Who knows, maybe this blog will be burning in the eternal fires of hell tomorrow sometime, but really -- rapture? On 5/21/2011? What about December 12, 2012 -- which is also apparently a big day for the rapture.
Let me say this -- I am all for religious freedom. I don't care what you believe in or how you worship, save that it hurts others, small children or woodland creatures.
However, the ramping up of crazy on the "end of the world is coming May 21, 2011" has hit a fever pitch. I heard someone on NPR (?) talking about selling all their stuff and awaiting the end of mankind (tomorrow), I have seen facebook pages pop up devoted to getting the "stuff" of the people raptured and countless internet postings on the subject.
If I'm wrong, and hey, I'm good to admit it, I suppose this blog won't mean more than a dusty fart come Sunday. If I'm right, and the world continues to exist on Sunday, well, this blog may still well be worth only a dusty fart but I will be able to wonder aloud at the people that sold all their stuff, cars and homes for a rapture that didn't happen.
So, dear readers, are you Rapture-Prepared? Or just rolling with it, wondering how these people will wake up on Sunday -- disillusioned? disgusted? re-invigorated for 12/12/12? buying more stuff immediately? joining a new church/cult that believes THEY have the key to the date of rapture?
This world amuses me mightily, it does.
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This post is courtesy of a conversation I had with some friends last night over the "end of the world is coming Saturday." One good friend said he didn't want to buy his usual 18 pack of beer on Friday, that he'd just buy a 12 pack, because "it would sure piss him off if he wasted beer."
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