draelynn wrote:
evil_eyes wrote:
Either those 200 million christians ascended unnoticed or we're pretty much safe from the hellfire...at least until dec 12
The world will end when the world will end. Personally I'm hoping that by then civilization will have advanced enough to reach a space age. Probably thousands of years away, but still, it could happen. Earth's gonna be destroyed
one day, but I'm betting it'll be because of a meteor and not angels descending on the world to burn the unfaithful. although some people would argue that it's a meteor from heaven...@_@
I find it hilarious that the zombie apocalypse has been a recurring topic here. Thanks to draelynn, we can keep doing our thing and
still be well-prepared for the next apocalypse

Glad to do my civic duty!
I'm still hoping for the aftermath stories, purely from a psychological point of view. I really want to know how those true believers rationalize such a blow to the core of their faith. People quit jobs, sold homes, spent life savings on advertising. I'm just gobsmacked at how people can essentially talk themselves in something that amounts to a fairytale, even questioned and discounted by biblical scholars within their own faith. I don't think they are particularly gullible people.
Perhaps the overbearing stresses of the filures of our society have proven too great for them to comprehend and they constructed and equally great countermeasure to maintain their faith and hope. Some sociology major could make a great thesis out of this.
The aftermath stories made me laugh at their idiocy at first before I realized how hard their lives are going to be from now on. It's all too insane, because they sure as hell weren't planning for just in case. Lots of people now have no money, no home...and for what?
The sentence I highlighted reminded me of something I read about aspies and their experience in high school - it sounded a lot like that, I think it was along the lines of aspies constructing an idealized but fragile and desperately defended world, making them somewhat delusional to a certain degree about the themselves.
I think I get what some of those religous fanatics might be thinking, that maybe they
want the world to end because heaven would be the answer to all their problems, wouldn't it?
Oh well, either way another rapture bites the dust. Maybe people won't be so quick to believe in "calculations" from the bible in the future, though I doubt it.