Posted on 05/19/2011 10:18:18 AM PDT by Lexluthor69
OK. So the end of the world is coming Saturday, right? Well, it might. But frankly, I’ll believe it when I see it.
It is not that I doubt the world will end … it will, I just doubt that anyone – any man – can know when it will occur.
Even Jesus Christ, whom Christians recognize as the SON of God, when asked about the time of the end of the world replied that no one knows – not even the angels in heaven. Hey, that’s good enough for me!
Predicting the end of the world is definitely not a new phenomenon. Men have wondered when it will all end since, well, since man began to question his reason for being.
It didn’t take early man long to figure out that, considering the other animals around him, man had it pretty darned good. That’s when man’s curse of insecurity bubbled up to the surface and he began to wonder how long he could expect his good fortune to continue.
The inscrutable among early humans immediately began to capitalize on that fear as a wonderful motivator of man from which he/she could gather unto himself great power. Remember, before there was money, there was power. Today MONEY ranks number one, with POWER an extremely close second, among those who wish to control human behavior. (See: POLITICIAN.)
Down through the centuries man has predicted the end of the world many, many, many times. Today we are only cognizant of just a few of the more spectacular predictions and the even more spectacular inaccuracies, and in some cases — the crazy things people do to prepare for the end.
The end of the world was predicted for October 22nd, 1844. Didn’t happen. In fact it became known as “The Big Disappointment.”
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For some, I’m sure it will end.
Absolutely correct — for a couple of million people (give or take a few hundred thousand) every day, this existence ends and then...?
Got Jesus?
Yes... can I have your stuff?
No. If it were though, here would be the major papers’ front page headlines Friday:
USA Today: “WE’RE GONE!”
New York Times: “World to End Tomorrow: Markets to Close Early”
Washington Post: “World to End Tomorrow: Women and Minorities Hardest Hit”
Obama going to die on May 21st, 2011?,what will the media do for a meal ticket?.
World Ends Saturday, Congress votes itself a pay raise and goes home for the end.
But Mrs. MB26 and I have brunch reservations on Sunday!
I'm looking forward to Sunday when Harold Camping has to explain which reason he's still here:
1. Did he forget to carry the one and once again miscalculated the end time?
2. Or did the rapture really occur leaving him behind?
You know there might have been only 3 or 4 people rapturized. How would we know?
I just told my wife that the world is ending this Saturday. She told me to run down to the local bakery and get her a Doberge cake. ;-)
I’ll go buy the Lexus I have been dying for.
The world will end when the Cubs are one strike away from winning the World Series.
Obama can part the seas, make the sun shine and the birds chirp. When he’s fininshed destroying America, then and only then will he allow the end.
Will Camping repent on the 22nd?
Well, I’m going to a gun show Saturday morning, so if it doesn’t inconvenience anyone, please make sure it doesn’t end until early afternoon!
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For me, if there is no NFL football come September 2011 because of the player strike, then the world will come to an end for me.
Could someone be so kind as to ping me to the, “End Of The World Live Thread?”
KTHXBY
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