So I was thinking about the rapture myth today and not just because of all the recent hoopla or non hoopla. I've long been fascinated by this concept and people who really believe in its literal translation. I like a little give and take, but seriously, if there's not some room in this story for the metaphorical then all I can say is "wow". I don't mean to bash people who believe this is actually going to happen, literally, exactly like it says in the Bible. I really don't (conservatives don't wast your time on this point). I do however marvel at the lack of desire to just simply and naturally expand one's consciousness a little, forget thinking completely outside the box. There was a study a week or two ago that said conservatives and liberals are just wired different. Sorry I don't have the link to that story... feel free to Google it. Is this divide between left and right all in the hardware? I don't know about that, but I do know it's definitely in the stuff we can't measure. The consciousness, the Soul, the essence, the life force, the spirit... the whatever. Not being able to grasp the symbolism and simply choose to learn from it right now, combined with the delusion that hard working patriots just naturally need larger sexual arenas, It all just screams second chakra to me. Look, we all have our baser natures, but the idea is not to use the fires of hell and the rapture story to keep other people in line while you party like it's fucking 1999.