<p>We took it very seriously. Stockpiled seltzer, paper towels, and sauvignon blanc. Oh – and I got my nails done (it was my first Rapture).</p>
<p>^^^^^^^</p>
<p>lol</p>
<p>When the rapture does come there are going to be an awful lot of surprised people walking around, both in heaven and on earth.</p>
<p>I think you mean “if.”</p>
<p>One of the things I find so fascinating about Christianity is all the apostles believed that the world would come to an end during * their* lifetime. And here we are 2,000 years later…still waiting.</p>
<p>Think about the ego it takes to believe that you alone know when the world is going to come to an end. Or maybe it is just a form of mental illness.</p>
<p>I would just have to point out that we can’t exclude the possibility that the Rapture did happen as predicted, but that so few people were actually worthy to be taken up that they went unnoticed.</p>
<p>My actual view on this is that it’s a topic that becomes interesting to many Christians at one point or another, but it’s so difficult to figure anything at all about it that it shouldn’t really impact your behavior at all. It’s much more sensible to remember that the end of the world *for you *could come at any moment (i.e., when the next tornado comes around).</p>
<p>I do love all the punking by having clothing lying around as if the person had been raptured.</p>
<p>I made dinner a little early so that I could have my birthday cake before 6pm. Would be a real shame to waste a perfectly good chocolate cake!</p>
<p>So I got to go up, and it was pretty neat! And they had Facebook there! I got special dispensation to return so I could take care of the puppy.</p>
<p>I’m Catholic, went to Catholic school all my life, and I don’t really remember being taught about the Rapture. The first time I heard about it was when I watched the David Duchovny-Mimi Rogers movie of the same name. I watched the Left Behind movie as well. Husband was raised Methodist, so maybe he’s more familiar with it, and he has devoured the Left Behind books and others by the same authors. We were in Memphis over the weekend, and saw lots of billboards about the upcoming end of the world, so that’s the only reason it came to our notice. As the hour approached, I scanned every station on the Sirius radio and found no mention of the upcoming Rapture, even on the Christian/Catholic stations. When the hour passed, we thought of our relative who is a devout Christian, who is in the terminal stages of mesothelioma, and were only sad for her sake that the Rapture did not happen, as she had hoped, so she could be spared any further pain from her disease. She fervently believes that we are in the end of days, and is sadly clinging on to that hope for a swift relief from her suffering.</p>
<p>DD posted as her Facebook status: “No Rapture, but Jesus won the Preaksnes!” Some sense of humor.</p>
<p>On FB, I was invited to “Post-rapture looting.”</p>
<p>At the restaurant I work at, it was pretty slow up until 6 PM on Saturday, then it got very busy with everyone reassured they’d have to settle for our food instead of any “heavenly” fare.</p>
<p>Please someone tell me if you have an answer to this question about the logistics of the rapture: Camping said it will happen at 6 PM YOUR local time. So what if I’m standing at the border of one time zone at 5:30 and cross into the next where it’s 6:30, and I was supposed to be raptured. Did I just subvert God and miss my ascension? Or even better, what if half of me is on one side and half of me is on the other??</p>
<p>Did the good people of Minnesota and Missouri do something wonderful, deserving of ascension to heaven? Those tornadoes were brutal, and took many people, places and things. Wait-- I think that happened a day AFTER the rapture was supposed to happen. Never mind. Hope no one here was affected by those awful storms. And happy birthday fishymom</p>
<p>A friend of mine put up a funny fb status at 6:05pm. It said, “In light of lack of rapture, please ignore all confessions and accusations I’ve made in the past twenty four hours.”</p>
<p>erhswimming - half of you gets taken, and the other half gets left behind. In your case, it’s not Rapture, but rupture.</p>
<p>The whole thing is so stupid. They figured this out to the very HOUR? Did they really think God is bound by some clock, or eastern standard vs daylight time - not to mention converting for the Gregorian calendar changes. </p>
<p>This type of Christian is so unthinking and uneducated, it’s really sad. As a (trying) Christian, I wish they wouldn’t muddy the brand any further than we already have.</p>
<p>For a Jewish version of this, we’d have said it would happen at maybe around 6ish :)</p>
<p>(BTW, I plead total ignorance about the Messiah V rapture tv miniseries. Does this somehow relate to this weekends non-event?)</p>
<p>Montegut–I’m Methodist and I’ve never heard of the Rapture discussed in my church. From the UMC website:</p>
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<p>[Where</a> does the Rapture fit into the United Methodist realm of beliefs?](<a href=“http://archives.umc.org/interior.asp?ptid=1&mid=1391]Where”>The United Methodist Church)</p>
<p>I think this kind of foretelling the future, even in a general, not date-specific way, is not something all Christians do. I know it’s not a part of my theology.</p>
<p>My friend’s husband is a pastor. The electricity went out a few minutes after 6pm at their house. She said her husband yelled out “Lisa, are you still there?”.</p>
<p>Funny guy!</p>
<p>My S.O. and I were in the car for about 8 hours on Saturday. He was playing his “rapture” playlist, consisting mostly of Johnny Cash songs like “God’s Gonna Cut You Down” and “When the Man Comes Around.” It almost made a believer out of me…</p>