# Whatcha Doin' Next Week When the Rapture Comes? (May 21, 2011) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 13, 2011, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-doin-next-week-when-the-rapture-comes-may-21-2011/581806 "2011-05-13T17:56:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2011, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-doin-next-week-when-the-rapture-comes-may-21-2011/581806/21 "2011-05-15T06:13:16Z")
Well if it’s the rapture, I’ll be celebrating. Most of the people I don’t like will be going away. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2011, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-doin-next-week-when-the-rapture-comes-may-21-2011/581806/22 "2011-05-15T06:45:59Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > With all the evidence they’ve been asking for the whole time! It’s like a tragic episode of the Twilight Zone. Good point. That would make for a frustratingly mystifying rest of my life. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2011, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-doin-next-week-when-the-rapture-comes-may-21-2011/581806/23 "2011-05-15T09:33:43Z")
That is finals week at our school. Oddly, there must be a Rapture every finals week, as lots of students disappear those days… What I really need to be doing is looking for one RICH believer who will simply give me his car, house keys, credit cards and cash the day before, so he is not encumbered by all those earthly things. Come on - if you are a true believer, you’ll fork them over - what have you got to lose? ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2011, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-doin-next-week-when-the-rapture-comes-may-21-2011/581806/24 "2011-05-15T11:05:36Z")
I wish I worked at the power company. I’d like to turn everybody’s light off for a while just to fuck with them. Seriously tho’, people quiting their jobs? Spending their life savings? WTF? ---
**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 15, 2011, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-doin-next-week-when-the-rapture-comes-may-21-2011/581806/25 "2011-05-15T13:39:40Z")
Rapture!? I thought they said “rupture”. Now I gotta return this truss. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2011, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-doin-next-week-when-the-rapture-comes-may-21-2011/581806/26 "2011-05-15T19:15:17Z")
I’m hoping that I at least get to see my report card with straight A’s. It would be a good way to go out. Although 10 minutes after the start of yesterday’s final, I notice about 20% students had disappeared; maybe this is a two-tiered raptured? ---
**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 15, 2011, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-doin-next-week-when-the-rapture-comes-may-21-2011/581806/27 "2011-05-15T19:42:47Z")
I’ll raise a sillier question. Does anyone think he has a significant following of conservative-spectrum Christians? Alas, I think he does believe it. At one time, he had a relatively successful & respected global shortwave radio network that many Christians listened to as it had Biblical reading & traditional sacred music. Now he is pretty much regarded as a loony, a cultist & a false prophet by most Christians who pay any attention to him at all. Oh- and to answer the OP, I’ll be at the town’s three-day Folk Music Festival. > [@Baker](#): > > Okay, a silly question, but does anyone here think this guy Camping actually, really, truly BELIEVES his story? > > He says on 5/21 there will be the biggest earthquake ever, and then sometime in October the Earth will be completely obliterated, as if it had never been. > > Given that he’s been wrong once already, how can he claim he’s right with a straight face? What’s his angle? Is he milking any followers for money, or something like that? ---
**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:** [May 15, 2011, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-doin-next-week-when-the-rapture-comes-may-21-2011/581806/28 "2011-05-15T20:08:10Z")
I’ll be standing atop a pile of corpses, naked but for runes painted in blood all over my body, inside a burned out, desecrated cathedral. In other words, a typical Saturday night. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2011, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-doin-next-week-when-the-rapture-comes-may-21-2011/581806/29 "2011-05-15T21:05:39Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > I’ll be happy when they’re gone, leaving the world to the atheists at last. Awesome short story idea; go with it! ---
**Author:** ![xoferew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/e9a140/32.png) [@xoferew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xoferew)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2011, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-doin-next-week-when-the-rapture-comes-may-21-2011/581806/30 "2011-05-15T21:37:59Z")
I think there are three possibilities: 1. The rapture does not occur. The people who prepared for it by giving away all their stuff have no money left to buy cake. More cake is available for me. 2. The rapture does occur. Many are taken and I am left. I will suffer tribulations. Also, more cake is available for me. 3. The rapture does occur. I will be taken up to heaven where there will be lots of cake. In summary, the options are cake, tribulations and cake, or eternal bliss and cake. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2011, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-doin-next-week-when-the-rapture-comes-may-21-2011/581806/31 "2011-05-15T21:59:56Z")
I’ll be in Springfield, Illinois doing the Lincoln historical thing. Which reminds me, gotta go bump a thread. . . ---
**Author:** ![minionkat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@minionkat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minionkat)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2011, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-doin-next-week-when-the-rapture-comes-may-21-2011/581806/32 "2011-05-15T22:22:07Z")
I will be at my dinner club. This month’s theme is “soul food”. No relation. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2011, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-doin-next-week-when-the-rapture-comes-may-21-2011/581806/33 "2011-05-15T22:30:31Z")
On May 21 I’m supposed to begin training for my first marathon. Perhaps I should just stay home with a bag o’donuts instead. ---
**Author:** ![velvetjones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5f9b8f/32.png) [@velvetjones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velvetjones)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2011, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-doin-next-week-when-the-rapture-comes-may-21-2011/581806/34 "2011-05-15T22:34:11Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > I’ll be happy when they’re gone, leaving the world to the atheists at last. What he said. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2011, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-doin-next-week-when-the-rapture-comes-may-21-2011/581806/35 "2011-05-15T22:35:45Z")
I’m looking forward to CNN’s coverage of Twitter during the event. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-doin-next-week-when-the-rapture-comes-may-21-2011/581806/36 "2011-05-16T03:28:41Z")
[Dopefest](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=603846) of course. Where else would you want to be for the apocalypse? (And just to drive the point home, we’re meeting at a science museum.) ---
**Author:** ![IGJoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/igjoe/32/5420_2.png) [@IGJoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IGJoe)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-doin-next-week-when-the-rapture-comes-may-21-2011/581806/37 "2011-05-16T04:20:08Z")
I’ll be celebrating my birthday! Jesus: always stealing my thunder. ---
**Author:** ![Arrendajo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Arrendajo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrendajo)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-doin-next-week-when-the-rapture-comes-may-21-2011/581806/38 "2011-05-16T04:33:10Z")
I’m going to join in the post rapture looting. I’m gettin’ me some guns and ukuleles. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-doin-next-week-when-the-rapture-comes-may-21-2011/581806/39 "2011-05-16T05:18:58Z")
> [@Arrendajo](#): > > I’m going to join in the post rapture looting. I’m gettin’ me some guns and ukuleles. You’d better hurry. My understanding is that the Rapture is only going to take 144,000 people. That’s not a lot of loot to divide up among the seven billion of us who stay behind. Let’s face it, if they weren’t seeking so much publicity, they could have had their Rapture and the rest of us wouldn’t have even noticed. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-doin-next-week-when-the-rapture-comes-may-21-2011/581806/40 "2011-05-16T06:42:06Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Let’s face it, if they weren’t seeking so much publicity, they could have had their Rapture and the rest of us wouldn’t have even noticed. Well, except for the massive earthquakes, and the Earth blowing up 5 months later. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-doin-next-week-when-the-rapture-comes-may-21-2011/581806.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-doin-next-week-when-the-rapture-comes-may-21-2011/581806.md?page=3)