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51stcenturyfox ([personal profile] 51stcenturyfox) wrote2009-11-10 07:51 am
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Oh come on now...

NASA has had to debunk those "the world is ending in 2012" rumors. Um. LOL. (The disaster film is coming out this weekend and I'm sure it'll be a blast. So to speak.)

I remember when I was 11 or something, picking up a paperback at a rummage sale with a "the world will end in 1978!" premise. It hadn't. So since that day, I've always thought world-ending predictions were sort of hilarious. 

I admit taking some cash out of the ATM before Y2k in case my bank's computers had a case of the stupids for a day or two. 

Why so gullible, internet?


In other news...


I'm terza rima, and I talk and smile.
Where others lock their rhymes and thoughts away
I let mine out, and chatter all the while.

I'm rarely on my own - a wasted day
Is any day that's spent without a friend,
With nothing much to do or hear or say.

I like to be with people, and depend
On company for being entertained;
Which seems a good solution, in the end.
What Poetry Form Are You?

[identity profile] amand-r.livejournal.com 2009-11-10 04:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I think I was desensitised to all this World is Ending crap then in 1987, the most popular book in my church was "88 Reasons Christ is Returning in 1988."

I can't help but notice that we're all still here.

Also, if I was Jesus, I would go out of my way not make sure no one saw my shit coming. I think that might be why they call me "Thief in the Night" not "Rabid Elephant in a Glass Factory."

[identity profile] 51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com 2009-11-10 04:43 pm (UTC)(link)
I know. Egg on face, doomsday authors!


Me too. I'd be like: "Surprise! I'm Kanye West! Didn't see that one coming, did you?"

[identity profile] amand-r.livejournal.com 2009-11-10 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
SORRY, JESUS--IMMA LET YOU FINISH-- BUT DIONYSUS WAS THE BEST DEAD GOD EVER.

[identity profile] 51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com 2009-11-10 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
OF ALL TIME (OF ALL TIME!)

That's why Dionysus has those video awards on his shelf!

[identity profile] amand-r.livejournal.com 2009-11-10 06:07 pm (UTC)(link)
LITTLE MOON MAN. WITH A BUCKET OF WINE.

[identity profile] rodlox.livejournal.com 2009-11-10 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
1988?

"You will know neither the day nor the hour" as He put it....which is why it amuses me no end that everyone from Newton to Joe the Plumber (practically) tries to figure out when The End will be nigh.

[identity profile] amand-r.livejournal.com 2009-11-10 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
I think there's a difference between knowing that end times are near and that the end is absolutely near.

[identity profile] 51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com 2009-11-10 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
And also, the things pointed to as signs... humanity being worse, wars, etc...

People have always done horrible things to each other. We just have 24-hour news channels and the internet, now.

But if it's OMG!near...then some people get to use that as a means of behavior control.

[identity profile] amand-r.livejournal.com 2009-11-10 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Some people should be using that as a reason to control their own behaviour.

[identity profile] 51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com 2009-11-10 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)
As in loving thy neighbors and judging not, lest...

MTE.