hey wait, wasn't the world ending today?

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 /rant

oh look, another end of the world prediction turns out to be complete and utter bull shit.  who would have thunk it.  because i mean i always trust nut jobs who predict me having a premature death.  especially when they have such a proven track record.  i mean, look at how badly the world ended back between 1994 and 1996.  yeah, i mean all that nothingness was pretty epic.  like really, how many brain cells did these people have to kill off before they thought this was a logical idea?  in one article i read, this mother and father both believed the world would end today, but their three children were smart enough to know this was bull shit.  the problem is that the parents became so absorbed in the idea that they stopped saving money, stopped putting aside for their kids collage funds, and the mother quite her job like six months ago to "spread the word."  so basically these kids are now fucked because their parents had shit for brains.

and like i know i'm not the most versed person on the topic of the bible, but i'm pretty sure that only God was to know when the rapture would occur and that there was no way for man to know the date.  assuming this is true, it makes sense.  like if man where to know the exact date of the rapture, people would just fuck off until it happened.  and if you knew that it wasn't going to happen in your life time, there really isn't much incentive to behave yourself.  it would be all sex, drugs, and rock and roll.  it's like little kids around christmas time.  they know when the freakin' date is that they get rewarded.  so they are extra good around that date because they have motivation to be good.  the rest of the year, they are little terrors.  but if you tell them that you would randomly give them a new toy sometime during the year but they have no idea what day it will be and the must be good up until that day, it gives them more incentive to behave.  

and this brings me to part three of my rant.  while i personally do believe in a God and  Christ and an after life and all that jazz, i do not take the bible as a word for word truth and there are several reasons for this.  one, it was written several, if not hundreds, of years after the events would have happened.  two, it was heavily edited to fit in with cultural beliefs and customs of the time.  three, it was only written by men, so see back to reason two for why no women were allowed to contribute.  four, it was translated from original documents.  usually several times.  lots of stuff gets lost in translations.  five, it has been edited into several different versions.  people picked and chosed which parts they wanted to fit with their particular idea of religion.  what you find in a cathloic bible might not be in a luthern bible, especially since martin luther pretty much hated the cathloic church for all of the corruptness that was going on during his time.  i could keep going, but i think that's enough for one night.

/end rant

tune in tomorrow for why i hate bicyclists!