I blame Steve.
The problem with people who predict the end of the world, is that they're never convinced when it doesn't happen. You want to point out that there's thousands of predictions over the years, and so far they're all wrong - and they tell you that's because this is the right one. Point out that Our Lord said nobody knows the day or the hour - and they'll tell you they have access to better Mayan texts, or access to powerful computers that Our Lord knew little about.
The Moon Gibbon Folk are convinced every month that the moon is being eaten by a giant Gibbon - and the fact that every month the moon comes back never quite convinced them. It being full moon, I was sure they'd be relaxed for the next week or so. But no. Now they think that when this blog reaches 3,000 posts, the world will end. Why 3,000 however - not 4,000 or 1,439 or 22/7 - I'm not sure. Still, this is number 2,990 and they reckon - that only leaves ten more. And then the world ends.
So I'm finding it very hard to get Internet access. My Android mysteriously disappeared earlier. And my netbook was locked with a new power-on password. In some communities this could have been a real disaster. leading to great angst on the part of the leader. But not in this community. The password was "moongibbon". And all I had to do to find my phone was call it, and follow the strains of "Orinoco Flow".
When I worked in academia, I was constantly amused at the way other academics detected the imminent "end of the world as we know it".
ReplyDeleteBeing expected to tell their managers what research they were doing (and why it took up so much of their time that it prevented them from being able to deliver more than, say, one lecture course per year) was one sure sign.
Allowing students to re-take a failed finals exam was another.
Now that I'm in the NHS, the world as we know it changes on a daily basis - exhilerating, but not for the fainthearted!
ReplyDeleteI thought the world would be saved by students re-taking failed exams. After all, they have to study a bit more for them and end up being more educated than they were, which is what the whole education thing was about in the first place - and they can then join those who can settle down to a life long lucrative career of calculating the end of the world.
ReplyDeleteI thought the world would be saved by students re-taking failed exams. After all, they have to study a bit more for them and end up being more educated than they were, which is what the whole education thing was about in the first place - and they can then join those who can settle down to a life long lucrative career of calculating the end of the world.
ReplyDeleteI haven't missed the rapture again, have ?
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