Sorry, Something Came Up... Can We Reschedule The Apocalypse?

Several times throughout history - well it's more like a biannual event - a new prediction for the end of the world is forged. A more recent one put forth is 21 May 2011, so says the Christian Group, and they are dead certain of this. But, of course, if that fails to occur, then we can look forward to 21 December 2012, because the Mayan calendar says so.

I find it rather ironic that Christians, of all faiths, would actually persecute, murder, enslave, ravage, pillage, burn, and other atrocities against other religions for centuries... but when their own text doesn't give an exact time for the Armageddon alarm clock, they look to other religions (ones they usually have persecuted) for possible dates of the Apocalypse. "But the Mayan Calender ends on December 21st 2012!" ... ... Well my clock ends at midnight, but that's doesn't mean the world will end. It just means it is tomorrow. The reasons the Mayan probably made their calender to extend several thousand years into the future than they could possibly have anticipate was probably to avoid any unforeseen mistakes... like forgetting to add two extra digits into computer clocks when Y2K rolls around.

But aside from all that, what is the biggest concern about the anticipation of the Apocalypse is not the Apocalypse itself. Deep down, what is really the problem is that we as a species, a world culture made from multiple subcultures, and as an evolutionary phenomenon are so miserable we want everything to die.

Is life so miserable that the duration of our individual lives has to turn into a litany for mass death? Is existence that pathetic and painful that if you have to die, everything else must go as well?

The most amazing thing that Jesus, Muhammad, Krishna, Buddha, and any other Messiah could ever do is to actually come back, dance around for a while, and then leave. No great wars or mass famine... just them telling us that it was all one big joke and we all need to get along.