LAST NIGHT I HEARD A STRANGE NOISE I WAS IN MY ROOM..I THOUGHT RAPTURE??????!?!?!?!?! I FELT A BURST OF ADRENALINE/EXCITMENT!! BUT THEN I REALIZED IT WAS THE RADIO... ANYONE ELSE HAVING THIS HAPPEN?
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Loud noises!
By 'this' do you mean, loud noises scare you in the dark and you think something delusional for a second before realizing what it really is? Because then, yes.
If you mean 'this' as thinking the rapture is coming every time an appliance malfunctions, then no.
am i the only one that now has an urge to do some kind of Orson Welles' War of the Worlds-type radio show "hoax", only this one about the rapture?
we know it'd fool at least one ...
Poe is a possibility, but non-poe is a equal possibility. I visit that site often and there have been several entire threads about "mistaken raptures." It's sad and a little scary! Here's one: http://www.rr-bb.com/showthread.php?t=9067 There was a longer one I read, but I didn't feel like finding it. I really can only take so much of that site!
@skyotter --
Well, now I'm certainly thinking about it. Either the radio-show approach itself, or a movie/story/play in which a fairly isolated little town hears what they believe is a news report of the Rapture and try to figure out why none of them have been taken.
You've got some serious problems if every loud noise makes you think the rapture is happening.
The Rapture! Oh, just the phone ringing...
The Rapture! No, just a car passing by...
The Rapture! Damn, just the television...*sigh*
@Talulah:
"Poe" doesn't just mean "troll," it means a troll with the assumption that there likely is someone who would say this in reality... so the fact that someone actually believes this is inherent in Poe's Law already.
Oh, and I do like the idea of the War of the Worlds: Rapture Edition. We should do that!
Yeah, I heard it happen once, but instead of a burst of adrenaline it was an air raid siren. The same dream also had a local DJ calling the Monday Night Football game on the radio.
Turned out to be the dryer hose above my head (I was sleeping in the basement at the time).
Ya know, back in the sixties when I was a teenager living at home with my Mom, and my father was inthe hospital dying, my mom and I each had a bad case of the 'flu. We were kinda taking it turns to collapse into bed in delirium, or get up, still in delirium, to take care of the other one.
My mom woke me up one time 'cos all she could get on the radio was a voice talking in German (we lived in England). After listening for a little while, I realized the voice on the radio was talking about Karl Marx. We concluded the Russians must have invaded...
A little later we realized it was 3:30 in the morning... (There was no radio in England at 3:30 in the morning, back then.)
We eventually recovered from the delirium a couple of days later... :)
Let's hope the poor sod never steps on a cat's tail, he'd probably get a heart attack thinking it's the battle cry of a demon coming for his soul.
I assume every weird noise I hear is the cat. Unless there's such a thing as The Four Calicos of the Apocalypse, I think everything will be okay.
Well, there is such a thing as the Grim Reap-purr , so you never know...
Lisa: "Uh, maybe I need to talk to somebody with a little more age and wisdom."
Grampa: "Death stalks you at every turn!"
Lisa: "Grampa!"
Grampa: "Well, it does. Aaah! Death! There it is. Death!"
Lisa: "It's only Maggie."
Grampa: " Oh, yeah. You know, at my age, the mind starts playing tricks. So, aaah! Death!"
Lisa: "That's only the cat."
Grampa: "Oh. Aaaaah! Deeeeeath!!!"
Lisa: "That's Maggie again, Grampa."
Grampa: "Oh. Where were we? Death!"
Radio idea: Don't. You just know it'll result in mass civil riots and mass conversion attempts and terrorism from the fundies:p. Judging from their attacks on Harry Potter and similar, 'fiction' is a bit over their heads, you know.
Freboy
If you thought the damn radion was the Rapture, what happens the day someone breaks into your house and rapes you?
That was disturbing. Personally anyone breaking into my house is going to end up with a hide full of buckshot, no matter what their original intentions, but rape? Dude. Come on. Not analogy material unless you are trying to make everyone grimace in disgust. Just eww.
HaI LULZ I b UsiN T£h INTERtUbeS BUT MeH CAPSlOCk B brOkeD O NoES
Capslock= shouty, no-one wants to read it so turn it the fuck off bitch
WHATS THAT IN THE SKY!!!
IT LOOKS THE A DRAGON FLYING THROUGH THE CLOUDS SPITTING FIRE. IS IT THE APOCOLYPSE?
Oh, its a plane. Maybe next time.
Let me ask you a question Raptureboy. If all of you asshats suddenly disappear, that would indicate the existance of God would it not? God does not interfere with free will and confirming his existence would show his hand would it not? Another question. You dipshits insist that your physical bodies will disappear as well. Why would God need your physical self which would slowly asphyxiate as you accended into the heavens? As far as I'm concerned, you Rapture obsessed people won't go away fast enough.
@KillWhitey
Was it Blondie?
Beat me to it.
Poe or not, everyone else on that forum is taking it seriously and they're all saying similar things. After all, the forum is intended for people who believe they're going to be sucked up to the sky any minute now. As for the caps, some people just type like that all the time. No idea why.
Freboy
I understood you perfectly; but it was something that is so specific and that most people don't find to be something to offer in passing.
It's just an offhanded thing, but words like that one are more likely to conjure up disgust or even memories of abuse; something less personal and awful would get you much farther in your analogy. See what I'm saying? Even canabalism, as awful as it is, is mostly regulated to movies and stories. Rape is far too real for far too many people to treat it lightly. I hope that makes sense. It was a poor choice of words that most likely didn't affect folk the way you would've liked it to have is all.
Aw, shit. You mean it wasn't the real thing? And I was so looking forward to it!
Looks like I'll have to wait another day/month/year/decade/century/millennium for you to finally get off my planet.
:( I can't edit the link...
Here's the url instead, maybe that'll work?
A rapture prank is funny in premise, but I kinda felt bad for the girl... She was pretty upset at being left behind!
I have had similar kinds of experiences.
Sometimes, after waking up from a dream, for a moment or two I will still think I am in the Dream-World before I completely wake up.
And once, it sounded like a burt of gunfire outside our house when really we were being egged close to Halloween.
So I can understand misinterpreting things, but I have never had anything this fundamentally-religiously induced happen to me, fortunately. I'm already on medication for health problems, I don't need any more reason to doubt my sanity!
Everyone Calling Poe: Okay, having read a fair portion of the thread, I'm going to have to say OMG GENUINE RAPTURE NUT.
Let's not forget, we're dealing with the sort of person for whom "In case of Rapture this car will be unmanned" bumperstickers are manufactured.
I want one that says "In case of Rapture, can I have your PS3?"
OHMYGOD LAST NIGHT I HEARD A STRANGE NOISE AND I THOUGHT OHMYGOD RAPTURE BUT IT WAS JUST MY RADIO OHMYGOD-
WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
That's what I think it looks like.
It was probably Guns N Roses. I know that it gives me a burst of "ADRENALINE/EXCITMENT!!".
But, in all seriousness, I call poe.
There was a cheesy punk rock band in Sweden at the end of the 70s that was called Noice. Perhaps that was it?
It can't be found on the English Wikipeida, or I would have linked it here.
For the people who can read Swedish; Noice
Remind me to never sleep at your house, even if the car breaks down, a thunderstorm is raging, and I'm miles away from a repair shop
"LAST NIGHT I HEARD A STRANGE NOISE I WAS IN MY ROOM..I THOUGHT RAPTURE??????!?!?!?!?! I FELT A BURST OF ADRENALINE/EXCITMENT!! BUT THEN I REALIZED IT WAS THE RADIO... ANYONE ELSE HAVING THIS HAPPEN?"
This Raptard would have had constant aneurysms, nay, terminal sore knees, if last year, he/she'd had the radio tuned to a sports station covering the World Cup in South Africa. I mean, those Vuvuzelas...?!
'BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!'
...oh, and:
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@KillWhitey
"I think we all know Debbie Harry is the true Haringer of the Apocalypse."
As far as the Raptards are concerned. Me, I think she's pop music's own Marilyn Monroe. <3
@Thundersqueaks
(*sings *)
'There's a bathroom on the right'
http://www.kissthisguy.com/1449misheard.htm
Ah, Mondegreens. Gotta love 'em! Lulz in lyrics.
Yes, often. I have a TV in my bedroom and I sometimes nod off when the set is still on.
But I have never ever thought I was hearing the fucking Rapture. Not even when half asleep would I confuse episode #1765 of "Law & Order" or an advert for bug spray with the coming of some bloke who's been dead for two millennia - if he ever lived at all.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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