The rapture mobile was outside my work today

[Very_Boring_Name]

I was on my lunch break, I leave my work and suddenly hear sirens/trumpets blaring over a loudspeaker. Then I see a huge bus, blocking the entire street, with "MAY 21'ST - JUDGMENT DAY" painted all over it. I just about died laughing. This is the heart of downtown, and they were literally just sitting in the middle of the street... cars were honking because nobody could get past them. Your typical fundy inconsiderate assholes.

[MineralMan]

1. They're just spreading the word. You'd better listen.

It'll all be over soon, and you could be left behind. :rofl:

With any luck, they can all ride off to eternity in that damned bus, eh?

[sharp_stick]

2. They've got less than a month to go

no need to worry about citations, they'll all be up with the great sky wizard before the court date comes up.

I agree that the terms fundy and "inconsiderate asshole" are pretty much interchangable.

[pipi_k]

13. Actually, the May date is just the beginning of the end of the beginning...

or something like that.

anyway, the real Rapture supposedly happens in October. The 21st, I believe.

Unless the fruitcake who worked up the mathematics on this discovers in the meantime that there was...ahem...an "error".

:+

[LiberalFighter]

28. Too bad this isn't happening next year.

Then we could tell them that they shouldn't bother voting absentee because their vote will be thrown out if they are dead. Plus, they should know that there won't be an election based on their beliefs.

[lpbk2713]

3. A traffic cop could schedule his court date for May 22.

The driver would be pissed two different ways. :rofl:

[Liberal_in_LA]

4. omg

[gratuitous]

5. Did you get a chance to talk to them?

I'm doing a long bicycle ride that day (Reach the Beach, an American Cancer Society benefit), and I'd like to know ahead of time if I'm likely to finish. Will the end come when the International Date Line trips over into May 21? That would be 4 a.m. May 20 for us on the West Coast, so that seems unsporting of God. Noon Greenwich Mean Time? Then it would be, for a moment, May 21 all over the planet. A gradual, successive blowing up of sections of the Earth as it rotates into the 21st?

I got questions.

[Very_Boring_Name]

6. I'm fairly certain we have a few years of Satan ruling earth before it gets destroyed all together

All the fundies will be raptured up to heaven.

[gratuitous]

7. So I'll make it to Pacific City

That's good to know. This whole end of the world thing was going to be a major inconvenience otherwise.

[Very_Boring_Name]

8. Just make sure to dodge the massive fireballs shooting down from the sky

and you should be fine :rofl:

[gratuitous]

17. Well, if I get all raptured

I suppose if me and the bike go up, I should be going to heaven. But if the helmet comes with me, I would take that as a bad sign.

Besides, God did some of her best work on the Oregon Coast. No way she'd wanna fuck that up with a bunch of fireballs.

[pipi_k]

47. If I had to choose...

I'd go with the successive blowing up of the earth as each section gets into the proper position.

Sort of like New Years Day fireworks on a larger scale

Yep. God would enjoy that, I think

[brooklynite]

9. They're running ads on the subway...apparently there'll be an earthquake

You can read all about it in their new book, available at Amazon.

(how far in advance do I have to order in order to be sure it's not a wast of time?)

[Capitalocracy]

10. Notice it didn't say what year.

So, you know, if it doesn't happen, technically they weren't wrong...

[get the red out]

11. At least "rapture" is wating until after the Derby

The Rapture probably has a good line on a horse.

[Permanut]

12. I appreciate the alert...

Since they won't be taking their buses and houses and money and stuff with them, I want to know when the proper time is to start letting them know I'll take care of all that stuff for them, and so they can just turn it over to me early to make sure.

[Qutzupalotl]

14. Here's a link to the group's site.

They have billboards up in my city.

http://www.familyradio.com/index2.html

[sweetladybug]

16. I live near Nashville, TN and there are billboards up saying

"The rapture is going on 05/21/2011" I quess we will know before long if this statement is true

[dana_b]

35. I've seen one in San Francisco too

it's everywhere. sigh...

[sakabatou]

15. I would've asked them if I could have their truck, trailer

and any other items they own if it does happen.

[LiberalFighter]

30. Don't ask if it happens.

Rather, get a notarized agreement that on May 22, 2011 all of their possessions would be turned over to you. House, vehicles, possessions, etc.

[sakabatou]

38. Heheh good plan

[Lucian]

18. So what's going to happen to those people on May 22.

I mean, when they get over their embarrassment.

[JohnnyRingo]

19. I haven't even begun to pack yet.

I hope not many of those people try to fill their bucket list before then.

[givemebackmycountry]

37. I'm sorry, but that cartoon is of extremely poor taste.

And funny as shit!

[JuniperLea]

20. There has been a massive cash outlay for this

Billboards, vans, radio shows... all over the US.

I've been listening to the radio show... highly entertaining if you know anything about Christian scriptures. I wonder what the money deal is about, and who footed the bill! I fully expect a new story come 5/22... Jesus decided we weren't worthy and he's going to make us wait... and the only way to salvation is XXXX... which is no doubt a message from God that only the good preacher received and can understand... but for a small donation, he will make sure you have a seat on the glory train!

[valerief]

23. I wonder what they're trying to divert attention from. nt

[Very_Boring_Name]

25. I'll tell you right now what the message on may 22'nd will be...

"All our praying worked! God decided to let us live a little longer because the faithful prayed!"

[LiberalFighter]

32. Then tell them..

You all got it wrong. God decided he didn't want you all anywhere near him. Besides, if they truly believe in the Rapture then they should be killing to get to the head of the line to be raptured.

[valerief]

21. Is it going to be like the 1986 Rapture? I'm trying to find out what *else* is supposed

to happen 5/21/11 but the fundies have shit up the intertubes with their rapture crap.

[Buns_of_Fire]

26. According to my records, it's National Waitresses/Waiters Day.

AND National Memo Day. Hallmark ( http://www.theultimateholidaysite.com/holidays/2011-5/ ) doesn't mention any International Rapture Day or if there's an appropriate card for it.

[valerief]

29. Hmm, don't think those are threats to anyone. But keep looking! nt

[Buns_of_Fire]

33. Just in case, though, don't tick off any Waitresses or Waiters on that day...

...or ANY day, when you come right down to it...

But, let's see what ELSE might be prompting this...

On May 21, 1927, Charles Lindbergh landed in Paris, completing the first nonstop solo transatlantic flight.

And in 1956, the U.S. tested the first aerial hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll.

It'll be Mr. T's 38th birthday, and Fats Waller's 106th birthday (if he were still alive).

Past that, I got nothin'.:shrug:

(Oops. Mr. T was born in 1952, so that'd make him... uh... 59... I still don't think he's the cause of it all.)

[valerief]

34. You're on fire. Well, your buns are, but I don't quite think you've nailed it yet. nt

[sarcasmo]

22. May 22nd they will pick a new date.

[hatrack]

24. After it is revealed that God-duh is "testing" them . . . .

:eyes:

[sakabatou]

39. Of course they will

That ALWAYS happens. That or they say praying stopped it.

[LiberalFighter]

27. Were they violating city ordinance or state law?

[progressoid]

31. 17 days?

Fuck it, I ain't paying anymore bills.

And I'm off to the store to get some decent wine. No more $3.98 crap for me.

[krabigirl]

36. so awesome lol.

[bvar22]

40. Only the Lutherans will be raptured.

They're the only ones who got it right.
That is what Garrison Keillor (Prairie Home Companion) says,

and he should know.
He says a lot of Baptists are going to be upset.

[donheld]

41. That's what you get for having a very boring name

:toast::hi:

[warrior1]

42. no shit!

[stevedeshazer]

43. +1

We're all gonna get cool ranch houses and low-mileage Buicks!!

[Kat45]

44. What part of the country was this in? n/t

[Very_Boring_Name]

46. Ottawa Ontario, Canada

[Warren DeMontague]

45. Shit, that's not a lot of time.

Somebody better find John Connor.