posted on Nov, 9 2011 @ 01:24 AM
From harrold camping and his dual raptures of 5/21/11 later corrected to 10/21/11, to the Comet C/2010 X1 (Elenin) discovered by Leonid Elenin to
numerologists predictions of 11/11/11 being the end, clearly this year has turned out to be full of world ending predictions. Let's not forget the
miscalculation claims for the myan calendar setting the 'real' end of the world for 10/28/11 instead of the more familiar date of 12/21/12.
Another miscalculated recalculation, sigh.
The asteroid YU55 buzzed us today amid warnings that it would really strike the earth and JPL was lying, well that too came and went - literally.
There were the Tsunami fears from the undersea volcanic activity near the Canary Islands that put many on the East Coast on edge. The lack of main
stream media coverage pointed to yet another cover up, or maybe it was nothing after all and the media just didn't care. There was yet another near
miss with 2008 TM8 on 10/17/11 that I read would certainly hit us and do some serious extinction level damage, those Liars at JPL again tried to
assure us everything was fine, curse them!
The obsession with the end of the world seems to grow as we approach the big date of Dec 21, 2012. Maybe life is so bad people would rather it end.
Perhaps the idea that when an individual dies the world will still exist without them causes them to hope that the world dies along with them
instead. The end of the world is nothing new, we have been predicting it since we could conceive of it's ceasing to exist. So I guess one can say
that eventually someone will be correct in their assertations that it will all be over soon, but unfortunately they won't be around to get any
credit.
My personal favorite is the little known cult called Subgenius who have had their annual end of the world prediction every July 5th since 1998. July
5th, 2011 came and went but they feel next year will be different. At least they have a good excuse. Claims that their scriptures were
accidentally read upside down seem more plausible an excuse than anything Mr. Camping came up with. So until 8661 I suppose Subgenius will have
their annual end of the world party, just don't drink the cool-aid.