I have pretty much been humping Merlin Mann’s leg since I found him on the internet. I love 43folders, I have stolen his idea from his 5ive website to start a Friday 5 list myself, his talk with Gruber on blogging at SXSW was amazing, his podcast YLNT is hilarious, and this talk he did for Google is inspiring.
If you blog and didn’t listen to the podcast about blogging you need to do that now. If you use your computer and email to get things done, you need to watch this video.
When I was in school studying literature,
‘rapture’ had something to do with an extreme emotional involvement in an experience that could transcend the physical, and lots of times it had to do with a sexual context hidden ever so slightly.
In the world of literalist biblical interpretation and biblical studies, rapture means something else.
Kirk Cameron has done some movies and some talking about the day all the Christians will disappear. His movies were based off a best selling book series that I won’t mention here.
At any rate I found out a new way for you to get involved in the technological revolution as it pertains to the biblical rapture.
Rapture Letters is your solution if you have friends that would get left behind in the event of you leaving the earth. The website is designed with a ‘dead man switch’ so that if the rapture comes and you have supplied the website with the email addresses of your loved ones who aren’t going to be included, they will get an email telling them what has happened. You could also option for a video.
So whatever your stance on the rapture may be. There is a Monday link for you that is sure not to disappoint.
1. Lost
2. Seinfeld
3. Curb Your Enthusiasm
4. The X Files
5. House
I am in no way suggesting that my list of shows are the best 5ive shows ever made. I am just listing my favorites, which I believe will stand the test of time for me. This will be an added addition to the blog, a list of 5ive things every Friday. Please contribute yours.
“. . . each author of the Bible needs to be allowed to have his own say, since in many instances what one author has to say on a subject is not what another says. Sometimes the differences are a matter of stress and emphasis; sometimes they are discrepancies in different narratives or between different writers’ thoughts; and sometimes these discrepancies are quite large, affecting not only the small details of the the text but the very big issues that these authors were addressing.”
Jesus Interrupted, Bart D. Ehrman, pg 99, 2009
I love Bart. I get a little dose of his new book every morning. We interviewed him for our podcast here. And Tony Jones interviewed him for our rivals podcast here. But the best way to experience him is through one of his newest books or through The Teaching Companies lectures by him. They are immaculate.
sweet, I'm up for going in. why should the rapture be about just …
I am up for going in on the video if you guys want to go in on it …
you got the first two right anyway. …
Hmm, the rapture index is 165 right now (http://www.raptureready. …
huh, I don't even know what to think. I keep thinking this has to …
