Comments on: Unraptured http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/05/20/unraptured/ I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog. Fri, 25 May 2012 07:33:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jimmy http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/05/20/unraptured/comment-page-3/#comment-389426 Jimmy Wed, 15 Jun 2011 19:04:16 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=32155#comment-389426 [Re Unraptured, here's a web scream that'll blow you away. The rapture is a hoax that is less than 200 years old! Jimmy] PRETRIB RAPTURE SECRETS How can the “rapture” be “imminent”? Acts 3:21 says that Jesus “must” stay in heaven (He's now there with the Father) “until the times of restitution of all things” which includes, says Scofield, “the restoration of the theocracy under David’s Son” which obviously can’t begin before or during Antichrist’s reign. ("The Rapture Question," by the long time No. 1 pretrib authority John Walvoord, didn't dare to even list, in its scripture index, the too-hot-to-handle Acts 3:21!) Since Jesus can’t even leave heaven before the tribulation ends (Acts 2:34, 35 echo this), the rapture therefore can't take place before the end of the trib! (The above verses from Acts were also too hot for John Darby - the so-called "father of dispensationalism" - to list in the scripture index in his "Letters"!) Paul explains the “times and the seasons” (I Thess. 5:1) of the catching up (I Thess. 4:17) as the “day of the Lord” (5:2) which FOLLOWS the posttrib sun/moon darkening (Matt. 24:29; Acts 2:20) WHEN “sudden destruction” (5:3) of the wicked occurs! The "rest" for "all them that believe" is tied to such destruction in II Thess. 1:6-10! (If the wicked are destroyed before or during the trib, who'd be left alive to serve the Antichrist?) Paul also ties the change-into-immortality “rapture” (I Cor. 15:52) to the posttrib end of “death” (15:54). (Will death be ended before or during the trib? Of course not! And vs. 54 is also tied to Isa. 25:8 which is Israel's posttrib resurrection!) Many are unaware that before 1830 all Christians had always viewed I Thess. 4’s “catching up” as an integral part of the final second coming to earth. In 1830 this "rapture" was stretched forward and turned into a separate coming of Christ. To further strengthen their novel view, which the mass of evangelical scholars rejected throughout the 1800s, pretrib teachers in the early 1900s began to stretch forward the “day of the Lord” (what Darby and Scofield never dared to do) and hook it up with their already-stretched-forward “rapture.” Many leading evangelical scholars still weren’t convinced of pretrib, so pretrib teachers then began teaching that the “falling away” of II Thess. 2:3 is really a pretrib rapture (the same as saying that the “rapture” in 2:3 must happen before the “rapture” ["gathering"] in 2:1 can happen – the height of desperation!). Other Google articles on the 181-year-old pretrib rapture view include “Famous Rapture Watchers,” "Pretrib Rapture Diehards," “X-Raying Margaret,” "Edward Irving is Unnerving," “Thomas Ice (Bloopers),” "Walvoord Melts Ice," “Wily Jeffrey,” “The Rapture Index (Mad Theology),” “America’s Pretrib Rapture Traffickers,” “Roots of (Warlike) Christian Zionism,” “Scholars Weigh My Research,” “Pretrib Hypocrisy,” "Pretrib Rapture Secrecy," “Deceiving and Being Deceived,” and "Pretrib Rapture Dishonesty" – all by the author of the bestselling book “The Rapture Plot” (see Armageddon Books). [Re Unraptured, here's a web scream that'll blow you away. The rapture is a hoax that is less than 200 years old! Jimmy]

PRETRIB RAPTURE SECRETS

How can the “rapture” be “imminent”? Acts 3:21 says that Jesus “must” stay in heaven (He’s now there with the Father) “until the times of restitution of all things” which includes, says Scofield, “the restoration of the theocracy under David’s Son” which obviously can’t begin before or during Antichrist’s reign. (“The Rapture Question,” by the long time No. 1 pretrib authority John Walvoord, didn’t dare to even list, in its scripture index, the too-hot-to-handle Acts 3:21!) Since Jesus can’t even leave heaven before the tribulation ends (Acts 2:34, 35 echo this), the rapture therefore can’t take place before the end of the trib! (The above verses from Acts were also too hot for John Darby – the so-called “father of dispensationalism” – to list in the scripture index in his “Letters”!)
Paul explains the “times and the seasons” (I Thess. 5:1) of the catching up (I Thess. 4:17) as the “day of the Lord” (5:2) which FOLLOWS the posttrib sun/moon darkening (Matt. 24:29; Acts 2:20) WHEN “sudden destruction” (5:3) of the wicked occurs! The “rest” for “all them that believe” is tied to such destruction in II Thess. 1:6-10! (If the wicked are destroyed before or during the trib, who’d be left alive to serve the Antichrist?) Paul also ties the change-into-immortality “rapture” (I Cor. 15:52) to the posttrib end of “death” (15:54). (Will death be ended before or during the trib? Of course not! And vs. 54 is also tied to Isa. 25:8 which is Israel’s posttrib resurrection!)
Many are unaware that before 1830 all Christians had always viewed I Thess. 4’s “catching up” as an integral part of the final second coming to earth. In 1830 this “rapture” was stretched forward and turned into a separate coming of Christ. To further strengthen their novel view, which the mass of evangelical scholars rejected throughout the 1800s, pretrib teachers in the early 1900s began to stretch forward the “day of the Lord” (what Darby and Scofield never dared to do) and hook it up with their already-stretched-forward “rapture.” Many leading evangelical scholars still weren’t convinced of pretrib, so pretrib teachers then began teaching that the “falling away” of II Thess. 2:3 is really a pretrib rapture (the same as saying that the “rapture” in 2:3 must happen before the “rapture” ["gathering"] in 2:1 can happen – the height of desperation!).
Other Google articles on the 181-year-old pretrib rapture view include “Famous Rapture Watchers,” “Pretrib Rapture Diehards,” “X-Raying Margaret,” “Edward Irving is Unnerving,” “Thomas Ice (Bloopers),” “Walvoord Melts Ice,” “Wily Jeffrey,” “The Rapture Index (Mad Theology),” “America’s Pretrib Rapture Traffickers,” “Roots of (Warlike) Christian Zionism,” “Scholars Weigh My Research,” “Pretrib Hypocrisy,” “Pretrib Rapture Secrecy,” “Deceiving and Being Deceived,” and “Pretrib Rapture Dishonesty” – all by the author of the bestselling book “The Rapture Plot” (see Armageddon Books).

]]> By: calculus http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/05/20/unraptured/comment-page-3/#comment-384806 calculus Wed, 25 May 2011 01:50:49 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=32155#comment-384806 Because I am an atheist who was raised Jewish, I threw a "party in hell." Because I don't believe in jesus, as dose nobody else in my family, I would go to hell for "not believing." I invited all my freinds (None of which are even close to the beliefes of these christian nut jobs) to sleep over and bring their sleeping bags to have a party in hell! I did everything. We played Nine Inch Nails on max volume, oujia board, read hellboy comics, World of warcraft at 1 in the morning ( only as my most demonic horde!!!!!),and to top it all off, we all did a flawless reanactment of that ending scene to Indiana Jones and the temple of doom (complete with fake blood!) Then, we all woke up to see if we had gone to hell. We didn't! In fact, we spent the morning eating at IHOP! The place was empty! More like heaven than hell! PS. Darwin loves you! LOL Because I am an atheist who was raised Jewish, I threw a “party in hell.” Because I don’t believe in jesus, as dose nobody else in my family, I would go to hell for “not believing.” I invited all my freinds (None of which are even close to the beliefes of these christian nut jobs) to sleep over and bring their sleeping bags to have a party in hell! I did everything. We played Nine Inch Nails on max volume, oujia board, read hellboy comics, World of warcraft at 1 in the morning ( only as my most demonic horde!!!!!),and to top it all off, we all did a flawless reanactment of that ending scene to Indiana Jones and the temple of doom (complete with fake blood!) Then, we all woke up to see if we had gone to hell. We didn’t! In fact, we spent the morning eating at IHOP! The place was empty! More like heaven than hell!

PS. Darwin loves you! LOL

]]> By: Viel Spass beim Weltuntergang! http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/05/20/unraptured/comment-page-3/#comment-384597 Viel Spass beim Weltuntergang! Tue, 24 May 2011 09:53:46 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=32155#comment-384597 [...] [...] [...] [...]

]]> By: Nic http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/05/20/unraptured/comment-page-3/#comment-384540 Nic Mon, 23 May 2011 23:23:02 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=32155#comment-384540 I should have thought of this earlier - why was that person collecting money at all? If the world is ending or whatever the stupid bloody story is, why collect money? As a total and thorough atheist I will always and without question ignore portents of doom from anything other than science backed evidence based sources. However in future if I do happen to see a religious sect really pushing such an agenda and not collecting money (approximately as likely as pigs flying without some kind of rather interesting and big heat engine) I will at least blink. And then continue doing what I was doing. I should have thought of this earlier – why was that person collecting money at all? If the world is ending or whatever the stupid bloody story is, why collect money?
As a total and thorough atheist I will always and without question ignore portents of doom from anything other than science backed evidence based sources. However in future if I do happen to see a religious sect really pushing such an agenda and not collecting money (approximately as likely as pigs flying without some kind of rather interesting and big heat engine) I will at least blink. And then continue doing what I was doing.

]]> By: mike burkhart http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/05/20/unraptured/comment-page-3/#comment-384490 mike burkhart Mon, 23 May 2011 17:53:35 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=32155#comment-384490 I think he needs to stop worrying about the end of the world. I am a Christan(Catholic) and I don't worry about the end of the world when it happens it happens. I've got other things to worry about. Like the fact it's rained so munch this spring I've havent had good Astronomical observations for months ,How am I suposed to unravel the mysteries of the Universe if I can't see anything but clouds? I think he needs to stop worrying about the end of the world. I am a Christan(Catholic) and I don’t worry about the end of the world when it happens it happens. I’ve got other things to worry about. Like the fact it’s rained so munch this spring I’ve havent had good Astronomical observations for months ,How am I suposed to unravel the mysteries of the Universe if I can’t see anything but clouds?

]]> By: Messier Tidy Upper http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/05/20/unraptured/comment-page-3/#comment-384442 Messier Tidy Upper Mon, 23 May 2011 09:03:24 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=32155#comment-384442 Just one more link for this thread <i>(promise!)</i> : http://www.satirewire.com/content1/?p=3062 which explains everything. (Kinda.) ;-) **** Thanks to MinnieTheFinn, Fan of Modern, Sinful Dancing (May 21, 2011 5:25 PM) on Pharyngula's <i>"While Harold Camping sits safe with his millions…"</i> thread. Just one more link for this thread (promise!) :

http://www.satirewire.com/content1/?p=3062

which explains everything. (Kinda.) ;-)

****
Thanks to MinnieTheFinn, Fan of Modern, Sinful Dancing (May 21, 2011 5:25 PM) on Pharyngula’s “While Harold Camping sits safe with his millions…” thread.

]]> By: JB of Brisbane http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/05/20/unraptured/comment-page-3/#comment-384438 JB of Brisbane Mon, 23 May 2011 08:10:35 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=32155#comment-384438 Want to hear something funny? At 6:00PM AEST I was at my local Catholic church, awaiting the start of mass. Almost right on the dot of six, just as the opening commentary finished and the processional hymn was about to start, the laptop computer that runs the Powerpoint presentation with the hymn lyrics on it shut down inexplicably and refused to restart. My first thought - doomsday virus? Want to hear something funny? At 6:00PM AEST I was at my local Catholic church, awaiting the start of mass. Almost right on the dot of six, just as the opening commentary finished and the processional hymn was about to start, the laptop computer that runs the Powerpoint presentation with the hymn lyrics on it shut down inexplicably and refused to restart. My first thought – doomsday virus?

]]> By: Messier Tidy Upper http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/05/20/unraptured/comment-page-3/#comment-384436 Messier Tidy Upper Mon, 23 May 2011 07:35:22 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=32155#comment-384436 Well here's the Camping guy's response to the non-Rapture - a news item : http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/05/22/BAKO1JJIK7.DTL Via this thread : http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/05/doh_we_should_have_known.php on the Pharyngula blog. @126. mfumbesi : <i>"Maybe the high prophet misread the sings, maybe he indulged to much on the holy herb."</i> I'm pretty sure Harold Camping wasn't a Rastafarian : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rastafarian And, as (not) such he probably was NOT a huge believer in partaking of the "sacred 'erb". Then again .. guess we don't really know what could've inspired him to "prophesy"! ;-) Well here’s the Camping guy’s response to the non-Rapture – a news item :

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/05/22/BAKO1JJIK7.DTL

Via this thread :

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/05/doh_we_should_have_known.php

on the Pharyngula blog.

@126. mfumbesi : “Maybe the high prophet misread the sings, maybe he indulged to much on the holy herb.”

I’m pretty sure Harold Camping wasn’t a Rastafarian :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rastafarian

And, as (not) such he probably was NOT a huge believer in partaking of the “sacred ‘erb”. Then again .. guess we don’t really know what could’ve inspired him to “prophesy”! ;-)

]]> By: mfumbesi http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/05/20/unraptured/comment-page-3/#comment-384418 mfumbesi Mon, 23 May 2011 05:50:10 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=32155#comment-384418 Good day, it is the 23th of May 2011 and the end is not here yet. Maybe the high prophet misread the sings, maybe he indulged to much on the holy herb. We will never know. Singing off: mfumbesi. Good day, it is the 23th of May 2011 and the end is not here yet. Maybe the high prophet misread the sings, maybe he indulged to much on the holy herb. We will never know. Singing off: mfumbesi.

]]> By: Messier Tidy Upper http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/05/20/unraptured/comment-page-3/#comment-384410 Messier Tidy Upper Mon, 23 May 2011 05:17:42 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=32155#comment-384410 So .. what's the weak excuse been and is Camping now apologising and handing out refunds? Anyone know? So .. what’s the weak excuse been and is Camping now apologising and handing out refunds? Anyone know?

]]> By: Nic http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/05/20/unraptured/comment-page-3/#comment-384386 Nic Sun, 22 May 2011 22:16:13 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=32155#comment-384386 What a nasty horrible thief. If he truly believed this stuff (yeah right) by now he'd be right on the way handing all the money back. Yeah sure. An evil, evil, thief preying on the vulnerable. What a b*stard. N What a nasty horrible thief.
If he truly believed this stuff (yeah right) by now he’d be right on the way handing all the money back. Yeah sure.
An evil, evil, thief preying on the vulnerable.

What a b*stard.
N

]]> By: jess tauber http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/05/20/unraptured/comment-page-3/#comment-384375 jess tauber Sun, 22 May 2011 19:36:40 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=32155#comment-384375 Those who c the light, and let themselves be suffused with it, shall be lifted heavenward during the Full-of-C Rapture. Those who c the light, and let themselves be suffused with it, shall be lifted heavenward during the Full-of-C Rapture.

]]> By: MaDeR http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/05/20/unraptured/comment-page-3/#comment-384353 MaDeR Sun, 22 May 2011 15:18:15 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=32155#comment-384353 Some here expressed some pity or are sorry for these gullible people. I am not. If experience of last few thousand years does not learn them anything, they are just hopelessly retarded idiots. Some here expressed some pity or are sorry for these gullible people. I am not. If experience of last few thousand years does not learn them anything, they are just hopelessly retarded idiots.

]]> By: Donovan http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/05/20/unraptured/comment-page-3/#comment-384337 Donovan Sun, 22 May 2011 13:09:58 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=32155#comment-384337 Christianity itself is a spin-off from a Jewish end-of-the world cult, if we accept that what the Bible says is an accurate portrayal of the sermons of a man named Jesus. Christianity itself is a spin-off from a Jewish end-of-the world cult, if we accept that what the Bible says is an accurate portrayal of the sermons of a man named Jesus.

]]> By: katwagner http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/05/20/unraptured/comment-page-3/#comment-384312 katwagner Sun, 22 May 2011 06:53:12 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=32155#comment-384312 We need some more RAPTORS here - still have massive quantities of voles in the fields and gardens. They're digging holes in the raised beds and eating the snow peas I just planted. We had five or six owls in our yard all winter but we need the big guns now! Red tail hawks, sparrow hawks, turkey vultures and the occasional golden eagle. Bring 'em! Hurry! We need some more RAPTORS here – still have massive quantities of voles in the fields and gardens. They’re digging holes in the raised beds and eating the snow peas I just planted. We had five or six owls in our yard all winter but we need the big guns now! Red tail hawks, sparrow hawks, turkey vultures and the occasional golden eagle. Bring ‘em! Hurry!

]]> By: Messier Tidy Upper http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/05/20/unraptured/comment-page-3/#comment-384308 Messier Tidy Upper Sun, 22 May 2011 06:04:35 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=32155#comment-384308 Well it's May 22nd now even in the USA and I've got one thing to say to Camping and his followers : http://www.sadtrombone.com/ Oh & what # 101. Old Rockin' Dave said : http://www.nelsonhaha.com/ too. :-P No rapture yesterday folks. Although there's always this : http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/11/01/awesome-timelapse-video-rapture/ Version of the 'Rapture' to console ourselves - much better than the fundamentalist version! :-) Which happened back on Nov. 1st last year if you're curious. ;-) Well it’s May 22nd now even in the USA and I’ve got one thing to say to Camping and his followers :

http://www.sadtrombone.com/

Oh & what # 101. Old Rockin’ Dave said :

http://www.nelsonhaha.com/

too. :-P

No rapture yesterday folks. Although there’s always this :

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/11/01/awesome-timelapse-video-rapture/

Version of the ‘Rapture’ to console ourselves – much better than the fundamentalist version! :-)

Which happened back on Nov. 1st last year if you’re curious. ;-)

]]> By: Gark http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/05/20/unraptured/comment-page-3/#comment-384306 Gark Sun, 22 May 2011 05:20:03 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=32155#comment-384306 @92. Ryan rengifo "Wow shame on you author of this article for having the audacity to use sitchin’s good name In relation to a doomsday prophecy. This is ignorant sensationalist attempt at validating your work. At best, if you want to allude to the work of someone far more respected and accomplished than yourself at least include a disclaimer that you have no idea what you’re talking about, and that it should only be taken as an attempt to drop names." http://thenhlhotlist.azvibe.com/images/207_not_sure_if_serious.jpg @92. Ryan rengifo
“Wow shame on you author of this article for having the audacity to use sitchin’s good name In relation to a doomsday prophecy. This is ignorant sensationalist attempt at validating your work. At best, if you want to allude to the work of someone far more respected and accomplished than yourself at least include a disclaimer that you have no idea what you’re talking about, and that it should only be taken as an attempt to drop names.”

http://thenhlhotlist.azvibe.com/images/207_not_sure_if_serious.jpg

]]> By: Messier Tidy Upper http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/05/20/unraptured/comment-page-3/#comment-384302 Messier Tidy Upper Sun, 22 May 2011 04:05:43 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=32155#comment-384302 Of course, this : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0GFRcFm-aY has to be the theme music for today. @ 64. Joseph G : <blockquote><i>I want to find where these people are meeting. Then I want to fill a bunch of blow-up dolls with helium, and let them go in locations nearby, all around them, at the appointed hour. Then I want to get some pictures of their faces when they see dozens of scantily-clad, very surprised-looking women being Raptured up into the air, while they’re “Left Behind”</i> :-D </blockquote> LOL. Classic idea. :-) Has anyone done / seen any pranks on these sorry jokers yet? Slightly cruel perhaps and I do have a smidgin of sympathy for the most guillible of them, but, yeah, they probably do deserve it & a fair bit of mockery is justified in this case. After all they think the rest of us are going to be put through hell and deserve it so my sympathy for them is rather limited. @69. George Martin : <i> In the U2 song “Bullet the Blue Sky” there is the wonderful line, "Well the God I believe in isn’t short of cash, mister!"</i> Yes. Great song : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGvNHH_Ebtk As is this one : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWhaGa-2Hq0 Also by U2. :-) Find the most appropriate line for this (non-)event .. methinks its about the 1 minute and 1 second mark. ;-) Of course, this :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0GFRcFm-aY

has to be the theme music for today.

@ 64. Joseph G :

I want to find where these people are meeting.
Then I want to fill a bunch of blow-up dolls with helium, and let them go in locations nearby, all around them, at the appointed hour. Then I want to get some pictures of their faces when they see dozens of scantily-clad, very surprised-looking women being Raptured up into the air, while they’re “Left Behind” :-D

LOL. Classic idea. :-)

Has anyone done / seen any pranks on these sorry jokers yet?

Slightly cruel perhaps and I do have a smidgin of sympathy for the most guillible of them, but, yeah, they probably do deserve it & a fair bit of mockery is justified in this case. After all they think the rest of us are going to be put through hell and deserve it so my sympathy for them is rather limited.

@69. George Martin : In the U2 song “Bullet the Blue Sky” there is the wonderful line,
“Well the God I believe in isn’t short of cash, mister!”

Yes. Great song :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGvNHH_Ebtk

As is this one :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWhaGa-2Hq0

Also by U2. :-)

Find the most appropriate line for this (non-)event .. methinks its about the 1 minute and 1 second mark. ;-)

]]> By: Messier Tidy Upper http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/05/20/unraptured/comment-page-3/#comment-384300 Messier Tidy Upper Sun, 22 May 2011 03:35:31 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=32155#comment-384300 Well, no apocalypse yet. What a surprise - not! :roll: 'Rapture' used to be a nice word meaning only extreme happiness once. Sigh. :-( Well, no apocalypse yet. What a surprise – not! :roll:

‘Rapture’ used to be a nice word meaning only extreme happiness once. Sigh. :-(

]]> By: Ariane http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/05/20/unraptured/comment-page-3/#comment-384292 Ariane Sun, 22 May 2011 01:49:08 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=32155#comment-384292 Worst. Rapture. Ever. Worst. Rapture. Ever.

]]> By: Number 6 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/05/20/unraptured/comment-page-3/#comment-384281 Number 6 Sat, 21 May 2011 23:50:05 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=32155#comment-384281 @Quiet Desperation..... I'm indebted to you....I'd always wondered where -- in the literary world --that story came from. Have a good weekend....it's past 6 PM central daylight time...so it looks like you, me, and all of us will be spending it here on planet earth!... :) @Quiet Desperation…..

I’m indebted to you….I’d always wondered where — in the literary world –that story came from.

Have a good weekend….it’s past 6 PM central daylight time…so it looks like you, me, and all of us will be spending it here on planet earth!… :)

]]> By: Mark Hansen http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/05/20/unraptured/comment-page-3/#comment-384279 Mark Hansen Sat, 21 May 2011 23:38:08 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=32155#comment-384279 Sorry I'm late posting on this... did the world actually end? Sorry I’m late posting on this… did the world actually end?

]]> By: Wells S. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/05/20/unraptured/comment-page-3/#comment-384277 Wells S. Sat, 21 May 2011 23:25:59 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=32155#comment-384277 As with any scientific prediction, there is always an error bar. In this case, I'd say it's one of a few trillion years. So for those rapture deniers, you just wait... As with any scientific prediction, there is always an error bar. In this case, I’d say it’s one of a few trillion years. So for those rapture deniers, you just wait…

]]> By: don gisselbeck http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/05/20/unraptured/comment-page-3/#comment-384276 don gisselbeck Sat, 21 May 2011 22:40:29 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=32155#comment-384276 I misremebered, the Kabbala says 36. That seems a bit high to me. I misremebered, the Kabbala says 36. That seems a bit high to me.

]]> By: Quiet Desperation http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/05/20/unraptured/comment-page-3/#comment-384275 Quiet Desperation Sat, 21 May 2011 22:31:38 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=32155#comment-384275 <i>Since there are only seven righteous persons in the world...</i> Name names or GTFO!!!1!!2! ;-) <i>Jesus is already here and has been for some time collecting the names of the 144,000 that will follow him into heaven tomorrow</i> You know, that would make an awesome TV show. Some guy shows up claiming to be Jesus, and even demonstrates some apparent miracles, signs up 144,000 people, and takes them on a journey through different parallel worlds. As they are departing through a gateway of some sort, some hideous thing comes out of space at near light speed and blasts the Earth into chunks. All through the season the nature of this Jesus figure and the truth behind his mission could be the big mystery. My advice is to write the last episode first. Hire a seasoned mystery writer to at least consult. Since there are only seven righteous persons in the world…

Name names or GTFO!!!1!!2! ;-)

Jesus is already here and has been for some time collecting the names of the 144,000 that will follow him into heaven tomorrow

You know, that would make an awesome TV show. Some guy shows up claiming to be Jesus, and even demonstrates some apparent miracles, signs up 144,000 people, and takes them on a journey through different parallel worlds. As they are departing through a gateway of some sort, some hideous thing comes out of space at near light speed and blasts the Earth into chunks. All through the season the nature of this Jesus figure and the truth behind his mission could be the big mystery.

My advice is to write the last episode first. Hire a seasoned mystery writer to at least consult.

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