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Making money out of cretins
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RE: Making money out of cretins
February 9, 2015 at 2:34 pm
I remember reading about someone who had a business to care for pets if their owners were raptured.
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RE: Making money out of cretins
February 9, 2015 at 3:17 pm
(February 9, 2015 at 2:34 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: I remember reading about someone who had a business to care for pets if their owners were raptured.

You mean this:

http://www.aftertherapturepetcare.com

If my memory is right, that is the one I saw some years ago.

From a quick search, I also found:

http://www.postrapturepetcare.com

There may be others.

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RE: Making money out of cretins
February 9, 2015 at 3:22 pm
Quote:£35 ($50) an hour to stroke your dog, although slightly cheaper if it's a rabbit.


How much for a pussy?
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RE: Making money out of cretins
February 9, 2015 at 3:35 pm
If you don't think this is happening already in every store you walk into, I have a bridge to sell you.

Capitalism is built on the assumption that all of us are too stupid to know whether or not we actually need the shit these companies are selling us. It's the marketing department's job to convince us that we do. Religion and woo doesn't even have to enter into it - the prevalence of Kuerigs is example enough.
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RE: Making money out of cretins
February 9, 2015 at 3:46 pm
I occasionally feel the temptation to profit from people's gullibility. I think the more outrageous my claim, the less guilty I would feel about fleecing the saps who fall for it.

Then I'd find some poor soul with senile dementia got ripped off by me, and I would feel terrible about it.
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RE: Making money out of cretins
February 10, 2015 at 8:42 am
Dear Christians... errr... the denominations, that believe in the Rapture anyway!

I'm going to start Post Rapture Animal Control. If you want - for a reasonable fee - after the Rapture, I'm going to take care of your beloved pets. By that I mean - I will hunt down them down and bludgeon them to death. I might do it for free anyway, out of pure spite, for not having been saved by Jeebus. So, please - make sure you don't f*** up and miss out on the Rapture, or it may to be a very awkward meeting, over the twitching, bloody carcass of Spot, Fifi, or Piddles...

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RE: Making money out of cretins
February 10, 2015 at 8:49 am
(February 9, 2015 at 3:35 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: Capitalism is built on the assumption that all of us are too stupid to know whether or not we actually need the shit these companies are selling us. It's the marketing department's job to convince us that we do. Religion and woo doesn't even have to enter into it - the prevalence of Kuerigs is example enough.
But it does prey on the human ego in a pretty clever way. It would not surprise me if a lot of the people who might pay for this service do so on the subconscious belief that doing so guarantees that they'll be raptured.
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RE: Making money out of cretins
February 10, 2015 at 12:23 pm
its morally wrong but hey Tongue if they are that deluded to give away money Big Grin
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RE: Making money out of cretins
February 10, 2015 at 12:36 pm
If I had the conscience of a TV evangelist, I could get rich!
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RE: Making money out of cretins
February 10, 2015 at 12:40 pm
(February 10, 2015 at 12:23 pm)dyresand Wrote: its morally wrong but hey Tongue

Do you really think that was ever going to stop them?
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