Reply #135: I did at first also. Seemed too over the top.

[ieoeja]

But when I read the whole story, it seemed more believable. For one thing, he starts quoting people we all know and loathe. For another when you read the whole story, the totally out there doesn't seem quite so far out there when surrounded by the merely way out there which seem even less so surrounded as they are by the just slightly insane and so on until you get to the almost not quite insane.

Of course, the idea that we will have to evacuate Christians from Europe around 2015 is just plain idiotic. The second coming of Christ and accompanying Rapture(tm) will have taken care of that.

Rapture(tm) is a wholly owned trademark of a small girl in Scotland a century and a half ago who just dreamed the whole thing up; but don't let the fundies know; today's fundies assume it is in the bible or at least some early Christian writings; they'd probably be a little upset to learn it is a fairly new idea dreamt up by a female David Koresh.

But this is, of course, a LW board, not a RW one. Here, we know the scientific truth that by 2015 most of Europe will have already been evacuated because of the ecological disasters brought about by global climate change caused by human pollution. Of course, we will have to evacuate them by sailing ships with Peak Oil having been reached and remaining hydrocarbons hoarded by the fascist military dictatorship in the United States. This assumes by then most Europeans will not have died of famine due to overpopulation. Or thirst because the world will have run out of water.

You know, it gets easier and easier to believe the article, doesn't it?