Comments on: The Rapture is Not Happening https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/22/the-rapture-is-not-happening/ Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:09:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: José https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/22/the-rapture-is-not-happening/#comment-546037 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:09:49 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/22/the-rapture-is-not-happening/#comment-546037 The confusion is that most people leave out the full title of The Rapture, which is actually “The Rapture: brought to you by Folgers Crystals”.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/22/the-rapture-is-not-happening/#comment-546036 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:54:13 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/22/the-rapture-is-not-happening/#comment-546036 Oh. Well, I’m glad that’s over with.

(Maybe it was originally “The Rupture”)

]]> By: José https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/22/the-rapture-is-not-happening/#comment-546035 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:44:14 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/22/the-rapture-is-not-happening/#comment-546035 No. It definitely happened yesterday. It just turned out to not be that big a deal. It was on the scale of opening Al Capone’s secret vault, rather than on a biblical scale. Remember accidentally inhaling some of your coffee yesterday? That was the rapture.

]]> By: Nathan Myers https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/22/the-rapture-is-not-happening/#comment-546034 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:12:04 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/22/the-rapture-is-not-happening/#comment-546034 Oh, that old Rapture thing happened a ages ago. Nobody noticed. What with plagues and pogroms and all, who notices when a few dozen people and corpses float up through the ceiling in the night? People probably just assumed they had skipped out on their bills. It’s all over, and you missed it. (By the way, all your ancestors at the time were sinners, or you wouldn’t be here.)

]]> By: Kate https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/22/the-rapture-is-not-happening/#comment-546033 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:47:19 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/22/the-rapture-is-not-happening/#comment-546033 Shoot. I was hoping for less traffic, better parking, and perhaps more apartment openings.

]]> By: dean https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/22/the-rapture-is-not-happening/#comment-546032 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:28:32 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/22/the-rapture-is-not-happening/#comment-546032 perhaps the big guy in the sky took pity on your father-in-law’s scotch 🙂

]]> By: Catman https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/22/the-rapture-is-not-happening/#comment-546031 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:08:35 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/22/the-rapture-is-not-happening/#comment-546031 If you check that site again today, you’ll see he’s given himself some wiggle room. He’s now predicting “the fall” of 2009. I think that when he predicted 9/21/09, he really meant the first day of autumn, which is actually today, 9/22/09. So pilots, beware of ascending xians.

]]> By: Mandrake https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/22/the-rapture-is-not-happening/#comment-546030 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:56:26 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/22/the-rapture-is-not-happening/#comment-546030 Wonderful. The Rapture is beginning and I didn’t even get an E-vite.

]]> By: gruebait https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/22/the-rapture-is-not-happening/#comment-546029 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:52:28 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/22/the-rapture-is-not-happening/#comment-546029 Damn! I was looking forward to the parking space of the jebus freak next door.

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