Press Box in front of local post office: Magazine about the rapture!! READ

[debbierlus]

I am so freaked out right now. I just got back from the local post office. There is a brand new press box in front of the post office (right between the mail box and the priority mail box) with a magazine called:

Signs of the Times.

It is a Christian wing nut magazine. Here is how their web-page describes it:

Signs of the Times® invites readers to live as Christians in modern North American society and offers news, tips, and articles to help them do so. Published by the Seventh-day Adventist Church, this monthly four-color magazine emphasizes Christ’s second advent and the prophecies and “signs” that indicate the nearness of this event, which Scripture calls the Christian’s “blessed hope.”

What the f*&^?????

Here is their web-address:

http://www.signstimes.com/?p=about

I took every damn one of these magazines and threw them in the recycle bin. This is utter insanity. Has anyone else found a press box in their town with this propaganda in it? I am outraged. I am going to investigate to find out who put it there and petition to have it removed. And, until it is removed, I am going to take their magazines and throw them away.

SICK!

[jobycom]

1. Meh. And people claim Scientology is bad.

Live and let live. Most people look at these magazines the way they look at LaRouche pamphlets or claims that aliens landed at Roswell. Let them have their little club. And don't trash all their magazines, it just makes them think people are reading them so they'll put out even more boxes. Let them whither and yellow in the case.

[Skidmore]

12. At least in Scientology you can stave the mothership off by

needing audits indefinitely. Tom Cruise, unfortunately, has summoned the mothership and is about to board.

[jobycom]

16. Mothership, Rapture, medicloridians...

:shrug:

[malaise]

2. CNN is having a Rapture special

tonight.

[Skidmore]

9. The History channels and Discovery channels have been rife

with programs about Revelations and prophecy and doomsday stuff. It is like this country has conceived a collective death wish.

I am not signing onto the suicide pact.

[malaise]

17. I think this one is looking

at the morons waiting for rapture these past few days.

[lumpy]

27. TV presents what will capture the curious

audience, haunted houses, bigfoot, Bermuda triangle, freaks and medical oddities. People are fascinated by the bizarre. Also fascinated by the peccadillos of Hollywood celebrities. This stuff sells to a certain segment of the TV audience.

[LiberalEsto]

3. Jehovah's Witnesses constantly predicted armageddon

back in the 1960s-70s. One of our former neighbors became one, and plagued my mother with crazy pamphlets predicting the End of the World.

They would name a specific date, say July 10, 1964, and rent an entire stadium so they could show up and pray. When the Bolt from Above failed to materialize, they picked another date, rented a stadium, and printed up new pamphlets.

When I was a kid, these pamphlets used to terrify me. Then as I got to be 12 or 13, I saw them for the faith-based irrationality they were, and learned to laugh at them. It seems to me they must have run up huge bills printing up all those pamphlets and renting all those stadiums.

Do they still do that?

What a weird thing it must be to sit around waiting for The End to happen any day now. Why would anyone bother saving for college, getting an education, or planning for the future?

[meegbear]

4. I thought it was supposed to be ...

when the last survivor of "the Great War" (World War I) dies, it would happen.

[LiberalEsto]

6. Wonder when they came up with that one?

Maybe renting stadiums got a bit expensive after a while.

[earth mom]

5. Leave em-but "accidentally" spill a very sticky blue drink on em.

That should send the idiots a message-maybe from God?! lol-when they find that it happens on a regular basis. :evilgrin:

p.s. A super sized blue slurpee would be just the ticket! :rofl:

[debbierlus]

8. Good idea: I want to know who the freak is that is putting them there

Surreal. The scary thing is that the President subscribes to this lunacy. My first thought was to wonder whether it wasn't some Faith Based initiative program.....

God, we live in BIZARRE times.

[earth mom]

15. You said it! We do live in BIZARRE times and it's getting worse everyday!

On a more serious note, perhaps you might talk to the postmaster at the post office where the papers were displayed. They may not want them there either and your problem would be solved.

I am going to scout out our local post offices too, though I don't remember seeing any newspaper stands in front of them in the first place...

Please keep us updated and Good luck! :hi:

[lumpy]

29. Seventh Day Adventists are not

considered freaks by educated Americans. Surreal, scary? Fear not they are not out to git ya'.

[lumpy]

28. TheGoldenRule?

no comment.

[earth mom]

32. And your point is? Maybe you should quit hiding behind innuendo.

And perhaps you also need to see my other post which gave a more "serious" answer to the problem.

Jeez some people can't take any joking when it comes to religion now can they? Save us all the holier than thou attitude would ya? Religous nuts deserve what they get and I'm sick of what they keep dishing out. :eyes:

[gatorboy]

7. The magazine is more than a century old.

You can't say they aren't patient! :P

[BrotherBuzz]

10. Hey, these guys are basically apolitical

and that's just fine with me. Leave them alone and be happy they aren't trying to corrupt the government to serve their purpose.

[rhiannon55]

11. In the early 80s my wingnut xian brother-in-law

took out a big loan on his house because he thought he'd soon be raptured and would never have to pay the money back.

He had to pay it back. Poor deluded Mike. LOL! :crazy:

[Turbineguy]

13. Seventh Day Adventists: notorious teetotalers,

also notoriously healthy.

[BrotherBuzz]

18. And they stay healthy by....

keeping their nose out of other people's affairs.

[lumpy]

30. Hey hey, good one, Bro.

v

[lumpy]

24. The Adventists I have met are good people.

When I was a young house wife I invited them into my home to discuss religious ideas. I found them willing to accept my life long religious beliefs and they would return for my hospitality even though they knew I was not joining their church. The best medical care I have ever recieved in my long life was in Portland Ore. under the care of an Adventist doctor and at their hospital facility.
They are decent people who should be treated with respect.

[Alcibiades]

14. The Rapture was in 1999

Wasn't it? Or was it 6/6/06? Anybody remember those Hal Lindsey books from the 1970's, such as "The Late Planet earth" that predicted the apocalypse long before now? Why don't these morans remember that all these doomsayers have been wrong time and time again?

[Skarbrowe]

22. Oh boy. I fell for The Late Great Planet Earth...

What can I say? I was a young adult, going through a very bad period in my life and for some ridiculous reason I thought there was some truth in that stupid book. My parents had never taken me to church and all I knew is that I was supposed to be a Protestant. All that meant to me was that I wasn't Catholic.

I had Jesus fever for several years and I have to admit that it was a good feeling to totally believe in something. Now I understand why it's a "spread the good word" faith. You have this desire to tell people how great it feels to believe in Jesus. I still didn't go to church because I thought people who gathered in some building were not true believers. Oh god. Plus, I was still partying like a fool and my relationship with Jesus had nothing to do with not being able to do this or that as long as you were kind to people and could spread the love.

This belief lasted about 10 years until I got an idea for a book. While I was outlining the book about the build up to the Rapture, (good grief, this was twenty years before the Left Behind series) I suddenly lost my faith. If I remember correctly, I wrote about 10 pages. Now I'm agnostic to atheist.

Religion is a powerful thing. I can see the beauty and the danger.

Oh, I had picked the the late 80's, possibly early 21st century for the Rapture. Then you've got those pesky seven years of tribulation if you're not one of the "chosen". I can't remember the rest. Fortunately.

[lumpy]

31. You are to be commended

for seeking truths. Some people go through life without even wondering what 'it is all about'. It is difficult to stay on that 'spiritual path' with it's doubtts, arguments, crossroads and branches. A serene faith appears to lie within the conscience that you are born with. Someone once said 'believe as a child'. A child's intuition is easily lost.

[Skarbrowe]

34. I'll tell you, I have found a place now. Don't know what it is, but

I'm sure it fits into some "named" state of grace. It's that simple pleasure that we are all part of everything and it makes me feel so peaceful. And the great thing is, I can bring Jesus and any other religious prophet that never subjugated or looked at woman as less than equal into the equation. Well, Jesus might have been a fairy tale, but if he wasn't and he was like I hope he had been, I would consider his teachings a great addition to the betterment of humankind. I don't like the sexist, misogynist spiritual leaders. Got to have that ying and yang of the power and love of both men and women equally. I'm not sure the human race with last long enough for women to become equal all over the world. Can you imagine? What a great step in human evolution that would be.

[fordnut]

23. you know whats really bad

my sister believes after all this fighting is done then she
will be raptured out.

[Ino]

19. What is that crap doing on government property?!

In front of the post office? Next to the mail boxes? I would raise a stink with the supervisor there.

[theHandpuppet]

20. That's nothing

I know of a U.S. post office in Northern Virginia that allows people to litter the inside tables (where people are dealing with their mail) with all manner of "You are going to Hell!" tracts and other RW fundie literature. I did complain about it but it the postal workers I talked to were afraid to do anything (apparently their supervisor was in full support of it if not outright contributing some of the stuff -- they wouldn't say which).

[noonwitch]

21. Royal Oak, MI post office has numerous paper boxes

The Detroit Free Press, the Detroit News, The Metro Times, Oakland Tribune, etc. One of the papers is "Behind the Lines", which is a free paper for the gay community. The Metro Times is a liberal alternative paper. If there was a christian paper offered there, at least then fundie christians wouldn't be accusing the USPS of ignoring them.

[Codeine]

25. There's a few boxes like that at our PO

They all have really nasty, borderline pornographic "personals" papers in them. :shrug:

[lumpy]

33. Bigotry is bad doncha' know?

Do you even know what you are dealing with?

[lumpy]

26. I am flabbergasted that anyone would be

freaked out by such a revelation that there are people who have unusual religious beliefs. It was wrong to destroy the magazine because you are frightened of what it might contain. A magazine that expresses religious belief is not propaganda.
Calm down, these people are not evil and out to destroy your religious beliefs if you have any. They are not some underground threat; they have been a part of our religious community for many many years.