# October 21, 2011. The revised....I mean "real" rapture. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 24, 2011, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/october-21-2011-the-revised-i-mean-real-rapture/582973 "2011-05-24T02:13:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2011, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/october-21-2011-the-revised-i-mean-real-rapture/582973/21 "2011-05-24T23:44:11Z")
What about the kids? They won’t get to dress up on Halloween. Oh won’t someone PLEASE think of the children ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/october-21-2011-the-revised-i-mean-real-rapture/582973/22 "2011-05-25T01:17:03Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > Is it indeed a Final Judgment? Of course. [O-Kagachi takes no prisoners, y’know.](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=81991) ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/october-21-2011-the-revised-i-mean-real-rapture/582973/23 "2011-05-25T01:56:04Z")
Rapture 2: The Re-Rapturening. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/october-21-2011-the-revised-i-mean-real-rapture/582973/24 "2011-05-25T02:24:26Z")
It’s the Final Countdown, da da daaa dum, da da da da dum… da da daa dumm… ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/october-21-2011-the-revised-i-mean-real-rapture/582973/25 "2011-05-25T03:20:24Z")
> [@Rigamarole](#): > > It’s _definitely_ coming on February 30th. Pssst…February -3rd-…you didn’t include Arizona not having daylight savings time. ---
**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:** [May 25, 2011, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/october-21-2011-the-revised-i-mean-real-rapture/582973/26 "2011-05-25T03:32:27Z")
> [@Rigamarole](#): > > Wait, what happened to the 2012 armageddon? Is that passé now? 2012 is so 2010. Get with the times. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/october-21-2011-the-revised-i-mean-real-rapture/582973/27 "2011-05-25T03:54:52Z")
He predicted the end of the world in 1994. He predicted it on May 21. He’s predicting it now for October 21. You know what they say, third time’s the charm. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/october-21-2011-the-revised-i-mean-real-rapture/582973/28 "2011-05-25T10:59:55Z")
> [@Onomatopoeia](#): > > Let’s be accurate, shall we? Camping didn’t revise his prediction for the end of the world. May 21 was supposed to be the rapture, five months before the end of the world on October 21. That would be biblically inaccurate. He obviously believes in a pre Tribulation rapture, which means there are at least seven years between the Rapture and the end of the world. And that end is temporary–a new Earth is created. In fact, that would be the ultimate way to handle this: Do it Douglas Adams style and say that the Earth ended and that we are already on the new Earth. We just don’t’ remember it. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/october-21-2011-the-revised-i-mean-real-rapture/582973/29 "2011-05-25T15:02:43Z")
> [@Contrapuntal](#): > > What a flaming fucking douchebag. Oh, so you’ve read his resume, then. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/october-21-2011-the-revised-i-mean-real-rapture/582973/30 "2011-05-25T16:44:03Z")
One of my Christian friends pointed me to [this billboard](http://www.myfox8.com/news/wghp-story-nc-man-billboard-110523,0,300126.story). 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/october-21-2011-the-revised-i-mean-real-rapture/582973/31 "2011-05-25T17:06:00Z")
> [@Larry\_Borgia](#): > > Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, humanity. I agree. So I lost some weight. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Me](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mr.Me](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Me)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/october-21-2011-the-revised-i-mean-real-rapture/582973/32 "2011-05-25T17:34:49Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > In fact, that would be the ultimate way to handle this: Do it Douglas Adams style and say that the Earth ended and that we are already on the new Earth. We just don’t’ remember it. But how do the mice feel about all this? I mean, they paid for it, after all. ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/october-21-2011-the-revised-i-mean-real-rapture/582973/33 "2011-05-25T18:16:29Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > In fact, that would be the ultimate way to handle this: Do it Douglas Adams style and say that the Earth ended and that we are already on the new Earth. We just don’t’ remember it. Douglas Adams? [Rev. Miller](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millerites) did that over a century ago. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/october-21-2011-the-revised-i-mean-real-rapture/582973/34 "2011-05-25T18:46:15Z")
The thing was he was probably counting on Osama Bin Ladin to build a nuke to blow up the world. Then when he got offed, it screwed up the end of the world. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/october-21-2011-the-revised-i-mean-real-rapture/582973/35 "2011-05-25T21:50:43Z")
Rapture II - just when you thought it was safe to sin again… ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/october-21-2011-the-revised-i-mean-real-rapture/582973/36 "2011-05-26T02:08:30Z")
Rapture 2, electric boogaloo. ---
**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:** [May 26, 2011, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/october-21-2011-the-revised-i-mean-real-rapture/582973/37 "2011-05-26T05:18:22Z")
> [@appleciders](#): > > Douglas Adams? [Rev. Miller](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millerites) did that over a century ago. No, he didn’t. He moved his first date back a year, and after the Great Disappointment never revised it but believed in an imminent Second Advent until he died in 1849. ---
**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:** [May 26, 2011, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/october-21-2011-the-revised-i-mean-real-rapture/582973/38 "2011-05-26T09:05:17Z")
> [@Larry\_Borgia](#): > > Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, humanity. Actually, maybe it is. Rapture Beer. A proper beer for a proper heathen. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/october-21-2011-the-revised-i-mean-real-rapture/582973/39 "2011-05-26T14:12:06Z")
I wonder if God will nuke us from orbit, just to be sure. ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/october-21-2011-the-revised-i-mean-real-rapture/582973/40 "2011-05-26T14:14:18Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > In fact, that would be the ultimate way to handle this: Do it Douglas Adams style and say that the Earth ended and that we are already on the new Earth. We just don’t’ remember it. Has anyone checked to make sure the dolphins are still around? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/october-21-2011-the-revised-i-mean-real-rapture/582973.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/october-21-2011-the-revised-i-mean-real-rapture/582973.md?page=3)