The End of the World as We Know It...

[ht_murray]

Sorry I haven't had a chance to reply to the comments on my last post. Just have a few minutes before I leave for work...

The other day chocca2 and I were discussing a timeline for a fic we're writing, and we mentioned the Apocalypse is supposed to happen in 2012. I was like, "Well, it should happen after that, but I'm not sure I want to write the boys that old..." And then WHAM! It hit me.

That's only three years away!!!!

AAAAAHHHH!!

Okay, for serious, though. I have an aunt who spent most of her high school years in an identity crisis with her religious upbringing and her growing into the freedom that comes with adulthood. She said to me once, she'd be up all night at drinking parties with her friends, laughing and partying, and then looking up and praying, "God, don't let Jesus come now and find me here."

So, there may or may not be some change of direction in my personal entries coming shortly. Cuz seriously, I don't know if I want Jesus to find me here. Yes?

Comments

[jellicle.livejournal.com]

I don't believe in an announced date for the Apocalypse but the I don't know if I want Jesus to find me here thought hits me every once in a while.

[tru-faith-lost.livejournal.com]

I don't know if I believe that either, but it's the weirdest thing, because as soon as I realized that's only 3 years away, it was like this weight was lifted. Everything switched perspective when I stopped thinking in terms of forever and started thinking in terms of, in the next three years. I think I shall have a thinky post about this tomorrow. LOL.

[pinkoceantides.livejournal.com]

Have a good night at work!! :)

[tru-faith-lost.livejournal.com]

I'm trying. Have fun!

[pinkoceantides.livejournal.com]

Well don't work to hard :)

I'm just listening to BSB Radio ha.

[starry-ice.livejournal.com]

LOL we've survived through several Armageddon dates already. 2012 is the last hurdle... and then I think the next one after that is like sometime past the year 6000?

[tru-faith-lost.livejournal.com]

LOL, I know. It's funny, though, because I always knew about the prediction, I just never really realized how close that is to now. I think tomorrow I will have a post about what I think it means to me. I don't know if I believe it, but it might change the way I think about a few things, in a good way, though, I hope.

Now I'm at work and really shouldn't be reading my LJ. eek!

[starry-ice.livejournal.com]

Lucky that you get to be on LJ at work! They've blocked LJ from us to keep us away from internet distractions :(

[tabularassa.livejournal.com]

Are you watching the thing about the Mayans on the History Channel, and how the world is supposed to end Dec. 21, 2012? OMG I WAS JUST GONNA POST ABOUT IT. LMAO

[tru-faith-lost.livejournal.com]

I think it must be an all day event, cuz I totally saw that when I woke up, and was watching it. I love that kinda stuff. I'm like, not ready to say I believe it's absolutely gonna happen, but... I think I'll post about it tomorrow when I'm not at work.

But you're write, LOL. OMG! I always knew that date had been forecast, but it always seemed so far away, and now... three years. HOLY HELL!!

Okay, back to work. *is a bad girl*

[tabularassa.livejournal.com]

Naughty girl;) LOL

<3

[chocca2.livejournal.com]

2012, three years away?!! I still can't get over that. *shakes head* Freaks me, just a bit lol

[redheadforever.livejournal.com]

Ehh, the idea of not worrying yourself sick about years down the road is a very good one regardless of religious leanings.

Just put a life into manageable bites. Five years, three years, a day from now is better and more nearly doable than the Big Picture. Otherwise you can wind up drowning in fear, or regret or just all those choices and the many forks in the road like true 3D chess.

Your aunt is worried about Jesus but not about the God she's praying to and telling all about her peccadilloes? Kinda insulting to poor God.

But it's an interesting concept, that timeline: Am I where I'd be proud to have my deity, my family, myself -- and what can I do to change or finetune that location?

Thanks for the food for thought!

*smishes*

Red