The rapture has so far failed to materialize as predicted by an Oakland-based evangelical broadcaster, who warned that each time zone would experience cataclysmic events Saturday at 6 p.m.
In London, the dreaded hour came and went without incident, the British media gamely reported.
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In California, a group of about 250 gathered at an American Atheists conference that is doubling as a "Rapture that Wasn't" party later Saturday night. The gathering is being held not far from the Oakland studio of Harold Camping, the doomsday predictor. Speakers were encouraging "critical thought in the face of outlandish religious predictions," tweeted Amy Davis Roth of Hollywood.
"The [actual] party happens tonight. You haven't partied until you party with the godless!" Roth tweeted to The Times. At one point, a man dressed as Jesus spoke to the crowd.
The video associated with the story is the most entertaining thing about this non-event.
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Доверяй, но проверяй (trust, but verify)
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." - Robert A. Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazarus Long
And I'm disappointed once again - my Southern Baptist neighbor's black Bentley Continental GT Coupe has one of those warning stickers which proclaim "WARNING: In case of rapture this vehicle will be unmanned!" and I've been keeping an eye on him, hoping to find it abandoned today in the street so I could claim it.
Oh, well, maybe next time.
Richard
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“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.” - To Kill A Mockingbird (Atticus Finch)
“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” - Robert Heinlein
Your neighbor has a Bentley? Damn, Richard, you're living pretty high on the hog for a retired army guy.
I've seen enough high-end cars in the housing projects to not make this assumption. (I'm not implying Richard lives in the projects, either.)
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"The dignity of man is not shattered in a single blow, but slowly softened, bent, and eventually neutered. Men are seldom forced to act, but are constantly restrained from acting. Such power does not destroy outright, but prevents genuine existence. It does not tyrannize immediately, but it dampens, weakens, and ultimately suffocates, until the entire population is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid, uninspired animals, of which the government is shepherd." - Alexis de Tocqueville
Well, I was raptured yesterday ...... Heaven isn't all that bad really ..... Very clean, well kept and lots of things to do .... I think I'll like it here .....
BTW Gypsy ..... I think you'll like it here too ..... see ya next week.
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It's Good To Be Da King !!!! Just ask NDD !!!!
$#@*&!!
That is so beautiful. Where I live, it looks like this:
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“We can trust our doctors to be professional, to minister equally to their patients without regard to their political or religious beliefs. But we can no longer trust our professors to do the same." --David Horowitz
__________________ I believe that SF is a 'calling' - not too different from the calling missionaries I know received. I knew instantly that it was for me, and that I would do all I could to achieve it. Most others I know in SF experienced something similar. If, as you say, you HAVE searched and read, and you do not KNOW if this is the path for you --- it is not.... Zonie Diver
SF is a calling and it requires commitment and dedication that the uninitiated will never understand...... Jack Moroney
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