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This would be a sort of crazy money making event,
and
the first one would probably start on 2012, of course.
The basic structure would be none other than a full
city-wide display of hellfire and brimstone that begins
when the sun goes down with 100x100 ft
holographic projections of angels
and demons and
thousands of light projections into the clouds that turn
them blood red for dramatic effect. Huge PA systems
located in many random spots project the booms and
thunder of god himself as he picks and chooses who
receiveths his grace. Vendors and musicians in chosen
'protected' town squares will make their money, too.
[this is my girlfriend's idea for the record]
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Here's a bun for your girlfriend [+]! Put me down for three cubic yards of brimstone. It would look cool in my driveway... |
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What's the current record? |
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It should be a once-every-four-years thing, like the Olympics, with cities bidding to host the Apocalypse, all governed by a corrupt and incestuous International Apocalympics Committee. |
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+ here's a really burnt croissant for your girlfriend's record!! |
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Bit scary - I don't know if I'd like it - Consider the atheist version where those spooky air-raid sirens start winding up all over the city, people start panicing, crashing their cars, jumping out of windows etc, and then finally, woomp - a great flash of light, and for a moment, silence... |
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Or we could have a Dinocalypse where the image of a huge, glowing asteroid is made to appear to get closer and closer... |
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For me, it needs to be more ritualised in order for it to make sense, I can deal with masks, costumes, festive foods etc, but I'm not so sure I want to go through the whole thing writ large, and I certainly don't want to have to explain to my non-Christian friends and colleagues exactly why it is we're doing the whole Book of Revelations thing again. |
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Perhaps we can enjoy Shiva the Destroyer at some other point in the year, and other such thought-provoking religio-centric apocalyptic imagery throughout. |
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Can we have bonfires? please? |
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Isn't that big World Serpent supposed to show up for this? Maybe Chinese Dragon style, but citiwide and cars underneath? |
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Thanks for the input guys! Changing the theme
would be fun and practical especially when
relevant to the chosen nation. The girlfriend is
please with the buns as my head is still on my
shoulders. Of course, the more stuff we can
include in all this the better, so I'm going to say
yes to the bonfires and world serpents. Good
stuff. [zen_tom], the hope is that the people will
bring their own ritualized flavor. The committee
that runs the thing would just take care of the big
stuff. Everything else would be fully independent. |
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Once a year? That only leaves us time for one,
maybe two, celebrations, doesn't it? We better make
it a good, big one. |
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Oh wow, *they* had an apocalypse, too? One can only
imagine. |
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