Question on Rapture Etiquette

[Her Blondness]

Let's say you're out to dinner with a couple of born again bush voters, and before you even get your appetizers, the Rapture occurs, and they just disappear leaving only their clothes. And alas, you've been Left Behind, and probably stuck with the check as well.

The question is, is it OK to just take their stuff? Is it OK to help yourself to their cash, jewelry, credit cards, etc.? The keys to the pickup truck? I mean, they're not going to be needing their stuff up there in heaven. I think that if you've been left behind because you're a "sinner," you might as well live up to the label.

If the Rapture is coming because bush is in office, I think people should plan ahead for these awkward social situations.

[Bleacher Creature]

1. Good question.

Frankly, I'm not sure. But you can probably use their credit card to pay the tab.

[Vincardog]

7. Take their wallets and their identities. Open ten charge accounts in

Their names. While you are at it take their keys drive to their houses and if it is nicer than yours move in. Go wild. You know it is funner to party with the sinners than cry with the saints.
:toast: :bounce: :toast: :bounce: :toast: :bounce: :toast: :bounce: :toast:

[alittlelark]

2. I would assume it was 'God's will' that I take ALL

of their earthly possetions. After all, they were raptured in my presence, I must be blessed!

[cruadin]

3. If you're left behind, doesn't that mean that...

you'll be roasting in the fires of eternal damnation?
I mean...I'm not really sure, I'm just asking.
What is the protocol for those of us left behind?
Do we just sit there and finish dinner? The next day, do we have back to work? Act like nothing happened?
Shouldn't somebody be telling us (the damned) what to do?

[tavalon]

9. Well,

the self righteous tell us that we will be down here dealing with the messes that the antichrist is creating, the world wars, the consolidation of wealth, the rapid descent of countries into famine and war. Hmmmm, perhaps this Rapture thing already happened and there were far fewer "deserving" than they really thought.

[Cerridwen]

4. I think you'd have to use the credit card quickly before the

cc company figured out what was going on. I doubt many of their upper management would figure it out for quite a while.

The rest, I'm guess once you have it fumigated and smudged you'd be okay. Be careful of those vibes, though.

:evilgrin:

[Gryffindor_Bookworm]

5. The proper etiquette would be to help yourself to whatever you can

use and give the rest to charity. :thumbsup:

[tavalon]

6. Lol

Welcome to DU. These are important questions to ask! We need a Rapture Miss Manners, now don't we?

As far as the question at hand, why yes, help yourself to anything they left behind, after all, they're busy orgasming in their self righteousness and hey, they did stick you with the dinner bill.

[GOPisEvil]

8. Bumper Sticker: "In case of Rapture, can I have your car?"

If you're left behind, it means you're going to Hell - might as well live it up here.

[JimmyJazz]

10. That's not necessarily so. Even after the rapture, there is still a

chance at redemption. My question is, Why in the world would anyone be having dinner with two bush voters? :hi:

[tavalon]

12. Parental units? n/t

[GOPisEvil]

14. Some of us have Thanksgiving with them, unfortunately!

:hi:

[aQuArius]

19. I had Thanksgiving with my good liberal family in UTAH!

I know LIBERAL and UTAH don't go together but I think my family may be the only liberals in the darkest of red states. I was so excited that I didn't have to see the freeper/mormon/fundie ex-in-laws this year! HOORAH! :hi:

[tavalon]

11. If the people spouting this crap are the one's going to heaven

the property values up there are really going to plummet.

PS I have a vested interest in this whole stupid Rapture thing. When I was 12, I was "saved" but by 20, I got some sense and left those bozos in the dust. I've been rid of their pestilence for 22 years and I like it that way.I'm worried that there may be no way to renege on this born again crapola and I'll be stuck with them for all eternity.

PPS I'm not real worried actually. I'm reasonably confident that it is all, in fact, crapola.

[randr]

13. They should be signing some documents of sorts

so someone would be accountable for their left articles and/or pets. What if they have children who have sinned?
I have often thought they very well ought to register themselves and give up operating moving vehicles.
We could start a national registry of admitted rapturites so we could be they are never allowed to drive a school bus for instance.
If they truely believe in this whole thing let them step forward and behave in a civil manner to the rest of us.

[Lady Effingbroke]

18. Good idea! Imagine the carnage when the Raptor seizes millions of

fundies while they are driving 80 mph on the freeway!

[Liberal_Andy]

15. Don't ask questions,

"No Salvation for you!"

[2cents]

16. First, check if your s/o is still around...

...if so, ball them out and tell them they confirmed all the suspicions you might have had of them.

:evilgrin:

[NightTrain]

17. That's a trick question, isn't it?

After all, what self-respecting DUer would be caught dead having "dinner with a couple of born-again Bush voters?"