Monday, October 26, 2015

Doomsday 0 Ray X ?


© Ray X  10/25/15

I never got the memo.  The world was supposed to end on October 7th.

I can’t remember how many times I’ve survived Doomsday.

Previously in “The Ultimate Deadline” [1] I discussed another doomsday prophecy from last month involving the blood moon and asteroids destroying the earth.  The lunar eclipse happened with no incident and I don’t recall a massive meteor storm that spoiled everyone’s picnic.

Now we have another group, E Bible Fellowship, claiming the 2011 End Day prediction (another no show)) of the late great preacher Harold Camping was going to come true [2].  This group is based in Pennsylvania, an indication that the Keystone State cut too deep into its mental health services. 

At the E Bible website there’s a post entitled “October 8th” [3] that attempts to explain away why the world didn’t crap out, the usual backpedaling hyperlogic.  (The E must stand for evasive.)

Responding to the question “Did We lie?” E Bible says it had qualified its Doomsday prediction with the phrase “strong likelihood.”  That means there was a “small likelihood” that it wouldn’t occur.  So E Bible is left open to make as many failed predictions of Judgment Day with the “likelihood” escape clause.  QED as in Quite Easily Done.

And there was this answer to the question “Plan B (what will E Bible Fellowship do next?):”

“Some times people ask: what’s your back up plan? What are you going to do now that the world did not end on October 7th?

“Our answer has always been: we intend to keep reading and studying the Bible! Going back to the Word of God seeking truth is plan b, c, d, e, and every other option as well.”


Apparently Plan A involved the E Bible group ensconcing its collective head in its collective A.

Usually I avoid snarkism with fringe beliefs but this pessimistic religiosity is too annoying.  These Doomsayers should wake up and realize the world will end like a trickster in the night.

For those keeping score Doomsday remains stuck with a cyclopean corpulent cipher.


[1]  http://xrayer.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-ultimate-deadline.html 

[2]  http://xrayer.blogspot.com/2011/05/will-you-survive-camping-trip-mark-your.html 

[3]   http://www.ebiblefellowship.com/archives/2015/10/08/october-8th/

2 comments:

X. Dell said...

I remember my first end-of-the-world party back in 1977. Actually, I don't remember much of it because, well, it was a party.

Doomsday cults aren't that different than other cults in that they all believe that they have the ONE TRUE INSIDE DOPE on what's really happening. Sometimes, I think their belief isn't so much in the Bible, or some muddle-headed plan, but rather in themselves and their own infallibility.

Ray Palm (Ray X) said...

Like they say: The world ends when you die.