Today's Topics:
Rapture Report
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From: gt0265d@prism.gatech.edu
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To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 92 18:27:15 EST
Cool. But did it make the charts?
Keeper of the Slack,
Mike "My God, it's full of stars..." Whaley
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From: "Charles E. Patisaul" <gt7950b@prism.gatech.edu>
Message-Id: <199211030028.AA10491@prism.gatech.edu>
Subject: Rapture Report
To: Automatic Subgenius Digestifier <Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 92 19:28:35 EST
Originating from that Little Yellow House in Atlanta, Georgia USA.
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]
Well, we've been talking about the coming rapture, the day has
passed, so here is the "trip report".
[from The Atlanta Constituttion, October 29, 1992 "The Day After"]
'Sorry, let's go home': Miracle of the Rapture a no-show in South Korea
By B.J. Lee
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Seoul, South Korea- For months, thousands of believers proclaiming
"the Rapture is coming!" stood on street corners and predicted a dramatic
miracle to usher in a new era. They quit jobs, school, and sold everything
to prepare to ascend to heaven.
But early today, 15 minutes after the midnight deadline passed, the
worshippers were told that heaven could wait.
"Nothing has happened," said the Rev. Chang Man-ho of Seoul's largest
doomsday church, the Mission for the Coming Days. "Sorry, let's go home."
About 2,500 believers filed out in disappointment, walking under the
big yellow chrysanthemum arch at the entrance, past the loudspeakers that had
blared hymns and "hallelujahs!"
"We just got the message from God wrong," said Kim Tae-jin, a
34-year-old architect. "Jesus will be back in several years."
Critics said the church drew followers because of anxiety over rapid
social and political changes in South Korea, and that the mentally troubled
and the insecure were easily lured by the doomsday predictions.
Thousands of police backed by fire engines and ambulances were placed
on alert overnight to monitor churches across the country and try to prevent
suicides or acts of despair. Four people committed suicide before midnight,
but there were no reports after it was clear there would be no ascension to
heaven.
One young woman collapsed. Some wept. Most tried to avoid the 1,000
curiosity seekers and police searchlights illuminating the night sky.
Police said they had no word on whether 10,000 to 20,000 believers at
200 other churches across the country also had gone home calmly or whether
they were continuing prayer.
But anger surfaced. In Taegu, the Rev. Hwang Bo-kwan was beaten by a
man who said the church had kidnapped members of his family, the Yonhap
national news agency said.
Police said some church members were reported missing, including 20
believers in the southern part of Pusan who left wills and personal belongings
behind and a couple in Seoul who left three small children.
Seven years of apocalypse were to follow the "Rapture" --the ascent
to heaven of true believers-- and set the stage for the second coming of
Christ. Many evangelical and fundamentalist Protestant churches believe in
the Rapture, but most do not attempt to predict a date for it.
--Charles Edward Patisaul The Little Yellow House gt7950b@prism.gatech.edu
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