Talk:Rapture Ready

message: Could JimTS elaborate how it's "quite a bit biased"?  I'll review it, but changing some of the article's statements would change its meaning.  DavidA 19:47, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

message: I've made some general improvements to the article ... there is one statement that concerns me, though.  The article says that Rapture Ready has over 11K articles.  When I look at http://www.raptureready.com/, I count something around 150 links on the main page.  There are 50 or so articles submitted by readers ... http://www.raptureready.com/soap/soapbox.html ... and each link under "Featured End Time Writers" has a few articles ... say, an average of 40ish * 14 = 560.  At any rate, that adds up to something less than 1000.  Where does the number 11K come from?  BigDT 01:47, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  General Improvements 

message: (sarcasm warning)
Does anyone know how they actually came up with these numbers or is it a secret? I mean it does seem a bit odd they take something like the Antichrist and just give it a value of two. Also they say when the index hits 145 you should "fasten your seat belts", probably suggesting the rapture is imminent. How do they know 145 is a critical threshold instead of 4242 for example? By the way, shouldn't you rather loosen your seat belts? Anyhow, I'm sure they have arrived to their numbers through solid science and rigorous methodology. I'm just hoping to reach higher level of enlightenment. I mean its not like they just pulled this whole index out of a place into which the Sun doesn't shine just to fool gullible and unducated people, who don't understand numbers are not magic. --Lakefall 15:31, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I just noticed they say: "You could say the Rapture index is a Dow Jones Industrial Average of end time activity, but I think it would be better if you viewed it as prophetic speedometer. The higher the number, the faster we're moving towards the occurrence of pre-tribulation rapture." So, how does "end time activity" speed the approach of the rapture exactly and why does the speed make any difference to us if we have no idea of the distance of the rapture? I have plenty of more questions, if you get tired of these. ;-) --Lakefall 15:42, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rapture Index 

message: The internet didn't exist in 1987. Someone fix this.
:You might be thinking of the worldwide web. The internet certainly existed from the early 1980s. The example posted on the website shows a Telnet session accessing the Usenet group alt.bible.prophecy in 1989. Usenet started in 1979. rossnixon 03:02, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  On the other hand it says "website" and founded in 1987, that is certainly not consistent. And identifying a website with a newsgroup is also a bit tricky. At the very least it needs some clarification. VLE 21:38, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmmm, true. Have changed websites to sites. rossnixon 01:59, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The domain Raptureready.com was registered on March 16, 1999 ... although the website could have existed elsewhere before then so that isn't really conclusive. --B 02:33, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, found history page here , so first web site was 1995.  rossnixon 01:55, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  1987! 

message: There have been some edit wars regarding whether or not Rapture Ready is a cult. I would say that it is not by any formal definition. There is no uniformity of belief beyond that of the possible imminent Rapture. Overall, the board reflects conservative evangelical thinking rather than something outlandish or unfamiliar to Christians. One cannot define "cult" as something that is unpopular--there are always arguments on RR over whether Roman Catholicism is cult!GABaker (talk) 19:56, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Christianity in general is a cult, so anything to do with it does have that aspect. Rapture Ready to the Christian cult is like the Citizens Commission on Human Rights to the Scientology cult. JessicaSideways (talk) 01:06, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Whether any particular editor thinks RR is a cult is moot. Unless reliable sources say they are a cult, Wikipedia should not say they are a cult. - SummerPhD (talk) 02:42, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Cult?

message: In your revert-comment you said that the announcing of the Antichrist by an organisation has nothing to do with scientific people concerned with nuclear war.
What topic are you talking about ? I'm on Rapture Ready. It's a religious group not scientific. Maybe you mixed up with another page. This is not about science; it's about religion last I checked it. Kindly explain your comment. I thought you must have mixed up with another page. But you're more than welcome to your ideas. Thank you. Geiremann (talk) 17:06, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The edit summary you are referring to was for an edit removing an out of place link. I removed your addition of a minor mention with the edit summary "-minor mention". - SummerPhD (talk) 17:13, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Concerning SummerPHD