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Originally posted by Vercades
Crapzilla! There's still these cult followers? I thought they all died out at the Kool-Aid, Comet fiasco.
There's always a few week willed people who are willing to give over their free will to a cult, sometimes they're christian, sometimes muslim, and sometimes they're another religion. Unfortunetely, the leaders of said cults are almost always nuts to the core, or at least the ones we hear about are... there are probally more that never do anything negative than there are that pass out kool-aid and think they're god manifest. The Rapture is a long-time belief held in mainstream christianity though, in recent years alot of the less right wing christian sects are saying the rapture is a more metaphysical thing than a literal thing.
I think a literal rapture is about as likely as massively wide-scale alien abductions... but hey what do I know, maybe a few days/weeks/years down the road I'll be changing my tune. I think one key thing to note is, people have been predicting the rapture "soon" (eg: within their life times) for close as long as we've had the doctrine. A lot of people assumed the rapture would happen at the millenium, much like was predicted at the previous millenium. Shrug, to each their own, their beliefs don't hurt me and I think everyone should be entitled to their belief as long as it doesn't infringe upon my right to my beliefs.
Edit: If there is an "end of world" scenario I'll go with the mayan theory, they correctly predicted their own demise, which means they've been right on doomsday predictions at least once hehe... Dec 21st 2012 is the end of the current age we're in by their reckoning. Interesting stuff, the mayans were just as amazing as the egyptions in all reality.
Shadus
Wow... some people are stupid enough to follow anything. Kind of makes me laugh. These are the types of people that Jedi mind tricks would work on
These are the kinds of people who's mind would melt if the jedi performed a mind trick on them.
Shadus
there just a thing we are lead to believe to show a little light on why we are here..
if they do show and tell us why we are here.. why are they so many different versions?
its all a massive hoax!
cultists are for gaming only now!
"How is this accomplished, you might ask. It's a dead man switch that will automatically send the emails when it is not reset."
meaning the guy has to reset the counter every-so-often or it'll fire.
I find it pretty interesting that whoever put this together thinks of himself holy enough to be raptured. lololol How modest.
-virtual tourist
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Okay, let me start with the formalities. I am a born-again Christian, unashamed and unabashed. I believe in the rapture and I believe in Biblical propheicies. Do I know the timeline of these prophecies? No, and scripture backs that up as the Bible itself says "No one knows the day or time".
With that said I really want to address the ignorant belief that only the weak-minded/ignorant/stupid people out there could bother believing in something like God or the Bible. In fact, saying that only ignorant people who believe in something like that is just as ignorant as anything else. Some of the greatest minds in history have had religious beliefs and they were even quite devout in them. Speaking for Christianity I can list names like Newton, Franklin, and Washington. Did you know that George Washington had prophetic visions of the end times of America? No? Google is all up. Just put in Washington and Three Perils and see what you find. These were letters in his own private journals in his own hand.
Now if you personally think you, as an athiest, have a greater mind than Newton or Franklin feel free to keep thinking that. Even Einstein was a devout believer in God Almighty. I, personally, know I am not in possession of a stronger mind that Einstein.
Don't get me wrong, I agree that the Doomsday Sayers are a little out there sometimes. The Millerities of the 1840s are a great example of this as well as a great example of precisely why no one SHOULD know the day or time. There's a difference in running around telling everyone that the sky is falling and running around telling everyone just be prepared just in case.
What looses me is why, when someone does something as harmless as these Rapture Letters, is why some people have to react so hostile. Even if you don't believe in what they are teaching is it that hard to stop and think "Hey, some of these people just talk about this because they genuinely care about other people and worry about what will happen to them in the future"? I don't think so. I can see getting aggressive is someone is following you around hounding you and telling you that you're a sinner who is going to burn in hell forever and ever. Any "Christian" who does that has lost the point of the Christian attitude anyway. But if someone comes up to you and says "I've learned from God that I love you and all other people on this planet" what's the point in reacting to harshly?
The belief in the "Rapture", which is a term coined in the Dispensational Movement, is not a belief that a small group of people hold. There are 10s of millions of people who believe that Christ's followers will be taken up and meet him in the air. The Left Behind series of books, 12 in all, sold well over 75,000,000 copies. This series of books follows the lives of a group of people directly AFTER the Rapture occurs. This isn't even including the Left Behind: the Kids series. So it's not that there's a tiny group of a few hundred people who are hiding in the dark believing in some long-dead belief like some of these posts in this thread have pointed out.
The Rapture Letters, Left Behind Videos, and the like are nothing more than a "If you see on the news that all children and millions of people randomly disappear tomorrow you may want to at least read/watch/look into these just to see what we believe has happened". To a Christian it makes as much sense as a Last Will and Testament. I don't see this same group of people ridiculing anyone who leaves a Will behind. But in a sense, that is effectively what they are in the minds of the people leaving them.
I won't get into what I believe about End Times and Prophecies in this thread but I will say there are things spoken about in the Bible that are coming to a head. If you are actually curious mail me. I will be happy to tell you what I think. But anything else would be useless or unwlecome in this thread.
What I leave you with is a simple plea not to use the age old "Welll, only the weak minded can believe in faith" arguement. It's really about as useful as ending an arguement with "Yeah, well, your mama!". There's no informational foundation for that arguement, and as I listed above there's actually more information out there to point to the contrary. If you don't agree with or believe with the person who believes these things ask them to explain it. If you don't want to hear them explain it, just shrug and walk away. By jumping to a weak insult you're coming across no better than the people you are trying to ridicule. To each their own...
"What is it I have against Microsoft, you ask? Well, you know how you feel when you wait for an MMO to come out and when it does you feel like you've paid to play it's beta test for another 6-9 months before anything even thinks of working the way it should? Being a network engineer you feel that way about anything Microsoft puts out."
"What is it I have against Microsoft, you ask? Well, you know how you feel when you wait for an MMO to come out and when it does you feel like you've paid to play it's beta test for another 6-9 months before anything even thinks of working the way it should? Being a network engineer you feel that way about anything Microsoft puts out."
oh c'mon Link! He never even went into politics. Gotta fight fair man.
-virtual tourist
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Do you think he believed in the rapture?
"What is it I have against Microsoft, you ask? Well, you know how you feel when you wait for an MMO to come out and when it does you feel like you've paid to play it's beta test for another 6-9 months before anything even thinks of working the way it should? Being a network engineer you feel that way about anything Microsoft puts out."
Do you think he believed in the rapture?
I can't say for sure what he believed but he openly admits to believing in the Bible. John Nelson Darby, an Anglican, is the man who created the Dispensational Movement which coined the phrase "The Rapture". I can only assume that Darwin did, but I will be the first to admit that I have no proof of him saying so, nor do I have proof of him saying otherwise. Namely because that was not the focus of his works that we have to read today.
"What is it I have against Microsoft, you ask? Well, you know how you feel when you wait for an MMO to come out and when it does you feel like you've paid to play it's beta test for another 6-9 months before anything even thinks of working the way it should? Being a network engineer you feel that way about anything Microsoft puts out."
I don't believe this at all. Perhaps people just SAY he's Christian now that he's dead. I know he went to an Anglican school and got married in an Anglican church...but I just don't find it likely.
Do you think he believed in the rapture?
I can't say for sure what he believed but he openly admits to believing in the Bible. John Nelson Darby, an Anglican, is the man who created the Dispensational Movement which coined the phrase "The Rapture". I can only assume that Darwin did, but I will be the first to admit that I have no proof of him saying so, nor do I have proof of him saying otherwise. Namely because that was not the focus of his works that we have to read today.
Even if he did believe in it (which I doubt) we can still use his own theories against him.
I've also seen on a TV show about the rapture that you can buy rapture emergency kits and there is a service that will take care of your pets when you get raptured. rofl.