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Chinooks over London… the rapture is at hand! There have been three Chinooks with US markings circling overhead above my house in London for quite some time now, and for a moment I thought that maybe the rapture was at hand and they were here to air lift me off to heaven… or wherever else it is that rotorheads go when they kick off for the last time.
Actually a place with large helicopters perpetually circling overhead fits my preconception of ‘heaven’ rather well, so maybe the world *did* end as I was certainly watching them in complete rapture.
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Hello? Is there anyone else out there?
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Nope. Nobody else out there. 😉
It’s because Obama is coming to London next week. They are practicing
Semi-related, I always chuckle when anyone uses “black helicopters” as a pejorative against conspiracy theorists as they are quite real and used to fly over where we lived a little south of here quite often (Fort Campbell is about 30 miles north of here).
I’ve always figured that I lived in a Heavenly place Perry, as the Avon & Somerset police Chopper is almost perminently parked over my house, living on top of a hill overlooking St Pauls and the centre of Bristol, as I do. 🙂
It was so bloody loud the other week with the Tesco Riots going on, I had to shut the windows cos we couldn’t hear the telly.
Chinooks are a rare sight. A week before the French, British and American attacks on Libya, two flew over my house, British markings, heading north west.
Aha! I thought, off to pick up the lads up from Hereford eh? The game’s afoot! And it was of course.
Nope, nobody here but you. Problem is, you have some very convincing delusions.
It may sound mundane, but pinching yourself may provide an answer.
I saw three chinooks myself today while walking my dog. You live in North London?
I am shocked, SHOCKED, that my christian friends would be so unchristian as to not be generous with their car keys in order to ensure their status among the Elect… clearly they are all going to hell…
Take a number, we’ll get around to you after we process the virtuous.
Actually a place with large helicopters perpetually circling overhead fits my preconception of ‘heaven’ rather well…
That is quite possibly the strangest idea of Heaven I have ever encountered.
Almost certainly the noisiest, too.
I like to feel them overhead as well as see them… and heaven’s incense smells strangely like avgas 🙂
Is Bob correct about Obama? Was it it these:
It’s because Obama is coming to London next week. They are practicing
Yeah, it’s a tricky bit of flying. You can’t lift an ego that size with just two.
“heaven’s incense smells strangely like avgas”
I thought it was more like napalm in the morning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zNdMc6wGtU
“Heaven is a place where nothing every happens.” – Talking Heads
AFX helicopter
Whup whup whup whup whup whup …
Willard [voiceover]
Camden… shit; I’m still only in Camden…
2.5 hours to go at time of writing, and still no Rapture where I live.
Damn… shouldn’t have borrowed all that money yesterday to spend on booze and hookers. Now I’m going to have to pay it all back.
Damn Revelationists.
the rapture is here: herman cain 2012
Obama is president and Cameron is prime minister…….maybe we’re already in Hell.
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Hmph, heaven to me smells like triple-base propellant and burnt DF-2, preferably on a sharply cold february morning.
Well, my alarm clock went off this morning and I am off to work. No end of that world for me, at any rate.
I didn’t even click you’d be referring to the Camping gentleman until reading the later Post about World’s End.
I thought that would be beneath your wisdom but perhaps I was mistaken.
You know how liars like to caricature libertarians as right wing, racist, uncaring, fascist friends of that right wing conservative capitalist Adolf Hitler.
Enjoy.
Huh?
John, no one was caricaturing anyone here, as far as I can see. There was a simple implication that Camping’s “prophecy” was silly – which it was, as much as you are free to disagree with that assessment. And, FWIW, many libertarians often say very silly things, and it’s OK to point that out too.
Indeed Alisa. I think John is reading far too much into my remarks. I have practising Christian friends, not just the godless such as myself, who have also been poking fun at this strange strange man.
Zombie put it far better than I can:
http://pajamasmedia.com/zombie/2011/05/21/media-circus-of-biblical-proportions-at-armageddon-hq/?singlepage=true
To be honest one has to also has to accept that a lot goes unsaid.
But, okay. My apologies. You are above that level of cheap thinking.
Zombie does have a point.
“Zombie has a point”? If so, as far as I could tell it was the allegation that the “mainstream media” is trying to paint this millenial fantasy as somehow a widespread mainstream Christian delusion. And I’ve certainly never seen that. Everything I’ve read portrays these folks as an amusing bunch of kooks, with no broader importance. It’s a fun story for a slow news day. Methinks that Zombie (and John B) protests too much.
That is precisely the point Zombie has. I can bet you money that on the same day that ridiculous “prophecy” was made, there were at least several similarly ridiculous ones made by adherents of various other religions and cults – only we will never hear about those, because they were made by members of minorities.
Smitinized.