# So, what are your plans for after the Rapture? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 26, 2006, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-your-plans-for-after-the-rapture/366047 "2006-07-26T04:51:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-your-plans-for-after-the-rapture/366047/21 "2006-07-26T10:24:59Z")
[QUOTE=fetus] I just realized that all of those cars will probably still have people in them. I’ll have to think of a better plan. [/QUOTE] They won’t resist much when you toss them post-haste, I think… ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-your-plans-for-after-the-rapture/366047/22 "2006-07-26T12:05:15Z")
Funny, among people as rational as the Dopers I’d’ve expected to see a lot more putative eating of humble pie. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-your-plans-for-after-the-rapture/366047/23 "2006-07-26T12:19:47Z")
I’m not clear on this whole rapture thing, but when, exactly, are the zombies supposed to show up? ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-your-plans-for-after-the-rapture/366047/24 "2006-07-26T12:31:06Z")
Get to Boulder as fast as I can. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-your-plans-for-after-the-rapture/366047/25 "2006-07-26T12:33:11Z")
[QUOTE=ShibbOleth] I’m not clear on this whole rapture thing, but when, exactly, are the zombies supposed to show up? [/QUOTE] 28 days later. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-your-plans-for-after-the-rapture/366047/26 "2006-07-26T12:50:40Z")
😕 I’m no Biblical Scholar, nor do I play one on TV, but I thought that the second part of the rapture was that _the rest of us_ were going to be cast into a **Lake of Fire** to fry for eternity. Assuming that, my answer to the OP would be… The _backstroke_. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-your-plans-for-after-the-rapture/366047/27 "2006-07-26T13:31:45Z")
Many seem to assume we’d know the difference if the rapture occurred. My guess is so few people would disappear that it would at best be discounted as a random statistical aberration in the missing persons data. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-your-plans-for-after-the-rapture/366047/28 "2006-07-26T13:37:09Z")
[QUOTE=Kythereia] I have to agree with this one. As fun as it is to imagine joyriding in a 747 or lying in a millionaire’s (now empty) pool with champagne, the Bible is pretty clear that a post-Rapture Earth is Not Going to Be a Fun Place To Be. [/QUOTE] Eh, I got all four horses boxed for a perfecta. I’m good. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-your-plans-for-after-the-rapture/366047/29 "2006-07-26T13:47:42Z")
At least I won’t have to tolerate any more “Marriage = [man icon] + [woman icon]” signs on my neighbors’ lawns. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-your-plans-for-after-the-rapture/366047/30 "2006-07-26T13:55:04Z")
You mean used car dealerships will be _abandoned_? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-your-plans-for-after-the-rapture/366047/31 "2006-07-26T13:58:58Z")
[QUOTE=Least Original User Name Ever] Even the ones in the deserted dealerships? [/QUOTE] I have a hard time imagining that car salemen are the one to be saved. If they are, I think I’d rather stick around with the zombies. ---
**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:** [July 26, 2006, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-your-plans-for-after-the-rapture/366047/32 "2006-07-26T14:00:28Z")
Try to score with depressed Left Behinders who’re going “the hell with it” and giving in to their repressed desires. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-your-plans-for-after-the-rapture/366047/33 "2006-07-26T14:05:36Z")
[QUOTE=Kythereia] I have to agree with this one. As fun as it is to imagine joyriding in a 747 or lying in a millionaire’s (now empty) pool with champagne, the Bible is pretty clear that a post-Rapture Earth is Not Going to Be a Fun Place To Be. [/QUOTE] So then it’s already happened? ---
**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:** [July 26, 2006, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-your-plans-for-after-the-rapture/366047/34 "2006-07-26T14:20:45Z")
Corner my local market in guns, ammo, cigars, cigerettes petrol and beer sales. You heathens need supplies and I intend to help you out. Oh, and I think I will build a large battle dome for a new Reality TV show I would host. **A Day At Auntie Entity’s!** _Two men enter. One man leaves._ ---
**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:** [July 26, 2006, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-your-plans-for-after-the-rapture/366047/35 "2006-07-26T14:37:23Z")
IF the pre-Trib Rapture scenario is true, the only fictional work I’ve read which is truly horrible enough to describe the post-Rapture world is Brian Caldwell’s WE ALL FALL DOWN. It’s basically Pulp Apocalypse- the only person who could film it & do it justice is Quentin Tarantino. Malacandra- the rationality of some secularist Dopers kinda goes into default mode when considering “what if you are faced with undeniable evidence of God/Jesus/The Bible” scenarios, considering the amount of “If the Biblical God is real, then when I face Him, I’ll spit in His face” comments I’ve seen. Really, they’ll be wetting themselves & sobbing like skinny b_tch_s with skinned knees. Btw, what will I do after the Rapture? Probably be in rapt _hee hee_ adoration of the Holy Trinity for a while, then watch the fireworks on Earth below while praying for any loved ones still left there. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-your-plans-for-after-the-rapture/366047/36 "2006-07-26T15:28:19Z")
I’ll go across the street to the house where the neighborhood zealot soaps up her giant front window with messages of christapaloozic browbeating, stand in front of her as she sits forlornly in her front lawn with her palms and tear-streaked face turned to the sky, and say, “I guess that whole ‘not praying ostentatiously in public’ thing wasn’t optional.” And then I will laugh, and laugh, and laugh. And then, y’know, burn in a lake of fire, and all that. ---
**Author:** ![myrnajean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@myrnajean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myrnajean)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-your-plans-for-after-the-rapture/366047/37 "2006-07-26T15:33:54Z")
[QUOTE=Shoshana] At least I won’t have to tolerate any more “Marriage = [man icon] + [woman icon]” signs on my neighbors’ lawns. [/QUOTE] Ha! There’s a lot of assumption that the people who “think” they are going to go to heaven actually are. I think most of them, all those TV evangelists and fundamentalists off all stripes, are probably way, way off. Everyone who thinks they are Right, and everyone else is wrong, all the haters and oppressors in the world. The people who want to make the world a smaller and less free world, they are going to be tossed into the celestial fondue pot. The only people getting into heaven are the atheists, simply because they are being “good” and not expecting a reward for it. No garden of eden, no 72 virgins, none of that. Not that I actually believe in the rapture anyway. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f07891/32.png) [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Plastic_Ninja)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-your-plans-for-after-the-rapture/366047/38 "2006-07-26T16:11:28Z")
[QUOTE=myrnajean] The only people getting into heaven are the atheists, simply because they are being “good” and not expecting a reward for it. No garden of eden, no 72 virgins, none of that. [/QUOTE] Christian that I am, I LOVE this idea. It begs for a story written for it. ---
**Author:** ![Sunrazor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-your-plans-for-after-the-rapture/366047/39 "2006-07-26T16:47:14Z")
[QUOTE=Oakminster] …or maybe it’s Vorlons taking them for Soylent Green. Whatever. Poof, massive missing persons cases due to Major Supernatural Event. [/QUOTE] Well, I’m gonna’ discount the whole fiery lake thing, ‘cuz there’s really no God or heaven or Rapture. But I kinda’ like the idea of a Major Supernatural Event eliminating all those self-righteous pricks who think atheism is the root of all evil. So, I’d probably run for Congress, because nobody who’s “left behind” would care that I worked in a porn shop back when I was in college, or that I haven’t been in a church (except for a few funerals and a wedding or two) in the past 10 years. That is assuming, of course, that only the pricks are taken, and not us assholes. Aaaaaand, let’s just walk quietly away from the whole body part metaphor. ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-your-plans-for-after-the-rapture/366047/40 "2006-07-26T16:56:35Z")
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