If you’re reading this, you didn’t die in a massive conflagration of natural disasters that has even bored Roland Emmerich to death. The world didn’t end at 5:11 AM Chicago time, which was when the last Mayan cycle ended, and the next began. Nothing bad happened that wouldn’t have happened anyway, and things move forward.
Life goes on.
So does the stupidity.
It amazes me how people are so taken in by utter bullshit every day. A few years ago it was the Rapture that was, for sure, gonna happen in 2011. People sold off their possession, convinced they were off to meet the lord, but the only way that was going to happen is if they got personal with a Guyana Cocktail. Before that it was the Heaven’s Gate yahoos, who at least had enough fortitude to carry through on their insanity and leave the world a little more sane. And before that . . . hell, people, too much, because it seems like someone thinks the world is going to end at any moment, and only the faithful are going to survive–or, if nothing else, be rewarded with a trip to Heaven Land, or some such stupidity.
And you think this is the end? Not a chance. We have another Rapture coming up in 2015, because British Methodist theologian Adam Clarke said so, and no other than Sir Issac Newton, claimed that his studies proved that the Rapture couldn’t possibly occur before 2060, so look for the Raptors (Can I call them that without pissing off the real raptors?) to get all jiggy over that one, because, hey, Sir Issac said so!
People are a gullible lot, and the majority of them seem to be on Facebook these days. Even today I saw another of those, “Can you believe THIS?” memes going around about there being “December 2012 will feature 5 Saturdays, 5 Sundays and 5 Mondays, a combination of days that occurs only once every 823 years,” and you better pass that along so you can make money.
Pure bullshit.
I mean, it only takes a close look at calendars, and a little common sense, to understand that the whole, “I happens once every 823 years” is total crap. But it’s easier to believe the crap than it is to call it out as illogical claptrap. Why? Because of Sturgeon’s Revelation, I suppose. Harlan Ellison suggested that the Revelation applied to people as well, and in the forty-five years since reading that, I’ve seen little to suggest otherwise.
It’s far better, it would also seem, to just make fun of the lunacy of the event, rather than tell people who appear to even the smallest belief that the End is Nigh, that they are crazy and should either get their head straight, or to keep their insanity to themselves–or, better yet, get help for their delusion. Because you aren’t helping anyone by professing your opinion that the end of the world is coming, and we gotta get ready. You’re a problem, and it would be best if you leave us alone.
Oh, is that too mean? Just ask a “prepper” if I’m wrong, and they’ll tell you I’m the crazy one. They’ll tell you the end if coming, and you need lots of things: clothes, food, guns . . . lots of guns.
Just ask Nancy Lanza how that worked out for her.
December 21, 2012 at 10:37 am
Well I am glad the world did not end lol. I appreciate your honesty Cassidy
December 21, 2012 at 10:46 am
Thank you, Christy!
December 21, 2012 at 11:09 am
I had no worry that the world might end – just that some fucktard who DID believe it, might do something idiotic like blow-up the nuclear reactors across the street (sort of… I can see ‘em from my house, man).
I wouldn’t say I’m a survivalist or a prepper or anything. But I am rapidly turning toward self-sufficiency. We’re starting a garden, we’ve got a compost started, and as soon as Mark & I own our own property, I’m totally having chickens (even though I hate birds) and goats and sheep and cows and whatever else I can grow and eat.
You call it paranoia, I call it getting back to my roots and making sure that what I eat isn’t laden with commercial chemicals, extra sugar, salt, and grains.
Plus – fun! Milking goats and eating fresh-off-the-vine peas is for the WINZ. ;D
December 21, 2012 at 11:14 am
If there’s any satisfaction, you can’t “blow up” a nuclear plant, and you’re actually getting less radiation from it than I’m getting from the two coal-fired plants within twenty miles of me. So rock on!
December 21, 2012 at 5:29 pm
Love your new funny post. Raymond , can you give me the URL address to the free picture/book cover website. You mention the site in one of your blog posting. Hope to hear from you soon, thank you !
December 21, 2012 at 6:10 pm
I’ll see if I can find it and pass it along.
December 21, 2012 at 5:31 pm
It’s my best apocalyspe ever! hehe
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December 22, 2012 at 5:51 am
December 23, 2012 at 1:01 am
That’s not mean at all. I totally agree: no one can predict when the world will end. And so many times people have been fooled by false dates. And yet they still believe…
December 23, 2012 at 7:35 am
The world will end in about 5 billion years, when it’s blasted/eaten by our sun. That much I know. Beyond that, humanity will likely be long gone. Oh, and men will likely die our first, leaving only the ladies. Yay!
December 26, 2012 at 6:38 pm
Fucking brilliant-I love how everyones surprised that there wasnt some big flash and poof all gone, no offense to the intellectual disabled but people are fucking retarded. Realize we are all just food for worms and get on with it. As the Aborigines say ” No one gets out of life alive” is a truth more people need to accept.