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Daily Sucker for Monday, October 5, 2009
October 5th, 2009 2:02 am by Vincent Flanders
Submitter’s comments: None. I “found” this one myself. Please don’t ask how I found it.
Vincent Flanders’ comments: This is obviously one of those over-the-top web sites. The definition of an “Over the Top” web site is just like the definition of pornography— you know it when you see it. Over the Top sites generally deal with philosophy, religion, politics, end times, etc., but they’re generally not mainstream.
The History Channel has been running a bunch of shows (which you can buy on DVD) about how the world’s going to end in 2012. Here’s one and here’s another. Basically, here’s the core of the story:
It is a doomsday that is foretold in The Mayan Calendar, the Chinese oracle of the I Ching… even an internet-based prophetic software program: December 21st, 2012. Is there any truth to the prophecy that the world will end on that specific date? And why do so many oracles throughout history seem to point to that same dreaded doomsday?
I’ve got a “Future Map of the United States 1998-2001″ which, believe it or not, hasn’t come true yet. I think people are still talking up the subject, but I’m willing to bet the dates have been changed to protect the erroneous. When I originally bought it I hung it up in my office and it was a wonderful conversation piece; otherwise, it was worthless.
Maybe the world will end in 2012. If it does, it will be because of all the sucky web sites about predicting the end of the world like today’s sucker.
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