I probably sleep too well anyway.
Let’s have a look… OMG! Huge spiders are raining down from the sky! In Brazil, it’s raining really big spiders.
Well. Not exactly raining. They’re sort of falling.
Actually, to be completely accurate, when you check it out online, you can see a video of admittedly large spiders constructing giant “sheet webs” to capture insects in an unfortunate town in South America. They float from tree to post on gusts of wind. It’s what they do, those crazy sheet-web-building arachnids.
It is pretty freaky.
But it’s not a sign of the end of the world, unless you want it to be. In that case you can denounce any and all scientific explanation and refer to www.endtimeheadlines.wordpress.com for confirmation of your greatest fears.
Here’s an excellent example of something the End Times wants us to worry about: Obama Has Put in Place a Secret Database with ‘Everything on Everyone.’
Oh man. That could be bad. He’s bound to be making a list, checking it a couple of times.
And I’ve fallen off on my flossing. That doesn’t make a good impression.
I wonder what he’ll think of my TV viewing habits? After the morning news it’s either murder and mayhem or Comedy Central. What does that tell you? Wait. Don’t answer that.
But I love a Twilight Zone marathon. That should count for something.
Here’s one story worthy of consternation that would have slipped right past me if it were not for our vigilant friends at End Times: Twitter Explodes with Fears of Armed Drone Strikes Targeting [fugitive] Chris Dorner. Yeah.
The Prophetic Perspective includes “Signs in the Heavens 2013-2015.” In this section, we discover “how signs from the heavens are once again happening [and] preparing us for coming Wars, Prophetic Events and the Soon Return of the Lord Jesus Christ.”
It’s good that they’re tracking this stuff, right? Otherwise, the thread would be lost. With no one monitoring and reporting the dark doomy news, we’d all probably trail off into photos of natural beauty and unfettered optimism.
I think I’ll let the End Times folks carry the lead, though. I’ll peruse other sites for newsworthy items - things to distract us in the meantime.
Here’s one: Puck Daddy reports that the Bakersfield Condors, a minor league hockey team, suffered an unfortunate incident this week when their mascot turned on them. The California condor named Queen Victoria escaped from her handler and wobbled and flapped her way across the ice to the penalty box where she began pecking the players. Only mortification and minor injuries were sustained before her highness was corralled and escorted to the locker room. (The Condors went down in defeat to the Las Vegas Wranglers, 4-1.)
Oh, and the Pope resigned. God love him. In a perverse way, I’m looking forward to what the Prophetic Perspective on this will be. Maybe the President’s new database had something juicy on the pontiff and he stepped down to avoid exposure.
After an engine fire, the Carnival cruise ship “Triumph” is drifting in the Gulf of Mexico, powerless; its 4200 passengers experiencing ennui. Certainly this sort of thing isn’t out of the ordinary. Next comes a reality series episode on each cruise itinerary.
Darn it, the End Times has gotten in my head a little bit. Torrents of spiders, endangered birds behaving badly, the Pope punts, cruise ships running amok. Who can’t add these seemingly random and unrelated events together without concluding we could have some prophetic events on our hands?!
Throw in the President’s database and armed drones targeting fugitives on American soil, well, I’m sure you recognize the omens. It could be bad. Signs in the Heavens.
I just want to be prepared, that’s all. Maybe I’ll dig a hole. Crawl in. At the least I’ll worry!
Or… I could stay out here and watch baseball.
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