I am out of the loop. How did today become rapture day? I am having family members being silly about this. How did this even start?
mesamunefire 30 points a year ago
Oh nice a real answer! Thanks :)
slazer2au 48 points a year ago
Some one read a book somewhere, did some shitty maths without converting ye oldy calendars with modern calendars and decided today was the day it all ends.
But it won't, every rapture day has been a lie.
flamingo_pinyata 12 points a year ago
What do you mean? Every rapture day has been absolutely true. We've been raptured many times so far, like every other year.
showmeyourkizinti 6 points a year ago
All Hail Zorp!
Demonmariner 3 points a year ago
The end is near, for a given value of "near."
Facelesbutcher 2 points a year ago
Will there be a cool Ender Dragon fight in the End?
LoafedBurrito 30 points a year ago
It's not. They did the same thing about 5 months ago. I have a religious friend and that was all the talk. Then when it didn't happen, they claimed it wasn't the right time.
Essentially, they have zero clue when it will be (because it doesn't exist) and they continue to make up excuses for why it hasn't happened. Religious people do some mental gymnastics that is hard for the non-religious person to understand.
VindictiveJudge 18 points a year ago
Fun fact: The bible says that only God knows when the world will end, so everyone that says they know when it ends is technically comitting sacrilege.
LadyButterfly 4 points a year ago
I wish old testament God would come and smite them
Kennystillalive 22 points a year ago
I just hope none of these people are stupid enoigh to commit mass suicide with their families... I've seen some tik toks of Karens talking about how they did not send their kids to school today... I really hope none of them harms their kids.
Rocketpoweredgorilla 11 points a year ago
If they actually believe that bullshit, chances are pretty good they're already harming their kids psychologically at the very least.
LadyButterfly 3 points a year ago
No many aren't smart. It can also be MH or the effect of cult brainwashing though
frezik 5 points a year ago
That one guy sold his car, saying he wouldn't need it in heaven.
Like, OK, this is crazy, but they often have a certain internal logic going. I don't get this one. You don't need the car (presumably), but you don't need the money, either. Why bother?
showmeyourkizinti 19 points a year ago
Well you see the Reasonablists book the park for today because the Ice Cream social was yesterday. So Zorp the Surveyor will come at dawn to eat our faces.
Hazmatastic 7 points a year ago
Hail Zorp!
timhayes1991 4 points a year ago
Better get your checkbooks ready!!
showmeyourkizinti 4 points a year ago
Iβve been carving flutes for the last six weeks.
betterdeadthanreddit 15 points a year ago
People big dumb.
cyberwitch 15 points a year ago
They've been making apocalyptic predictions at least since John the Baptist. Eventually they'll get it right, they just might need a few hundred more guesses.
jubilationtcornpone 11 points a year ago
It's not. It happened in 1988.
LemmyKnowsBest 9 points a year ago
I thought it happened some December day in 2012?
RizzRustbolt 8 points a year ago
Earth's timeline went terminal on July 5th, 1998.
LemmyKnowsBest 2 points a year ago
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This is the first I've ever heard about that. Let me think where was I on that date? I was an army soldier living in South Korea and we may have had a monsoon that summer where significant mudslides came down from the ouijongbu mountains then we spent a few days shoveling mud and there were rumors of previously-buried corpses that had slid down from the mountains but I never saw any. But that may have happened in April or May or june or August, I really don't remember.
Fredselfish 7 points a year ago
It did you just didn't get taken.
LemmyKnowsBest 4 points a year ago
Nor did anyone else.
Fredselfish 6 points a year ago
Yep why we are living through hell now.
mudstickmcgee 4 points a year ago
Randy savage was the only one holy enough to be raptured then
Smokeydope 10 points a year ago
Theres been at least 5 rapture days since ive been alive. Cult members REALLY like the idea that they're super special moral beings with Gods favor. For some reason people get off on the idea everyone they don't like or isn't part of their tribe gets locked out of 'paradise' or better yet actively burns in hell forever. This vengenance fantasy extends to the idea of rapture where God personally singles them out as a favored one for heavenly ascension or whatever. I guess theres something appealing about this concept that really resonates with the kind of people who drink the coolaid, they just can't let go and take the L. So we see the same story every 10 years or so a cult leader predicts the end of the world all their followers give up life savings destroy their life then when the day passes they quietly sweep it under the rug pretend it never happened to save themselves embarrassment.
mesamunefire 6 points a year ago
Oh I dont believe it one bit. Even in the bible it says we wont know (like a thief in the night) so its funny to hear all this online.
piwakawakas 4 points a year ago
Wednesday here, no rapture. Surprise surprise.
HubertManne 9 points a year ago
There have been so many predictions on endtimes which is kinda funny since the whole specific biblical thing about that not happening. Still preachers will preach it like they are not contradicting their whole religion. I mean like propserity doctrine so...
MedicPigBabySaver 7 points a year ago path: 0 19555035, hotness: undefined, score: 7, children: 1
FreshParsnip 6 points a year ago
Got me, I only heard about it yesterday
y0kai 6 points a year ago
Just self important virtue signaling from people who believe they're better than you.
If you want to fuck with some folks leave a few full sets of clothing on the ground in places like whoever wore them disappeared.
Also fun can be finding someone who believes today is the day and then laugh at them tomorrow about how it actually did happen but they didn't (no one did) make the cut.
Etterra 5 points a year ago
Stupid cultists. This exact thing has happened for thousands of years. Some years back one of these rapture cults popped up and I mentioned to my coworker that the world was ending. His response: when's it happening this time? Comedy gold.
DarkFuture 4 points a year ago
Because religious people are stupid and easily manipulated. Hence why they are religious to begin with.
ArchmageAzor 4 points a year ago
Because these people think they know better than God Himself, thinking they can infer the date of the rapture from religious texts.
HootinNHollerin 4 points a year ago
Tiktok brain rot mixed with Christianity brain rot
RickyRigatoni 4 points a year ago
you'll find out at 2:00PM PST ;)
possumparty 2 points a year ago
huh, it's 0400 on wednesday in new york and everybody is still here sooo
jordanlund 2 points a year ago
Well, shit, I knew I shouldn't have disabled push notifications...
jordanlund 3 points a year ago
Yeah, the whole idea of the Rapture is extra-Biblical. Invented in 1830 by John Nelson Darby.
mugita_sokiovt 1 point a year ago path: 0 19557557 19560571 19560623, hotness: undefined, score: 1, children: 0
jordanlund 3 points a year ago
My wife told me about this last night, just another doomsday cult pulling a date out of their ass... Not sure which one.
Google says:
Oh, fucking TikTok... naturally.
HakunaHafada 1 point a year ago
Thanksgiving family dinner sure is going to be interesting.
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A South African pastor had a dream and God told him the rapture was today. He posted and it went viral.
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