O.k...I have got to pose a question that has been heavy on my heart...since the whole ME outbreak a week ago...how do we go on our about our normal day to day stuff and plan for the future knowing that there is a good chance that we are not going to be here??? I find myself not planning like I used to...I would plan for things to do throughout the year and goals that I wanted to do...but I have foregone all of those...which is fine....but the thing that gets me is that I am being selfish...I want a baby...do we start the adoption process hoping that HE does not come until that pt.? Or do we not, and enjoy our life until the rapture? I know that we are supposed to live as though He is coming at any moment, but to plan and like it will not be for many more years....I have come to realize that our time on this earth is fleeting, and I am cherishing every moment that I have with my husband and family—.I know that things will be A LOT better in heaven and I can’t wait to see everything—.but what am I supposed to do about my desire to be a mom? Persue? Or just realize that it probably will not happen and live the rest of my life with that?
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Ah, the joys of brainwashing religion. Clearly, this woman would be much happier as an atheist, or at least, not a fundie.
I loved this response by a poster named Transformed:"As far as pets being left here, I have a sign posted on our front door: "In the event of natural disaster or The Rapture, please rescue ..." I have a description of our 2 dogs and 2 cats, and on the reverse side are phone #s of my parents and a friend that I suspect will still be on this earth after the rapture. I figure that, just as it was after Katrina, there are groups of good-heart people going around finding all the abandoned animals. It'll probably be the same after the rapture."
It's hard not to laugh at this.
"Or just realize that it probably will not happen and live the rest of my life with that?"
Oh, I hope whatever adoption agency she is planning on going through reads this post and find out who she is! Maybe someone there with logic will be sitting with a rubber stamp ready to print 'RETARDED' on her application. improve ones chances of being approved to adopt a kid, at least in the U.S..
Dear Confused,
I, as well, find this sad. Just sad. Confused, please do cherish your time on earth, because it is fleeting, but not because the rapture is imminent, but because this is all the time and life you'll ever have.
Definately do not have children. If you're incapable off functioning with the thought of the crapture on your mind, how in the world would you be able to function with the thought of the crapture and a child to care for?
Sungrazer #61578 David D.G., I read this as a belief that her desire to be a mom will not happen because the rapture will come too quickly."
Ah, I see. The word "it" in that final sentence didn't seem to have a clear antecedent to me earlier, and I guess that because of my own viewpoint filtering things, I gave her the benefit of the doubt. But now that you mention it, I think you are probably correct in your interpretation: She isn't doubting the rapture in the least.
~David D.G.
please, for the sake of the child, keep waiting for that rapture and don't adopt. I mean, what if you got raptured and your l'il tot was left with your hungry dogs and cats? Hmmm?
Confused? Appropriate name.
@Magpie, I love that bit you posted. Priceless. I love how she says the note is addressed to people she figures won't be raptured away.
there are groups of good-heart people
I feel compassion for this woman. Perhaps because I've been where she is at one point, I don't know. I can't write people off like this because then I'd be doing it to myself, and I'd like to think that I've grown significantly since those dark days of my life. There's always hope and it is attainable to anyone.
This is a clear example of why religion is so dangerous. Yet, in Murka people can be discriminated against for questioning it.
There have been holy wars in the Middle East for Kevin knows how long (where Kevin is any random entity that doesn't know nothin' about nothin'). The first N times didn't trigger the Rapture, why would this one?
@Crosis
I think the Havens were the place the ship sailed *from*. They sailed to the Undying Lands.
Those of the suicidal who plan their deaths exhibit exactly the same symptoms: "Why should I need to play for the future when I'm going to die on Saturday?"
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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