On May 28 I blogged about the fact that May 21 was supposed to be the end of the world. And it wasn't. And that I didn't think that the world would end on the postponed date of Oct 21. Guess what? Today is Oct 30 and the world is very much with us. The world is five months older, and more stuff has happened, but no question that the world is still here.
It seems like when a lot of uncomfortable things are happening that predictions start flying around that the world will end. Maybe that is just human nature. The Oct 21 end date didn't get as much publicity as the May 21 date. Maybe we had better things to do this time around.
I think the appointed hour on May 21 was 6:30PM. At 6:30 PM on Oct 21 I was watching a beautiful sunset on the beach in Cape May New Jersey. As the sun played hide and seek with the clouds I wasn't thinking so much about the world and its ending as of the daily miracle that is the sun rising and setting.
Maybe this silliness about the world ending will end, and we can get on with the business of repairing the damage done to it in the here and now. That is, until someone at a future date gets uncomfortable with how things are going and decides to set another one.
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