Someone predicts the end of the world...

OCTOBER 21, 2011!!!

DECEMBER 21, 2012!!!

It's got to happen, because Jesus said so.  If you don't believe me,maybe you just need to go read your Bible.  Yeah, you better just go back and read what he said in Matthew.

Well, it's too bad if you don't believe me, because it says right there in Revelation what's going to happen--and things don't look good for all of you...you, you...66, or so,  percent of the world population that aren't Christians.  And even most of you Christians, who aren't us,  need to get down on your knees and pray, about now, because you're not "true Christians," like us.

Hmmm.  Let me think about this for a minute.  According to, Jesus, Paul of Tarsus and Pope Clement I, the world was supposed to have come to an end by around the end of the first century.

Oops.

Hilary of Poitiers predicted that the world would end in the year 365.

Oops.

As the year 1000 rolled around, it became evident that the end was on the horizon...so much so, that not only did Christian armies attempt to forcibly convert many northern Europeans (i.e. convert or die), but many devout Christians gave all their "worldly" possessions to the church--which apparently had a "no returns" policy in place so that, when the end did not come, the devotees only saw the end of their previous ownership of those "worldly" possessions, not the world in which they lived.

Oops.

It would end in 1186, according to John of Toledo--no take that back--it would be in 1284, because Pope Innocent III said so.

Oops.  Oops.

Then, there was 1689.  Now it was a Baptist, Benjamin Keach, who predicted that year.  Charles Wesley a founder of the Methodists, predicted 1794 and Joseph Smith of Latter Day Saints fame suggested somewhere around 1890.

Oops.  Oops.  Oops.

William Miller and Ellen White.

The years:  1914, 1915, 1918, 1920, 1925, 1941, 1975, 1994...

Jim Jones.

David Koresh--Branch Davidians--Mt. Carmel Center--Waco, Texas--born in 1959 to a single mother.  He was dyslexic and a high school dropout, but actually memorized large tracts of the Bible by the time he was 12 years old.  By 1981, he joined the Branch Davidian sect that had been established in 1935 near Waco, Texas.  To make a long power struggle story short, in 1987, he became its leader with the help of 7 men, 9 guns and 400 rounds of ammunition.  I will leave the rest of the story for you to remember.

These are not all of the predictions that have been made about the end of the world.  If you have an interest, you can find more of them here:

 http://www.religioustolerance.org/end_wrl2.htmall

But, even then, the one prediction for the end of the world that had the most impact on me is not listed on the religious tolerance website and it is my guess that I am one of the few who even remember the occurrence.  Although I don't remember the exact year, it must have been somewhere around 1963, or so, since I was about sixteen years old at the time.

It came to my attention through a news report.  A religious group had gone to live inside a cave because, they believed, the world was coming to an end.  It was as simple as that.  I don't remember what religious group.  I don't even remember where, or in what state, those people and that cave were located.  What I do remember, however, is the dread that enveloped my young mind for several days.

Now, back in those days and for most of my younger years, my family attended church.  I had grown up having experienced both the Christian (Disciples of Christ) and Methodist denominations' teachings, and even at that young age, I was a relatively informed student of the Bible--but that fact did not protect me from what I was to experience as a result of the cave dweller religionist sect news report that I took seriously and believed was a real possibility.

I was angry!  I was totally, unequivocally honked off.  I was only sixteen, I thought to myself--why was I going to be denied the rest of my earthly life?  I was afraid.  Was my own religious faith and belief enough to satisfy God?  After all, I hadn't been invited into the safety of that cave with those people.   Over the period of several days, I struggled with these emotions and questions--enough so that now, all these years later, I am able to revisit the memory of those awful hours--the hours before the predicted day that the world would come to an end had come and gone, like any other.

But, all that being said, it did teach me a very, very valuable lesson--one that I hadn't been taught in my tolerant and God is love Sunday School classes.  God may be love, but religion isn't God.

Okay, and then came Y2k...another "the world is coming to an end" failure.  And, currently, there are others in the offing, like October 21, 2011 and December 21, 2012.  There are religionists who are hungry for the end of the world--as we know it.  The Dominionist Movement is a key player in the rush towards the apocalypse.  But, I choose not to play their game.  And my hope is that this post will reach enough thinking people that the names and faces of these people will be exposed and the game that they are trying to play will have to be called on account of...brains.

If you haven't visited Racoon Ridge Review, please do so.  It is there that I have been showing the faces, names, methods and games being played with the minds of young children--faces and names of those same ones who seem hellbent to play with the future that belongs to all of us and our children.

But, beware, it does take the intellect and emotional development beyond that of a sixteen year old to not be  scared into their "end of the world" ideology--which has, by the way, in recent years invited itself in to the real world--to save us all from that real world--so that they can, in turn, destroy it-- and smugly say once and for all:  See, we told you it was going to happen!