End of the World... maybe!

Well May 21st 2011 has come and gone and I am still here (as is almost everyone I know). I must admit that I am not terribly surprised by this "development" as I can remember at least 3 other "END OF THE WORLDS!" We can all remember at least a little of the hysteria around Y2K... what a joke!!!

Time after time the "learned" among us claim to be able to fortell the destruction of humankind and our planet to boot. They post the most crackpot theories and back them up with some pseudo-scientific mumbo jumbo from professor Hibab of the Southwestern College of AstroPhorensics somewhere in Burma (no offense to any professors named Hibab or any of my Burmese friends..) and of course the gullible readers of these posts believe EVERYTHING they read and go into world destruction mode! TV specials are aired breaking down what may happen, Hollywood cashes in on it and the sales of BOMB SHELTERS go through the roof. In this particular case an 89 yr old radio host had the "info" and decided to use tons of his "donated monies" to spread the word of the upcoming catastrophe... hmmm, yeah, that worked!

But Fear NOT!! Mr Camping (the 89 yr old in the previous paragraph) has stated that he misunderstood exactly what was to happen and has set the new END OF THE WORLD date for Oct. 21st 2011... Great !!!! Palmerton has trick or treat a week later, guess I dont have to worry about letting the porch light on. I guess we need not think about the previous 3 "END OF THE WORLDS" that Mr Camping has predicted, just mathematical errors or misunderstandings he claims... or.. he may be an idiotic crackpot! You choose!

One day the world will end and we may or may not be here when it happens. Humans may or may not be able to do much about it at the time but chances are we are not going to know about it very far into our future, even those "learned 89 yr old radio host preachers." In the end if you want something to obsess and worry over try decipering the latest congressional budget proposals.. MINDBLOWING!!

Millions of people taking these predictions seriously is one of the things wrong with MY AMERICA..

If you want something end of day-ish, try looking up the APOPHIS in 2029 and 2036.. its far more interesting then the Mayan Long Count calendar ending in 2012 (after all what do we do when the calendar runs out??? We change the year....  MORONS!)