FEBRUARY 15th -- The Endtimes Won't Be Scheduled



This day in 2013 was out of this world. Really had an impact. Showered us with gifts. These vague puns probably work better if I just go ahead and tell you I’m talking about meteors. The biggest impact from a meteor in that last 100 years occurred in the Chelyabinsk region of Russia on this day in 2013. That’s pretty amazing in and of itself. But hours later asteroid 2012 DA14 passed by Earth a mere 17,200 miles away, marking the largest meteor to come that close to Earth. I’m guessing the people of the Chelyabinsk region thought the world was ending. With good reason. People get so worked up about these predictions of the world ending. The Mayan Calendar. The twenty times Nostradamus predicted the world would end. The various cults that drank the kool-aid. But I seriously doubt the end of the world is going to be scheduled. At least not with any legitimate foresight. It’s similar to the real issues in your life. They just pop up. Unexpected. Like Baz Luhrman’s “Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen),” based on Mary Schmich's wonderful hypothetical commencement speech that offers some truly inspiring advice notes, “the real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind--the kind that blindsides you at 4pm on some idle Tuesday.” You spend so much time worrying about your job, or what cell phones are actually doing to your brain, or whether or not Leo will finally win an Oscar, but it's the pizza you leave in the oven after a random night of drinking that’s going to get you. And the Endtimes will be the same. We might have little warning. Enough that the rich people can go live on the secret moon station and the doomsday preppers can survive in their bunkers, but when the big ass asteroid finally does hit, most of us won’t have a damn clue, just like those poor bastards in Russia. Good thing is this isn’t supposed to happen for a long ass time, but then that prediction contradicts my whole post. Luckily you are human being and can understand duality. Right? Man this is getting deep and weird. Just live your life. And hope we don’t get hit by a big-ass space rock. And wear sunscreen.

This Day has been Marked.

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