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So you think you are ready for the Apocalypse. No, I don’t think so, at least you aren’t without visiting this site first: http://survivetheapocalypse.wordpress.com/category/post-apocalypse/
Today we have some ‘real’ apocalypse post, delivered by an atheist in Florida.
As with the previous, this has to do with the rapture. Now some guy is delivering messages after the rapture. Read more here: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/jul/04/hes-post-rapture-message-service/
ORLANDO, Fla. – There are those who believe in the Rapture prophesied in the Bible. And there is Joshua Witter, avowed atheist.
They need each other.
At least some people think so – those willing to pay Witter to be their post-apocalyptic postman, delivering cards and letters to their nonbelieving friends, relatives and neighbors who will be left behind on the Day of Reckoning.
About 70 people have paid the Orlando, Fla., man about $5 apiece to get their messages to those doomed to face the plagues, pestilence and darkness of Armageddon.
As sure as the true believers are they will escape this Earth when the Rapture arrives, Witter is just as certain he will be left behind to deliver their mail. He has committed blasphemy to make sure.
“Anyway you look at it, I’m screwed. It’s too late for me,” said Witter, a 24-year-old computer software engineer who wears long sideburns and hip, black-framed glasses.
Witter started his Web site (postrapturepost.com) as a joke, a satiric jab at those who see things such as the swine flu, economic collapse and the election of a liberal president as sure signs the end is near.
But then he started receiving orders for his merchandise. Since 2005, Witter said, he has sold more than 200 items, most of them T-shirts and coffee mugs. Many of those (he admits) were to friends and fellow atheists.
Among the best-sellers are the line of Told You So cards, which go for $8 each. Some of those who ordered the cards – Witter suspects they are not true Christians – are willing to pay extra to have them sent early as Christmas cards.
Witter doesn’t have a stack of cards or letters with post-Rapture messages in a dresser drawer or safety deposit box. All the messages are stored in his computers, encrypted to protect their privacy and backed up by a fail-safe system.
His Web site might be all in jest, but when it comes to his paying customers, Witter is a responsible entrepreneur. He doesn’t share the contents of the messages with his friends over beers or mock those who take this whole end-of-the-world business more seriously than he does.
He concedes that delivering on his promise to hand-deliver the cards and letters entrusted to him may be difficult.
Witter has read all the books of the popular “Left Behind” series from Tyndale House Publishers, so he knows what to expect. Covered with boils, he will have to fight his way through perpetual darkness, clouds of insects and meteors falling from the sky to deliver the mail.
“Your hope lies with me. I am your mailman,” he vows. “I’ll do my best come hell or high water to deliver those letters.”
On the other hand, should the Rapture not arrive in his lifetime, he gets to keep the money, which he promises to use to subsidize his sinful lifestyle.
And don’t even think about asking him to forward a message from the future for free.
“I turn people away who ask for free letters,” he said. “I’m not a charity.”
Those Rapture believin’ foks in the USA, you gotta love ’em. Amongst the fervent believers there is that they will ascend to Heaven in the alloted time, leaving us pesky non-believers holding the bag… or in this case, holding the leash?
This article is from Sharon Glassman found on the huffington post:
In my last post on work, career coach Debbie Robins identified passion as a cure for human’s instinctive fear of change.
In this post, we’ll meet a man whose passion led him to a second career in pet care for folks who believe they’ll be going to heaven in the very near future when Jesus does His second coming.
That’s right: he’s addressing believers’ fear of being bad pet owners when the Rapture comes.
Bart (he prefers to use his first name only for business) is a professional atheist. He writes about his non-belief, spends time on non-believer chatboards; has even written a book of essays about his debates with persons of faith.
In a world of Jesus car fish, you could say Bart is a passionate “Dog is my co-pilot” bumpersticker kind of guy.
And that’s where his idea for his business began. He read about a service in the UK offering pet care for dogs and cats after the second coming of Jesus, a core tenet of the fundamentalist Christian faith.
Bart didn’t believe in Jesus – “or Baal, or Zeus.” But before you could say, “Holy Big Bang, Batman!”, he had experienced (you should excuse the pun) an entrepreneurial conversion experience.
In his previous life, Bart told me by phone, he’d been an executive for a major retail chain.
Passion sold fashion. It’s the foundation of faith and all kinds of loving relationships, too.
If one believed that Jesus was on His way to your door with a one-way ticket to Eternal Life in His hand, this was exciting news for a passionate believer. But as a pet-owner, your soulless, if adorable Fido and Fluffy would be homeless when He called you home.
Thank God for human sinners!
In what I see as a riff (and maybe a schmidge of karmic payback?) for Jews enlisting “Shabbas Goys” to run their lights and such on the Sabbath, Bart decided to enlist atheists to serve the pets left behind by Raptured owners.
He teamed up with his friend Brad, a web-savvy, athiest law enforcement offer he’d met online, and voila’!
The Eternal Earthbound Pets site launched on June 29th with the following offer:
Rapture-believing Members will pay the service $110 for a first pet, and $15 for each additional pet. This money goes into a Paypal account. If the Rapture happens in the next 10 years, Bart and Brad’s team of approved pet representatives will pick-up their pets from their now-owner-vacated home and bring them into their household forever…or until, you know.
Needless to say, the first question on the site’s FAQ section is, “Is this a joke?”
Bart swears – or rather, asserts, that he’s offering a service, based on his understanding of the French philosopher, Pascal.
According to Pascal, per Bart, it’s a wiser bet to believe in God than not to believe. If God doesn’t exist, no harm; no faul. If He does, you’re Saved.
Earthbound Pets is simply abetting believers’ bet.
“It would be a scam if I offered the service and did not have the resources to deliver them if the Rapture came,” Bart explained.
But he does. And if you’re a pet-loving atheist looking for a job, perhaps a job as a post-Rapture cat or dog nanny is for you.
You’ll need to have blasphemed against the Holy Spirit (dissing God the Father or Jesus the Son is bad, but not evil, apparently), be a pet-owner with a clean arrest record, and ideally, married.
Pressed for a reason why married folks make better blasphemers, Bart admitted that singles of all orientations would be considered.
That was a relief to me, personally.
But on a deeper level – and in keeping with the focus of this series — what really drew me to Bart’s story, after its initial “say what?” factor was his passion, and his ability to realize it as work.
In his first career as a retail executive, Bart said, he was well-compensated. But his job was to absorb the stress of a large corporation’s profit motive. In his new enterprise, he finds job in the creativity of writing for his site and excitement in the task of creating a business model from scratch.
If you look at the numbers, Earthbound Pets is doing well. “Less than a hundred” folks have signed up as clients in the last four days. Pet caregivers from 18 states have enrolled, and Bart claims to have another 800 applications to review.
But in the end, his “strange”-sounding enterprise has a heart that transcends numbers.
“I have two dogs, 13 and six,” Bart says. “I don’t know what would happen to them if I were gone.”
“I don’t believe what they believe,” he says about his customers. “But I don’t object to their beliefs.”
By offering his customers a service the he himself values and would want, were he in their shoes, Bart has found a second career that means the world – if not the Afterlife – to him.
Believe it — or not. But in the end, a passionate atheist is selling — and personally profiting from — helping others find true peace of mind.
For those of you who like Tom Tommorow comics (I got into them years ago when they were printed in the flagpole magazine when I attended the university of georgia) – here’s an interesting twist on post apocalptia for you:
