Predicting the End: The Scientific Truth Behind the Rapture

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The discussion revolves around the anticipation of a predicted rapture event, humorously framed as a scientific experiment to see who might "disappear" at 6 PM local time. Participants engage in light-hearted banter, suggesting practical jokes and expressing skepticism about the prediction's validity. There are references to the absurdity of the situation, with some participants joking about their unworthiness for heaven and the implications of such an event. The conversation also touches on the broader disbelief among Christians regarding the prediction, emphasizing that many do not take it seriously due to biblical teachings. Overall, the thread combines humor with a critique of the rapture prediction and its proponents.
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I sure hope so, so we can see which members disappear at 6PM local time. Just a scientific experiment...
 
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Planning on it.

I wonder what the nut predicting this will say when he's still here tomorrow.
 
Oh not just me and Jimmy. Poor guy can't stand me. :smile:
 
turbo-1 said:
I sure hope so, so we can see which members disappear at 6PM local time. Just a scientific experiment...

You're going before me. By two hours anyway. :smile:
 
I'd love to attend the rapture chat but... I have a meeting at 6pm I need to attend... somewhere very far away.
 
dlgoff said:
You're going before me. By two hours anyway. :smile:
I might invoke the revocation of Daylight Savings Time, cheating you of that extra hour.

Who am I kidding? I'm not fit for the Christian heaven! Valhalla, perhaps...
 
turbo-1 said:
I sure hope so, so we can see which members disappear at 6PM local time. Just a scientific experiment...

Rhody facepalms... now why didn't I think of that !
 
I must be pretty out-of-the-loop. What is this about?
 
Dembadon said:
I must be pretty out-of-the-loop. What is this about?

You're out of here buddy. :devil:

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  • #10
Awesome practical joke our Christian friends could pull. What if, starting at 6PM tomorrow, every last one of them stopped answering their phones & email and left the city for 24 hours? Start the rest of us sweating for a while wouldn't it?

'Guys? Hello, guys? ... uh oh ...'
 
  • #11
Now, now, calling it rapture chat would be to religious for this chat. We all agreed we would have a homework helper appreciation-chat tomorrow. :wink:
 
  • #12
DaveC426913 said:
Awesome practical joke our Christian friends could pull. What if, starting at 6PM tomorrow, every last one of them stopped answering their phones & email and left the city for 24 hours? Start the rest of us sweating for a while wouldn't it?

'Guys? Hello, guys? ... uh oh ...'


Hell. I thought it was happening yesterday when I couldn't get into PF.

btw That's why I haven't log out since.
 
  • #13
Noooooooooo! I don't want to leave my piano behind, and my garden isn't planted yet! Nooooooooooooooo I can't gooooooooooooo! But I am so worthy!

see you guys next week!
 
  • #14
dlgoff said:
You're out of here buddy. :devil:

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Ahhh, gotcha. But, where am I going?
 
  • #15
I asked Greg and he didn't say no, so I guess that we're on.

What time should we start?
 
  • #16
Ms Music said:
Noooooooooo! I don't want to leave my piano behind, and my garden isn't planted yet! Nooooooooooooooo I can't gooooooooooooo! But I am so worthy!
You've got 22 hours to become unworthy.

I might consider waiving my usual fee for an adulterous tryst.

But only as a favour.
 
  • #17
Dembadon said:
Ahhh, gotcha. But, where am I going?
Into eternal rupture? Ow!
 
  • #18
Evo said:
I asked Greg and he didn't say no, so I guess that we're on.

What time should we start?

Yeeeey! Thank you Greg! Thank you Evo! :biggrin:
At least I won't be alone when I get raptured o:)

Start at 4 or 5pm?
 
  • #19
Borek, Andre, and others will be missing if we wait tool late.
 
  • #20
Shall we make it 11am CST? That's 5pm Western Europe.
 
  • #21
Well, I meant 5pm in my timezone :biggrin: I forgot that we all have different times here...
 
  • #22
micromass said:
Now, now, calling it rapture chat would be to religious for this chat.
No it wouldn't:wink:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHCdS7O248g
BTW is that Flavor Flav in the beginning? Where is his clock?
 
  • #23
HeLiXe said:
No it wouldn't:wink:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHCdS7O248g
BTW is that Flavor Flav in the beginning? Where is his clock?


Oh, right! So we're just going to have a chat to celebrate Blondie :biggrin:
 
  • #24
dlgoff said:
You're out of here buddy. :devil:

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If it is supposed to happen at 6, shouldn't the radio show go from 5-6 not 5-7? :rolleyes:

And BTW, didn't that guy just release his book? That's just poor marketing - he should have given it at least a year. Think of all the paperback sales he's going to lose!

[/ghostbusters]
 
  • #25
russ_watters said:
If it is supposed to happen at 6, shouldn't the radio show go from 5-6 not 5-7? :rolleyes:

And BTW, didn't that guy just release his book? That's just poor marketing - he should have given it at least a year. Think of all the paperback sales he's going to lose!

[/ghostbusters]

Wait, there's going to be a radio show about this? Any chance they'll play it on the internet? I would love to hear them at 6pm! :smile:
 
  • #26
I'm feeling light-headed. A couple of times today I levitated just a little bit. I had to put a seat belt on my chair just to finish work. It's getting worse.

Where can I get some ankle weights?
 
  • #27
Math Is Hard said:
I'm feeling light-headed. A couple of times today I levitated just a little bit. I had to put a seat belt on my chair just to finish work. It's getting worse.

Where can I get some ankle weights?
I love levitating. I don't like bumping my head, though.
 
  • #28
Eek! It looks like it's already http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/" almost everywhere except here. :bugeye:

cq. cq. please come back... :shy:
 
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  • #29
Math Is Hard said:
I'm feeling light-headed. A couple of times today I levitated just a little bit. I had to put a seat belt on my chair just to finish work. It's getting worse.

Where can I get some ankle weights?

Light headed? You weren't trying to http://www.snopes.com/religion/rapture.asp" were you? :mad:

Do not inhale the helium! Do not drink the koolaid! And for god sakes, do not eat the purple dots!

Trust me.

Use sunscreen.

:wink::cool:
 
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  • #30
russ_watters said:
If it is supposed to happen at 6, shouldn't the radio show go from 5-6 not 5-7? :rolleyes:

You can always tell a good engineer by his ability for seeing the details. :!)
 
  • #31
Math Is Hard said:
I'm feeling light-headed. A couple of times today I levitated just a little bit. I had to put a seat belt on my chair just to finish work. It's getting worse.

Where can I get some ankle weights?

:smile:
 
  • #32
dlgoff said:
You can always tell a good engineer by his ability for seeing the details. :!)

But if this were so he would notice that the radio program was Monday through Friday.
 
  • #33
micromass said:
Oh, right! So we're just going to have a chat to celebrate Blondie :biggrin:
Or Flayva Flav:rolleyes:
 
  • #34
Math Is Hard said:
I'm feeling light-headed. A couple of times today I levitated just a little bit. I had to put a seat belt on my chair just to finish work. It's getting worse.

Where can I get some ankle weights?

TOTAL opposite for me. :shy: so many times in the last few days I have gotten myself tangled in something or tripped falling flat. The worst was when I went to catch someone who was feeling light headed and after lowering him to the floor I find a 250 lb man laying face up, out cold on top of me. I don't think I'm going any where but then I didn't buy a ticket either. Have fun all. :rolleyes:
 
  • #35
jhae2.718 said:
Planning on it.

I wonder what the nut predicting this will say when he's still here tomorrow.

It's like entering the event horizon. Nothing noticeable happens.
 
  • #36
Char. Limit said:
But if this were so he would notice that the radio program was Monday through Friday.

Dang. Maybe it's going to take more time than one day to rapture everyone.
 
  • #37
Tune in at 10 pm for the exciting conclusion of "rapture", only on your local Nutcase Radio affiliate!
 
  • #38
Every PF chat is a rapture chat.
 
  • #39
And on the last day, the wretched will chat in the place where I am not allowed
John 32:1
Paul 5:2
Ringo 16:16
 
  • #40
And on the last day, the wretched will chat in the place where I am not allowed


Ivan Seeking said:
John 32:1
Paul 5:2
Ringo 16:16

You up and got yourself banned on judgement day!? :bugeye:
 
  • #41
jhae2.718 said:
Planning on it.

I wonder what the nut predicting this will say when he's still here tomorrow.

He's going to have a real problem with that because he has said emphatically that there is no way he is wrong, and he has no plan B.
 
  • #42
I just heard there is suppose to be a huge earthquake too.
I want to know who gave him the kabbalah book!?
 
  • #43
Ivan Seeking said:
John 32:1
Paul 5:2
Ringo 16:16

You left out George... :mad:

I liked http://www.georgeharrison.com/" .
 
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  • #44
Is there anyone out there?
I haven't seen anything anymore since 7 am (Western Europe).
Did the world end?
Terminator 3 said:
Kate Brewster: John, what is he saying?
John Connor: Judgment Day. The end of the world. It's today, three hours from now.
Terminator: Two hours and fifty-three minutes.


I feel so alone. :cry:
 
  • #45
I like Serena said:
Is there anyone out there?
I haven't seen anything anymore since 7 am (Western Europe).
Did the world end?



I feel so alone. :cry:

Shalom! :biggrin: You are NOT alone... A little more chicken soup? :smile:
 
  • #46
Lacy33 said:
Shalom! :biggrin: You are NOT alone... A little more chicken soup? :smile:

Yes please! :approve:

And shalom!
 
  • #47
Evo said:
I asked Greg and he didn't say no, so I guess that we're on.

What time should we start?

If nothing happens, I will try to log in 17:45.

Edit: but then, I have some plans for today, so if I am not present it doesn't yet mean world ended.
 
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  • #48
The world's ending and PF plans a chat...
 
  • #49
I feel cheated - no reports about 18:00 local time earthquakes in Japan.
 
  • #50
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapture "Sir Isaac Newton proposed, based upon his calculations using figures from the book of Daniel, that the Apocalypse could happen no earlier than 2060."

I'm not sure how large the relativistic and quantum corrections are to that.
 

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