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<blockquote data-quote="Theo R Cwithin" data-source="post: 5218086" data-attributes="member: 75712">Presumably there will be lots of folks &quot;left below&quot; who adamantly believe that they should have gone up.&nbsp; Maybe an especially powerful few (think televangelists or &quot;pious&quot; politicians types) trying to scrape together a vast new congregation to rule the Earth?&nbsp; Maybe these guys actually believe they are the ones who've &quot;gone home&quot;, and post-apoc earth is heaven?&nbsp; Those folks will be certifiably c.r.a.z.y.Fallen angels (unsuccessfully) aiming for redemption: perhaps they've become bounty hunters looking for way to get back into heaven.&nbsp; However they just don't get it: slaughtering &quot;neutral&quot; mortals really won't endear them to the guy upstairs.Biker gangs and hillbillies always add a bit of flare to the End.A few atheists might be irate.&nbsp; Maybe large numbers of philosophers, university profs, scientists and the like, go nuts and organize book-burnings of all scientific texts and anything sacrilegious in order to redeem themselves-- a &quot;begging for a second chance&quot; movement.&nbsp; Technology, secular literature, science texts, become illicit goods in their domains.Don't the dead rise during the End Times?&nbsp; Gotta have a few zombies, vampires, ghosts, or something like that, depending.&nbsp; Perhaps ancient cities are repopulated by undead: spirits arise in ghost towns in the southwestern US, aztecs re-live sacrifices in the ruins of Mexico, the charred dead of Pompeii stir and take to the streets.Demons, of course.&nbsp; Some might simply run rampant, reveling in terrorizing the mortals.&nbsp; Others might be bargaining with mortals for favors &amp; power, trafficking in lost souls, or the like.Nature starts going bass-ackwards.&nbsp; Lambs hunting down and devouring lions.&nbsp; Locust swarms.&nbsp; Geysers that periodically suck stuff into the earth.&nbsp; Ice volcanoes.&nbsp; Rivers of blood.&nbsp; Sticks turn to snakes.&nbsp; Three-headed dogs.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Theo R Cwithin, post: 5218086, member: 75712"] Presumably there will be lots of folks "left below" who adamantly believe that they should have gone up. Maybe an especially powerful few (think televangelists or "pious" politicians types) trying to scrape together a vast new congregation to rule the Earth? Maybe these guys actually believe [I]they[/I] are the ones who've "gone home", and post-apoc earth is heaven? Those folks will be certifiably c.r.a.z.y. Fallen angels (unsuccessfully) aiming for redemption: perhaps they've become bounty hunters looking for way to get back into heaven. However they just don't [I]get[/I] it: slaughtering "neutral" mortals really won't endear them to the guy upstairs. Biker gangs and hillbillies always add a bit of flare to the End. A few atheists might be irate. Maybe large numbers of philosophers, university profs, scientists and the like, go nuts and organize book-burnings of all scientific texts and anything sacrilegious in order to redeem themselves-- a "begging for a second chance" movement. Technology, secular literature, science texts, become illicit goods in their domains. Don't the dead rise during the End Times? Gotta have a few zombies, vampires, ghosts, or something like that, depending. Perhaps ancient cities are repopulated by undead: spirits arise in ghost towns in the southwestern US, aztecs re-live sacrifices in the ruins of Mexico, the charred dead of Pompeii stir and take to the streets. Demons, of course. Some might simply run rampant, reveling in terrorizing the mortals. Others might be bargaining with mortals for favors & power, trafficking in lost souls, or the like. Nature starts going bass-ackwards. Lambs hunting down and devouring lions. Locust swarms. Geysers that periodically suck stuff into the earth. Ice volcanoes. Rivers of blood. Sticks turn to snakes. Three-headed dogs. [/QUOTE]

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