Comments on: A Penny Saved Is a Penny You’ll Have During the Rapture https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2009/04/27/a-penny-saved-is-a-penny-youll-have-during-the-rapture/ Culture, Politics, Academia and Other Shiny Objects Tue, 28 Apr 2009 03:24:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.15 By: evangoer https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2009/04/27/a-penny-saved-is-a-penny-youll-have-during-the-rapture/comment-page-1/#comment-6496 Tue, 28 Apr 2009 03:24:46 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=809#comment-6496 Definitely compartmentalization — and the same kind of failure of imagination that powers the Left Behind series. A couple billion people vanished last week, hundreds of planes fell from the sky, but nobody cares, life goes on the same. You believe in The Rapture, but not the rapture.

]]> By: Timothy Burke https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2009/04/27/a-penny-saved-is-a-penny-youll-have-during-the-rapture/comment-page-1/#comment-6492 Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:31:21 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=809#comment-6492 Compartmentalization, I think. A kind of literacy in apocalypse-as-pleasant-smalltalk discussion (follow the stories, know the important points) without much consideration of the implications for everyday life.

]]> By: Carl https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2009/04/27/a-penny-saved-is-a-penny-youll-have-during-the-rapture/comment-page-1/#comment-6489 Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:56:01 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=809#comment-6489 Nice! Do you think this is an instance of flipping between magical and rational/legal thinking? Or was she torturing the manager with another confabulation, this one having to do with a sale she’s sure she heard about from her girlfriend and something about prices at another store she went to a couple of weeks ago?

Or are they two instances of rigorous thinking in cognitively distinct domains? Is there a coherent way that rapture + Mexico + OLG ‘adds up’ just like potroast + Sanka + iceberg lettuce and $16.51 + $2.35 (on special, double coupon) + $1.50?

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