judgement day

Doomsday Bunkers: Salvation for sale. Can you afford it?

I recently watched the Discovery Channel show 2012 Apocalypse. It shows people around the world making a living from selling doomsday bunkers at outrageous prices, as well as a wide range of survival gear. Other sites, usually blogs by self-appointed modern-day ¨prophets¨are selling e-books, DVD's and asking for donations to keep the 'cause' going. The cause being making more people aware of our imminent demise and 'preparing' them for it. Even the very people who tell you on their posts that they have been endowed by the Gods or powerful aliens to deliver this message want to charge you for…

The end of the world: the Rapture and other predictions

It's past 8 p.m. CST and the "Rapture" predicted by Harold Camping and much publicized by the media in recent days has not happened. Wait, it could have happened at 6 p.m. PST! Did California go down with a 9.0 earthquake? NOPE. No earthquakes in California, no noteworthy earthquakes anywhere. However, there is a volcano erupting in Iceland, the Mississippi River is cresting at 61+ feet and Sarah Palin has the "fire in my belly" for a presidential run. In other words, the world as we know it is over. It ended a while ago. Yes, that world in which…