About five years ago, I awoke to a very loud noise; it was one long roaring tone like a trumpet. I was so sure it was the rapture, I started pleading "please Lord, take me".
But it was the fire department across the street: they sometimes blow thier horn when they are backing the firetruck into the garage.
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The whole page is priceless. They all have dreams about the Rapture, so it must be true....
The people who don't have these dreams are claiming they have enough faith that they don't need them. Others are saying it's because they're not worthy.
And the moral of the story is, what?, "I confess I am obssesed with the Rapture", "I'm a moron who is incapable of using Occam's razor" or "the Rapture doesn't exist". Or just "I'm a poe"
Poe's Law states that, unless you give a clear indication that what you're posting isn't to be taken seriously, it's impossible to parody fundamentalism without it being mistaken for the real thing.
People who make such parodies are called Poes.
@BBJ:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Poe's+Law
Poe's Law
Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."
In other words, No matter how bizzare, outrageous, or just plain idiotic a parody of a Fundamentalist may seem, there will always be someone who cannot tell that it is a parody, having seen similar REAL ideas from real religious/political Fundamentalists.
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Calling 'poe' on someone is basically just saying "This post must be a gag!". The existence of AV1611VET, Carico and the like does make deciding when someone is 'just joshing' a wee bit difficult, however.
(Also, I'm not sure about the second paragraph. The original definition could easily mean that it is impossible to create a religious parody so idiotic or extreme that you cannot find someone who'll support it. Without that corollary, all Poe's Law would imply is that we are awfully bad at spotting humour!)
Fire truck horn. Holy trumpet. Yeah I can see the confusion between the two.
This guy must not be a very good Christian if he panicked and had to beg God to please take him.
Poe perhaps, but I have met real religious people that were this unbalanced.
Coincidentally, once about five years ago, I awoke to a very loud noise like one long roaring tone from a trumpet.
My wife said I was never to eat chilli-dogs again.
Encolpius wrote:
"Am I the only one here that's mucky minded enough to think that "Please, Lord, take me" was secretly her splittin' the kitten over Jesus?"
Considering the number of posts from women on Rapture Ready that go like this:
"OMG I can't stop thinking about Jesus! Jesus is coming, I can feel it! Oh God! Oh God! Your bride is ready!! Come, lord Jesus!!!! I can hardly wait!!!!!!11one1"
... I'd say that's the default assumption.
About 2:30 this morning my neighbor's car alarm went off, which it does whenever a cat walks past it, or a there's a breeze, etc. After several minutes of this repeating racket even I, a devout atheist who worships at his Alter Of Darwin irreligiously, was begging for deliverance from such a world. I curse, nay I damn, the science that has evolved these things from when the tornado stirred the parts together. Chuck - why hast thou forsaken me?
This story is funny enough, but it gets twice as LOL-worthy when you picture God picking souls for his kickball team and psalm84 is the asthmatic kid with the overprotective mother who doesn't even care if they make him second row, left field, just pleeeeease let him get picked, even if it's last pick God, please just this ONCE--
w00t, submission accepted!
and for psalm84: sweetie, it was actually the rapture. you were left behind and then god fixed it that you'd think it was a fire truck. sucks for you.
Ahhhh, I bet the opening credits of the Flintstones gets him/her every time too!
Yayayayayyyyyyyy! Rapture. Oh wait, Gabriel doesn't say, "Yabba Dabba Doooo!" :-(
What, you missed the memo? Jesus came, and rather than wiping out humanity, decided he could do more starting a daytime talk show, gathering followers, and acting various acts of philanthropy on the world. He's now called Oprah.
Haha, I would pay so much money to see this happen. Imagine, you live at a fire station, a fire truck's horn goes off, and you hear psalm going "Holy Shit! Rapture tiem!"
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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