HELP ME!!! I'm addicted to the Rapture Ready website

[LynneSin]

I'm thisclose to creating an account and start having some fun.

I can't imagine anyone this clueless about life and actually belives this stuff and btw, I'm a Christian and even I'm stunned

http://www.rr-bb.com/index.php

[SharonRB]

1. I hear ya, Lynne

I find myself checking it out at least a few times a week. Those people are really loony. Scary loony. The actually let these folks breed and raise children? I'm very afraid.

We did make it through Tisha B'Av yesterday, though. I saw you posted about that in another thread. Guess they're not so smart after all.

[RebelOne]

2. Yes, I visit that site once a day just to get a laugh

at what those wackos are posting. They are salivating about the Mid-East wars and hoping this is the end of times and Jesus will be returning to rapture them.

[Kat45]

3. Admitting your addiction is the first step.

I suspected your addiction when I saw several posts from you regarding that site. I must admit that I couldn't resist checking it out today, and I was surprised to see such rational discussions of such an irrational subject.

[prole_for_peace]

4. now i am reading it and can't quit. like a car wreck.

one poster has this sig line:

"Besides, there is really no such thing as homophobia. It is a false concept created by the gay community to smear the healthy aversion to a unnatural and disgusting deviancy."

no he is the one that is disgusting.


edited: i have a headache and can't spell

[LynneSin]

5. OH MY GAWD NO WAY

That is the WORST excuse I have ever seen to justify homophobia

[WolverineDG]

6. Check this out

Think they project much? :crazy: (although they're dead on with Scientology & with Christian Identity, I guess they refuse to see just how racist & bigoted they themselves are):

"This is a Christian message board. Teaching that does not agree with the Bible is not to be promoted. This includes, but is not limited to, Mormon, Jehovah Witness, Scientology, Christian Identity, New Age, Shepherd's Chapel, Sacred Name Movements, and Seventh Day Advent teaching. Those who adhere to these beliefs are welcome to discuss Christianity in the Apologetics forum. (Gal 1:6-8)

If anyone is personally defaming another member, then we certainly encourage you to report such posts. We will not tolerate demeaning attacks against anyone, whether they be Catholics, muslims, athiests, Protestants, or martians.

On the other hand, we will not tolerate false doctrine either, and will continue to expose such false teachings where they exist. Many groups describe themselves as Christians, but are in fact cults. They grossly adulterate the Scriptures, adding to them and twisting the meaning of existing Scriptures in such a way as to render them incompatible with Christ's true teachings. Teachings that state that Jews no longer exist is an example of what we deem 'cultic' material.

Rest assured that we do not unfairly target any single religion. Members of this board have exposed false teachings within the Protestant church as well (many of the TBN crowd such as the "Word of Faith" or "name it and claim it" crowd are good examples)

Please feel free to report any post which you feel is demeaning of others. We'll try to promptly investigate!

Just be aware that exposing or otherwise questioning a false teaching does not necessarily constitute "demeaning", and that we in administration ultimately rely not on our own opinions, but rather on the Holy Scriptures as the basis for evaluating the legitimacy of any given doctrine."

[Monk06]

7. Checkout the Rapture with Mimi Rogers 1991 that should chill you out.

[Sannum]

8. It is fun

My account was banned:(.

When I am feeling dumb, I visit. It makes me feel like Einstein.

[Ellen Forradalom]

9. Imagine being a mod there

Big McLarge Huge would have a field day.

[TimeChaser]

10. Read some of the stuff on the homepage

Stuff like "If you're reading this and the Rapture has already happened..."

:crazy:

[Vidar]

11. Rapture Ready I found amusing. Catholic.com I found quite

depressing, due to the tremendous emphasis on abortion & gays. Cathoics I've know have bee thoughtful, decent people, but I wouldn't get that impression from the website,

[CatholicEdHead]

20. Sounds about right

The other two "Catholic" boards I scan but you have to pay to post are http://www.cwnews.com and www.catholicmatch.com

Anything but total submission to Rome, and no issues beyond Abortion and anti-Gay Marriage is tolerated by the posters (not by the board admin though at catholicmatch). This is even though Catholic Social Teachings go quite broad and the Church is no a subset of the Republican party.

Edit: Disclaimer, the liberal Catholic woman I am dating I found in the middle of that quite conservative CatholicMatch website. :D

[Cathyclysmic]

33. The forums at Catholic.org are atrocious.

"Father Z," the admin, is a total Freep. Very uncharacteristic of even the official Vatican stance on stuff like war & social justice (which are very progressive, despite the issues of gay rights and abortion).

[ashling]

12. I just have to go to work

I get to ponder what I mockingly refer to as thr "question of the day" from my coworker. Here are some recent questions for you to think about:

"do you think that you can feel it when people pray for you?"

"I wonder what this ice cream will taste like in heaven?" (on a day when somebody went to the Dairy Queen and treated everybody)

"Won't this taste good in heaven?" - variation on the question above (no pun intended)

"Don't you think it will be cool to be raptured?"

"Aren't you excited about this end times stuff?"


When they weren't raptured on 6/6/6 I asked when the next day was. I was told that it was 7/7/7 because those are "holy numbers"
I should have said "No, they're just whole numbers."

I'll be glad when the rapture comes. At least I'll get some friggin' peace and quiet ! ! !

[petronius]

34. "do you think that you can feel it when people pray for you?"

Tell him "Yes" and describe some sort of distinctive but unusual sensation - make him wonder why he's never felt it... :evilgrin:

[Pharaoh]

13. well I can't bear to wade through it all

But if you find some really funny threads please post them.............

BTW If I could shotgun the cowbell guy through the computer screen I would :party:

[Patiod]

14. What's scary is how many people DON'T understand this

phenomenon. Especially here in the Northeast, where end-times fundies are less numerous.

I was telling my book group about how scary it was that the President believed in this concept, and they didn't believe me.

They didn't believe
1. That Bush believed it and
2. That ANYONE believed it.

They thought I was making it up out of the whole cloth to besmirch our Fearful Leader. Especially Catholics - "I went to 12 years of Catholic School/CCD and never heard anything about this" "I never saw anything about it in the Bible"

[nuxvomica]

15. You go ahead and register. I'll start popping the popcorn.

:popcorn:

[Rhiannon12866]

31. I'm sure that you already have popped enough for everybody here...

:evilgrin:

[LaurenG]

16. Ah LynneSin I'll

pray for you!

oh wow your smilies were raptured w/o you btw! :rofl:

[Missy Vixen]

17. It's a train wreck

I suppose I shouldn't go over there and post that there is actually no Biblical proof of a rapture.

Must. Not. Post.
Must. Find. Something. Else. To. Do.

Aaargh!
Julie

[RadiDem]

18. I am too! I've almost registered a dozen times as BeamMeUpJesus

but haven't yet

[Mojambo]

19. I've been listening to Sam Seder's book FUBAR recently

These Rapture cats are effing out of their minds.

[CatholicEdHead]

21. I can never get in to post

as registration is always closed when I try to register.

[Texasgal]

22. End times "chat'?

:rofl:

[joneschick]

23. I can't even poke aroung much over there! OMG!

Members visited today: 946
Who are these people? Does the site reveal any general demographics on their peeps? They're truly frightening.

[LynneSin]

28. Yeah but about 900 of them were DUers addicted to the site

which leaves about 46 nutjobs out there in the world

[Mz Pip]

24. The screen names!

What a hoot!

Thanks for posting this. I had no idea such a site existed. I'm going to scroll though looking for fashion and packing tips. Will I need moisturizer? Sun screen?

Mz Pip
:dem:

[Vinca]

25. If you open an account there, go to the thread about unborn babies

being raptured and ask them if the frozen embryos will be raptured, too, and if so, will they melt. That was my first and last trip to the site - yike! Now I know where the Shrub supporters come from.

[graywarrior]

26. I can't stay away, neither and I think it may be your fault.

[peacefreak]

27. Yeah, they've been a side trip on my daily rounds on the internets.

It's been interesting to watch the frenzy build. I do get a good recipe now & again in the Women's Corner. Take some time & read the letters for those left behind.

[pscot]

29. I find it a little sad, actually

Many of them come across as sweet, childlike. They could just as well be talking about what Santa's going to bring for them. I really don't think they should be allowed to vote

[Rhiannon12866]

30. OMG! This looks like a pretty scary place, to me!

But then I used to post on FR, so I'm one to talk, LOL! So go for it, if you think you can handle it. We'll miss you...:hi:

[Cathyclysmic]

32. It's amazing how a whole movement centers around ONE VERSE in the Bible.

And a vague one at that...

[LynneSin]

35. The bible also talks about not worshipping false idols

ANd yet these people treat the 'Left Behind' series like it's an extension the bible

[ScreamingMeemie]

36. ...and to think that these are the people in line with us at the grocery

store... It really freaks me out... Golly. "I'm just going through the motions...preparing to fly"... It would be so great to be so self assured. :) :hi:

On edit: a post quote, "Now I don't with DH's parents because....well...they don't like me very much and the feeling is mutual.
"... and yet, somehow this woman believes she will be "rapturized"... :rofl:

[Ramsey]

37. Is that site for real??

I was just reading their FAQ, and it is truly freaking out there! Surely this is a satire site.
:wtf:

To wit, activities they do not allow:

Date setting is seen by some as a positive thing: it gives people something to look forward to, and if it turns out to be untrue (as EVERY prediction to date has), then they just scrap the prediction and look for the next one. To others, it is a real detriment. It can be a huge letdown and can challenge a person's faith to see "iron clad" scriptural "proof" about a date, and then to watch it come and go with no activity. We had a horrible experience with this in September of 2000 and made the decision at that time to err on the side of caution and disallow that practice. While we don't fault people for being energized by this practice, we just ask that they recognize that it can do more harm than good and thay they accept the fact that these discussions are not welcome here!

Pin-the-tail-on-the-antichrist (PTTOTA) is another popular game that folks like to speculate about. It is our position that rather than entertaining onesself by spinning the wheel to see which public figure can be named satan incarnate, that we should be praying for these people, that they find salvation and thus take themselves out of the running. To clarify further, this is a pre-trib board, which means that it is our scriptural interpretation that the church will not be here when the AC is revealed.

[LynneSin]

38. Yep, it's for real - people believe this crap

I mean most of us Christians are that stupid

[jonnyblitz]

50. you've never played pin the tail on the anti-christ?

:eyes:

[Ramsey]

51. Obviously I haven't yet lived!

But if the Rapture is coming, I won't live much longer anyway!!

[LynneSin]

52. Check your PM

:D

[RebelOne]

39. Uh Oh, they are on to us. They know we have been lurking.

Here's what Ladybug posted:
"I read on another board (can't say since we're not allowed to start board wars) that they were laughing hysterically about people here getting excited over this conflict and expecting the Rapture, and its members were making a concerted effort to flood our board. Of course, there's no way to tell how many visitors were actually interested in the events of the day or were part of the flood. "

[LynneSin]

43. THERE ARE NO PEOPLE INTERESTED IN THE RAPTURE

I mean geez, most normal Christians recognize these people are NUT JOBs.

[RebelOne]

44. Why are you shouting at me?

[LynneSin]

49. I'm shouting at everyone who believes in this crap formulated in the 1800s

Seriously - you can look it up

[izzybeans]

40. I've been reading that forum too. It seems that the only thing

that keeps some of these people from a murderous rampage is the idea that those they wish to do harm will "burn after the rapture" while they ascend on their "chariot of chocolate and feathers" (as David Cross said about Bush). Without the hope of the chocolatey chariot we could expect some random acts of violence aimed at the "evil" factions in cahoots with the anti-christ: which is so totally Sam Donaldson (who is the voice of spongebob by the way;)). There are too many "If I didn't have the comfort of knowing I'm a pre-trib. saved person and that he'd burn in hell. I may burn him myself"...to think otherwise.

If you go have fun I recommend a backstory that includes the temptations of "same sex" marriage, and a desire for a call to be saved.

[wildhorses]

41. not with MY chocolate....I refuse to allow it....they better get

their own chocolate. I need all my chocolate

[LynneSin]

42. I wonder if I could get a white chocolate chariot?

I mean, if someone can verify that I would have my choice in chocolates, then perhaps I might actually start believing in the rapture

[izzybeans]

45. I think you can specify on the born again application form.

[wildhorses]

47. specify my chocolate?

mayhaps I should consider the possibility:evilgrin:

[izzybeans]

48. Yep. They put that clause in when church attendence started dropping

They call it one of the Five Incentives of the Tribulation. The other four involve three different types of candy and a $50 gas card at Exxon stations.

[izzybeans]

46. I think the chocolate disappears too. As well as the feathers.