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Via Feministe, behold this EPIC video about how if you don't pray on a certain day, the world will end:

Feministe has a video description.

WHAT IF WE DIDN'T ANSWER THE CALL FOR PRAYER? Apparently the world ends? But we never find out, because the far-too-ethnically-diverse-to-be-real congregation gets down on its knees on the floor (they ran out of pews? It's hard to tell) and the lightning stops and the fiery sky turns back to blue. If this is how the season finale of Fringe goes tomorrow night, I will be sorely disappointed.

There is some beautiful green-screening. Interesting type effects too.

We are reminded that God created the heavens and mountains (and can take them away JUST LIKE THAT).

And the music. The music is just so epic. It's exactly the kind of music I have to repeatedly stop my kids from using in every single video they make.

What I don't understand—and correct me if I'm wrong—is that Christians of a certain stripe (I don't even want to say evangelical Christians because I can name at least one who is Not Like That) actually want the world to end. Like, that's their thing. There are billboards advertising it all over the city at this point, and they've even settled on a date. Which is soon. Yet the message of this video seems to be "pray or it's the apocalypse for you!"

I am very confused.

Also, I don't know about YHWH, but I'm guessing Cthulhu does not approve of videos like this, and will eat the people who made it last.

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OMG! That is just awesome! The music... the effects... the everything! I must... I must go and pray right now! Where's the nearest church? I don't care what type of church... must run and pray as soon as I'm done typing this.

Well, and reading LJ.

And FB.

And the rest of the internet...

Wait, is that kid playing a video game with an old corded telephone handset?

Hmm. Let's spend thousands of dollars on a call to action! Everyone: WISH REALLY HARD, OK? THAT'LL WORK WONDERS!

/scene

ALL THE INTERNETS.

I can't figure out what he's playing. I'm stuck in the 80s so I don't know from these newfangled controllers but that doesn't look like anything I've played a game on.

ALL THE INTERNETS!

But what happens if it *starts* apocalypsing again as soon as I get off my knees? I mean, you know what Episcopalians are like, never keeping still, kneeling one moment, then sitting down, then standing the next, and so on. If I stop praying and the fiery lightning comes back, do I have to get back on my knees until it stops? Because that would be awesome. I could send messages in Morse code and stuff.

Also: if fiery lightning continues for twenty minutes straight, we are having coffee and cakes in the back room. Prayer and non-apocalyptic weather will continue shortly afterwards.

No no, he's busy praying, just like the girl with the Bible. What he's holding is actually a specialised Wii controller called Urim and Thummim. You press A for thanksgiving, B for petitions, and ↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A causes an apparition of the Virgin Mary.

Really, apocalyptic weather is just an excuse for me to watch all the great telly that's on tomorrow night.

And the King will say to those on his left hand, Depart from me, ye accursed, for ye saw me hungry and fed me not, ye saw me... are ye listening to me? do not make me come down there. And those upon his left hand shall answer, Lord, keep the fire and brimstone quiet, okay? for it came to pass that this was the season finale of Fringe. For none shall know the day or the hour, save only those who buy listings magazines.

This world sucks balls. If you were crazy, and you thought you were going to heaven when the world ended, why WOULDNT you want it to end?!!!??

They cant even kill themselves, because thats against the rules, and they go to hell.

I think that's just a sad way to live.

I am, as declared by the finest medical professionals, batshit nuts myself. Of the depressive variety. And I tend to get mired in depression when I think about how much the world sucks balls. But I think I would kill myself for reals if I thought the best possible solution was fiery death for everyone, including the cats, who to my knowledge have done nothing to deserve it.

Also, slightly less relevantly: I hear people citing "The earth is the Lord's, for he made it" all the time. I keep itching to ask them, "So the Lord has the right to own and control the earth on the grounds that he is the one who made it. Very good. Now, can I run the phrase 'the working people are entitled to everything they produce' by you?"

Stop bringing logic into this discussion.

I'm incapable of reading "call to prayer" without assuming "Muslim" is the word in front of it.

Because that music just made me expect the last shot being them praying to a fucking Dalek, and then...

I love the show, but the music has gotten a bit...well, they need Miss Sabs to reign them in.

In fact, if I could get a decent youtube download plugin or site, I'd do the remix myself.

Edited 2011-05-06 02:48 (UTC)

We are reminded that God created the heavens and mountains (and can take them away JUST LIKE THAT).

It's the metaphysical version of "Stop that singing kids or I swear I'll turn this car around right now and there will be no amusement park for you today!"

I spy a token Asian!

Somehow I don't think my agnostic Hindu prayers would be appreciated. XD

is it wrong that i'm cracking up laughing?

*ded*

Well, no. That's why I posted it.

I wonder about that! Like, what if I'm praying, but it's to the Old Ones? Is it just a matter of who prays loudest and hardest? Do the prayers cancel each other out?

Hahaha.

The call to prayer is much prettier.

I like the new theme music up until around 0:40. (I know, I know, no one else does.) I could use a little less dramatic scoring during the show itself. I find it takes away from the suspense, particularly when you have an alien menace called, um, THE SILENCE.

Try mediaconverter.org.

Man I hope whoever made this got a good mark in their shitty Christian filmmaking class.

Also you can tell that kid is hardcore Christian because all he's got is a Wii.

Also, I gotta story edit here for a second: the kid playing Wii is the only one actively not doing the God thing when the trouble starts. All those other people are IN A CHURCH, that girl is REACHING FOR THE BIBLE. So what the fuck is God's problem? Is God like "No you're SAYING it, but you don't MEAN it." Like he's upset that they jumped, but didn't ask how high? You know what I do when I'm dating someone who plays head games like that? I BREAK UP WITH THEM.

The Wii kid totally has it coming however, and demons totally need to rend his flesh.

All I know is, if the date they picked up there is the date they picked down here (and are advertising at Metro stations and on Metrobuses), I will be down in Rio de Janeiro for a conference.

Do I have good timing for the end of the world, or what?

Ffft. I dunnop how people get into this shit.

So, see you at our annual Yule vigil?

Wait, Yule vigil is when? Dates are not sticking in my head right now unless I write them down.

But it's NOT that epic! It's just guys looking at clouds. It's more like an Epic Complex or something. It WANTS to be big, it THINKS it's big, but IT'S NOT BIG. Poetic, really.

see my LJ post on what God really cares about.

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