Sir? I think you have a problem with your brain being missing.

Zoe ,'The Train Job'


Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


tommyrot - May 09, 2011 10:04:06 am PDT #7567 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Edit: Tommy, that's bizarre--if you really thought the world was ending in May, why have a baby that's due in June?!?

'Cuz it will be born in Heaven! Jesus Himself will deliver it!

I'm guessing they didn't use contraception, leaving the whole issue of pregnancy to God's will....


Kate P. - May 09, 2011 10:05:32 am PDT #7568 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

Now they are in Orlando, in a rented house, passing out tracts and reading the Bible. Their daughter is 2 years old, and their second child is due in June.

Huh. So she's going to be raptured as a fetus? How does that work, exactly?

edit: x-posty, natch.


Consuela - May 09, 2011 10:06:45 am PDT #7569 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

To believe the world will end on May 21st with absolutely no doubt... I just don't understand that mindset.

Yeah, that's... well. Have they never heard of any of the other milleniarists (is that a word?)? Many people in the western world were convinced the world would end at 1,000 CE, and yet NSM.

ION, I just got off the phone with a reporter, to whom I expounded a ridiculous amount of horseshit. "Oh, yes, we're all about the partnering with X, and we're so grateful for their creativity and willingness to work with us..." It'll be interesting to see how badly I am misquoted, given how my organization will have been mis-characterized by the other parties.


Jessica - May 09, 2011 10:06:59 am PDT #7570 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

"We budgeted everything so that, on May 21, we won't have anything left," Adrienne adds.

This is pretty tragic, especially for their kids.


Consuela - May 09, 2011 10:07:30 am PDT #7571 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

This is pretty tragic, especially for their kids.

Yeah. What are those kids going to eat on May 22?


erikaj - May 09, 2011 10:10:01 am PDT #7572 of 30001
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-

Those people make me sad. "Great, now I'm gonna be stuck with serious thoughts all day." Actually, if I thought that was true, it'd kind of solve a lot of my problems. Also, no more politics, right? But I would actually like to write one novel all the way, through.


Frankenbuddha - May 09, 2011 10:15:59 am PDT #7573 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Yeah, that's... well. Have they never heard of any of the other milleniarists (is that a word?)? Many people in the western world were convinced the world would end at 1,000 CE, and yet NSM.

Maybe the rapture happened in 1,000 CE and we've been living the apocalypse ever since?


Jessica - May 09, 2011 10:18:50 am PDT #7574 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

In general, when an apocalyptic cult's deadline comes and goes without an apocalypse, the line changes from "we're getting raptured, hooray!" to "God/aliens/a comet saved us at the last minute, hoooray!" and the fervor only increases.

Very rarely does anyone step back and say "Boy did we get THAT wrong! Time to re-enter society!"


Burrell - May 09, 2011 10:20:06 am PDT #7575 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

So it's not quite the end of the world, May 21, just the Rapture? So if they're still here on May 22...? I find the whole thing very creepy. Please don't tell me they plan on taking matters into their own hands.


Burrell - May 09, 2011 10:21:37 am PDT #7576 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

And to back up Jessica:

Camping himself, has had to do some recalculation. He first predicted the end would come Sept. 6, 1994. He now explains that he had not completed his biblical research.