still here

i don't mean to be pedantic about this, but i am still here...and while i was supposed to still be here, there were supposed to be manifestations of the divinity's extreme displeasure with my human frailty...and yet, no earthquakes jarring me out of bed and i don't smell sulfur burning..i am at a bit of a loss to undestand...admittedly no-one i know is a likely candidate for being rapured up to jesus and the faithful equate me to satan...but you'd think divine revelation would be a bit less obscure than arcane biblical mathmatics...i mean free will is so prone to error...i will wait patiently for developments today and will update as i find ( or do not find) evidence that i am beginning my five months of torment at the hands of the divinity ( could officer dibble be an agent of divine retribution...perhaps the indiana supreme court is on to something)...stay tuned in case things get interesting

12:53 pm 5-21-2011

with about five hours to go local time until the rapture begins the air here in northwest indiana is thick with tension...so much so that people are resorting to an habitual auto-pilot to continue functioning...imagine crowding into supermarkets and visiting the corner bar when jesus is due to raise the chosen up to god's right hand and cast the rest of us poor heathens into the pit ( but only after he fucks with us for five months [ha! as if life on this sodding planet with plalin, gingrich, huckabee,the degenerate paul duo, obamaland, and goddamned israel isn't enough crap to wade through..."you're on earth, there's no cure for that" as beckett says] that puts the end of the world right about my birthday...fitting) but they're out there acting as if there's a tomorrow...fools! repent you heathen bastards!


6:23 pm 5-21-2011
well...twenty-three minutes into the rapture here in central time ( even god seemingly has to obey the strictures of time zones...placing limits on god...what next? the end of the world?) and i am still here...the most evil things that have happened have been my son's flat tire ( a sure sign of apocalypse) and (even worse) someone's insistence on watching elvira's movie macabre...beyond that things are pretty close to what passes for normal around here...apparently old harry camping was a bit off in his math (again)...so...mom's tomorrow and a trip to the campus garden...work monday...sos...it would be humorous if degenerate fucks like this didn't prey on people who are already unstable...harry's ministry is a non-profit but it's worth quite a few millions...wonder what kind of salary harry draws...what kind of expense account?

3:27 am 5-22-2011

nothing much to report...apparently my siblings made it to their birthday ( unless one or more was raptured...THAT seems unlikely) no fire, famine, earthquake, flood ( that wasn't already on the move ) to report...only the coincidental eruption of an icelandic volcano...harry camping is rationalizing away to explain his continued presence on the planet and i am confirmed in my skepticism about ANYONE having a clue over what life is really about and the value of market mechanisms and economists...religion as we know it is about behavioral control not spirituality...theologians are part of the sataus quo and are deceitful fucks...they have an agenda and a set of beliefs to go with it...don't let your local cleric confuse you with that brotherly love they spout...it is part of the propaganda they produce to hook you in... you will have to find spirituality on your own...it is an interior landscape...they only have influence there if you allow it...in the end their religion is about nothing but preserving your ego in optimum circumstances for eternity....think about some of the people you know and tell me if that seems like a good idea...the thought of an eternal harold camping or billy graham makes my gorge rise.

4:44 am 5-22-2011

i just read a quote from a california cleric in the n y times who said mocking harold's acolytes is like kicking puppies...you can do it, but why? that's sophistry...a ruse intended to divert attention form the deceit harold is pulling off in the name of religion and an attempt to disguise the fact that theology is an elaborate rationalization ( and another way to make a living...the material aspect of shepherding a flock is one that doesn't get a lot of airtime in everyday religion but there seems to be a substantial ammount of cash flow even among presbyterians )...substantiation of myth...well...we all seem to need explanations but some of them do way more harm than good...harold is undermining the cleric racket by being so over the top...bet the nazi pope is pissed too...amateurs screwing around with prophecy...( oh for the days of illiterate peasants and a liturgy in latin that only the cleric could interpret...goddamn that luther and his populist vision of god )...people like harold abuse their belivers in a far more damaging way than those pointing out the fallacy of his rants do...harold is the one kicking puppies