists are already heavily invested in the Wednesday night supper preparations so that they can have the kids groups meetings, prayer meetin' and choir practice without having folks starve.)

Besides, you get more positive results with positive statements. Prophecies of doom, gloom and destruction just bring derision. Within 100 miles of where I went to college in the early 70's, there were THREE different groups sitting on "mountaintops" waiting for the end. One group was sure the end was coming because the Assembly of God Church Camps started allowing 'mixed bathing' (boys and girls swimming in the SAME LAKE!!) in 1972. Their leader had a small heart attack when they allowed mixed bathing in swimming pools 2 years later. (Just to prove how progressive the Baptists were,my Baptist college allowed co-ed pool use as early as 1971!!)

These folks have something they want to say. They don't know how to say it without the 'preachiness' (and the superioristic attitude). That he had the guts to come back does speak well of his ability to THINK about the effects his words have.

[Griffin NoName]

I still say it's on the cards what with the half-life 3 day decay; I'm sticking with the 31st. That's three minutes in here where I am now.... nothing so far, but I do have this Impending Doomy Feeling.

[pieces o nine]

The thing I wanted to tell him, but never got the energy to...that Bible which he claims to believe SAYS that 'no man knoweth the time' of the end, and that those that prophesy it are...not speaking from divine inspiration. (Liberal paraphrase, it's been mumblesomething years since I've read the exact translation from the earliest source.)

A-MEN!  Can I get a HALLELUJAH  from the choir! Praise! Preach  it, Sister Chatty!

When one of those types (or thee wuns harassin' me on wether oi be sertin oi'm !SAVED! an all) gets awl up in me grill (in a manner ov speekin') I like to give them the smile that all the VirginAndMartyr saints wore on the Holy Cards of my youth and remind them that Not Even Our Lord And Saviour Knows The Appointed Time, according to Hisownself, and that it is a rare privelege to meet someone who is better informed than God...

They seldom press me to join their cult church after that evidence of FNKS.   

* Female Not Keeping Silent

[Sibling Chatty]

That FNKS does upset them doesn't it??

And they do so hate it when you correct their homebrewed pseudo-theology.

I got called an uppity woman a couple years ago...to which I replied "Damn Skippy I am, Bubba, and do NOT forget it." Right up until he went to pastor a church in another town, that guy avoided me. I don't know why--I didn't correct him in front of his congregation, just in front of a Methodist minister, a Baptist minister and a Catholic deacon, one of whom pulled out a Bible and read that I was right about the quote and he had it wrong...in 4 parallel versions.

The one I use, in my most folksy Texas manner is "Honey, God done got the job of God. He thinks He's doin' it real good, too, so if'n I'ze you?? I wouldn't be tryin' to change the meanin' of His words, or to do HIS job, or to take over and Rule His World...much less messin' with people that may not even believe in what you do." I usually follow that with a "So set yer mangy ass down before I sit you down with mah chainsaw...'cause The Book sez that he's a Jealous God, and your takin' over for Him might have blow-back, and I DO NOT wanna be in the pathway."

They're usually so stunned they don't respond at all...

[Aphos]

I am beginning to get worried about the Lithuanian nun.  Did she get carried off in the Rapture, or was she kidnapped by the Russian Mafia?

[Bruder Cuzzen]

That AGI guy wasn't too bad . At least he only wanted to wipe out all life just once in God's name , the Jahova's have tried it four times that I can recall .
I think they are fudging the math again and should have a more definitive date soon .

[Opsa]

Well, it's June first here, and I haven't seen any Lithuanian nuns all day, so I can only assume that it's come and gone and we can just go along as before.

[Alpaca]

Maybe it was rescheduled for Friday the 13th? Along with a slew of cheap horror movies.

[beagle]

I am beginning to get worried about the Lithuanian nun.  Did she get carried off in the Rapture, or was she kidnapped by the Russian Mafia?

If she was beamed up with the 144000 qualifying men she's probably completed two fast laps of infinity by now.