And I thought Y2K was the hoax of the century!
Harold Camping's Rapture came... and went. Anticlimactic, to say the least. It kind of reminded me of Y2K. We should at least seen that one coming - oh wait, but everybody was partying like it was 1999, so for the 1% of the population who remembers what happened that night, cheers to you. Has anyone identified who the conspirators were in that one? I know my computer didn't crash. Somebody had people shell out probably millions of dollars in new "software" and then, in all our celebrated stupors at 12:01 on January, 2000, (we waited for it)... nothing!
Harold Camping's camp did profit from the impending doom, and I hope at least some of his followers who dropped out of school, quit jobs and gave over loads of money do make an effort to go back to their regular ho-hum, rapture-less lives. I mean, that's what the rest of us are doing, anyways. And if Y2K was mostly a conspiracy (I always side with the conspiracy side of things), then let me just say it, they were both huge let downs. Huge. That being said, I will admit it: My first thought after someone reminded me of the May 21, 2011 doomsday prediction was, "I'm too busy for the world to end!" Come on, you know you thought it too. Maybe this will at least remind me to stop and smell the impending deadlines. Oh wait, I meant to say, stop and smell how beautiful life can be.
"If we wait til the time that all souls get it right, then at least I know there'll be no nuclear annihilation in my lifetime I'm still not right."
-Indigo Girls, Galileo
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