The world’s ending again today. I just realized.
It’s so late in the day now; I hope I haven’t missed it. How regrettable it would be to fail to post a farewell to the fine Commentariat.
But the world’s been ending so frequently for the last few years that I find myself unable to keep up. Please forgive me if I missed giving you a cheery sendoff.
That’s ok Claire.
After the major letdowns of Y2k and 2012, it’s hard to get excited by world end predictions anymore.
Plus, being out here at the edge of the world, it’ll probably go unnoticed here for a month or two anyway.
Claire does this mean all your hard work on remodeling your home, lo these many months, was for naught?
Well, so far so good, Fred M. But I guess we’ll see. In my time zone, we’ve still got another six or so hours.
I’m never clear on these end-of-world things, though. Do they operate on Greenwich Mean Time? Local time? Jerusalem time? Ineffable deity time?
And, in fact, his current forecast seems to have long roots: Baptist preacher William Miller made multiple failed doomsday predictions, and one of them was for April 23, 1843.
Yup, the local Millerites in Rochester, many of which sold their property and gave away all of their possessions, made their way to the top of Cobbs Hill in Rochester, to get even closer to God, and suffered “The Great Disappointment”.
At least I never have to worry about a good reason to party the night away!
Well, yeah. We can point to Meade and have a chuckle at the fools who believed him.
OTOH his prediction is just as accurate as the Earth Day forecasts from the weekend. 🙂
Is there a listing of all these dates? I didn’t know the world was scheduled to end yesterday. I would have been embarrassed if it had, and I wasn’t ready.
Indeed, that would have been a terrible social faux pas, Zendo Deb. One might even say a faux pas from which you’d never recover.
Alas, I know of no listing.