People Get Ready

By Libby

For a number of reasons too complicated to explain, I've been mostly offline for a couple of days. I'm catching up on my reading and John Cole pretty well sums up my reaction to current events.

The front page of the NYT:

Two Bombs Kill Dozens in Iraq
Retailing Chains Caught in a Wave of Bankruptcies
Fuel Choices, Food Crises and Finger-Pointing
Oil and Food Prices Renew Inflation Worries

I can’t be the only one who feels like we are one bit of bad news away from rivers of blood and plagues of locusts and hail mixed with fire. And damnit to hell, I am the first-born son in my family.

Links to those stories at his post. I'd add this from yesterday. The slow-mo implosion of the US economy is sucking the whole world into the same black hole. One might think this is the downside of the much touted global economy. I have a feeling nobody is going to be buying our debt for a while.

And then there's Colombia's Nevado del Huila volcano that just erupted sending thousands fleeing. Notable because, "Eruptions last year at the Nevado del Huila were its first on record since the mid-16th century."

It's been decades since I read the Book of Revelations myself, but I dimly remember a verse about brother fighting against brother, war, famine, pestilence and the earth experiencing natural disasters at a pace likened to the pangs of childbirth. I suppose that could describe the state of the planet many times in the past, but sometimes it really does feel like "the end times" are just around an Iraq corner.

[Post title reference. I saw these guys live in 1968. They've held up pretty well.]

Comments

[Earl]

Damn.

If "the end" were only that easy, I wouldn't have a problem with it, but the fact of the matter is that the sun will appear in the sky tomorrow and the day after that.

As I just read in the last Kurt Vonnegut book: "There should have been a Secretary of the Future"

[pwapvt]

Well thanks for that happy thought Libby. I guess I'll just go back to bed now.

"the fault is not in our stars"

[Libby]

Earl, I expect you're right.

LOL Pwap. Sorry to be such a downer. Just was in mood yesterday. I'm over it now. I'll try to get cheerier.

[cheflovesbeer]

Libby, if you are looking the end of times, you forgot the earthquakes swarming off the Oregon coast.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080413184801.htm

[Libby]

Chef, I deliberately left out a whole host of natural disasters. I didn't want to depress people too much.

Look at the weather in the Midwest for the last couple of months just to start. Tornado in downtown Atlanta? When is the last time that happened? Some of this of course is because it's a La Nina year, (or maybe La Nino, I forget which) but it seems worse than I've ever remembered it and the wild weather is worldwide. Whole lot of earthquaking and volcano erupting going on.

Still, even if it is the end times there's nothing to do but go on living like tomorrow will really come. Not to mention, if it turns out the rapture really comes true, I'm pretty sure we'll be the ones raised up to the heavens while all the hypocritical Bible thumpers are left behind. It would be worth going through the end times to see that.

[pwapvt]

'm pretty sure we'll be the ones raised up to the heavens while all the hypocritical Bible thumpers are left behind. It would be worth going through the end times to see that.

Drats I had my eyes on a really nice car.

[Libby]

LOL Pwap.