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Scourge of the Believer
Join Date: Feb 2002
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Woman thinks 'Rapture' is coming soon...TV show 'pranks' her...Makes it happen....!
This is how gullible people really are...
She has driven her friends insane with her continual talk of 'Rapture'...'The end of times'..etc..etc.. Until they got sick hearing her voice... They enlist a 'prank' show to shut her up... She wants 'rapture'...she's gonna get 'rapture'... All hell breaks loose ( pun intended ) Here's the link... http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/66125/detail/ (Site and clip SFW) She thinks she ain't been 'taken' up by the big, invisible being that lives in the sky... DB |
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THE Lisa Simpson
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: 123 Fake Street
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That was funny, but sad at the same time too. They might have been pranking an annoying friend but they all believe they will be taken away by the invisible sky daddy.
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A jumped up pantry boy
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: On a hillside desolate
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This looks fake; I think they were ALL in on it. It looks like they were faking a prank show for christian teaching purposes.
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Chief Solipsistic
Autosycophant Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Dongguan, China
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First, this looks completely fake to me...she looks like a bad actor trying to act how she thinks someone would act in that situation, not like someone who is really experiencing it.
Second, I agree with Lisa...heck, I have to listen to a sermon about being a good Christian, and converting others to Jesus, before I can see the prank. And third...I have problems with people who all share the same beliefs turning around and mocking one of their own for those beliefs. Honestly, if this had been done by a group of non-Christians, I'd have found it freakin' hilarious! But the way this is done, I don't really laugh much at all, I just squirm uncomfortably hoping that it'll get better...but it never does. |
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A jumped up pantry boy
Join Date: Jul 2007
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Scourge of the Believer
Join Date: Feb 2002
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I'm gonna run with 50/50 as it to being 'faked'...
Some things look and 'feel' real...and i admit, some things just don't look right... I dunno... Oh well... And yes it would have been even funnier if some of us had set it up... ![]() DB |
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Cuddly Like a Koala Bear
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Florida
Posts: 7,276
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Well, we know evangelicals accept lying as a valid method of advancing their cult. So, I have little doubt that this is a fake as well.
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fading orb
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Illinois
Posts: 2,212
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Fake. If someone was truly convinced she was "left behind" I think she would be far more devestated than that.
Bad acting. |
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A jumped up pantry boy
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: On a hillside desolate
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Is there anyway to make this a poll?
Do you think the video is a) A real "prank". b) A "fake prank" wherein all participants were "in on it" for religious education purposes. c) On Planet X...gotchya you've been pranked! |
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seriously unable to be serious
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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And wouldn't you... you know, go outside? Or try to call a friend? Or try to find someone you know? The video operates under the closed set theory, where the protagonist automatically forms a bond with those around her simple because they are all in the same place at the same time.
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Master Poster
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Tucson, Arizona
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Apparently during the rapture is the only time Xians will tolerate the perverted ugliness of nudity.
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A jumped up pantry boy
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Hipster alien
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: not measurable
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Fake from top to bottom. Fake from center to circumference
. . . . . . . . . . . . The Prank 3:16 website says "Rich Praytor is a comedian, author and motivational speaker that travels the country to entertain and inspire audiences." If that video is real, then they should add complete wanker to the list - why would anyone who had even a tiny amount of the compassion prescribed by the Bible play a prank on someone who is too devoted to Bible stories? p.s. I even find the name somewhat blasphemous. |
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Titanium Puprhero
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Mayor of your front lawn.
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fake.
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Thinker
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Lion's Pride Inn, Goldshire
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Wow. Bad acting, bad script, ("I liked the continuity"..."Have we been Left Behind?") and a "victim" who apparently can't see a tripod-mounted camera a few feet away, or check the room before jumping to the logical conclusion that she's missed out on the rapture. I like it.
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A jumped up pantry boy
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: On a hillside desolate
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does anyone think this may be satire like "Landover Baptist Church?"
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anthropomorphic ape
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: up a tree
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All your friends are dead!!!!
[let sink in] only joking!!!!!! that would be such a funny joke. |
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Hipster alien
Join Date: Dec 2001
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Is the JREF message board training wheels for people who hope to one day troll other message boards? It is not that hard to get us to believe you. We are not the major leagues or even the minor leagues. We are Pee-Wee baseball. If you love striking out 10-year-olds, then you'll love trolling our board. |
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Master Poster
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Tucson, Arizona
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You're going to spend eternity in Hell - waistdeep in a river of lava - forever being raped by Hitler, Pol Pot and Jerry Falwell. Your mother and all your friends will be in Heaven looking down on you laughing with joy.
<....and cut!> [Edit: I just noticed this post is the year of my birth - 1955! Where do I go to receive my gifts?] |
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Scholar
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 84
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I vote for fake as well. There was just so much makeup.
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The Woo Whisperer
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Minnesota, USA
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I vote fake.
Fundy propaganda garbage. |
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Raggin' the Blues
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: New York
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She got left behind for being such a crappy actress.
Fake. Lame. Bizarre. |
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Graduate Poster
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Australia
Posts: 1,336
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I vote fake too, the way she was flitting around the room.
Quickly now, we all have to get saved! You don't want to be left alone, do you?
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Master Poster
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Tucson, Arizona
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Fake. There are cut shots between a few cameras - at least one is hand-held which gives the 'feel' of live action. However they do the obligatory quick-focus shot which gives the 'live' feel even more. But normally you would edit that out in the final edit.
I believe at time 00:40 there is a shot taken from the hand held right in front of the girl - I think that would give it away. It's staged. And look what the guys are doing when she comes back in - they are...straightening up or something. "Well, I'm going to hell, so I might as well clean up a little." |
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anthropomorphic ape
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: up a tree
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Master Poster
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Tucson, Arizona
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Aug 2001
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I could forgive the bad acting on everyone else's part (after all, they were in on the prank and actually were acting), and I could forgive the camera stuff (because I don't know enough about cameras and film to know what's possible and what's not), but there were two dead give aways for me that it is a fake; neither will be considered conclusive, I think:
1. When she joins her friend at the table, she asks "Did you see the movie?" This is without lead in, and her friend answers with a generality. It was exactly like an very amateur script by people thinking they know what small talk is like. 2. When she got the phone call asking to talk to her alone there was no concern on her face or in her voice, but more importantly she immediately went outside to be alone rather than into the easily accessible side area by the door. Written and staged by people with high school level skills. |
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Master Poster
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Largo, FL
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Aug 2001
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A post by Alan Smithee
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: USAian is not a word
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All your post are belong to us
Join Date: Oct 2006
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Totally faked. That girl is a LOUSY actress. Oh boy.
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New Blood
Join Date: Jul 2007
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Looks very fake to me, and it's a shame cause it'd be hilarious to pull that prank...
*wheels begin turning* |
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All your post are belong to us
Join Date: Oct 2006
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The over-lit location is also a dead giveaway. Check out how bright the lights are in there. No normal person would walk in and not be tipped off that something was weird there.
And lying is ok if it brings you to Jeebus, eh? |
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Scholar
Join Date: Jan 2007
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True, and the coffeeshop was filled just so.
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Bitter Whiner
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