# Left Behind on Oct 21? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 10, 2011, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-on-oct-21/599197 "2011-10-10T16:54:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2011, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-on-oct-21/599197/21 "2011-10-13T23:14:04Z")
An open letter to all those that will be raptured: Can I have your stuff? ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-on-oct-21/599197/22 "2011-10-14T06:53:31Z")
…so when the 21st bubble bursts, will there be a rupture party? ---
**Author:** ![Washoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecae2f/32.png) [@Washoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washoe)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-on-oct-21/599197/23 "2011-10-14T06:58:04Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > I will be very pissed off if the world ends on the 21st … we have birthday plans, I turn 50 on the 27th dammit. You only get 1 50th birthday. :mad: Happy advance birthday. I turn 50 on the 22nd. May this end-of-the-world stuff ain’t so bad after all. If I only make it to 49 years, 364 days, I won’t have to dwell on the fact that I just turned half a century old. ---
**Author:** ![Washoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecae2f/32.png) [@Washoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washoe)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-on-oct-21/599197/24 "2011-10-14T07:00:41Z")
> [@kath94](#): > > My birthday’s on the 22nd. I want my gifts early, dammit! 😃 How old are you gonna be? ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-on-oct-21/599197/25 "2011-10-14T10:42:23Z")
> [@Washoe](#): > > Happy advance birthday. I turn 50 on the 22nd. May this end-of-the-world stuff ain’t so bad after all. If I only make it to 49 years, 364 days, I won’t have to dwell on the fact that I just turned half a century old. Thanks =) I don’t mind being half a century though, I came quite close to dying permanently several times, and I died on the operating table a couple times, so it is a kick being actually alive instead of some variant of dead 😃 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-on-oct-21/599197/26 "2011-10-14T20:34:50Z")
Every church I know of is planning to be open on Sunday October 23rd, and every Sunday after that for years to come. As I’ve said before, atheists pay more attention to Camping than Christians do. ---
**Author:** ![Washoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecae2f/32.png) [@Washoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washoe)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-on-oct-21/599197/27 "2011-10-14T20:49:14Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Every church I know of is planning to be open on Sunday October 23rd, and every Sunday after that for years to come. How ironic—I have plans for that day too! I’ll be a nursing a hangover from the most expensive bottle of tequila I’ve ever purchased. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-on-oct-21/599197/28 "2011-10-14T20:53:00Z")
> [@Antigen](#): > > Ain’t no party like a post-apocalyptic party! But what does one wear to such an event? Leathers and feathers. Haven’t you seen Mad Max? ---
**Author:** ![Bosstrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Bosstrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstrain)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-on-oct-21/599197/29 "2011-10-14T22:13:49Z")
Noooooo, I won’t get to play Skyrim! 😃 Actually, the hilarious thing about the rapture is according to the scripture, the chaff will be taken away first to be burned in the fire…THEN the wheat is gathered in the storehouse. So technically, you don’t want to be raptured, you actually instead want to be left behind. I just think it’s a very funny and nasty trick that it’s been turned around opposite…but oh well. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-on-oct-21/599197/30 "2011-10-14T22:23:03Z")
> [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](#): > > Leathers and feathers. Haven’t you seen Mad Max? Don’t forget metal plates and chain mail accents 😃 ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2011, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-on-oct-21/599197/31 "2011-10-16T17:41:17Z")
> [@kayT](#): > > I am supposed to turn 65 on the 23rd, if I don’t get raptured. Hmm. Medicare or rapture, medicare or rapture. I just turned 30, and I’m having a big costume party at the end of the month. Fortunately, none of my friends are likely to be raptured. ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f08c70/32.png) [@Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Brother_Walker)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2011, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-on-oct-21/599197/32 "2011-10-16T19:14:53Z")
I don’t believe in this drivel. Although, as now I am taking a plane trip on the 21st, I hope the pilot agrees with my opinion. I think I’ll buy the flight insurance this time. ---
**Author:** ![kath94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/67e7ee/32.png) [@kath94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kath94)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2011, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-on-oct-21/599197/33 "2011-10-16T23:13:14Z")
> [@Washoe](#): > > How old are you gonna be? 48, og willing! ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2011, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-on-oct-21/599197/34 "2011-10-17T00:22:47Z")
> [@Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](#): > > I don’t believe in this drivel. > > Although, as now I am taking a plane trip on the 21st, I hope the pilot agrees with my opinion. > > I think I’ll buy the flight insurance this time. It’s OK. Airlines routinely pair Christian pilots with non-Christian co-pilots in case the Rapture hits. _hee hee hee_ ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2011, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-on-oct-21/599197/35 "2011-10-17T11:01:32Z")
I’ll be left behind on Oct 21 - that’s the day my mom leaves for a Hawaii vacation… without me!!! ☹ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2011, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-on-oct-21/599197/36 "2011-10-17T13:29:55Z")
…she _says_ she’s going to Hawaii, **FairyChatMom** … ---
**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:** [October 18, 2011, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-on-oct-21/599197/37 "2011-10-18T14:58:14Z")
> [@kath94](#): > > 48, og willing! Your boon is granted. _ **- Jack, the One, True Og** _ 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2011, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-on-oct-21/599197/38 "2011-10-21T10:08:02Z")
So, has the world ended for anyone yet? ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2011, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-on-oct-21/599197/39 "2011-10-21T10:59:49Z")
[For one, it did.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Muammar_Gaddafi) Not that anyone’s complaining. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2011, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-on-oct-21/599197/40 "2011-10-21T11:26:44Z")
Today is my last day at my job and I start a new one on Monday, provided I am not Raptured. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-on-oct-21/599197.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-behind-on-oct-21/599197.md?page=3)