Xulfer Cirtsag

I don't know. Sometimes I laugh, sometimes I cry looking at the stuff going on over there.

It's like carwrecks. You know you shouldn't rubberneck and gape, but sometimes you just can't help looking.

PHYS251

Great, great movie. :notworthy

MrFrosty

Yeah, represent!

I actually barfed up the correct quote, but was close. From IMDB:

[after playing out all possible outcomes for Global Thermonuclear War]
Joshua: Greetings, Professor Falken.
Stephen Falken: Hello, Joshua.
Joshua: A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?

I think that futility is an important lesson to be learned. There is usually a time to call it quits.

Jet Black

the best way to not get banned ar RR is to start a thread on how you are addicted to porn and masturbate 15 times a day while your wife is in the kitchen cooking/cleaning/washing/having your 14th baby (she is wearing a dress of course, no jeans for hir, oh siree no) and begging for advice on how to stop this palm blistering activity before jesus comes and whips you off to heaven (pretend a big concern is that you don't want Jesus to catch you mid shot) - or if you are female, reverse the story accordingly.

You will fit right in, because most of the regular fundamentalist posters there fit precisely that description*.


*perhaps not, but this is the image that most of the internet has of rapture ready.

IamMoose

Haha I was going to suggest that. Tell them that the Rapture is happening next Wednesday .. God told you so. As an afterthought, tell em they'd better go out and give all their money to charity - you can helpfully include a PO box number if you like - as they won't be needing it anymore.

IamMoose

I sometimes wonder if ANY of these fundies are real people, or if they're all just atheists with time on their hands trying to outfundie all the other nutjobs out there

Zeda

Believe me they are for real. I grew up in an home and church exactly like that. When I go there and read the boards (I havent registered there, and wont post there) it's like old home week for me.

As a teen I read all the Late Great Planet Earth, and was pretty sure I would be raptured before I got a chance to grow up, get married, etc.

The only thing different that I have noticed from my upbringing is that there appears to be more hate expressed now. Perhaps that is a reaction to the present political divide in the US, or maybe it was always that way underneath. :huh:

Xulfer Cirtsag

Avoid the date setting. They are at least rational enough over there to see how silly other sects have looked when setting dates.

Xulfer Cirtsag

Like with all things, the reasons are probably complex in how you see that there might be more hate being expressed.

The first problem is trying to establish if there is any objective measure that there is more hate being expressed. It is possible that the subjective measuring tool of your perception has shifted over the years, making it easier to spot as well as becoming more inclusive of what you would consider expressions of hate.

That said, I would point to a couple of factors that may lead to more overt expressions of hate. 9-11-2001, which disturbed the evangelical rightwing in a big way, and fed the appetite for a black/white world where people are saved/unsaved, friend/enemy.

I also think the rightward shift of American politics is a huge factor, as it feeds into their feelings of serving God's word, and being right. And if you're gonna be right, for a lot of them, there's gotta be someone who's wrong.

IamMoose

It's a strange mentality .. I have met people who believe that the rapture will happen in their lifetime - well met on the internet, not irl fortunately - and I don't understand it. How peculiar to spend your life expecting at any moment to be lifted into the air, you know? But then .. when you say you believed it, do you mean you really believed it intellectually, ie you wouldn't have been at all surprised if it had happened, or you just believed it emotionally ,ie you just never gave it much thought?

Is it even a biblical idea anyway? I don't recall seeing it in the bible.