May 21 has come and gone, and generally speaking, we on planet Earth are still here, despite dire warnings that Saturday was going to be Judgment Day.
So much for the predictive power of one Harold Camping, who used an impenetrable formula to come up with his conclusion.
I write this with great confidence despite the fact that today is Friday, May 20. Our deadlines were considerably earlier for this edition due to the long weekend and the possibility of a postal disruption.
Perhaps I am being rash. On Judgment Day, only three percent of humanity will theoretically be whisked away, followed by about five months of hellish disasters. (Be sure to check your neighbourhood for missing, potentially whisked-away folks).
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Apparently, the world will be utterly destroyed Oct. 21, according to the calculations of this Camping fellow.
Some people think, or rather, thought, that there is back up for this idea in the book of Thessalonians, but for the life of me, I can’t see the specific connection.
What I have seen is several strange e-mails essentially warning me not to go to the lake on the long weekend (or make any other plans). The end of the world will put paid to my travels.
In all seriousness, though, it seems that we don’t need the world to end to struggle with disaster. For the last two or three years, geological and climatological events have been coming hard on the heels of each other: the earthquake in Haiti was followed by earthquakes in Chile and New Zealand, and more recently, the awful event in Japan.
An unprecedented line of tornadoes swept through the American southeast in April. Flooding has been considerable through southern Manitoba and Saskatchewan, not to mention the Mississippi Valley.
And then, half of an entire town was razed by wildfire. I don’t know if I’ve ever heard of such a frightening event as the fire at Slave Lake, unless it’s a wall of water or a mile-wide twister.
I’m no climate change genius, and I’m certainly not into end-of-the-world predictions:, but flooded-out farmers, burned-out residents and earthquake-ravaged people could be forgiven for wondering why such extreme events are happening.
No wonderJudgment Day predictions are back in the news.
