Yuch...

[F4lconF16]

Okay, so I got linked to this site: http://rr-bb.com/forum.php

After reading the rules for posting, I was almost dying laughing. I'm bored enough at the moment that I decided I'd make an account and see how long it took to get myself banned.

Then I started reading the threads on there...it was horrible. Watching people come in with serious life issues that get "prayed for" and told not to do anything else about it, reading people's problems that were used to turn their mental state into an advantage for the "church" or whatever the fuck it is, seeing reasonably healthy people be broken bit by bit until they are just another pathetic Jesus-worshipping cultist. It's really, really sad. Now I just feel burnt. I knew what was in there, but I didn't think that it would make me as sick as it did.

Also hugging is the devil, and apparently churches are taking this whole "hugging" thing too far. Just immoral.

On the plus side, I discovered that there are many places that will send you free bibles...and I needed some firestarters

[mr blur]

1. You may have missed my piece on the Rapture Loonies. Here it is:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/123031880

[F4lconF16]

2. I did miss it.

An excellent post, thanks for linking it.

[Brainstormy]

5. Awesome

Don't know how I missed that. Thought you might be interested in adding this to your already impressive body of rapture scholarship. Concerns the problems of unexpired rental contracts after the rapture.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2014/02/13/jerusalem-residents-face-thorny-issue-when-the-messiah-returns-where-will-they-live/

[beam me up scottie]

3. Oh, my...

This is going to be fun...bookmarking for later, gotta feed the horses and dogs and me.

[Warren DeMontague]

4. let me guess... the "rr" stands for "rapture ready" (and not, say, "rational recovery")

I don't need to click on it. I've been familiar with those folks for a while.

It's another one of those "has to be satire but, actually, isn't" deals.

[Curmudgeoness]

6. You come in here with that shit,

and you didn't bring any funny posts with you. Shame.

It isn't like any of us are bored enough to click that link, and sign up, to read this drivel!

[F4lconF16]

7. Well excuse me.

I'll do better in the future

More making conversation because I was bored, but you know.

And you're clearly bored enough to respond to this, so...

Bye.

[Curmudgeoness]

8. I'm sorry, that was meant as a joke.

I guess that it didn't come across well.

[F4lconF16]

9. Not at all.

But no worries, it's the internet I was kinda wondering. You've always been a pretty nice personas far as I can tell and it seemed a little much

[amuse bouche]

10. It's worth taking a look over there

just to 'witness' the avatars. Hilarious, yet sooo creepy

[edhopper]

11. Why did you replace the "a" in Falcon

with a 4?

Other than that, sites like that just make me sad and angry.

[nil desperandum]

12. Yikes....

Things that you look forward to the most immediately after the rapture....
.... excluding meeting the Lord which is all of our number one picks.

So start with your number 2, 3, 4th picks. Let's see what people are looking forward to... and be as specific as you can.

#1 for me, even after we've been with the Lord for 200 billion+ years in equivalent time, I'm praying and hoping that my appreciation for His sacrifice for me will be as fresh then as it is now, yet even more so... I'm hoping it will continue to grow as the years pass.

#2 would be, I'll be so happy when our thoughts and motives are cleaned. I believe that just about 99% of things we pray for or think about are tainted in some small way by our selfish thoughts and sin. Like some greasy oily film that covers a pool of pure clear water, as thin as that film is, it's still polluting the pool. I believe immediately after the rapture, that we're going to think radically different than we do now, to the point that we can't even conceive of it. That we'll truely have a mind for God. Being stuck in our earthly bodies as we are, I think after the rapture, we're going to be in for a HUGE surprise in this area.

#3 for me.... all the aches and pains and tiredness of our bodies will go away. We'll be infused with heavenly health and an unlimited supply of energy that will keep us going for eternity. No more low back pain (which is constant for me). No more joint pain. No more diabetes. No more faulty vision.

#4 of course will be the anticipation of seeing all those that passed away during my lifetime of friends and family.

That's a different kind of site to be sure...

[onager]

13. Anybody else read the book?

"Rapture Ready! Adventures in the Parallel World of Christian Pop Culture" by Daniel Radosh (2010).

Not so much about that goofy website, though IIRC it's mentioned. It's a sort of bus tour of the $7 billion Xian pop culture world.

Xian rock music! Pro Wrestlers! Holyland Amusement Park in Florida, with daily appearances by Jesus! Pastel Bibles for good Xian wimmen! Etc. Etc.

Radosh is a Jewish humanist, and says he approached this book as sort of an anthropological investigation.

He concludes the book by talking about how darn NICE most of the Fundies were that he met. If he'd read some of the more rabid comments about Jews on the Rapture Ready website, he might have changed his tune on that.

http://www.amazon.com/Rapture-Ready-Adventures-Parallel-Christian/dp/159376281X