# Everyone still here? Anyone been Raptured? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 21, 2011, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-still-here-anyone-been-raptured/582669 "2011-05-21T10:13:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-still-here-anyone-been-raptured/582669/81 "2011-05-22T10:10:29Z")
One of my friends put a shirt and pair of pants on his front sidewalk so it looked like he was raptured. Another said that he filled up his car at a convenience store and when he got home his wallet had been raptured. (Maybe it was a [Cross](http://www.amazon.com/Cross-Autocross-AC197-1-Wallet-Collection/dp/B001FA0DU6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1306058918&sr=8-1)?) He figures he is on the standby rapture list and they need his wallet to pre-authorize and confirm his ID. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-still-here-anyone-been-raptured/582669/82 "2011-05-22T11:22:28Z")
I’m not here. But that’s OK. I was never here… ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-still-here-anyone-been-raptured/582669/83 "2011-05-22T12:17:19Z")
I prayed very fervently that our new governor would be taken up to heaven but I don’t think it happened. Now I’m fervently praying that he be sent elsewhere. ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-still-here-anyone-been-raptured/582669/84 "2011-05-22T14:15:41Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > I’m not here. > > But that’s OK. > > I was never here… Or is that all here? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-still-here-anyone-been-raptured/582669/85 "2011-05-22T14:51:57Z")
I’m here and so are my parrots, but then if we’d gone up to Heaven we’d spoil the tone of the place. The only strange thing I noticed Sunday morning was that there was an unusually large number of goldfinches in the area, so maybe God finds their incessant warbling and whimpering annoying. I did hear a couple earthquake noises yesterday but I think it was a neighbor trying to freak the rest of us out by turning up the bass full blast on his car stereo. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-still-here-anyone-been-raptured/582669/86 "2011-05-22T19:16:07Z")
Yesterday afternoon I was with a friend who told me that if I was Raptured she was moving into my house. I replied that the only way I would get Raptured would be if there was a serious clerical error somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-still-here-anyone-been-raptured/582669/87 "2011-05-22T19:44:46Z")
> [@LurkMeister](#): > > Yesterday afternoon I was with a friend who told me that if I was Raptured she was moving into my house. I replied that the only way I would get Raptured would be if there was a serious clerical error somewhere. I see what you did there. ---
**Author:** ![Find\_Friends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@Find\_Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Find_Friends)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-still-here-anyone-been-raptured/582669/88 "2011-05-22T20:22:52Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > Maybe he meant a _different_ May 21, 2011? Hey, some of the branches of Eastern Orthodoxy still use the [Julian Calendar](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_calendar) (or “Old Style”) instead of the globally widespread Gregorian. Yesterday, Saturday, was only May 8th according to the Julian. * * * You don’t suppose…\*\*\* ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-still-here-anyone-been-raptured/582669/89 "2011-05-23T03:58:12Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > I’m not here. > > But that’s OK. > > I was never here… You can’t get there from here. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-still-here-anyone-been-raptured/582669/90 "2011-05-23T05:10:32Z")
I bet a lot of Homer Simpsons are going D’oh about now. Some of those rapture folks gave away everything. Quit jobs. Blew their savings. Left their apartments. They are screwed now. I can imagine the phone calls. Can I have my sofa back? Please? My plates and silverware, do you still have it? My dog can I get him back. 😃 😃 must be some interesting conversations. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2011, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-still-here-anyone-been-raptured/582669/91 "2011-05-24T00:59:06Z")
Nah, Rapturers are like Birthers. They’re going to be True Believers no matter the evidence to the contrary and have already started coming up with excuses. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2011, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-still-here-anyone-been-raptured/582669/92 "2011-05-24T01:22:15Z")
[Here is a live blog while he talks about the whole “no rapture” thingy.](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/23/harold-camping-speaks_n_865867.html) ---
**Author:** ![Find\_Friends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@Find\_Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Find_Friends)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-still-here-anyone-been-raptured/582669/93 "2011-05-27T22:23:41Z")
\*\*\*[Ohhh, SHHHIT! … Oh well, maybe next time.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9KlMWzKj4s&feature=related) :p\*\*\* [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-still-here-anyone-been-raptured/582669.md?page=4)