Are you rapture-ready?
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BooMan
Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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You bet your ass I am! I have spent 50+ years fighting the good fight. I get up every morning and my first thought/prayer is “Today is a good day to die.” And then I go about my everyday business.
I’ve done everything I can do. If it’s not been enough…and walking up 8th Ave. today in midtown NYC it occurred to me over and over again that there probably has never been a more self-centered, greedy, sheerly evil general population in the history of all of the empires of the world as exists today in the United States of Omertica…if my own efforts and those of thousands of others like me has not been enough to ensure the continued existence and evolution of this group that we laughingly call homo sapiens (as if most of us even know what we are really thinking or why), then take us on down, O Lord of Hosts.
I will sit right at the epicenter of the destruction and try to remain conscious to my last breath.
You?
AG
Honestly AG I agree with about 90% of your comments here and have learned a lot from your perspective…so before I call BS on this one I’d like you to ‘asplain yourself a little bit. I think maybe you went a little over the top with your rhetoric.
My question: please explain how a NEWSTRIKE!! MEDIASTRIKE!! is going to change anything in a society where the general population is sheerly evil as opposed to intentionally and malignantly misinformed and misled. Doesn’t jive for me.
I look forward to your response in which you tell me I’m overly focused on a discussion of such petty details while ignoring the matter at large, presented in numerous short, staccato sentences.
How?
It isn’t, apparently.
Why?
Because in order to de-hypnoticize the news zombies they must first be reached with the idea.
And since there is:
1-No way on earth that the media would broadly publicize such an idea, seeing as how it would be suicidal.
and
2-No possible way that a media-hypnotized person can be persuaded that anything outside of the media’s purview is worth a second thought.
Then the idea is never going anywhere.
So it goes.
Catch 22.
Squared.
Catch 484.
I have given up and await the tender mercies of our Maker.
Who (or which) is merciless in the pursuit of evolution.
Are we at an evolutionary impasse?
That’s what it looks like to me…
They’re either going to have to give the ball to another set of pitchers or forfeit the Earth game.
A drop in the cosmic bucket, of course.
Tomorrow?
I dunno.
Maybe.
Anyone know where Kim Il Jong is at the moment?
Later…
S.
I think this is the only way, actually. It’s difficult, but not impossible. As you say, the media won’t actively help, because it would be suicidal. But think back to 20 years ago – without the internet and social media, it was even easier to keep people locked in the media bubble.
People are slowly becoming more aware, and of course the hypno-media pollute every communication medium with their noise, but I don’t yet think it’s hopeless; in fact, I think there has to be more hope now than ever before, despite the frustration that people who have been fighting this fight for a long time such as yourself must have.
The internet and social media are now the hypnomedia.
The hypnonet.
The hypenet.
Ads everywhere.
Facebook.
Even worse…Twitter.
The perceived inablilty…inadvisability, anyway… to say anything that needs more than about 17 words. Half of them @#*% symbols and numerals.
Sorry, bubba.
It’s over.
It’s going to have to collapse before anything changes.
And it will. Eventually.
When?
Damned if I know.
Meanwhile, my morning mantra continues.
“Today is a good day to die,” and then…on with the day’s business.
So it goes.
Have a nice day.
Later…
AG
people are influenced by prophets of doom and often inspired to be better people. But prophets of doom are always wrong except when the clock stops, which it never does.
Was Jeremiah right or wrong?
Depends on how you look at it.
“Never does?” You dunno. Never has, so far. Not on the grand scale, anyway. (If of course you can manage to forget yourself and you/our place in the universe long enough to conceive of this little speck of Earthdust as grand within the larger scheme of things.)
But shorter term?
Ask the Romans.
The Egyptians.
The Mayans.
Any number of Asian dynasties.
All empires crumble eventually, Booman. It’s just a matter of when.
And when they do, it’s often very…messy. Nasty, in a mass bloodletting sort of way.
So it goes.
When?
Only Nostradamnus knows.
And it ain’t tellin’.
Back to my morning mantra…
AG
Got my comfy-chair on the patio, cigars and boozeall handy, so I can enjoy as the fools get sucked off to their just desserts.
As a Lapsed Catholic I cannot believe in a God that plays the games God has played with humanity, regardless His reasoning (Job, Lot, Abraham and Isaac, hell-even allowing the Devil to mess with Jesus in the desert, then allowing Jesus to be killed off by His Pharisees and the Romans before the job was done), followed by the creation of a Religious establishment that has killed more as a percentage of population than the most evil of our times.
I’ll personally take great satisfaction in watching the Raptured go…IMO we’ll be better off for the loss….
When is that – this weekend? Better get the yard done.
I’m ready for them all to go. The sooner the better. So is our beleaguered planet. Alas, I have a sneaking suspicion that this will turn out exactly the same as the literally thousands of other such “Biblical” pronouncements of the last two millenia.
I’m picking up a bass and an amp for my son the day after. I guess I’m assuming our next door neighbors will be raptured by that point.
Looking forward to a nice, quiet Sunday.
LA weather for Saturday. Break out the sunscreen.
Saturday looks like a perfect day to work on the tan. 🙂
I’ll be swingin’ in the apocalypse with delco nightingale and then playing the Brunch at the end of the world the very next day.
If any tribbers are in or near Philly, join us for some swing and honky-tonk: i’m doing bass for both bands.
then I’m goin’ on a lootenany. i need a new tv. and a car.and a 3 story townhouse.
A group of enterprising Atheists has set up a post Rapture, pet rescue business for Christians anguished about what will happen to their pets after they whoosh off through the clouds.
Is it too late to set up a franchise? heheh
My niece has been fending off raptorists (haha) who have been asking her if she’ll come over and milk their goats once they’ve been taken…
Haven’t those folks heard the old story? If the animals can’t get in, they’re in the wrong place.
I love this. Hopefully the contract specifies that pet owners must leave their homes unlocked so the rescuers don’t have to waste time breaking in.
Oh dear – it’s all so complicated.
If the Rapture doesn’t happen, there’s always the potential for a zombie apocalypse.
In case of a zombie apocalypse…please, don’t forget the double tap.
I’ve got seats along the first base line for Saturday’s Padres game. Here’s hoping the rapture spirits away a couple of Mariners players — the Pads need all the help they can get.