It's the Rapture tomorrow! What would you do?
In the Rapture thread in Purgatory there was a brief tangent into this particular subject. I know that if it's a thing it's not going to be tomorrow (or is it?) but if you knew it was how would you spend your last twenty four hours on the planet?
Would you do worthy things or frivolous ones?
Would you do worthy things or frivolous ones?
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What would I do?
What would I do that was different,
Unless it was champagne with you?
—Bruce Cockburn (pron. co-burn)
Wait, what? All these years I thought it was pronounced cock-burn.
Wishful thinking?😇
No, I just don’t find pronouncing it “co-burn” intuitive. But when I was a young child, I also thought there must be two states, one called Arkansas (pronounced ar-kansas) and one called “Arkansaw.”
(I also had trouble with the way syllables are broken up, so I thought “troub•le” and “brok•en” and “syll•ab•les” made more sense than the way they are officially broken up. And until I heard it said out loud, I thought “paladin” obviously rhymed with “Aladdin.”)
Have you met Worcester, Leicester, Cholmondeley or Milngavie yet?
(Wooster, Lester, Chumley, Mulguy)
Unless the Ship is hosting The Wedding Feast Of The Lamb, yes, I'd say we're all still on Earth.
I've not been all here for years.
Oh, come on. It's better conversation than what's promised in Revelation 19.
I am indeed still h
O wait a moment - it was a last-second stab at the keyboard as you hurtled skywards...
You've all been left behind--I was married 37 years ago!
With all due respect to those who believe in this sort of thing, it does seem to cynical, worldly, and agnostic Me that it's just a load of Tosh.
Makes interesting fillums, though.
As a certain character says in The Scottish Play:
If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well
It were done quickly...
He was referring to a somewhat different event, of course.
There is a third way. The kingdom is being established on earth in the here and now, through the faithful acts of its citizens--feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, visiting the imprisoned, welcoming the stranger, establishing justice. It is a now, not yet, event.
I favor the third way.
Point taken.
I take Jesus's second coming the same way--"won't you hurry up, Lord?" But then I look at the amount of work we've got left to do, and in particular the fact that Vietnamese people are maybe 90 percent of them strangers to knowing Jesus at all--and, well, I hope he waits a little longer.
Still, personally, it's good to know I'm likely to see him face to face sometime in the next 30 years or so.
This is a nice paraphrase of a famous (apocryphal) quote attributed to Martin Luther: "Even if I knew tomorrow the world would end, I would still plant an apple tree."
It's one of those things that all Lutherans know Martin Luther said, even though there is no evidence that he actually said it (along with the "wise Turk, foolish Christian" quote).
British is a naval nation and historically our battle ships were made of oak. This meant that oak woods were deliberately planted to keep the navy supplied. However, oaks take a long time to mature.