Harold Camping's Apocalypitic Failure

I have a pretty bad obsession of needing to know the news of the world during the day, and so I find myself typing Sky News into the address bar everytime I turn on the computer. But when I came home today and scrolled though the highlights, one particular story caught my eye.

As I am sure most of you all have heard, according to an American Evangelical  leader Harold Camping, the world and everyone in it would be oblitterated at exactly 6pm on Saturday 21st of May 2011...... Well considering it is now 6.45pm I bet he feels pretty stupid right now.

But it got me thinking, if the world was to end and you were given one hours notice, what would you do?

Personally, I would pick the obvious first ; Be with family, ring people that you havent talked to in years due to petty fights just to say that you regret the years of not talking, and try not to spend the time shaking with fear. I think most people would generally try to clear the oul conscience, as I think that even of one says that one doesnt have any belief in a higher power, there is alwways that niggling thought that maybe there is such a thing as a God, and you certainly dont want to run the risk of being on the smiting end of his stick come the end of time.

But then I starting thinking about little things. Like what would I do for that hour sitting at home. I certainly wouldnt spend the whole time wasting my call credit, plus I'm sure the phone lines would be clogged anyway (great minds think alike). So then I moved onto alternatives. After not a lot of though, I came up with my ideal pre-obliteration situation. It basically includes me, my family, an infinite amount of my special recipe bagels, and the home video's of Christmas. The reliving of the effort that my parents put in every year, and seeing the innocent excitement on the faces of myself and my sister when the door was opened to reveal what Santa and his carrot eating reindeer had brought, never fails to brings back that feeling of a time when tomorrow was never worried about.


I think when faced with your end, with unavoidable death, fear is the instinctual reaction. But why fear that which cannot be avoided? Why waste time crying in fear, when it can be spent laughing, and remembering all the great events that led you to that unavoidable situation, and thinking well wasnt that just perfect.

Movies and Memories

How amazing are the old movies?? They just done make them like they used to.

I have recently found the magic of the TCM channel. At the moment I am watching Easter Parade with Fred Astaire and Judy Garland, I mean how could you get better? Amazing dance routines, fantastic singing, and men who were real gentlemen, what more would anyone want? Seven Brides For Seven Brothers, My Fair Lady, you got any others?

Ye I have to say, the 3D movies are mind blowing, Avatar was superb and such a leap in movie production. But you gotta look at the celebrity culture to see how talentless some celebrities are. I mean what disearnable talent does Paris Hilton have? Or the Playboy Girls? You simply have to look good to be famous thes days...... (oh I sound so old....).

Anyway onto the memories aspect, there is this amazing advert on Irish tv at the moment for Dennys, who are an Irish company who do cold meats and feed such as rashers, sausages and pudding (perfect for a sunday morning). But anyway it shows a family at christmas, take a look at the link below. Just press watch, I dare anyone to not well up a little bit at the memories of their christmas with their parents or children.

http://www.denny.ie/real-people.aspx

When I watched it I started to think back to my christmas with my family. When I think of all the presents i used to get, the sitting room was a christmas wonderland for me and my sister. We were spoiled rotten really. And of course there was always one big present. I remember a bike I got one year, it was purple and just perfect, and another year I got a pram for my dolls, again purple..... I had a thing for purple lol.

Its amazing how things change. No special man comes to the house anymore, sniff, and our Christmas Day is spent in pjs watching movies and eating left-overs from the christmas dinner the night before (dad works christmas day now so we have it the night before now). Its different but just as good. We get to spend time together, and christmas becomes more about thinking about your family others who have less rather than presents, I quite like it like that.

Anyway, 8 sleeps til christmas morning. Hope everyone enjoys their christmas week :-).