I've decided to start a journal with the first entry being on the last day before the world is supposed to end (according to how some people interpret/misinterpret a Mayan calendar from way back when).
Below, you will find seven quotes from this larger (and worth checking out) collection of thoughts on the subject of the end of the world.
After the quotes, you will find a little more from me.
After that, you won't be hearing from me again until sometime on Friday, December 21, 2012.
“Have you ever thought what a God would be like who actually ordained and executed the cruelty that is in [the biblical Book of Revelation]? A holocaust of mankind. Yet so many of these Bible-men accept the idea without a second thought.”
― C.J. Sansom, Revelation
“This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.”
― T.S. Eliot
“What if nobody showed up at Armageddon?”
― C.R. Strahan
“I think this is irresponsible preaching and very dangerous, and especially when it is slanted toward children, I think it's totally irresponsible, because I see nothing biblical that points up to our being in the last days, and I just think it's an outrageous thing to do, and a lot of people are making a living—they've been making a living for 2,000 years—preaching that we're in the last days.”
― Charles M. Schulz, Charles M. Schulz: Conversations
“I sat in the dark and thought: There’s no big apocalypse. Just an endless procession of little ones.”
― Neil Gaiman, Signal to Noise
“If it happens that the human race doesn't make it, then the fact that we were here once will not be altered, that once upon a time we peopled this astonishing blue planet, and wondered intelligently at everything about it and the other things who lived here with us on it, and that we celebrated the beauty of it in music and art, architecture, literature, and dance, and that there were times when we approached something godlike in our abilities and aspirations. We emerged out of depthless mystery, and back into mystery we returned,and in the end the mystery is all there is.”
― James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century
“When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your time, you do your work well.”
― Thomas Merton
At this time, it's drawing close to midnight Anderson, Indiana USA Time. I wonder what I'll be doing by this time tomorrow. I'll be sure to keep you posted--if I'm able to. Somehow, I think I will be and will be making my first post sometime when 12-21-12 is still new...
