The End of the World

[Tonus]

I really feel sorry for people like this and some of our board members, who also have tender feelings for Armageddon. What have they been through? How were they brought up to feel such contempt for life?

It's the anticipation of something they've been waiting for. We experience it all the time, including both the elation of finally getting what we wanted, or the disappointment of not getting it. Imagine, then, that what they are waiting for is an even better outcome than they can possibly imagine, but all they know is that it will happen "soon" and there is no shortage of false alarms from fellow believers who are pretty sure they saw something but no... that wasn't it.

With that in mind, I think there is a certain solace in responding to mockery with "you'll see, just wait... it won't be long now, and you'll be sorry!" You know that it's going to happen, and you know it's going to happen any day now, and you know those smug smiles will be wiped off of their faces, and GODDAMIT WHY WON'T IT START ALREADY FUCK MY LIFE AHHHHHHHHHHHHH

My mother has been waiting for god to start purging the wicked for around forty-seven years now. And she remains certain that it's just around the corner. But I wonder if she's as certain today as she was back then, because fifty years of false alarms are bound to wear a person down. Then again, fifty years of repeating the same mantra over and over can form an incredibly resilient barrier to reality.