Does it annoy you when people claim that the most recent earthquake / volcano / heat wave / flood / whatever is a sign that it is the end times?

Yes. It annoys me. In fact, I really do not much like people like that, and I generally like everybody.

Yea, some people are just dramatic like that. It’s just a freaking storm, it wasn’t like Katrina or something.

Not to mention that most of the damage to human wellbeing has more to do with lack of proper preparation and infrastructure upkeep than it does the actual severity of the event, most of the time.

Nope, they have been doing this since Jesus was knee high to a grasshopper. I just let it go in one ear and out the other.

If it actually is the end times, nothing I can do will change it.

Nah, it’s a form of reality media. In some ways, it’s entertaining, and in another, it’s sad.

Yes, it annoys me a lot. I do not like people like that. They’re too paranoid, it’s irritating.

Yes, one of my cousins and her family became uber-religious fantatics about 15 years ago. They actually dropped their insurance coverage and sold off a lot of their belongings right before the new millenium arrived. They were pretty disappointed to find out that life pretty much went on as usual after that (although 9/11 changed all of that, but not for the same reason).

Last week my cousin posted on FB that she “could only be so lucky” if the western part of the U.S. would also be hit with a hurricane, because of course “this” was the real end time to beat all end times. So now she’s just sitting at home sulking and asking everybody to pray for her and her family (but hasn’t exactly said why). We’re pretty sure it’s because her son, who she believes to be a God-fearing, good, obedient Christian, just knocked up his girlfriend. He actually is a really nice guy, just horny, like most guys, but never really had the opportunity to be edumacated about all of that sex stuff, because their church doesn’t believe in telling young people about the facts of life, because in their church, nobody believes that we’re going to make it past the next flood, earthquake or hurricane. And for them, the end times can’t come soon enough. She’ll soon change her tune as soon as she gets a look at the face of her grandbaby : )

Solipsism

Thanks!

It is sometimes fun to mess with the end of timers.

Word @WestRiverrat!

People seem to be fascinated with the idea of the end of the world, end of times, the end of it all…throughout history, people have constantly foretold countless Armageddons. For whatever fuels this belief, dare I say, even desire, that some people have of the end, something like a badass natural catastrophe is a very good incentive to to believe it even more.
Sure they’ve been happening forever, but I guess seeing one up close and personal can muddle the perception of one’s normalcy when it comes to their life.

Then again, plenty of people who haven’t been through anything always say that…

I’m not bothered by people taking storms very seriously, but I suspect that’s not the behavior you’re getting at. I hate when people think that storms are signs of the coming apocalypse or a message from God to Washington.

Yes.

It annoys me as much as TV preachers saying it is because of gays and Obama and illegal immigrants. If God was sending a message, I’d think he would be a bit more specific. No rain and devastating fires in Texas? Maybe God was insulted by Rick Perry’s prayer meeting.

Yes! Sometimes I want to ask them which world? Yours or mine? But I don’t. I figure it’s best to let them be on their own way, away from me.

Yes. I went to a closing Border’s book store recently and there wasn’t much left but I saw a ton of unsold 2012 books. Thank God. People are smarter than I give them credit for…