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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hey, this is Sanny and Samantha.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I look myself when ever told you production by her radio.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
And for today's Monday Mini. We are talking about a
very timely topic, as in, like we need to put
a time stamp on it. It is September twenty third,
twenty twenty five. Yes, we are a little bit ahead, y'all,
because I'm gonna be gone anyway. We are talking about
the current rapture that is supposed to be taking place
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as we speak. It was supposed to happen today. Apparently
they are also giving a lee wait till till tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Whatever.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
However, as you have learned, we are here today. If
you're listening to this, and we've been one of the
many that have been left behind, and if you're listening,
so have you, so condolences to us all question mark, No, okay,
So yes, Annie, what were you told about the rapture?
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Did you read the Left Behind?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
I did read the Left Behind series. I think I've
told this story before, but I had a really religious
teacher in eighth grade, and I already by that point,
I was already an atheist, and it was like, please
read this, It's very important. And I did, and That's
when he told me, it's like I'm watching you running
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off a cliff, but I'm just trying to stop you.
And I was like, okay, I remember. I'm sure I
must have known about the rapture. I was very religious
at one point, but I remember thinking how weird it
was that their clothes were left behind, Like it's just
their clothes, which I've seen a lot of stuff written
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about that today, about what will you be wearing?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
What will be left behind? Oh, I've never really put
that much thought into.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
You'll never be able to change into anything else.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Or you're gonna be naked one of the two things apparently,
or the robe will be given to you. The robe,
and I guess I should go ahead and put this
caveat here. Apologies if wife does sound very cynical and laughing.
Please note, if you have these religious beliefs and you
are feeling some type of way, you probably don't want
to listen to this. If you did get raptured, congratulations you.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Think they're listening from.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
I don't know, maybe I have no idea all of
that to say, Or if you've known people who have
been raptured, let us know.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I would love to know about that.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
But all that to say is, yes, we do come
from an atheistic point of view. In this we are
going to bring up some of the things that have
been on religious sites, because yes, I have once again
damaged my search engine.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
With a lot of religious sites.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
But with that, yeah, if you are religious, there's no
oh judgment on that part. Religion can be an amazing
part of your life. Being faithful is wonderful, and having
faith and something is all in your personal decision. You
putting it onto others and then judging and using things
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to hate in the name of whatever. Your religious beliefs
are absolutely disagree with you, so you're not gonna like
this anyway. So anyway, So with all of that, what
is the rapture? According to god questions dot org it
is a religious site. They do believe in the end times,
but not necessarily the rapture I should put that as
a note. It is when God takes all the holy
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people and believers off the earth in order for him
to bring judgment on the earth and all the heathens
with it. There's a lot of different contexts. There's a
little conversation about whether or not there's a second coming,
there's a first and then the second, and then how
that goes and what those timelines look like. There's a
debate about whether Heaven is actually on Earth or you
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actually go to a different whole different place, a different planet,
if your other religions like there's there's a lot of
debate in all of those conversations of what I was
taught is that, yes, we actually get removed from this earth.
As a person who grew up in a church that
did not also ever have the word rapture in their vocabulary.
I don't even think they had the apocalypse in their vocabulary.
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They just said in times when Jesus comes back, essentially
when Jesus comes back and brings that, and in their
beliefs my parents, I was taught that the first has
already happened. Those were the same that it happened when
Jesus arose from the dead, he took people with him.
Then that was one of the beliefs. There's a lot
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so from defector dot com, who seems to be one
of those who are talking about as they're no longer believers,
what they have learned and trying to unlearn. Uh. They
say this, They that people are literally being lifted. So
according to a lot lot of what we are seeing
today in these conversations, that we're going to see people
being lifted into the sky.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
That would be interesting. Quote.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
People on TikTok presently are giving advice to look up
when you are levitated into the air and quote, pray
that you aren't on the toilet. Evangelicals on TikTok are
warning each other to make sure to leave their phones
unlocked and to leave their non believer spouses and partners
the passwords they will need to survive the raptures. Aftermath,
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they the Christians will be flying up to meet God
in the next couple of days. So just recently, so
if you're wondering what we're talking about, a South African
pastor decided to announce the newest day of the rapture
for the twenty third or the twenty fourth, give us
a little bit of time, a little bit of times
of this month, so today or tomorrow as we record,
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not necessarily when you listen. And I found this really
inconvenient because I'm actually flying on the twenty fourth, and.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Like, why that's in left behind?
Speaker 3 (06:02):
She got Yes, yes I forgot, but yes, you're right,
and just to clarify. The rapture, a word not actually
found in the Bible, began in the eighteen thirties by
John Nelson Darby, an American evangelist. And this is during
the hell fire Broomstone era, I believe. And there's yeah,
there is talk of end times in the Bible. Yes,
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a Book of Revelation is often used in reference to
that in times and apocalypse, and many people use it
to add some nonsensical math together to predict an end time.
I know there was a shaker, I believe David who
used I want to say Jeremiah as his calculations could
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have been kings once upon a time. I actually knew
this stuff in college. It's been a long long time.
I did a lot of religious apocalyptic religion. That was
one of my main, like favorite subjects. But all of
that is to say so they take the lot from the
Revelation as literal evidence of things to come. However, many
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other theologians attribute the Book of Revelations as notes and
messages to the Christian Church of the earlier time as
they were being persecuted. So literally, John who was credited
in writing this specific book in the Bible, was going
through some hors persecutions, like yeah, they were being come after.
So historically many different people have truly lashed onto these days.
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I will be honest, I thought when I first saw
all of this popping up on my for you page,
I thought it was all satire, because I will say
I have yet to get anybody who truly believes giving
all these instructions. I've only seen stitches of people countering it.
I've got a lot of pastors and Catholic priests coming in,
this is not a thing, stop this, So I've gotten that.
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But so I'm just seeing the reactionary side. But I
really thought it was all jokes because I can no
longer trust's on social media, not that I ever really did.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
To be honest, I got I got one. A friend
of mine sent me something today and I couldn't tell
if it was a joke or not, because I was like.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
She seemed serious, but what she's saying is so comical,
I can't.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
She was talking about wearing clean underwear, like you don't
want your dirty underwear left behind.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
I mean that's the advice on like road trips.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
I mean, wearing clean underwear is a generally good advice.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
There's no harm in that. There's no harm in that. Yeah,
So I really it took me a little while to
figure out they weren't joking, in which I was like, Oh,
we're back here again, because the last time I feel
like we had this was two thousand. The turning of
this like the year from nineteen ninety nine to two thousand,
and everybody's like, Oh my god, it's gonna the world
is gonna end. Well, the prediction was this. People were
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getting batteries and flashlights and water. Part of that was
they didn't think that technology would trans because of the
zero zero, which may have been there was a glitch.
There was I think a real concern because there was
a glitch because when it was started that no one
thought that they would go beyond that because of the
same apocalyptic ideals.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
There was a big one in twenty twelve. I remember
that one.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Oh was it been out of the loop?
Speaker 1 (09:19):
I was out of the loop at that point. I mean,
Roll and Emmerick made a whole movie twenty twelve. Yeah,
damn missed that.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
I didn't watch that either. So there were some examples
that were shown from specifically TikTok about people talking about
and giving advice. One was saying, so I told you
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guys that every day I'm doing something to prep my
home for whoever's here after the rapture. So let me
show you what I did today. And she does all
these different penals, and she had a whole book. I
saw this as a stitch about things, information for her family,
for people leaving money, telling them what to do, giving
them advice. And then there was a whole Prontow apparently
had like a title with seven seals, trumpets and bowls,
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which is a part of the revelation conversation because I
believe the pastor South African pastor did reference the seven
seals and seven trumpets as a as a sign not
heard anything yet I did see it again, a satirical
post where we'll be like if you could play a
trumpet and it gets your time to shine, kind of cold,
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but you know. And it was the different one saying,
it's bittersweet because I know we're going home, but it's
just been such a blessing to be able to do this.
And then she goes on with all my heart, all
these things she wanted to talk about. The coming in
the feast of the trumpet, da da da da, and
then she said also klified and said if it doesn't happen,
because I will send it, I will make an apology
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for the year. I haven't seen that video yet. Jesus
is coming radio not. And if you don't know Jesus,
if you don't know if you're safe, if you question
your salvation, the Bible tells us clearly, believe in the
Lord Jesus Christ, believe that he died on the cross
for all of your sins. So witnessing as she goes, apparently,
and I've seen other people talking about things, including people
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talking about the fact that a woman actually sold her
house in preparation for the rapture. Another person sold their
car in preparation. There was an uber driver, and I
don't know. And I say this as like, there's no
real evidence of this happening. I haven't really seen anybody
like show any receipts of them actually doing these things,
So I don't know how much of this is parody.
But a dude came in showing who is the uber driver,
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and he's a pretty popular content creator, but like he
had a wat of cash, a wat of cash in
a cup, and he said, this couple got in the
car saying that Jesus told them, since they couldn't take
the money with them, to bless as many people so
that they would be ready for the next coming. And
he got like nineteen hundred dollars and some change. Technically,
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by my church is definition of salvation. I should be
good to go, so I might not be here tomorrow
any You may have my things. You and my partner
can split my items.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
I guess you convinced neither, because under my church's qualification,
I feel think you could not specifically about whether or
not you're a good person or whether or not you
actually do according to my church that I grew up
in their quality.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
You cannot Okay, got it? Got it?
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Do you have to go in front of the church
or somewhere in whale for a long time and have
that moment where you just absolutely know because he because
you have to know when you are lost. Do you
know when you were lost? Nanny?
Speaker 1 (12:45):
I generally feel a little lost.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
You're not ready anyway, I mean I do feel that now.
But all of that to say, yeah, there's so much
to be said about this rapture.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
I feel like.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
At this point people are willing to believe because it
feels like everything's on fire. And then the debate going
back and forth about like a lot of the atheists like, well,
the people who were sure that they're leaving, that's wonderful.
Maybe we can practice healthcare, universal health care and all
everything else. But then again, I don't know many of Christians,
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many of believers that I have seen are absolutely not
in agreement with this, and many of them would say
there's no such thing as being able to define and
give dates. That goes against everything in the Bible that
they have read. That we are not supposed to know
because we are not the all knowing person that we
are worshiping or who we believe in, and that makes
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a lot more sense to me. I think many of
the Christians again, are just as baffled by this proclamation.
And from what I understand, a lot of Catholics don't
even believe in rapture period, so there's a lot to
be said. Again, it goes back and forth. They have
the whole like one hundred and twenty two thousand, like
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people take that very literally as well. We've talked about
this in Religious Trauma episode, because you also talked about
the fact that this type of like hell and all
by Brimstone was really traumatizing, and that's kind of the purpose,
so it seems. But all of that to say, we
still have one more day technically, so by the time
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this is released, we should have some answers and I
will be interested in to know what has happened.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
It'll just be me talking by your sockic.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Well, well ask again, it's according to whose interpretation is right.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Yeah, well I'm out. I think I'm out officially.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Like I think I'm more out than not because my
family's church is more of the minority in this scenario
in the congregations, and they're also the least educated, one
of the least educated. Because I truly do not believe
in theology. I think that's sin to learn too much.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
M M.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
So I know.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
I would be interested to look into this more because
I wonder if there's any.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
I wonder if there is any relation between chaos or
turmoil in the world in these dates or if they
just start like I know that my en calendar one
was a kind of separate issue, but I'm curious to
know more.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Yeah, and I try to look it up in relations
to like women and marginalists people. That really wasn't any variations.
It just popped up about how individual women are doing
some things, and honestly, those individual women seem more caring
and trying to leave stuff behind for people to be
able to care for themselves. So that seemed nice.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
I have to say, I appreciate that. That's that's very nice.
I mean, I don't legitimately, I know we are kind
of making a little bit of fun, but legitimately I
don't want anybody to lose money or or their car
because of an idea that maybe was sold to them.
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But I do think it is nice if you truly
believe that, to be like.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Oh, give it away to know. And then there was
some conversation about people giving things away to try to
buy their way into Oh Heaven, which that was a
part of Left Behind series, that people were doing that
trying to negotiate their way in. I did also see,
just to add this out there, an insurance person, a
person who worked in insurance get an email or message
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asking what that looks like if they have insurance to
cover the rapture.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Oh, that's interesting because usually a lot of those companies
have that thing that disc that's like we don't cover
an event of God or something, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Oh yeah, like floods and such.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Yeah, interesting debates. Okay, this is funny too, because last
night I learned about the Boo Boo Pazzuzu, which I
didn't know was a thing. Pazuzu is the demon from
the Anxiousist. Uh and so I guess, I mean, I
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can on see it now.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
That I've read that article. But the kind of the
Boo Boo gotten looks like Pazuzu. It's got all caught
up into this whole situation.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Really, there's so much because also as I was looking
it up, as we come into a spooky season, talking
about how much apocalyptic horror there is.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Yeah, yeah, we need to come back to that. We
have a lot of I'm excited.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
We have a lot of good horror ideas, but one
of them is potentially like religious horror, like the Conjuring
or something like that, which there is a lot of
ground to cover there. Because you're right, I was scared
of I was terrified of hell growing up. I was
terrified of demons. My mom wouldn't let me have The
Exorcist in the house. The movie like and now, even
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though I don't really believe in that stuff, I still
watch those things and I get nervous.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
I did see someone talk about Pokemon being pocket demons
and weren't that wasn't allowed in the.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Yeah, that's kind of a bigger conversation. Maybe not for
our podcast, but we could probably do it. But that
kind of thing where something gets really popular. D and
D had that kind of satanic.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Pant Still it came back.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Yeah, Pokemon, I'm sure. I'm sure so many other things
have been wrapped up into that. But yeah, right now,
the boo boo pazoosu.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
So that is I'm not looking it up, not doing.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
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