Monday, May 23, 2011
The world will end not with a bang but a whimper
I hardly noticed, I mean the seamless transition was so smooth. The phrase comes from poet T.S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men" and I'm gonna make a bold prediction here. The world will end when the Sun runs out of fuel. I haven't worked on the calculations yet but it involves literally millions of years. According to 89-year old preacher Harold Camping the World As We Know It was supposed to end this past Saturday at 6PM. Went to work the next day and the place was unusually slow for a Sunday afternoon in a food place so I says to a co-worker you know why it's slow right? All the good folk have been Raptured up and you're always going to Giggles (you have to be around these parts to get the joke). He said to me "you have five months." Yeah go through your hardcore I said and start throwing the shit out, softcore too buddy before the angels with the flaming swords start knocking on people's doors. I'm not against the world ending, it should but you have to be a fool to predict when. One of the readings this past Sunday had to do with only the Father knows when the world is going to end, apparently He didn't share this info with the Son. That's interesting and one of the curiouser passages from Scripture along with those unforgiveable sins against the Holy Spirit. Of course the world doesn't have to end per se, more likely humanity might just kill itself off by then. Think Charlton Heston in front of the Statue of Liberty (fave line from that movie: "you damn dirty ape!"). Our Lady of La Salette said "in the Last Days Rome itself will lose the faith and become the seat of the Antichrist" and then the Three Days of Darkness and the earth will renew itself and mankind will start over basically with the unrepentant in "the everlasting chasms of Hell." I think the Protestants especially the evangelical crowd take the End Times more seriously than the Catholics, Catholics only care if they can get a last game of Bingo in. As I said everything after bin Laden is anti-climax, we have to have something to fill the weekly newscycle. Religion and Sex lately:)
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A bit problematic- the 24 hour news cycle..and
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big story....
I feel really sorry for these people who gave up everything and totally devoted themselves to getting ready for a Rapture that didn't happen. Did you see the thing about the woman who tried to kill her kids because she didn't want them to have to go through the five months of Tribulation? I mean, okay, that's crazy and there's no excuse for it, but doesn't Camping have to share in some of the blame (even just on a moral level) for that? It was his lie that sparked the whole thing.
ReplyDeleteI do feel terribly sorry for these people. I hope that they can recover and get to some kind of reconciliation with their faith as opposed to walking away from it completely.
In our Scriptures (sastra), in the Srimad Bhagavatam, it lays everything out very clearly and very detailed. The world has got about another 420,000 years to go. Then Lord Kalki comes, riding a white horse and bearing a sword (does that sound in the least familiar to you? it ought).. and then annihilation, and then the cycle begins again.
We don't get into that 'no man can know the day or the hour' thing. We're all about 'if it's important, let's make sure everyone knows wtf is going on.'
Either way, I hope these folks who were deluded can get past this.
The world won't end just the people in it.
ReplyDeleteBB: "A bit problematic - the 24 hour news cycle...and eschatology becomes the big story."
ReplyDeleteEschatology & Sex, Arnold and DSK. How 'bout eschatological sex, having sex like it's your last time 'cause the world is gonna end. A healthy mixture of arousal and dread...
soapie: "The world won't end just the people in it."
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Is God a vengeful God? seems to me quite the opposite. The World reminds me of a bad workplace that should just go out of business, should have closed up shop a long time ago and yet keeps getting bailed out. It's a horrible terrible world with corrupt governments that kill their own people, disease, suffering, pain, famine, Saturday Night Live and yet it keeps on keeping on. Oh yeah the preacher man said May 21 was really the Invisible Judgement so when you're just plain wrong make up a new theological concept.
ReplyDeleteIf he can declare it an Invisible Judgment day, then I declare today Invisible Calories day (eat all you want and don't worry, the calories are invisible!)
ReplyDeleteNow if he had gone with the twisters out in the Midwest instead before they happened might have caused folks to stand up and take notice. IF he had said something about Joplin before it happened might have been downright creepy. The thing I don't get about calories Beth is they say we need them, they're units of energy after all and yet they're bad for us. Maybe we can start a pro-calorie movement.
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