People so often have thought the rapture was coming and ... it doesn't. How often can people be fooled? Why are they so gullible ... oh yeah, religion.
this post was submitted on 22 Sep 2025
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To be entirely fair, we are like 2 cubic meters of carbon dioxide away from total ecological collapse. Made-made climate change is now beyond any threshold where we previously had reasonable expectations of being able to prevent it. The oceans will rise, climate catastrophes will increase, and the world will become more hostile.
It kind of feels like were frogs in a boiling pot, and we're living though the apocalypse now. But the wifi still works, so scroll on and don't think about it too much.
Yeah I mean things are definitely going to shit but these people whole heartedly believe that they’re going to float into the sky naked and have to make sure there’s a Democrat assigned to take care of their pets after they’re gone
Yep, and their belief is a danger to literally everyone who does or will ever live on Earth.
Made-made climate change is now beyond any threshold where we previously had reasonable expectations of being able to prevent it.
Something we could have led the world in averting like we did with ozone-depleting chemicals, if it wasn't for all the christians who believed there is no such thing as a future, that everything is just some kind of prophecy unfolding and nothing is even "real" and just a big test of some kind of from God.
The Christian mandate for pillaging the earth of all its resources because Genesis can be translated that we have dominance over all other life as well as the death-cult attitudes of the modern followers have directly led to some of our worst outcomes and if anyone survives the next millennium, the religious people of today will be seen as the world's most horrendous mass-murderers.
So that makes you think you'll go to heaven in a couple of days?
Not at all. And in fact, I wish more people weren't expecting a cool prize at the end of all the death and destruction.
it makes them feel special/superior.
people are addicted to those feelings
Also generations.
Old folk like me have lived through several end of the world predictions ..... I really don't care any more.
But new young generations haven't so they are more likely to believe them ... like I did the first few times it happened.
(and if you're wondering when I first believed those predictions, they were mostly before my tenth birthday when several predictions said either Jesus was coming back or nuclear war was about to happen ... all things I believed because adults said so)
..... a funny thought experiment is to think that the world did end 20, 30 or 40 years ago and this is all the afterlife .... we just don't know it.
People so often have thought the rapture was coming and ... it doesn't.
You sure about that? We've had innocent people disappeared off the streets in droves, sent to the land of "The Savior" (El Salvador).
Are we sure that the Rapture isn't happening right now, and none of us are in it?
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"No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father." So, if someone claims to know the day, well, that's one day where it definitely will not happen!
We just need someone to declare every day that the rapture will happen. Then it won't happen during their lifetime. After the person dies, appoint someone else as rapture declarer. Voila, no more rapture.
A good application for AI. No need to worry about missed days or unexpected ends to lifetime.
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In case anyone is interested this service exists After the rapture pet care. For a small fee ($10) a group of atheists will check on your pets should you be raptured.
it's fucking beautiful...🥹
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what’s telling I suppose is that I fucking hope the end is near. i’m exhausted, depressed, sad, and generally realizing at 46 I am watching “peers” and family retire at 62, 64, 67, or 72 an then die a year later. While capitalism just eats up all it can of these people.
“I got people waiting for me” is what I say when I mention I don’t care if I wake up tomorrow; yet I’m certain there is some sort of Orpheus and Eurydice level trickery too.
So we just wait and watch the world burn.
If fewer people thought like this, and we came together to fight what's happening, then it wouldn't be this way. But everybody just wants to sit around and be sad about it instead of actually trying to make a difference.
And I get it- it's overwhelming, and it's a lot easier to say "I told you so," than it is to say "We fought hard and won."
But everybody just wants to sit around and be sad about it instead of actually trying to make a difference.
This makes me a little indignant to read because it shows me that you understand absolutely nothing about declining mental health and how much of an impact it can have on people, their well-being, and their ability to do … things.
If fewer people had your mentality, maybe the sad, depressed, and chronically stressed out people suffering from very real trauma could get the help they so desperately deserve.
Life pro tip: when someone says they are tired, they don’t mean they’re sleepy or lazy. It means they are beaten down so hard that their only sane course of action is to simply stay down, lest they get beaten more.
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sure. just remember: nothing I wrote indicates I don’t also try to make a difference where I can. ;)
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While I sympathize with you for feeling exhausted and depressed, it's frankly rather selfish of you to go from that to "and therefore everyone should die." There are people who are doing okay and there are people who are exhausted and depressed but who still want to make a go of it. Don't wish for the world to end because they're still using it.
Thank you. My mom is 70 and still working and I can't even tell her not to because at 43 I can barely support myself. I HOPE the fucking rapture happens
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What if the rapture DID actually happen. But it turns out the only person who qualified was some baker from a village in Greece so no one noticed...
That would be beautiful ❤️
no it would mean the rest of us were going to hell lol
We're already in hell so it's ok
Technically, the way the story goes out is all of the people that don't get raptured end up in a seven-year period of tribulation, which is like their last chance to redeem themselves.
During that time period, things will get really, really, really, really, really, really, really bad.
Like didn't that officially start until 2016 my man
oh yeah you're right
see you at the barbeque
What to know
It's tiktok bullshit. I already know everything I need to know.
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I love the people selling their cars. Why are you selling your car? In what twisted logic does it make any sense? You think Jesus is worried about your cash holdings? Does heaven have an entry fee?
It's proof how much of it is performative and attention-seeking, if they actually believed in anything they would be giving their belongings away, not selling the car they intended to sell anyway.
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Straight up, these motherfuckers need to be sequestered in isolation cells that double as trash compactors (à la Star Wars: A New Hope) and dispose of them if the date comes and goes without rapture. Christians need to start holding their prophets to a higher standard. In theory, there should be no worry, as there's no real danger due to the prophet in question having ascended and vacated the room before its scheduled compaction cycle, right?
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The Rapture isn't Biblical and like young earth theory, the idea is relatively recent. I believe it came from American revival preachers in the mid 19th century.
One could argue the Rapture kinda fits in the Bible, if you squint a bit. No one believed the Earth was 7,000 years old in the day.
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If any of the rapture types have an air cooled 911 they want to part with for cheap, just reach out
Another day of disappointment for everyone.
Is this the new America controlled algorithm?
Might as well be.
US gov got hold of the algorithm early i see
MAGAts at it again. Stupid is going hard these days.
Been waiting for this much lauded second coming slash Armageddon for a while now. Any day now, I'm sure.
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Just give me your gold then lmao
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