Are they nuts or con artists?

Website Lets You Send a Post-Rapture E-Mail to Friends 'Left Behind'

By Kevin Poulsen June 03, 2008 | 3:42:43 PM
If millions of Christians suddenly disappear from the face of the Earth as the opening act for Armageddon, Threat Level thinks most nonbelievers will be too busy freaking the hell out to check their e-mail. But if they do log in, now they can be treated to some post-Rapture needling from their missing friends and loved ones, courtesy of web startup YouveBeenLeftBehind.com.

For just $40 a year, believers can arrange for up to 62 people to get a final message exactly six days after the Rapture, that day when -- according to Christian end times dogma -- Christians will be swept up to heaven, while doubters are left behind to suffer seven years of Tribulation under a global government headed by the Antichrist.

"You've Been Left Behind gives you one last opportunity to reach your lost family and friends for Christ," reads the website, which is purportedly run "by Christians, for Christians." The domain name is registered through an anonymous proxy service, presumably to protect the proprietors from the Forces of Darkness, and not because they're up to anything shady.

The e-mails will be triggered when three of the site's five Christian staffers "scattered around the U.S." fail to log in for six days in a row -- a system that incorporates a nice margin of safety, should two of the proprietors turn out to be unrepentant sinners or atheists.

Users can also upload up to 150 megabytes of documents, which will be protected by an unidentified encryption algorithm until the Rapture, then released to up to 12 nonbelievers of your choice. The site recommends that you use that storage to house sensitive financial information.

"In the encrypted portion of your account you can give them access to your banking, brokerage, hidden valuables, and powers of attorneys," the site says. "There won't be any bodies, so probate court will take seven years to clear your assets to your next of kin. Seven years, of course, is all the time that will be left. So, basically the Government of the Antichrist gets your stuff, unless you make it available in another way."

Of course, some of us would sooner trust the Antichrist with our stuff than turn it over to a company that hides behind an anonymous domain registration service, and doesn't list a single corporate officer or employee by name on its website.

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So I must send them my financial data in clear so they can encrypt it with their secret super encryption ?

There may actually be some people gullible enough to do that.

I wonder if it will stop the paper too?

If this fantasy known as the Rapture does happen there will be no Christians around to tell the servers to send the email. That means the Servers won't know it happened.

cool... i am going to send you one sea....

Can I get your e-mail addy, sea? I may want to leave you a little sumpn-sumpn.

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Originally posted by tdrigge72:

If this fantasy known as the Rapture does happen there will be no Christians around to tell the servers to send the email. That means the Servers won't know it happened.

They thought of that; read the post again. Of course, even at 50%, I still think they're presuming too much regarding the piety of their staffers.

too bad you couldnt leave objects... leave a few firearms so a few of my liberal godless friends can blow their brains out.....

What is sad is "The Rapture" is completely made up.. A HOAX. No where in the Bible does the word Rapture even appear. It was made up by a 19th century writter.

Sad,, Sad.

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Originally posted by outlaws93:

too bad you couldnt leave objects... leave a few firearms so a few of my liberal godless friends can blow their brains out.....

Wow, such compassion. You're sure to be first in line.

If we’re lucky, you truly will be.

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Originally posted by outlaws93:
too bad you couldnt leave objects... leave a few firearms so a few of my liberal godless friends can blow their brains out.....

outlaw

You are a Christian?

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Originally posted by The_Bonesaw:

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Originally posted by outlaws93:

too bad you couldnt leave objects... leave a few firearms so a few of my liberal godless friends can blow their brains out.....

Wow, such compassion. You're sure to be first in line.

If we’re lucky, you truly will be.

naw not first in line...but at lease ill be in that line....what about you??

I'm assuming that your clothing gets...ummm..."left behind". So, a better idea would just be to pin a pre-stamped goodbye letter inside your underwear - when you 'rapturize' up to the great beyond the first person to steal your skivvies can just pop the letter in the nearest mailbox.

SurfaceDog...problem solver...

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Originally posted by SurfaceDog:

I'm assuming that your clothing gets...ummm..."left behind". So, a better idea would just be to pin a pre-stamped goodbye letter inside your underwear - when you 'rapturize' up to the great beyond the first person to steal your skivvies can just pop the letter in the nearest mailbox.

SurfaceDog...problem solver...

US Stamp - .42 cents

Personalized hypo-allergenic envelope - $1.59

Underwear - $3.18

Using the name of a popular Christian movie as one of the best placed puns ever... Priceless!!!

There is some humor that money can't buy, for everything else there's SurfaceDog

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Originally posted by outlaws93:

but at lease ill be in that line....what about you??

Who, me?

I'm sure they've long since made my reservation...

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Originally posted by The_Bonesaw:
There is some humor that money can't buy, for everything else there's SurfaceDog

Thank you, thank you...

You know, I would think that you would WANT to be un-rapturized. Think about it - just you and a hardy band of basically-good-but-forgot-to-stay-awake-during-the-sermon types vs. Satan's Army of Gibbering Minions. And all you have at your disposal are any gun you can lay your hands on and a metric butt-ton of ammo.

Thud and I talked about this a long time ago, and we agreed that getting left back and declaring open season on the Dark Lord's henchmen and assorted toadies would be a frigging blast.

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Originally posted by SurfaceDog:
I'm assuming that your clothing gets...ummm..."left behind". So, a better idea would just be to pin a pre-stamped goodbye letter inside your underwear - when you 'rapturize' up to the great beyond the first person to steal your skivvies can just pop the letter in the nearest mailbox.

SurfaceDog...problem solver...

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Any Six Feet Under Fans? Remember how the opening of each episode showed the death of someone? Remember the "In Case of Rapture" Episode?

That was some funny s**t!

In Case of Rapture

Normally, I feel sorry for the victims of scams, but if you sign up for this, you fully deserve it.

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Originally posted by SurfaceDog:

Thud and I talked about this a long time ago, and we agreed that getting left back and declaring open season on the Dark Lord's henchmen and assorted toadies would be a frigging blast.

You know, I'd never even considered that before:

Damn! Blasting demon ass does sound like it would be a shitload of clean Christian fun, while having the added benefit of doing The Lords Work for all those holier-than-thou cowards who didn't have the courage to stick it out down here with the rest of us.

Monty, I'll take door number two, please... See you later, evangelicals! I'm guttin' ghouls for Jesus!

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Originally posted by nurse_attorney:

Any Six Feet Under Fans? Remember how the opening of each episode showed the death of someone? Remember the "In Case of Rapture" Episode?

That was some funny s**t!

In Case of Rapture

I love that show. The wife has the first couple of seasons on DVD. I never saw the Raputue Episode. I need to get back into them.

Michael C. Hall was a superb on this show as he now is in Dexter.

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Originally posted by The_Bonesaw:

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Originally posted by nurse_attorney:

Any Six Feet Under Fans? Remember how the opening of each episode showed the death of someone? Remember the "In Case of Rapture" Episode?

That was some funny s**t!

In Case of Rapture

I love that show. The wife has the first couple of seasons on DVD. I never saw the Raputue Episode. I need to get back into them.

Michael C. Hall was a superb on this show as he now is in Dexter.

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That was a great show. I was an emotional wreck for about a week after the final episode. The last few minutes is probably the best television ever made.

Is'nt this nice! Another attack against Christianity....displaying some nut-jobs idea...and assuming all Christians agree. Kinda like saying all Muslims believe the infidels should die a horrible death unless they convert!

Simple minds...simple thread!