How to Profit From the Coming Rapture: Getting Ahead When You're Left Behind

[Ian David]

I spotted this at The Harvard Coop the other day and thumbed through it...




Publisher Comments:

Are the end times near? Is the Rapture really just around the corner? Could Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson possibly be right? About 1 billion people among us believe, yes, absolutely.
And that means one thing: investment opportunities

For those who are not as expertly versed in the Book of Revelation, Ellis Weiner and Barbara Davilman, authors of the bestselling Yiddish with Dick and Jane, helpfully offer both illumination and advice: What exactly is the Rapture, anyway? How is it different from the Tribulation? Who are the Antichrist, the Four Horsemen, and the 144,000 male virgins, and what do they want? And, most important, how can I make money during the 7 years of societal breakdown before Armageddon?

Taking the familiar form of a how-to investment guide, HOW TO PROFIT FROM THE COMING RAPTURE instructs those readers who will certainly be left behind (Jews, Catholics, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, less ardent Protestants, and many more) on how to exploit the inevitable demise of the world in order to make a tidy profit. Sure, the rivers and seas will run with blood, locusts will swarm, mountains will move all over the place, and famine will strike. But for the five billion of us left behind, the post-Rapture world will be a time of even more unique investment opportunities.

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http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=0316017302

[YOY]

1. Isn't it kind of self defeating to write a book to people who think the rapture is an immese crock

about the reality of the rapture...let alone how they can profit from it?

Or is this humor that I am not getting immediately?

[Ian David]

3. If you don't know, I won't ruin it for you. n/t

[YOY]

4. Then it's humor...but it wouldn't surprise me if some fundie tried it.

n.t.

[Ian David]

5. Makes a great gift for a fundie neighbor, I bet. Along with a gift basket of peanutbutter snacks. nt

[YOY]

9. Aw...a shame that mine moved out to "real America"...

Perhaps it's a good thing when the wife started trying to imitate Sarah Palin in speach...I shit you not.

[grannie4peace]

2. if they are left here it won't do them a bit of good -They are on God's shit list

[Silent3]

7. Yeah, but if you're on God's shit list...

...and you're going to burn forever in hell when you die, why not makes lots of money now and enjoy it while you can? :)

[grannie4peace]

8. see your point

[naaman fletcher]

6. I was thinking of starting a rapture pet care business

You pay me to look after your pets after the rapture.. only, you won't be here to pay me, so you will have to pay me in advance (i.e. now).

[Strong Atheist]

14. Welcome to DU! nt.

[tanyev]

10. How funny! I have to get a copy.

Always looking for ways to drive the RWers craaazy.

[zbdent]

11. How to profit from the coming Rapture ...

sell a book titled "How to Profit from the Coming Rapture" ...

[Occam Bandage]

12. lol~ I gotta get this.

[skepticscott]

13. Already have my plan

When all those folks get raptured to wherever without their clothes, all the loose change in their left-behind pockets is free for the taking..

:woohoo:

[Strong Atheist]

15. And what about all their other stuff? Houses, cars ..

... what a legal nightmare! You have to have proof of death... :shrug:

[moggie]

16. At least you won't have trouble finding a lawyer

All of those will have been left behind.

[Strong Atheist]

17. .

:rofl:

[billiefan2000]

18. I am curious...

what would you do if the rapture really happened

[skepticscott]

19. You mean what would we do

if every wingnut, whack-a-doodle, fundy Christian on the planet were suddenly whisked away, never to trouble the world again? You gotta ask?


:toast:

[SidneyCarton]

21. See post 20.

[SidneyCarton]

20. A couple of my fellow Mormons have all come to the conclusion that should the Rapture come...

We're all going to a bar and get plastered. After all, if the fundies are right, we're all going to hell anyway.