June 29, 2008


Up, Up and Away

“This is the strangest thing I’ve seen since I’ve been on the
force,” said Paul Madison, first officer on the scene. Madison
questioned the man who looked like Jesus and discovered that he was
dressed up as Jesus and was on his way to a toga costume party when
the tarp covering the bed of his pickup truck came loose and released
twelve blow up sex dolls filled with helium which floated up into the
air.

Can’t vouch for the source, but a good story any way you look at it.

posted by Daryl Scroggins in general, metaphysics, odd, religion, spirituality 

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7 Responses to “Up, Up and Away”

  1. Michael Grant Smith on June 29th, 2008 at 12:24 pm

    I’d love to know the actual statistics of “mistaken rapture”. It probably occurs a lot more often than one might think.

    I wonder what that woman would have done if she had spied Jesus while he was peeing by the side of the highway.

  2. Daryl Scroggins on June 29th, 2008 at 1:31 pm

    I guess the mistaken rapture quotient is high in the U.S. because we are all so steeped in the fear-of-loss sales technique. If you gathered a crowd of people and paid them like movie extras to run toward the doors of a department store as it opened, you would surely draw in a huge number of unpaid bargain seekers. And many Christians have been trained not to ask too many questions, lest they lose some of their sheep status to devil-inspired doubt.

    My guess about he pissing possibility: she would have shouted “Jesus anointeth the Earth! It’s a sign! Let me out of here–it’s the Rupture!”

  3. rabbitnsnake on June 29th, 2008 at 4:13 pm

    http://www.snopes.com/religion/rapture.asp

    Sorry, looks to be a hoax.

  4. Sheila Ryan on June 29th, 2008 at 4:59 pm

    Yep. Hoax. But true — in a metaphorical sense.

  5. Daryl Scroggins on June 29th, 2008 at 5:58 pm

    A hoax about a hoax–how appropriate. I’m frequently enraptured by tall tales that ride in on many-humped camels.

  6. Michael Smith on June 30th, 2008 at 7:43 am

    Wasn’t this an episode of Six Feet under?

  7. Daryl Scroggins on June 30th, 2008 at 8:37 am

    Michael S.–Should have been if it wasn’t.

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