It's the end of the World as we know it, and I feel fine.

"When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati because it's always twenty years behind the times." -Mark Twain

I’m really looking forward to the World ending tomorrow. Mostly because I’m planning on buying a new car, and have a ton of debt that recently piled up no thanks to being sick, so I can’t wait to get out of dealing with all of that.

On a more serious note. This Rapture thing has definitely gone viral. That’s what this blog is about.

First of all, in case you are random reader, I definitely don’t think that people can predict the end of the World. That being said, I love how quickly the news of this prediction spread around the Internet. I had heard about this proposed Rapture a year or so ago, just because I like to read stuff that sometimes leads me to topics like this. Within the last two weeks though, it’s been anywhere and everywhere. Talk of the Rapture fills Twitter, Facebook, online forums, news articles, blogs, and even TV. While the majority of the talk is similar to this blog, and makes fun of the idea of the Rapture happening tomorrow, it's amazing how fast news can travel these days.

It was only 5 years ago when I graduated college with a degree in Mass Communication, and the times have changed significantly since then. Technology is so instant in the world we live in, that even in poorest corners of the earth, someone, somewhere has a video camera and internet access. Anyone can report the news. I find my friends more reliable new sources than the media. It’s harder for the government and the media to keep secrets these days as information is so easily exchanged and leaked (WikiLeaks) on the Internet. The Internet used to be a place for business to work more efficiently, for people to exchange private information more quickly. And these days, it’s just a giant free for all. News can spread faster than ever before and everyone is instantly connected to community, virtually, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. God intended us to be in community with others, and I can’t help to think that when the world really does end, or Jesus comes again, that He may just use the Internet…

For as long as humans have existed, we have been predicting the end of time. Why do we have such a fascination with the end times? Because of the unknown? (I highly doubt my dog sits and wonders about when the world is going to end, even though that is also unknown to her.) Humans definitely have some fascinating aspects that make us human.

However, the ability to predict the end of time, I think I’ll leave that one up to God.