Once a witness, I gave it up after three predicted end-of-the-world dates passed without a single flash of lightning or thunder…and returned to smoking.
Last weekend, I found myself awake, waiting for some bizarre event where people would vanish into the clouds, leaving behind only their abandoned clothes as their naked bodies ascended into the sky.
I once believed in that peculiar old man with a radio station in the USA, who claimed that last weekend was the time we would witness the end of the world.
Now, I turn back to the Bible, recalling the Old Testament’s saying, “you know not the time or the hour.”
The old sayings from mothers hold a special wisdom:
Don’t cross knives or set your feet on the table.
Don’t balance on a spar or lounge on a rail.
It never rains but it pours.
If you can’t say something nice, say nothing at all.
How is it possible for these religious sects or fanatical preachers to thrive in the modern age? Do they even make sense?
We look back in history, proclaiming that divine retribution is imminent. But who asserts this? Who are these fanatics?
Today’s holy men claim that homosexuality is wrong, citing the Bible as evidence. Yet, in ancient times, Jews (who are believed to have authored the Bible) married close relatives, had multiple wives, and when the norms shifted, they followed their leaders’ decrees and divorced non-Jewish spouses.
The only constant is the leaders who dictate what we should do whenever it benefits them.
Is the end of the world approaching? After all, we couldn’t possibly do more damage to our planet.
With gaps in the sky above us and waste from nuclear power plants contaminating our oceans…what solutions do our leaders propose? Naturally…let’s impose a tax on it!
No amount of taxation will deter people from smoking.
Had the prophet been Roman or a Samurai…when predictions failed, they would simply end their own lives with their swords.
Listen, if the next prediction comes and goes without event, I urge you all to sit down, take a puff or two, and reflect on the clouds overhead. Perhaps you’ll see an elephant or a dragon…and soon, you might view the world in an entirely new light.
Why should we care what some bizarre fanatic or odd sect has to say about our world?
Just sit back…relax, and go with the flow.
by TOG
