I'm exhausted by all the end-time prophecy. Wars and earthquakes and misery in general has been going on forever. We just have more ways of finding out about all these things. I'm sorry if it de-mystifies your life. I'll do some predicting for you, tomorrow people will be killed, maimed raped and and screwed over. The rich will continue to amass riches and the poor will scrape by and hopefully survive to see another sunset. I will love my family and do what I can to keep our ship sailing forward. As cool as it would be to receive help from some metaphysical entity that is purportedly in control, I will not waste any time asking for it. It's hard to scream from beneath the mire and be heard and if there's any sort of larger plan that benefits some supreme creator, benevolent or otherwise, this being is going to do whatever it wants to do anyway. Don't mistake that last part as a kernel of faith mind you, I'm merely looping this whole thing back around to the irritant at hand. Vague prophecies are a dime a dozen, ask any Nostradamus enthusiast. Ask Pat Robertson, he's probably got another doomsday date, but is too scared to fail again. Don't cancel your insurance plans just yet, that's certainly not what Jesus would do.
Buy your weeks worth of groceries, make plans to see your dentist. Make an appointment to have your prostate checked. Invest in a start-up company, because before you came around and discovered that your book had warned you about signs of the times, there were thousands or even millions of people before you that insisted that they too were in end-times. Perhaps the ending of the world is something as simple as just the ending of your life. Where your automatic functions cease and your mind embraces sweet oblivion. If the rest of us move on don't worry, you won't feel a thing one way or another. I'll end by quoting Mark Twain:
"I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it."
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