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That's really fucking

That's really fucking stupid. Even if it happened, who's going to send the messages? Are they going to hire an atheist to do it just in case?

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 Are there awards for snake

 Are there awards for snake oil salesmen? Because this guy should get an award.


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MattShizzle wrote:That's

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That's really fucking stupid. Even if it happened, who's going to send the messages? Are they going to hire an atheist to do it just in case?

It's automated. If three of the five employees don't sign in for six days, all the email messages are sent.

It's completely genius. The guy is fleecing people by exploiting their stupid beliefs. Damnit! I wish I would've thought of that. Making Christians a little poorer, and me a little richer? That's like stealing from the stupid and giving to the... well, me.

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nigelTheBold wrote:It's

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It's completely genius. The guy is fleecing people by exploiting their stupid beliefs. Damnit! I wish I would've thought of that. Making Christians a little poorer, and me a little richer? That's like stealing from the stupid and giving to the... well, me.

Seriously - we have to think of something equally lucrative to subsidize the RRS.

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HisWillness wrote: Are

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 Are there awards for snake oil salesmen? Because this guy should get an award.

There should be. It should be a snake, wrapped around a tree, tonguing an apple.

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 Wait wait wait - did that

 Wait wait wait - did that article say that there would be seven years of no evangelical Christians?

Yeah, it says God whisks them away, and for seven years, it's just us and the anti-christ. Which would, of course, be me. Can you say "party time"? How awesome would that be?

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HisWillness wrote: Wait

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 Wait wait wait - did that article say that there would be seven years of no evangelical Christians?

Yeah, it says God whisks them away, and for seven years, it's just us and the anti-christ. Which would, of course, be me. Can you say "party time"? How awesome would that be?

Since the anti-christ has seven heads, I'm afraid you'll have to share that pleasure. I will be Archibald, the second head from the right, singer of naughty songs, swiller of beer, and surfer of internet porn. (I'm modelling myself on Bacchus, the God of Fun!) (Which might be indistinguishable from modelling myself on Charles Bukowski.)

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Rature

 

  I was under the impression that when the rapture happens,  Christens go to heaven and all else is destroyed,   that would include the ingenious comp  program.  Now you say that christians go and the rest of us live,   bring on the rapture!

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Jeffrick wrote:  I was

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  I was under the impression that when the rapture happens,  Christens go to heaven and all else is destroyed,   that would include the ingenious comp  program.  Now you say that christians go and the rest of us live,   bring on the rapture!

Well, there is supposed to be a massive, world-consuming war, and death and pestulence walk the earth with their good friends destruction and famine, and we're all supposed to suffer quite immeasurably.

However, if the fundies are gone, I think it'll be worth it.

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A point

 

  That's the point I was trying to make Nigel,   Bye-Bye-  Fundys;   Hello life!

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nigelTheBold wrote:Since the

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Since the anti-christ has seven heads, I'm afraid you'll have to share that pleasure. I will be Archibald, the second head from the right, singer of naughty songs, swiller of beer, and surfer of internet porn. (I'm modelling myself on Bacchus, the God of Fun!) (Which might be indistinguishable from modelling myself on Charles Bukowski.)

Alright, fine. You get all the beer-and-porn fun. I'll take destruction. Or maybe just "demolition", which is always my favourite part of remodelling.

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[qoute]A new Web site is

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Actually this isn't the first one of these sites I've seen.Which is good,I mean you can never devote too many resource to a mythological happening right.Right?

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HisWillness wrote:Alright,

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Alright, fine. You get all the beer-and-porn fun. I'll take destruction. Or maybe just "demolition", which is always my favourite part of remodelling.

That's a hell of a lot better than being the God of Taping and Mudding.

Hey! That's a good website. whatgodareyou.com.

Oh! Or, "messagesfromheaven.com", which is identical to the stupid website in the OP, except your messages are sent after you die.

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nigelTheBold wrote:That's a

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That's a hell of a lot better than being the God of Taping and Mudding.

I saw that and thought... was so bad about a little bondage and mud wrestling?

But then my brain kicked in

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HisWillness wrote: Wait

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 Wait wait wait - did that article say that there would be seven years of no evangelical Christians?

Yeah, it says God whisks them away, and for seven years, it's just us and the anti-christ. Which would, of course, be me. Can you say "party time"? How awesome would that be?

Sorry Will.  I'm the Antichrist.  In case you have doubts...

-I was born on the sixth of June, exactly six years after Sweden (the most atheistic nation in the world) became a parliamentary monarchy

-I'm immersed in the culture of the southern United States (and therefore trained to deceive fundamentalist Christians from an early age)

-I actually get paid to study evolutionary biology

-My first and middle names roughly translate from the old Celtic to mean "King of the City on the Hill"--that could be Rome or Jerusalem, though I'd prefer the former

Hambydammit's my False Prophet.  If you weren't aware, he's highly adept at calling lightning from the sky--that guy can do anything!

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Can't wait for the day when

Can't wait for the day when 2 of his employees go on vacation at the same time, a 3rd calls in sick and all 3 forget to log in remotely.

Happens to me at least twice a year.

I love the assumption that they'll all be wheat and no chaff. Do you have to be worthy of heaven to work for this guy?

And if you pay an additional $5, do you get cc'd on the mail as a heads up that the Rapture happened & you got fucked? Or that the JW's are right and you're not one of the 144,000 so again, you're fucked? In case you slept in that day & missed the party.

Minor point;

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nigelTheBold wrote:to be a

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to be a massive, world-consuming war, and death and pestulence walk the earth with their good friends destruction and famine, and we're all supposed to suffer quite immeasurably.

And during which, we're apparently supposed to check our e-mail for messages about how screwed we are?

Excuse me whilst I fall out of my chair laughing.

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taking the lie one step further

if there was  rapture which there is not. the god of old testement would be unleashed again? well this guy is trying to get rich off a hoax belief. but cant blame him i guess. i would try this if i knew i get for each letter someone paid to send someone that aint with them. wonder what happens if they send one to someone else that got raptured would that error overload this system??? well i bet people well pay to do this because hell  they just trying to help others and get a reward for it called heaven ok good luck if it exist then ill bet anyone that even believed this for 2 seconds would be in heaven considering John 3:16 says it whosoever believes would not perish so who knows.

 

 

 

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So if this alleged rapture

So if this alleged rapture ever happens, and two of the five dead man switch people get taken away. What does the other three who get left behind do?

 

Do they sit down at a conference table and have a debate on whether the rapture has happened or not? Do they decide that the rapture did not actually happen because the three of them are still there, so they keep logging into the system?

 

The rapture probably happened many years ago, and nobody was worthy enough to go Smiling

 

 

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when i was 13 i remember a sermon over it

good old baptist church the singing was annoying as useal. then the offetery prayer offeretory and special music while the thing would be passed around. but finally the message came. pastor said something like all christians have to be right with god because he comes like a theif in the night. well needless to say im lost in first phrase and my mind racing like always and then pastor said because the reason you want to be ready and not caught in sinning because christ is going to rapture the church and then the world after a 7 year agreement for world peace with israel and rest of world led by a leader that will be the antichrist. well i am like this sounds cool and hell im 13. but the pastor then said that anyone left will still deny the bible and god will send out punishments to the earth. well halfway through the 2 prophets die and then antichrist die and rise again and people will believe in this guy and his false prophet will make all the people on earth take a mark to buy or sell which when you think of this theory and revelation and daniel you see what imgination can do for writing. but the likely of rapture 0 likely of tribulation forecast shady and unclear but no where near horizon yet. hope this helps but thats been 14 years ago and so i might of missed stuff but i think those left behind suppose to ignore the bible for answer and reject it all the way through this time period i think but i dont believe in the myth of rapture because makes no sense

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there is still time to get money from stupid beliefs

nigelTheBold wrote:

MattShizzle wrote:

That's really fucking stupid. Even if it happened, who's going to send the messages? Are they going to hire an atheist to do it just in case?

It's automated. If three of the five employees don't sign in for six days, all the email messages are sent.

It's completely genius. The guy is fleecing people by exploiting their stupid beliefs. Damnit! I wish I would've thought of that. Making Christians a little poorer, and me a little richer? That's like stealing from the stupid and giving to the... well, me.

well i never thought someone would do it. but i know like other preachers made rapture tapes for those left behind that might go to church for answers lol but you got a point i should of guess got to keep this religion in the news somehow since it doing such a great job of using fear to get converts while god ego get bigger!


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Quote:That's really fucking

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That's really fucking stupid. Even if it happened, who's going to send the messages? Are they going to hire an atheist to do it just in case?

That's what I thought too, this is really quite amusing IMO.


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DamnDirtyApe wrote:Sorry

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Sorry Will.  I'm the Antichrist.

That's a third head to the seven-headed antichrist. You'd be in charge of ... what, facts and figures? C'mon, give me something more magical that you can be in charge of. At this point, I'm thinking "demon resources". Nigel's on debauchery, and I'm on demolition.

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i want the power of useing fire and nature elements

HisWillness wrote:

DamnDirtyApe wrote:

Sorry Will.  I'm the Antichrist.

That's a third head to the seven-headed antichrist. You'd be in charge of ... what, facts and figures? C'mon, give me something more magical that you can be in charge of. At this point, I'm thinking "demon resources". Nigel's on debauchery, and I'm on demolition.

come i want that kind of destructiong power and see if i can get fire from sky can i have it that power please?


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Ooh, ooh! I want to be the

Ooh, ooh! I want to be the Teller of Unspeakable Language! I get to make-up scary-sounding words, insert them randomly into sentence fragments and shout them at people. Between all the binging and toking, I should be able to create more official languages a day or so after the rapture than we've created in the whole of our time on Earth.

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godammit, fuck, shit!!!!!

I've been saying for YEARS someone should sell Rapture Insurance (tm)...

 

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