Okay you guys, here’s the plan. There are all sorts of people out there convinced that the Rapture will occur on May 21st, because that’s supposed to be Judgement Day. Weirdly, Judgement “Day” supposedly lasts for, like, five months, but never mind that. I have an idea.
Instead of letting yet another “Absolutely true this is the honest deal for reals” pseudo-Apocalypse pass with business as usual–except for the eye-rolling–we should have fun.
That’s why, at about noon PST on 5/21, I plan to be on Twitter. These are the tweets I’ll make:
- My wife says she hears someone playing trumpets, but I can’t hear a thing. All that exercise is rotting her brain.
- HOLY SHIT, SHE JUST VANISHED IN FRONT OF ME!
- WHAT’S GOING ON??? MY WIFE JUST DISAPPEARED LIKE OBI WAN KENOBI! HER EMPTY CLOTHES COLLAPSED ON THE FLOOR!
- WHERE’S MY SON!
- My son has vanished, too! WHERE’S MY SON! WHAT’S GOING ON!! I gotta figure this out!
With the perfect delay between tweets, it’ll seem like the Rapture is really happening.
You should do this, too! If enough people on Twitter and LiveJournal and Facebook post that their loved ones have suddenly vanished (or their Muslim co-worker or Jewish Grandma) it will seem like the Rapture really is happening, and the people wearing those “Judgement Day” T-shirts weren’t chosen to go.
Maybe you can Instagram a set of clothes on the floor of your office, or an empty car up on a lawn.
So! May 21st, noon PST! Remember.
Noon? I thought everything was supposed to begin 6PM Local, with earthquakes going around the world.
Actually what we need is to get one of those all-inclusive churches (the ones that allow gays to preach) and have them leave clothes in the church and show it on the local news.
You know more about this than I do.
But six would cut into family dinner time. My wife doesn’t think pranks are THAT funny.
Okay. That’s your assignment.
Did anyone see the picture of the controversial billboard that was recently put up by another spiritual group near Family Radio’s headquarters? It directly challenges them about May 21. Here is a picture of it:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/62779138@N08/5708063636
Isn’t that the number the Jehovah’s Witnesses believe will be saved?
Isn’t that the date the Mayan calendar says the world will end?
Love the idea. You mean 6pm PDT though, right? Or are you in an area w/o daylight saving time, in which case it’ll be 7pm for the rest of us?
Actually 6 pm is dinner time, and we don’t allow electronics at the dinner table. So it has to be another time.
Besides, as an atheist, I don’t feel constrained by those kinds of specifics.
lol good one but it cant be the end yet, Oprah hasent had her last show and that’s on the 25th of may!
If it doesn’t happen, it’ll be because Oprah had one of her people contact God and let him know the date wasn’t working for her.