with the end of the world to follow on October 21. I'm not exactly sure what's on the program for the five months in between, but I'm guessing it won't be a lot of laughs.
Let me explain: many years ago I worked a graveyard shift. Sleeping in the daytime in downtown Sebastopol required masking street noise, so I got into the habit of falling asleep with the radio on. I still do, with an earplug at night so I don't wake my wife, and playing out loud for daytime naps alone.
Now the ideal kind of radio station for this is a really boring one, fairly even emotional keel (no excited talk show hosts), nothing interesting enough to involve your brain and keep you awake listening to it...
And nothing I've found has fit this better over the years than Family Radio, which owns 150 stations (19th largest by # of stations) and has been entirely listener supported since the 1950s! They play old school hymns and classically-oriented modern religious music, lots of readings from the bible (a bunch of begats will put you to sleep quicker than anything!), and the star of the station is the original founder, Harold Camping, now in his late 80s, who invites call-ins on his Open Forum show to talk about the bible, the end of the 'Church Age' and the Biblical prophesies about the end of the world. Camping preaches that the saved -- living and dead -- will all get brand new bodies, and that the unsaved aren't damned to hell, they just die or stay dead.
He predicted the end of the world in the early 90s, but later admitted he'd made a mistake. (Hey, who wouldn't?) Since then he's had more knowledge come his way, and he is now preaching that the Rapture is less than two years away, specifically May 21, 2011!
So this station I've relied on for years to help put me to sleep is now facing a drama without equal. What will they do when it gets down to the final weeks, days... what will they play on the Last Day? More interestingly, what will they play on the day after the Last Day? I might lose some sleep over this, but I'm looking forward to seeing how this plays out.
I like the donation button best. I bet in view of upcoming events, this button is way past its prime now
Most likely they might lose some sleep now, too!
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Busy, that's what we're all gonna be when IT comes down on us but when do you think your gonna watch yr tivo you pollyanna? Looks like you don't treat this with required dignity
BTW GG: Just saw your new signature
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No more fights over stem cell research, evolution and birth control.
Rational relationship with Israel and the rest of the middle east.
No more White House prayer breakfasts with a pack of loonies who want to control public policy.
No more TV evangelists who get rich shaking down the poor, infirm and elderly.
Gay marriage finally legalized nationwide and the elimination of "don't ask, don't tell."
No more whack cases knocking on your door wanting to sell you salvation in exchange for access to your debit card.
"Department of Corrections" nationwide actually treating crime in a rational way, as a pathology, and not as a way to punish and seek retribution.
If all that "came to pass", as they say in scripture, heaven would not be somewhere up there, but right here on earth, at least for sinners like me.
The loonies who get sucked up into the rapture would be eliminated in one swell foop and the sane would remain.
So, God would, if this happens, be truly wise and compassionate, as advertised.
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Last edited by patricia; June-3rd-2009 at 11:30 PM.
This reminds me of when I was about 10* (eons ago, of course ) some group announced the end of the world would come of December 10 (or so) of that year. They gave their kids Christmas presents on Thanksgiving, and went up to some mountain to wait to be lifted up.
As far as I know they are still on that mountain, waiting.....
* For chronology purposes, I was 10 in 1951. That's a long time to be sitting on a mountain top
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The two or so years between Rapture and End of World seems at variance with the Scriptures:
These Jews are “sealed,” which means they have the special protection of God from all of the divine judgments and from the Antichrist to perform their mission during the tribulation period (see Revelation 6:17, in which people will wonder who can stand from the wrath to come). The tribulation period is a future seven-year period of time in which God will enact divine judgment against those who reject Him and will complete His plan of salvation for the nation of Israel. All of this is according to God’s revelation to the prophet Daniel (Daniel 9:24-27). The 144,000 Jews are a sort of “first fruits” (Revelation 14:4) of a redeemed Israel which has been previously prophesied (Zechariah 12:10; Romans 11:25-27), and their mission is to evangelize the post-rapture world and proclaim the gospel during the tribulation period. As a result of their ministry, millions—“a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language” (Revelation 7:9)—will come to faith in Christ.
I've always wondered how the Rapture-ites manage to always squeeze themselves into this group of 144,000. Pretty small number, considering. I imagine this Family Radio has more listeners than that who are convinced they're book on the Heavenly escalator. This is even leaving aside the fact that the number is to be made up of 12 groups of 12,000 from the 12 Tribes of Israel. Jews, that is. *sputter* Jews!
Love to see the logical twisting they use to get around these inconvenient (myth-based) "facts".
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So if I can just figure out how to pay my mortgage for about two more years, then I won't have to worry about it any more. That's a relief. Very comforting to know.
Not that I want to make anyone here nervous (there's still enough time left I guess) but there's conflict ahead and it'll be best to make up your mind, which one its gonna be.
Quote:
Pre-Tribulation Rapture: (or "pre-trib") The Rapture happens just before the Tribulation, so that believers will not have to experience any of its disruption, pain, and genocide. Most conservative Protestants currently believe this theory Mid-Tribulation Rapture: (or "mid-trib")
The Rapture happens about 42 months into the Tribulation. Initially, the rule of the Antichrist is relatively benign. He arranges a peace treaty between Israel and surrounding countries. But three and a half years into his reign as world dictator, events take a sudden turn for the worse. Post-tribulation Rapture: (or post-trib") The faithful experience the horrors and killings of the Tribulation. All suffer and many are killed. Believers are then raptured at the end of the 7 years of horror and bloodshed. Partial Rapture (a.k.a. Split Rapture): This is a minority belief among conservative Christians. It is a variation of the Pre-trib rapture in which there are two raptures:
A pre-trib rapture and resurrection occurs before the tribulation, but only for those born-again Christians who have earned special treatment by having been actively watching, waiting and praying for the rapture.
Those born-again Christians who have not been doing these "works" will be have to endure at least part of the tribulation. They will be raptured partway through or at the end of the tribulation period.
I guess I'll have a partial-post to mid (w)rap with a medium coffee, no sugar, bit of fat-free milk to go, please
and btw: do you take coupons?
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Busy, that's what we're all gonna be when IT comes down on us but when do you think your gonna watch yr tivo you pollyanna? Looks like you don't treat this with required dignity.
"I wonder what I'd do with myself if the world was gone." - Todd Rundgren
It's amazing to me how little these thumpers seem to know about the book they insist is to be taken as the word of their god.
Amen to that one Gary! It's pretty tragic when you think about it. OTOH it's all about faith, and proof (one way or another) denies faith, so they can't really afford to take a good long hard look at the bollox they're peddling. I heartily reccommend Dawkins' The God Delusion to everyone...
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if it was about faith, they would not have been fighting over it since the early days, hunted down, tortured and burned people for "disbelief"
The noun Faith has origin in the Latin Fidem=trust and trust - mind you - is the least those people have (not even anti-trust works well )
Word has it that those who believe in God believe in the Last Day and will receive their recompense. Here's your key: try to increase your own personal share of the "recompensation funds" and as we all know since Bear Sterns and the other crooks, those funds are very limited
Why there was no rapture yet? The kid just doesn't want to mingle with those bastards and I have reason to believe(yes I do) that he's not gonna change his mind by 2011
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Stay tuned!
but when do you think your gonna watch yr tivo you pollyanna? Looks like you don't treat this with required dignity
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