From: ciaran@county.lmt.mn.org (Ciaran Benson)
Subject: Re: "Are you ready for the Rapture?"
Reply-To: ciaran@county.lmt.mn.org (Ciaran Benson)
Organization: LaserMaster Technologies, Minneapolis, MN
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 92 13:15:48 GMT

In article <BvrADs.7Iz@apollo.hp.com>, stave@apollo.hp.com (Joel H. Stave) 
writes:
> In article <1992Oct6.222528.14536@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>,
> boylan@sltg04.ljo.dec.com (Steve Boylan) writes:
> |> 
> |> Local telephone poles and such have been plastered of late with signs
> |> with a big red cross, reading:
> |> 
> |> 	Are you ready for the rapture?
> |> 
> |> 	Jesus is coming
> |> 
> |> 	October 28, 1992
> |> 
> |> Anybody out there got a clue as to where this originated?
> 
> I heard on National Public Radio about a sect in Korea that believes
> that the world will end in October.  Some feel that it will be the
> 10th, others feel the 28th.  According to NPR there are only a few
> thousand of these believers.  Some are also going on crash diets so
> that they will be lighter and will be lifted up to heaven more easily.
> 
> NPR seemed to be saying that this was just in Korea, but it seems to
> have spread to the USA.
> 
> Better have those halloween parties a few days early.

  Yuppers, the sect began in Korea following a book written in
1988 or something like that by a religious leader who described
the coming 'pokolips.  The "only a few thousand" seems to only
include his own sect, which has been suffering all kinds of
legal investigations and arrests and what-not.  The leader is
(I think) currently doing time for bilking his followers out
of something like $400,000 (or was it $4 mil?).

  The followers sell their homes, start beating their evil spouses,
conscript the children, and in general get ready to meet their
maker in the next three weeks.  It has some relationship to
YHVH's Witnesses in at least as much as they believe that only
144,000 will be "chosen" (the rest, I assume, must be too ripe).

  A UPI story I read said that there were several hundred
sects of this belief in Korea, and it was really starting to 
make trouble for folks who don't expect to be moving before
November.

  I'm really not too surprised to hear that it's made it to
'Merica -- hell, most of us assume that Bush'll destroy
anything he can get his hands on as the election gets closer
anyways.  Kind of a self-fulfilling prophesy, huh?

  It hasn't made it to the mid-west, as far as I can tell.
I suppose, like most things, we woun't get it until it's over.
Next December we should start seeing posters proclaiming the
end of the world last month.

  I'll try to dig up the story I read in the paper and x-scribe
it for everyone.

  Ciaran (96!, count-'em, 96 words per minute!)

  p.s.  I'll be sitting on my lawn, sipping mead, praising the Goddess,
and contemplating all the room and freedom we're gonna have when
Christ comes to claim his followers (most of whom, I'm sure,
will _NOT_ want to go when the chance comes).

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