Xjyuk

A being known as Dea is the creator of all things in the mortal world. He created human beings as living batteries in order to fuel him and give him power. Dea feeds off of human worship, which he uses to get stronger, gaining power any time humans pay homage to him.

As time goes on, the world becomes more populated. The amount of worship from humans increase and makes this God stronger. Eventually, Dea conducts a rapture-like event which ends the world. During this rapture, he consumes the souls of human beings, both living and dead. All humans ascend to this being and become a part of it, existing everywhere and nowhere at once. The world resets itself and Dea re-seeds the earth with life. This process occurs every few thousand years.

In our world, the rapture is supposed to happen at any moment, without notice. However, simply rapturing individuals without warning is rude and inconsiderate ( i haven't even seen the last season of GOT yet! Does the Night King kill everyone? Who wins the iron throne? It's not fair!!!). Or something to that effect. People must be given time to prepare themselves, put their affairs in order, raise the last generation, etc. This is to show respect for the population. However, warning people of the last days can also have negative consequences. This needs to be done delicately, giving people time to prepare without disrupting society too much. (Not going to work, paying bills, etc)

How can Dea ease people into the last days without negative consequences?

"Hi, this is your God and I'm going to be, gently, killing all of you in the next little while. Don't panic." Not sure how any marketing department can soften that message. :-)

During this rapture, he consumes the souls of human beings, both living and dead. All humans ascend to this being and become a part of it, existing everywhere and nowhere at once.

Marketing Department here and we love this product. We think it can really take the entire market by storm. Obviously like any of our great products we need to accentuate the positive. It's all about presentation and what happens after you unwrap the product is covered by the EULA, right ?

So we tell people :

• Good news.


• An end to all pain and suffering


• No taxes


• No work


• You become a God


• You live forever


• Everyone you know will be there with you

That last one needs to be carefully handled. Frankly, who wants to spend all eternity in the company of HR ? Just joking, we at Marketing love HR and truly respect their commitment to the organization. But we all know people we're not so keen on, so maybe mentioning we're going to be in their company is not such a good idea. Who wants to share thoughts with a serial killer, or, worse, that annoying twit next door ?

So we downplay the last one, but the rest is all good. And if, maybe, God doesn't plan on extending this great product to all the bad people (HR again, I kid, I kid :-) ) probably best not to mention that to them anyway. They might get ... upset and take it out on other people. So why bother them with details they don't need (or deserve) to know.

And it's free. We really are giving this product away.

What's not to like. :-)

Am I right, people ? You know it ! :-)

Make sure it isn't believed.

Have the "true believers" know and announce it to the world. Everyone else laughs and ignores it. More fool them. Politeness has been served.

If you really were to announce it you can expect society to collapse overnight. Why work, why raise children, why do anything when it's all going to end? Many people would carry on but enough wouldn't that it would cause massive problems.

I can recommend The Hydrogen Sonata from the culture series, it deals with exactly the issue of "subliming" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hydrogen_Sonata

Basically anyone who thinks they have their affairs in order gets the option to store themselves in a freezer, and because the date is set you slowly end up with a world mostly stored away. Children become rare. Drug fueled orgies become...not rare but very well organized.

So to take away a few lessons:

1. Set a date, preferably two generations in the future.

2. make sure people have an easy way to spend the interim without suicide.

3. Make sure the majority of people think this is a great idea. See the Brexit for some ideas.

4. Have some sort of premium package available for the people who want to organize things. Everybody likes being the cult leader. Maybe encode their names in the DNA of the next worlds' beings?

Click bait.

"20 reasons you should relax about the Rapture! (As explained by our staff Bikini Team)"

"30 celebrities who are planning parties for Rapture Day"

"20 photos of models and what they will be wearing on Rapture Day"

"25 great recipes YOU can prepare for YOUR Rapture Day party"

"Never prayed to Dea? It's not too late! 18 ways you can atone today!"

"Thirty great hotels that are having Rapture Day sales!"

Since Dea is "being polite" about it (but is still going to consume everyone's souls like he's binge-eating ice-cream) I assume there's a reason for it - such as also absorbing their emotional state at death. 7.5 billion souls worth of terror and dismay makes for, quite frankly, an ungodly bout of indigestion.

As such, he needs to market the hell heaven out of it. It's not "the end of the world", it's "gaining your final reward". These aren't "the last humans ever", they're "the winners", having survived to the final round. Possibly make up some other planet who "failed" in competition, to punch up that "Humanity, f-- yeah!" feeling. This isn't the end of days, it's a victory lap.

As part of 'finishing up' - and to make his message more believable - he might also want to turn off baby-making. This ties into "raising the last generation" - since no new ones will be starting - and lets you put a stamp on it: "When the people born on this date turn 21 years old, the eternal party shall begin!"

Establish some "doomsday cult" or "part away club" - (like "Heaven's Gate"). Help them to become most powerfull religious and political force in the world. Then just fulfill the prophecy! This would be a great worldwide holiday with all the wealth of the world being spent in days with great joy and happiness.

Consider the flood. Noah warned everybody, but only 8 people got on the ark. Jesus says that in the last days, it will be like the time of Noah. People going about their daily lives, until they get left behind.