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Are You Ready to Rapture?

By 1124 on May 21, 2011 at 2:33 PM in Current Affairs

It’s the end of the world today, you know. Any second now.

According to certain religious authorities, it’s nearing the time to brace yourself for the Big One! Earthquakes belching corpses from their graves around the world, as the truly Saved Souls are swept bodily into Heaven. I’m not entirely sure if I’m going. Probably not. I figure if I can identify any of the living who are heading skyward, I might be able to pick up some free stuff they won’t be needing anymore. I reckon that in itself disqualifies me. Dayum.

In case you haven’t heard the news, Saturday, May 21st is the day of the long-prophesized Rapture, as told in the Bible. You may have read about it in Doonesbury this week. Of course, these predictions of the End of Days have been around as long as the Bible. Probably longer. In fact, some Biblical scholars have hypothesized that the whole book of Revelations was something St. John expected to see in his lifetime when he wrote it. I always figured he was just eating the wrong kind of mushrooms.

Anyway, The Rapture will supposedly take place today, and then we’ll have several months of living Hell on Earth, as if things aren’t bad enough already!

But the Hell on Earth I’m talking about is literal, with cataclysms and havoc, fire and brimstone, and all the evil sinners of the world having their last flings, wantonly murdering, stealing, pillaging, plundering, and having a good old time of it, what with nothing left to live for and nothing to lose since they are already assured of eternal damnation. Might as well go out with a bang… or two.

And on what authority do we have it that this is our Last Weekend? Well, the last decent weekend anyway. Apparently we have the fervent and all-too-serious word of evangelist radio broadcaster Harold Camping, who is 89 years old and has literally done the math to proclaim once and for all that “This is it!” He says it will hit at 6 p.m. I assume that’s Pacific Daylight Time, since he broadcasts from California. I know, right? Where else?

Of course, he also predicted the same thing back in 1994, and I’m pretty sure it didn’t happen then. But this time, by G-d, he’s got it figured out! He calculates that today is exactly 7,000 years since the Great Flood of Noah Zark fame, and his earlier mistake shouldn’t count against him. He’s entitled to a mulligan, isn’t he?

His newest calculations are based on this equation: 4990 + 2011 – 1 = 7,000!

Of course! Eureka! Topeka! By George, I think he’s got it!

“Amazingly, May 21, 2011 is the 17th day of the 2nd month of the biblical calendar of our day. Remember, the flood waters also began on the 17th day of the 2nd month in the year 4990 B.C.,” he states on his Family Radio Christian network website.

Ooooooh! Eerie, isn’t it?

As proof of his conviction that this is really going to happen, consider this: A recent caller to his radio show asked if monetary donations to his ministry to help them spread the word of the coming Apocalypse would be refunded if the Rapture didn’t occur as he predicts. The reverend Camping thundered in his deepest, most convincing tones, “This is going to happen. Millions will die. It’s going to be horrible.”

Wow. Now I’m really starting to watch the clock!

I’m really curious about the folks who take this to heart. Have they cancelled their insurance policies and yanked their kids out of school so they can sit in prayer circles waiting for Jesus to swoop down and scoop them up as a whole family at once? What if one of the kids isn’t a true believer? Will they just wave ba-bye as they fly away on angel’s wings? “Sorry, Billy, you should have believed us!” That doesn’t seem very Christian to me. Seems like one of the parents, or an older sibling at least, would stay and comfort the little sinful bastard for the next five months until You Know Who ends it all permanently in His infinite and incalculable wisdom on October 21st, right in the middle of the World Series.

I keep thinking about this couple I had the displeasure to know a few years back when I was at a low point in my life and took a (thankfully short-term) job at a used car dealership as Marketing Manager. That’s a euphemistic title for spammer and telemarketer. Anyway, this couple that owned the place was so evangelistic and hypocritical, it was literally hard to stomach. They were as sweet as treacle one minute and blithely ripping off the most destitute among us in the next moment. The husband once told me, “I believe every word of the Bible, from Genesis to Revelations, and that’s what I live by.” They were once discussing strategies for selling cars by offering easy credit at high interest rates to low income people, and someone said something about customers paying off that $4,000 car “till Kingdom Come,” and the wife said, “Well, then it won’t matter to me ‘cause I won’t be here! I’ll be up there!”

Man, just remembering it, I need an Alka Seltzer.

So how many times has the end of the world been forecast? And how many of them were wrong? Anyone want to take bets on this one?

I’ll tell you what, if the guy’s right, we’ll all be too miserable to think about trying to benefit from the sudden disappearance of the holier-than-us. We won’t be able to go around to their houses and clean out the loot because there won’t be any. According to the Bible, it’s easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. If that’s true, and a certain used car dealer has assured me that every word of the Bible is literal fact, then those being Raptured will be the poorest among us. Didn’t Jesus Himself say something to the effect of “Blessed are the poor, for they shall inherit the Earth?”

Now wait, I’m getting confused. The rich can’t go to Heaven, and the poor will inherit the Earth, and from what I understand, property values are about to go completely to Hell. So then where does that leave the Middle Class?

Hmmm. Maybe I’ll make the cut after all! God damn, America! I’m saved!

Oops!  Does that count? Can I get a mulligan on that?

  • oowawa

    Good to see your bright wit back here on NQ, Steve. It looks like the world is ending here on NQ, with this skeletal format. But as for Apocalypse, it seems the older I get and the more weary I become with the political situation, the less difference it seems to make. Let it all fall down!

  • Cindy

    Steve—Thanks for great post….and “heads up” (literally)
    Nothing strange has happened yet here, except we saw the mayor of our little town at the local diner and he seemed unusually upbeat. (He’s Episcopalian)
    But I don’t buy the rapture rumor, and just to defy it, I’m gonna put my hair in rollers, go bra-less, and cook a pork roast—-the Lord wouldn’t DARE come today. Ha!

  • felizarte

    I just HOPE that the CHANGE at NQ will be better.

  • Kenoshamarge

    If I ain’t raptured up, and I don’t think I will be, do you suppose I can lay claim to all my relatives worldly goods? Although with a few of them, if they can’t take it with them I don’t think they’ll go. Is there a choice?

  • http://www.saywhatyouwill.proboards.com PssttCmere

    What the hell happened to the format?

    As for the world ending….I am not expecting it to end.

    “Say What You Will…It Feels So Good”

  • HARP

    If I can`t take my dogs……I ain`t goin.

  • Samb

    I didn’t even know about this end of days
    thing until the last day or so.
    Thats me always later to the party!!

    I always thought that if the end of days occurred
    I would sit there with a big bucket of KFC, a bottle of
    good red wine, dipping oreos cookies into peanut butter.
    stuffing my face.
    Going out Gluttony Style.
    Oh well, maybe next time.

    Still here……
    I’m not one of the chosen few but I don’t feel bad, I went
    for a run this morning and I wasn’t alone…LOL.

  • HELENK

    this guy’s radio station is just playing music, not preaching. Guess the contract was up.

    http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre74i3ks-us-apocalypse-prediction/

  • Onofre’s arm

    It only makes sense that the poor be Raptured up, they have very little to pack. I heard that the first bag, other than carry-ons, is free, but there’s a charge for the rest of them. I wonder, does my golf club bag count as two?

  • http://comcast Madame DeFarge

    One of my friends on facebook created a flow chart to let you know whether you qualified to be “Raptured”…I’d post it here if there was a way… but no. I obviously didn’t qualify and considering the fellow travelers, I’m pleased.

  • http://comcast Madame DeFarge

    So…how long does it take for a post to appear? Maybe I’ll come back next week when the blog is more together…this is too frustrating on top of everything else going on.

  • kinthenorthwest

    I heard everyone is in Vegas maxing out their credit cards…

  • Onofre’s arm

    I wonder if the esteemed Rev. Camping considered this when he computed his prediction:

    Years (revolutions of the Earth around the Sun) are not comprised of an exact number of days (rotations of the Earth) such that, even with the addition of one day every four years, there’s still approximately an 11 minute discrepancy. For this reason, in 1582, Pope Gregory XIII ordained that October 4 was to be followed by October 15. In this way, the seasonal year was be restored to what it had been in 325. The leap years of the old Julian calendar were readjusted. To prevent the accumulation of another 11-minute-a-year discrepancy, the Gregorian calendar omitted the leap day from years that ended in the hundreds, unless they were divisible by 400. This produced the calendar we use today.

    But it gets better, because that reform came from Rome, Protestant England, and the Protestant American colonies obstinately refused to go along. Not until 1752 were they persuaded to make the change. The Old Style calendar year that governed them until then had begun on March 25, but the New Style year began on January 1. When the necessary eleven days were added, George Washington’s birthday, which fell on February 11, 1751, Old Style, became February 22, 1752, New Style. H/T Daniel J. Boorstin, “The Discoverers”

    Also, if the brilliant Rev. Camping started his calculations with the beginning of the Great Flood, I sure hope that he calculated the slight change in the Earth’s rotation that an Earth covering cataclysm would have caused.

    Making the necessary adjustments to Rev. Camping’s prediction, I have determined that the End will actually come on Wednesday, June 1. So, this brief reprieve should give all of you Spiritual procrastinators another chance to get off your sinning asses, and get your God Head in gear. See you on the other side! :)

  • Will Smith

    test

  • http://noquarterusa foxyladi14

    is he sure that’s not ruptured?? lol

  • FLDemFem

    Well, it better not happen until after the Preakness. I am looking forward to seeing the race. Old acquaintances involved with the favorite. Hmmm..wonder if anyone with really good horses is going to get raptured? If so, I dibs one!!!!

  • Steve_in_KC

    So here’s my first attempt at a reply with this strange new format. God knows where it will end up. By the way, that’s not taking the Lord’s name in vain, it’s just a statement of fact. He knows. I don’t have a clue.

    Thanks for the welcome, oowawa. Shalala, doobewa, etc.

  • New Commenter

    All the apostles thought the end times would be their lifetime, but Jesus actually said the end time would come “like a thief in the night” which means no one can actually predict when it will come. This silly idea about today comes from a tiny, fringe group. Christianity views today to be the same as any other day.

  • Steve_in_KC

    OK, now I see. No threads of comments, just a chronological posting, one after another, without the ability to have replies tied to the comment that inspired it. Nice.

    I’m sure the powers that be on the NQ publishing staff are working feverishly and with red faces to make this transition something better than before, but let’s all hope that if this is as good as it gets that they’ll take a mulligan and put it back the way it was! ‘Cause this kinda sucks.

  • Steve_in_KC

    Well, New Commenter, it’s still too early to be sure. It won’t be 6:00 p.m. in California for another few hours. I’d say maybe we should all make it a point to be outdoors when that hour arrives so we don’t get sucked through the ceiling! That could hurt! Especially if you live in a high-rise!

  • Onofre’s arm

    Relax Steve, even if you live on the bottom floor of a high rise, you’ll not be sucked through each pre-stressed floor diaphragm. If “Three Dog Night” has any insight, then “Heaven” is in your mind, in which case, you’ll be sucked up into your skull, become a singularity, and live forever as a non-corporeal energy thingy.

  • oowawa

    LOL–Brilliant, Oa. Having been brought up as a Jehovah’s Witness, I became used to these end-of-the-world alerts. June 1, you say? Bring it on . . . yawn . . .

  • oowawa

    Are you ready to rapture?

    If I really thought it was the end of the world, I’d drink so much beer I’d be ready to rupture.

  • skep247

    Are we there yet?

  • Onofre’s arm

    What does that boxing MC say before every bout?

    LET’S GET READY TO RAPTUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRREEE!!!

  • http://noquarterusa foxyladi14

    I was raptured once LOL….

  • Cindy

    Steve— I’ve already commented but wanted to tell you that I really appreciate your sense of humor. And also wanted to add this:
    Although I was raised in a family of short- and long-standing Christians in the South, and even though my father and great-great-grandfather were in Southern Baptist Church work, I didn’t know the term “the rapture” , nor did I know much about it, until I went to college. My parents basically discouraged their children from reading the book of Revelation in the Bible. When I would ask my mother about things I’d heard regarding the end of the world, she would say “Oh, honey, let’s not worry about that. Just live for today and live like a Christian”. Those were my father’s sentiments, also.

  • requiredreading

    Onofre’s arm | May 21, 2011 | Reply

    “If “Three Dog Night” has any insight, then “Heaven” is in your mind, in which case, you’ll be sucked up into your skull, become a singularity, and live forever as a non-corporeal energy thingy”
    ———————————————-

    OA – aren’t you assuming that the mind is in the skull, according to your TDN logic? I can think of a few people (our illustrious C-i-C for example) whose mind is at the complete polar opposite of the skull and I’d hate to think about what kind of eternal “thingy” that would turn out to be…..

  • Cindy

    Onofre—-and foxilady—LOL!

  • Cindy

    oowawa—-funny comment about the beer——maybe you should sign a pre-ruptural agreement with your barkeeper?
    (sorry-couldn’t help myself–LOL)

  • Onofre’s arm

    RR,when you write “C-i-C”, are you referring to the “Child-in-Charge”? Just want to know if we’re thinking about the same person. And if so, do you really think there’s any possibility that He’ll be taken up?

  • Onofre’s arm

    Of course, I suppose there might be a possibility that He’ll be taken up, if God is a garbage collector…..that is…

  • Peggy Sue

    Well, I can report at 6:15 pm, EST, that the world is still here, the sky baby blue, the temps in the mid-80s. No rumbling or thunder or splintering of the earth.

    Wrong again! Which begs the question why any believer thinks that he/she would know the Mind of God. Ego, much?

    I think/thought all this was pretty silly. But then, I listened to a true believer interviewed on John Smart’s radio show last week. Not silly, simply sick. When you view the world’s population as no more than worms or maggots, deserving of extermination, you have a very twisted outlook on life.

  • Onofre’s arm

    I’ve further refined my “End” prediction! It is now, June 1, 2011 (New revised Gregorian Calendar), 5:29:47 A.M. PST (sorry you late risers).

  • elaine

    Cindy, Re: your folks being S. Baptists & you not knowing about “The Rapture” & perhaps this being due to them discouraging you from reading “Revelations”, well I think The Rapture concept is based on I Thessalonians 4:17 & maybe I Corinthians 15:52…somewhere there’s also an admonition against ‘teaching people to fly to save their souls’, so it’s a bit confusing.

    There’s an old Gospel song sung in the South called “I’ll Fly Away”. I’ve only heard it sung @ African American funerals when the deceased was very elderly, so perhaps it’s a song from another era.

  • elaine

    test

  • elaine

    Cindy, You said even though your parents were Southern Baptists you didn’t hear about “The Rapture” & perhaps this was due to them discouraging you from reading “Revelations”, well I think the Rapture doctrine is based on I Thessalonians 4:17 & maybe also on I Corinthians 15:52. Somewhere there’s also an admonition against ‘teaching people to fly to save their souls’, so it’s a bit confusing.

    There is an old Southern Gospel song called, “I’ll Fly Away.” I’ve only heard it sung at African American funerals when the deceased was very elderly, so perhaps it’s a song popular in another era.

  • ~~JustMe~~

    Doomsday “prophet” Harold Camping, founder of the Family Radio Network, is under fire today for his big, hilariously false prediction that today, May 21 would be the end of the world. Some people are annoyed, while others are chuckling about the prophecy. But a handful are outraged, and I don’t blame ‘em. They realize some innocent people were taken for a ride by a man who is now $80 million dollars richer, thanks to his apocalypse message.
    http://thestir.cafemom.com/in_the_news/120656/false_prophet_harold_camping_banked

  • Onofre’s arm

    Elaine—-”I’ll Fly Away”—-

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGTOXtJt_2E

  • elaine

    The old Gospel song, “I’ll Fly Away” is on Utube….oowawa, would you Please play it

  • Onofre’s arm

    But maybe, this song is more appropriate for the occasion.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0GFRcFm-aY

  • HARP

    Will Joe Biden Move to Impeach Obama Now That He’s Ignored Congress in Going to War With Libya?

    Is Joe Biden a man of his word?
    Joe Biden told an audience in 2007 that war without congressional approval warrants impeachment.
    He repeated the claim on MSNBC:

    “I want to make it clear. And I made it clear to the President that if he takes this nation to war with Iran without Congressional approval. I will make it my business to impeach him. That’s a fact. That is a fact.”

  • Onofre’s arm

    Hey, I’m really getting used to the new format! I’m so inspired, that I’ve thrown out the X-BOX 360, and purchased an old “Pong” game for the kids. I think they’ll be thrilled.

    Oops, the “Pong” game needs to be hooked up to a black and white TV. I guess I could trade my HD Flatscreen in for about seventy five old 13″ B&W TV’s, and plaster an entire wall with them, David Bowie style, using duct tape and baling wire. Now, if that don’t scream “HI TECH”, why…..I guess you ain’t listenin’.

  • Ferd Not-My-Site-(click to edit) Berfle

    Doomsday “prophet” Harold Camping, founder of the Family Radio Network, is under fire today for his big, hilariously false prediction that today, May 21 would be the end of the world.
    ==========================
    I remember a few years back when a certain shyster by the name of Oral Roberts told his followers that if he didn’t get “x” number of dollars in contributions, he would be called home. He got the money but was also called “home”, although a few years late.

  • Steve_in_KC

    Cindy, somewhere up above, wrote: “Steve— I’ve already commented but wanted to tell you that I really appreciate your sense of humor.”

    Thank you very kindly, Cindy. I really appreciate yours too!

    In fact, this blog is full of people with sick & twisted senses of humor! So we’re in good company!

    I especially like that Prime Obot character. She kills me! With that deadpan delivery, I’d almost take her seriously if she wasn’t so preposterous! She plays the idiot to perfection! Oh wait, she’s a man isn’t he/she? A professional writer? I believe it! It takes real talent to write that kind of dry satire without revealing the gag! And whenever I read her posts, gag is frequently one of my first impulses!

  • Ferd Not-My-Site-(click to edit) Berfle

    A professional writer?
    ==================
    With pay starting at $0.05 per post, I’d say Prime O’Butt is no writer, except in a spamming sense.

  • Cindy

    elaine—I didn’t know where the “rapture” is mentioned in the Bible—-but it’s my understanding that the book of Revelation is all about the end of time. My point was that I thought I had been raised in a such a stifling environment, esp re: religion. But when I grew up I realized how good I had had it, and how fortunate I had been—–my parents were religious conservatives, but not fundamentalists. And they were fairly openminded—–that was my point.
    As far as “I’Ll Fly Away” I’ve never heard it sung in a black service, so I don’t associate it with that culture. Albert Brumley, who wrote it in the 1930′s, was white (and from Oklahoma, ferd!!) Hubby and I sang it in a Baptist church we attended in Austin that had a large percentage of gay members, including gay deacons, mostly white. You’re right–it IS a favorite of senior adults, too.
    Thanks for the comment.

  • elaine

    Thank you, Onofre. That was an interesting version of the song, kind of a Kentucky/Tenn/W.Virginia Bluegrass version I never heard before, guess I’m more accustomed to the deep South Mississippi/Ga/Alabama version, but it was fun.

  • sowsear

    And another unreported 8.4 mag. earthquake in Libya on Thursday.
    Reports vanish:

    http://www.dailypaul.com/165321/84-earthquake-in-libya-was-all-over-all-the-siesmic-sites-now-gone

    Libya’s “secret” water project in the desert. Could we have blown it up, creating the 8.4 “earthquake” the reports of which have now vanished?

    http://twelfthbough.blogspot.com/2011/03/virtually-unknown-in-west-libyas-water.html

  • carol haka, Matzo

    As you are all aware, months or weeks ago, I did call for:

    Palin 2012 or I call for the end of the World :) )

    Well, it ain’t the end of the World, so whooppeeeeeeeeeeee, yeeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaa, this means we get:

    Palin 2012 :) )

  • carol haka, Matzo

    ……………… and I didn’t know nuthin’ about no pending rapture ……. :)

  • elaine

    Cindy, I don’t want to whip a mule to death here…You’re correct the word, the actual word i.e. “Rapture” is not in the Bible, however the verses I gave you about “being taken up in the air” are what the doctrine is based on.

  • carol haka, Matzo

    Rumors Palin bought a $1.6M dollar house yesterday in Northern Scottsdale, AZ.

    She’s running!

    :0 :)

  • carol haka, Matzo

    Where do I apply? I know how to push all of yeeeee’s buttons! I could make a fortune. :)

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  • cookiegramma

    I for one am glad the prediction was wrong, my daughter is now enjoying her senior prom.

  • elaine

    Has anyone heard anything about a weapon known as H.A.A.R.P? Supposedly it can cause earthquakes, storms, etc

  • Cindy

    elaine—I understand…Thanks!

  • requiredreading

    Onofre’s arm | May 21, 2011 | Reply

    RR,when you write “C-i-C”, are you referring to the “Child-in-Charge”? Just want to know if we’re thinking about the same person. And if so, do you really think there’s any possibility that He’ll be taken up
    ——————————————–

    OA — on Good Lord no; I think there’s no chance of Obi-One being taken UP; in fact, I have great hopes that he’ll be taken DOWN, and before the FBI gets on my ISP address, I mean that allegorically, as in “taken down” at the next election.

    For reasons that I think that is more than just Hope, see my next post.

  • Cindy

    elaine—P.S. and I DO love I’ll Fly Away—–used to sing it to all my nursing home friends.

  • requiredreading

    There was a video on the Drudge Report todao of protests at the White House after BO made his “no defensible borders for Israel” speech. Apparently this video had been posted on youtube and mysteriously disappeared not long after.
    Key element of video: Very articulate Jewish Democrat from Florida who voted for BO in 2008 lambasting our Child-in-Charge (with a bow to OA) about his complete idiocy; looks like Florida will be in the red come 2012. Bye Bye Bump!

  • EllenD

    I liked OA’s comment about PONG but there seems to be nowhere to put a LIKE.
    It’s after 6:30 here in Pacific Time.
    I’m sorta frustrated with the posting of comments right now so maybe that’s the closest to Hell we’ll get to today.

  • requiredreading

    “I remember a few years back when a certain shyster by the name of Oral Roberts told his followers that if he didn’t get “x” number of dollars in contributions, he would be called home. He got the money but was also called “home”, although a few years late.”
    ———————————————-
    Ferd — this reminded me of the (true) story of the President of one of the post-Soviet “stans” (Kyrgyzstan, I think) who one day declared himself “President for Life” and who inexplicably and unexpectedly died of natural causes a week later at a young age.
    Hah! Truth is funnier than fiction…..

  • kinthenorthwest

    test…tryine to see if I am just typing into air…

  • seattlegonz

    how is it possible that 8% of the population view the economy as good or excellent. Oh yes, the economy is effin excellent.

  • makeji

    Dogs and cats – don’t think I want to be in heaven with those who are going to get scooped up.

  • oowawa

    Two words: Hadron Collider.

    Okay, two more words: Black Hole.

  • Ferd Not-My-Site-(click to edit) Berfle

    how is it possible that 8% of the population view the economy as good or excellent. Oh yes, the economy is effin excellent.
    =========================
    Those 8% work for the Administration, apparently. Life is good when you let others do the work for you.

  • http://comcast Madame DeFarge

    Like, like, like, Cindy!

  • PortiaElizabeth

    I am soooo disappointed! I’d been thoughtful enough to volunteer to take all the jewelry and designer shoes of the people going, and now they haven’t left. How inconsiderate of them!

  • elaine

    Is it time to play “Loosing My Religion” by R.E.M. for those pitiful people who went all in on this May 21st, 2011 prediction or should we hold off playing it until Wednesday due to Onofre’s mathamatical adjustment?

    No feed back on the H.A.A.R.P. weapon???

  • oowawa
  • elaine

    Thanks oowawa, It’s interesting they claim they’ll let any scientist in to check it out. I wonder why it’s attracted so many conspiracy theorists?

  • EllenD

    This website is temporarily unavailable. Please check back later.
    Unfortunately there were no suitable nodes available to serve this request.

    Fourth try. I’ll take an unsuitable node.

  • Cathy in Ks.

    Steve I totally forgot about the “end of the world” until I checked out your blog here on NQ. But we’re still here at least for the moment. However, I probably need to go check downstairs on my husband and son. Maybe they left without me.

  • Mr. Natural

    Hey, Marge…what if, “You can’t take it with you,” is just more bulljive?

    What if, when you get to the Pearly Gates, St. Peter says,

    “Marge: Where’s your stuff?”

  • Kenoshamarge

    I don’t think you get to take anything when you are ‘raptured’ OA. Even you clothes. Buck naked you came in and evidently buck naked you leave. Although I have to admit that speaking strictly for myself, I was far more appealing naked back then than I am now.

  • elizabhethrc

    Perhaps the Rev. Camping should be tried in a court of law for fraud. He’s raked in millions by telling people that they must divest themselves of all their worldly good (including bank accounts).
    A la Bernie Madoff in a different set of robes!
    The ignorant twerp should spend the rest of his life wearing orange.

  • http://noquarterusa foxyladi14

    isn’t he the one doing the taking up???? :)

  • http://noquarterusa foxyladi14

    I grew up on that song.love all the old gospel songs.
    while I have the floor.
    every time I post it takes me back to the top of the page.:lol:

  • http://noquarterusa foxyladi14

    :lol:

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_23AF6XKYPQPDVVAEPFKBAQPG5Q Steve_in_KC

    To those of you who still remain here on Earth, thank you for sticking around! Personally, I didn’t see anybody disappear, so the world is still full of sinners, as usual. What a relief!

  • Anonymous

    elaine..Google is our friend, sometimes. I found this.. http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/ which is about aural research up in Alaska.

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