The Rapture, Red Cows and College Planning

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<p>The end-times can’t come soon enough for some folks:</p>

<p>Shortcut to: <a href=“Plotting the Exit Strategy”>Plotting the Exit Strategy;

<p>I don’t whether to laugh or be afraid.
Would someone who really believes they should help accelerate the timetable do something really vile? I mean besides, breed red cows.
Would such people even bother sending their kids to college?</p>

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<p>I wouldn’t have believed it, until I read a lot of their thoughts on a rapture site I peruse now and again (since I am curious as to their take on “news”) but the rapturists are a very real group. Mostly, they spend a lot of time prognosticating about earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions and the like. They greet all bad news in the Middle East with open arms, since it means the End Times are near.</p>

<p>I have no idea whether the rapturists do any planning, aside from disaster preparedness. I printed a long list they provided, of stuff one is supposed to have on hand in case of a disaster. It was quite comprehensive.</p>

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<p>I found this website all about the rapture people, with various links etc…what planning is there to do, really?</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.raptureready.com/[/url]”>http://www.raptureready.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Apparently Liz taylors many marriages are a sign, but hey she got married, and to a guy, so what is the problem</p>

<p>It all started up again the the Left Behind series of books, which I read a couple to “understand” the phenomenon…so when people talk about the rapture, etc, I can sort of “get” what the beliefs are…a tad cultlike if you ask me, but hey, I will have lots of friends where I will end up</p>

<p><a href=“Left Behind”>Left Behind;

<p>HAVE FUN!!! Gots to go scorch some earth</p>

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<p>Talk about a 24-hour, impatient, now culture - we can’t even wait for eternity!</p>

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<p>I found the film very disturbing/interesting.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102757/[/url]”>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102757/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Now <em>that</em> is worth an LOL.</p>

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<p>Saw that movie years ago…it was disturbing…her poor daughter</p>

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<p>Are these people strictly on the fringe or are they more mainstream that that? It seems like politics and public policy are things that could be used to speed prophecy up a bit.</p>