INTRODUCTION

There’s a kind of doomsday feel to things right now - have you noticed? It’s not just that the Mayan calendar runs out on December 21st of next year. It’s not even the plethora of new warnings from astrophysicists, doctors and geologists about the possibly catastrophic events that are now known to be on the not-too-distant horizon. It has more to do with the zeitgeist, an undifferentiated sense that things can’t go on like they are forever.
And, of course, there are clues. Almost daily, items half-buried in news reports point to the Doom scenarios just lurking around the corner. Maybe you are too busy or too trapped in denial to notice them all, so this blog is here to help you keep track.

Thursday 6 October 2011

Something to Worry About Today:

            You’ve got just 15 days left to live.
            That’s in case the 89-year-old California evangelist Harold Camping has got third time lucky and correctly predicted the end of the world. After his seemingly failed prediction of global destruction on May 21st, the biblical numerologist altered his doomsday date to October 21st. A previous attempt to put the Apocalypse during 1994 was found wanting, due to his own admitted scriptural miscalculations.
            Of course, if you are among the faithful 3% who will be spared, you have nothing to worry about. Even if you’re not, you can celebrate the big day by attending one of the popular “rapture parties”.  Details can be found online, provided the Internet still works.
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  1. Anonymous12 October 2011 at 13:34

    but in the case of Mr Camping, his time ran out this summer. Alas he is no longer with us...

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