My little brother said he heard or read somewhere that all the weight from us being raptured could be the cause of a world wide earthquake. The earth loosing all that weight at once. (Or could be the sonic boom.) Just another thought.
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[Just another thought.]
No, not really.
sonic boom? assuming, of course, that during this rapture, you actually rise UP into the air. but then where do you go? heaven really isn't up there, it's just empty space, with a few planets here and there. only the ignorant men of several millenia ago believed heaven was "up there".
Well, your little brother is listening to poor sources of information, a lair, or possibly both.
If during the rapture your physical bodies move faster than the speed of sound you could create sonic booms, however, since the rapture is fantasy, no sonic booms will be created. If you think you hear a sonic boom it is likely just the echoing in your hollow head.
You clearly don't have a good grasp on the orders of magnitude involved here. Either you overestimate your numbers, or you underestimate the mass of the earth. Even if everyone on earth were raptured, compare the following numbers.
Human Mass (6 x 10^9 kg)*(70 kg) = 3.5 x 10^10 kg
That is 14 decimal orders of magnitude in difference! Our planet would lose ~0.00000000000002% of it's mass, and you are trying to say that it might cause the whole planet to shake? This doesn't take a geologist's understanding of tectonics (which even further says this is bullshit).
Also, I've never understood the fundie insistence on a bodily "ascension." According to their own creed, the body is of no importance (until you do something they don't like, then you're "desecrating god's temple"); I think they just don't want the messy implications of their soulless (which in their minds is lifeless) bodies lying around after the rapture. Personally, I think it would make them less apt targets if they took the route of spiritual ascension, which is at the very least a bit less complicated. Still scientifically untenable, but less blatant due to the limits of modern neuroscience.
Admittedly, we err in comparing the mass of humans removed from the Earth to the mass of the ENTIRE Earth itself, for purposes off determining if there will be earthquakes.
All that has to happen is that enough of a shock is delivered to the various stressed fault lines in the Earth's crust to set them off.
Then again, since you bring up the possibility of sonic booms, you're probably picturing the Rapture as happening like it did in the Left Behind movie (with humans instantly disappearing). This contradicts the Biblical account of 1 Thess 4:16-17, which clearly depicts people being physically lifted into the air. Therefore, you are a heretic and will burn in hell forever.
GoingHomeSoon's sources for information:
Something little brother said he heard
FOX News
Other Raptards
Bronze Age goat-herder's storybook
All carry roughly the same credibility and have the same degree of connection to reality.
Weren´t it just 144.000 poeple who (according to revelation chapter 7, not your rapture fantasies) will get raptured?
@Savina: The idea of bodily ascension is easy to understand. They are afraid of dying. They aren't afraid of death, because they clearly believe in an afterlife. They are afraid of the pain and loneliness of dying, and the Rapture provides them with a convenient manner of getting into Heaven without having to die. Why else do you think that every person who believes in the Rapture insists they will be Raptured in their lifetime.
Hi GoingHomeSoon,
'Just another thought', you write and, no doubt, the most complex that you can handle, but even so it had to be heard or read somewhere else first. No wonder you noddies believe any old shit.
Here's something you might be able to handle. Do you have any indication yet about the predicted persecution of the Rapture Ready site by the President of the USA, Barrack Obama? He has been holding high office for quite some time now, so surely the persecution has started, hasn't it? If not, perhaps he hasn't heard of Rapture Ready or has no interest in the site. Why that would be I don't know, because personally I find it hilarious.
But here's an easier question for you, and judging by your Rapture Ready nickname, GoingHomeSoon, you will have no difficulty in providing an answer. The question is:-
Have you a more precise indication of when the predicted whooshfest will take place, other than just simply soon?
Avidly awaiting your replies. Cheers mate, Pule.
My little brother said he heard or read somewhere that all the weight from us being raptured could be the cause of a world wide earthquake.
Just another thought.
It's people just like you that get conned into drinking the Kool-Aid or committing suicide so the saucer people hiding behind the comet can scoop them up. Please get help. Perhaps a good night's sleep, some coffee, some Ginkgo Biloba, lots and lots of Blueberries, a repeat of high school science classes, and diligent reality-checking from a trained psychiatric professional could pull-start your head. I doubt it, but please don't try to think in the meantime. You could hurt yourself.
Problems I ave with this:
@#951931
Well, maybe, considering how many Christians are morbidly obese.
I was gonna try and post something like 'physics do not work that way' but then I read your comment and honestly, you win the internet.
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Just another thought.
Treat it gently, it's in a strange place.
"I might add that these 144.000 getting saved are all male virgins."
Yes, 12000 from each of the twelve tribes of Israel. I wonder which tribe GoingHomeSoon belongs to?
solomongrundy:
"I wonder which tribe GoingHomeSoon belongs to?"
The Schmucks. How do you think they got "lost" in the first place?
Moses: "You camp here. We'll be right over that hill."
"My little brother said he heard or read somewhere that all the weight from us being raptured could be the cause of a world wide earthquake. The earth loosing all that weight at once."
What kind of simpleton are you? If every last person on this planet suddenly up and vanished it would have the same effect on the Earth as a flea has when jumping off a dog.
"(Or could be the sonic boom.)"
Not quite sure what a sonic boom is, are you?
"Just another thought."
I suggest you try for another one. This one seems defective.
enna (#951931)
For the win!!
Sonic boom? Going to heaven in Concord?
Or faster than light?
A young Rapturee named Wright
Um, I don't think you have any idea just how massive the earth is compared to the little lifeforms scuttling over its surface do you? I really do wonder what did they teach you in homeskool these days.
@ Savina
It would be considerably less considering that we aren't losing all humans. Just those who are Christian of the "right" sort (whatever that is), fundies (who didn't inadvertantly piss off their Lawd), and all of the above who actually followed the bibles laws to the letter (has to be a tiny, tiny percentage.)
If the Revelation of John, chapters 7 and 14 are to be taken literally then that is reduced still further. Only 144000 Jewish virgin males get into heaven leaving everyone on RR behind to ponder when the "rapture" will happen.
"My little brother said he heard or read somewhere that all the weight from us being raptured could be the cause of a world wide earthquake. The earth loosing all that weight at once."
One possibility:
... But more likely:
"My little brother said he heard or read somewhere that all the weight from us being raptured could be the cause of a world wide earthquake."
Sadly, this is how too many people get their facts, news, and, to an extent, their opinions instead of getting it themselves. They instead just listen to their friends and family members and only them.
::open-mouthed stare::
Wh..huh?
::goes back to staring::
Damn...
Ignoring the fact that the rapture is never going to happen for a moment, your brother is incorrect about this massive earthquake theory. If you guys were zapping up through the atmosphere faster than the speed of sound, there would be a sonic boom.
Getting back to reality, however, none of this is ever going to happen, so there's no point in worrying about it.
Just another thought.
I don't think so.
"The earth loosing all that weight at once. "
You make it sound like the Earth will be taking a giant dump............Ah!....Y'know, you're probably right.
According to Revelation, only 144,000 Jewish male versions will be saved.
Hmmm. That leads me to wonder if they'll get to enjoy mixers with all the female virgins from Moslem Heaven. (Yes, I know; MY mind works in mysterious ways. )
RE: #951935
I just had a bad thought of all of those rising up and, due to an oversight, they all suffocate(correct term?) in the upper atmosphere. Finally, dead bodies start raining down on heaven. God looks over to an angel with a clipboard who looks down at it and, after flipping a few pages, says, "Oops."
Imagine if all of the energy squandered by the Rapture Retards on futile conjecture about the end of the world was actually channeled into something more useful?
Here we have a group of people who live their lives obsessed by their death-cult, whilst all around them children live in poverty, adults are illiterate, and the asshole is falling out of the world economy. But don't worry, Jeebus Fucking Christ will take us all home soon and everything will be perfect.
Has anyone ever heard a more selfish, narcissictic crock of bullshit in their entire lives? Rapture Retards, you are shallow, empty and blind.
@Osiris:
For all their fire and brimstone rhetoric, a lot of their beliefs do seem to be based on what makes them comfortable more than any actual interpretation of the Bible. It's the same with the idea that kids below an unspecified age who haven't accepted Jesus get a free ticket upstairs, rather than going to Limbo (the first circle of Dante's Inferno) where virtuous pagans and unbaptised children traditionally find themselves. It's supposed to resemble a featureless plain a la Irregular Webcomic (but with fewer studs) more than the classic image of Hell with demons shoving pitchforks up people's bums around a lake of fire, but it's not fluffy and comforting enough.
Combine that belief with the Rapture and you get something like we saw recently on the forum, people talking about fetuses getting Raptured. If you thought regular childbirth was bad, imagine it trying to hurtle skywards at yoga flame sonic boom speeds. I'm male and it's a painful image.
If every last human on the face of the earth abruptly ceased to exist tomorrow...the amount of mass which disappeared from the planet would be negligible compared to just the total mass of living material on the planet, much less the mass of the planet itself.
Earth wouldn't so much as wobble.
Nah, the loss of the weight of the 144 000 male virgins who are scheduled to be raptured will probably not register at all. It will be less change than your weight changes when removing a tick from your armpit. Much, much less.
You don't know how to spell 'Lose'. Your argument is invalid.
It should be illegal to spell that word as 'Loose'.
Just as using the word 'Like' as punctuation. Proof? Just change 'Like' to 'Hate'. Now you know how stupid it sounds to everyone else (who isn't a moronic 'Valley Speak'-er).
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"Just another thought."
Could have fooled me.
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