Happy Rapture Day!
It's a bummer that it's raining here, because the rapture BBQ at Kammy's might be rained out. In the meantime I've got lots of stuff to get done ... finish cleaning the garage, get the wood for a new book shelf, write a few more posts for Migration Week, update the Fukushima project, and if I have a chance finally get around to watching the new Dr. Wh......
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I'm a dog lover. I love dogs as pets and can't imagine my life without having a dog as a pet. When our dog Echo died unexpectedly of a particularly nasty form of cancer at 8 years of age, I was devastated.
Since there is so much noise about the predicted Rapture, everyone seems to be planning to riff on it this weekend. Wichita State University is have a Rapture Day, just for the shenanigans.
Uh, gang? It's the wee hours of the morning of 22 September in Jerusalem. That means, if you are reading this, you are not one of the elect who was raptured. Oops.
The Rapture doesn't officially get here until 6PM. But, anyone left after that is officially a hell bound sinner. So, they might as well start believing in Evolution after that.
"It's a bummer that it's raining here, because the rapture BBQ at Kammy's might be rained out."
The weather here's great. If you can make it to Germany before I get raptured I'll supply the charcoal.
The world won't end today, but neither will idiotic belief systems, unfortunately.
Just a remider why an atheist's work is never done, and always consists of pushing heavy boulders uphill, only to have believers trying to roll them back down the hill:
http://www.ou.edu/ouphil/faculty/chris/crmscreen.pdf
(pg.379)
"In 1954 Leon Festinger came across a newspaper account of a small âdoomsdayâ cult who believed that the world would end on December 21. His coworkers infiltrated the group and observed the membersâ behavior. The group members were very committed to their beliefs. They had gotten rid of all their possessions (who needs a toaster when the world is about to end?) and were genuinely preparing for the world to end.
December 21 came and went, and the world didnât end. This dramatically disconfirmed the group leaderâs prediction, and we might expect that the members of the group would have lost their faith and left. Members of the group who were alone on December 21 did lose their faith, but those who were with the rest of the group did just the opposite. They concluded that their own actions had postponed the endâthough it would arrive soonâand this seemed to strengthen their faith.
Before their belief had been disconfirmed, members of the group hadnât done much to convince others to join them, but after the disconfirmation, they worked hard to convert others to their own position. Their new belief, that their actions had delayed the end of the world, restored the consistency between their belief in the head of the group and the fact that they had given away everything they owned, on the one hand, and the fact that her prophecy failed, on the other."