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08-22-11, 01:37 AM
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Navy Seal
 Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Valhalla
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The Rapture Profiteers
For nearly a year, nonagenarian preacher and radio personality Harold Camping predicted the world would end on May 21. Locusts would blanket the earth and millions would die while Camping and his flock would rise up to the sky, rendezvous with Jesus, and ascend to the Kingdom of Heaven. Instead, May 22 happened, Camping postponed the end of the world by five months, and then suffered a debilitating stroke—leaving a huge vacuum in the Rapture market.
The meltdown came at a propitious moment for apocalypse followers. A proliferation of earthquakes, a plague that may or may not be sweeping Brazil, the Greeks, and Kim Kardashian, among other things, may be conspiring to create a Rapture bubble. In addition to Camping’s revised forecast—the world is definitely going to end on Oct. 21—many Rapture-seekers now believe the Aug. 2 debt-ceiling deadline signals that the end may be very, very near. “If the economy goes, that’ll be fertile soil for the antichrist to take power,” says Todd Strandberg of Little Rock, Ark. “Hitler came out of the Depression. A lot of us believe the antichrist will use the same stepping stone.” This means there are only so many days left to get rich. Strandberg, the proprietor of RaptureReady.com—the most popular Rapture-preparedness website in the world—is part of a new generation of entrepreneurs trying to take advantage of Camping’s absence. Unlike Camping, the new apocalypse establishment is offering an unprecedented array of doomsday-themed literature, podcasts, survival kits, and other goods and services for navigating the end of times. SOURCE |
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08-22-11, 05:01 AM
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Prince of
the Sea
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Watching over U-253
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The whole thing is preposterous...
Jesus said no one knows the day or hour, so for anyone to claim to be a follower and then run around naming dates...  Well, I think that pretty much speaks for itself.
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"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people are so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell.   
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08-22-11, 06:34 AM
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Let's Sink Sumptin' !
Join Date: Dec 2001
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There's always money to made in doomsday predictions when you consider how many people out there are actually looking forward to it. I imagine some people see a sort of liberation in the breakdown of the social order.
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08-22-11, 07:23 AM
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Wayfaring Stranger
Join Date: Apr 2005
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Send me $200 bucks and your address and i'll come and take care of your pets after the rapture.
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08-22-11, 07:32 AM
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Admiral
 Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Canada
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give me 200$
and I'll come to your house and destroy all the embarrassing stuff when you die
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My own open source project on Sourceforge OTP.net KGB grade encryption for the rest of us 
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08-22-11, 09:35 AM
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Fleet Admiral
 Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Patroling the Slot.
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Here, I'm selling the rapture necklaces. If you wear one, it will protect you against tiger attack.
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