kat, you are such a sweetie, how can we take offense? Not that I believe in the "rapture" -- a relatively recent and quite bizarre pseudotheological novelty. But there you go.

The "meat" thing is by sci-fi author Terry Bisson, is copyrighted, was originally worded slightly differently than the edition given above, and can be found at this site:

http://www.terrybisson.com/meatplay.html

A wonderful dialogue it is, too! Thanks for bringing it to us, Barbara; I'd never seen it before!

-Alex
(just a piece of loving, dreaming, singing meat!)