Here at Magick Sandwich, we enjoy a bit of name-calling as much as the next guy. Back at the end of May, when it appeared the Rapture hadn't happened, we wracked our brains to come up with a term that would adequately define the non-event.
In order to share our results with the world--and to try to look clever--we rushed off our newly minted moniker to the folks at Urban Dictionary. Then we waited. And waited. In the intervening months, we learned from that lovable old coot and Nostradamus wannabe, Harold Camping, that the Rapture had indeed happened and God had already chosen his flock.
But He'd postponed their ascension and withheld the results. Did He do it out of concern for his faithful getting motion sick on the flight up to Heaven or was He just toying with them? Either way, it's helped Camping keep hope for death alive while filling his coffers. Camping's followers continue to give, though some must have the queasy feeling of spending one's life savings on a lottery ticket.
According to Harold, the world will end today. He's got a pretty bad track record thus far. I'm sure it's just a simple computational error. Or he could be batshit crazy. If tomorrow comes, we'll need a new noun to suit the occasion. We humbly submit our sobriquet, published just in the nick of time: no-pocalypse. This occurs when Judgment Day passes without incident. For example: I wish I could go to your no-pocalypse party but since the Rapture didn't happen, I have to do my homework. Bummer!
Of course, the most interesting words will be whatever Harold Camping is saying tomorrow. Stay tuned!
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Maybe we should ask to see his computations and double check his arithmetic. There's either an arithmetic error or he's dead wrong (pun intended).
no-pocalypse.....how do you do that? you are so brilliant.
kath, just to let you know, i wrote the last comment about you being brilliant. i must have sent it before i put my name in. didn't want you to think you had some stalker fan out there who'd show up at your door for a ghoulish lunch.
Good post here.Thanks for sharing this info.
Hey I forgot all about the Oct. 21 no-pocalypse! What did he have to say about the fact that it didn't happen? Was it another math error? If so, that guy needs to go back to high school math class.
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