Doomsday – Hello Rapture!
Posted in rantings and ravings on October 28th, 2025 by skeeterSome say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice. Robert Frost
The End Times might very well be on the calendar this year. The problem, of course, is whether it’s ice or fire, nuclear war or robot apocalypse, global warming or test tube viruses, Artificial Intelligence or Donald Trump. It is, after all, part 1984 and part Brave New World. Take your pick, we all have a favorite. Half of us are doomscrolling … and half are bingeing cute kitty videos on Tik Tok.
I guess we’re already living in a dystopian future imagining a post-apocalyptic nightmare, living with constant Dread, kissing our asses goodbye. Plenty of us have stopped having children, no point procreating for a phony future, better to spare the progeny a stunted existence. Some of us are spending down our retirement savings, no doubt figuring we can’t take it with us. Plenty of us are hopelessly addicted to internet Doomsday sites, like watching a football game we already know our team was clobbered mercilessly.
This last week was another predicted Rapture. I’m assuming the True Believers are still earthbound, gravely disappointed, wondering if the Ascension to Heaven passed without them because … well, they weren’t Chosen for reasons unclear maybe, evidently destined for Hell or at least a few more years here to endure the madness with the rest of us sinners and heathens. Welcome back!
For them and my pals who see catastrophe looming imminently, let me offer some unwanted advice. Take a deep breath. Stop the doomscrolling. Read a good book. Take a walk in the woods. Hopefully get yourself lost for awhile. The world will wait for you to find your way home.
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Posted in Uncategorized on July 24th, 2020 by skeeterDoomscrolling
Posted in rantings and ravings on July 23rd, 2020 by skeeterThis is Year One in the Plague Era. If you follow the death reports, the daily Covid cases, all the statistics from all the states, you can monitor the slow and inexorable spread of the virus. If you’re holed up in your Covid cocoon with only the weekly grocery run wearing your mask and your shields, you have plenty of time to read plague predictions, even time to research pandemics throughout history. It’s a frightening read. Millions dead of bubonic, AIDS, smallpox, cholera, flu, you name it, it ravaged the civilized and uncivilized world.
Occasionally I peek at the coronavirus stats for the world, the nation, even the counties of my state, Washington. My county, Island County, for the past month or so had a death toll of 12. A few days ago we were listed as 11 dead. I figured a misprint, checked the following day and the day after, but nope, 11 dead now. This is great news for those who think the plague is a political prank or a liberal hoax. Even better news for those who believe the President when he claims the virus will just fade away. Not only will it fade away, the dead will return to life!!
I love magical thinking as much as the next superstitious anti-vaccine yahoo, believe me. I want to throw my plague mask in the trashcan and go back to partying with my pals down at the local watering hole. If I get sick, so what? Survival of the fittest, right? Except, I don’t want to believe in Darwinism, none of that scientific hocus pocus baloney you get every day in the fear infested media. And if I die of this disease, well, a chance in 12 I’ll return to the living, how’s that for statistical analysis? And don’t get me going on zombies. Nobody is talking zombie here.
All I’m saying is, like the President, let’s be optimistic. This thing is headed in the right direction. Be of good cheer. Stop doomscrolling. Stop worrying. We’re going to be fine and even the dead will be home soon. Count on it. But stop counting.