I’m not dead … Are you?

Now then, do stop me if I’m wrong but I’m not dead.  That’s good news to me, since I don’t want to be dead.  I can assume you are not dead either.  Good for you, too.  Excellent stuff, but a little confusing.

We’re all supposed to be dead.

You may recall this article I wrote here that quite specifically said that May 21st was the End of the World.

This was not my prediction mind, but the prediction of some mad folk calling themselves Family Radio.  Their broadcasts have beamed across the world and via their own radio stations in America for years.  Recently they built to fever pitch because May 21st 2011 definitely, 100%, absolutely was Judgement Day.

I’m not exactly sure what a ‘Judgement Day’ is, but alongside the words was also the phrase “End of the World”.

Now, I’m pretty sure an “end of the world” is when the planet and all the lives on it cease to exist.  But, we’re all still here.

I suppose I could twist it a bit to conclude that the “end of the world” meant the end of a species, or all life, leaving the planet in tact.  Nope, that doesn’t seem to have happened, either.

Does it mean the end of one particular species?  Nope.  Maybe the end of one particular race?  Nope, not that I can see, either.

Ok, this “end of the world” phrase, which Family Radio definitely said applied to May 21st 2011 obviously means something else.  For all life on this planet nothing changed whatsoever, true some people died, some people were born, but the numbers haven’t gone up or down to what is expected in the global birth and death count, so what on earth does the “end of the world” phrase actually allude to?

It’s not even as if a large number of humans have all suddenly disappeared (I think this is known as “Rapturing”) by floating up in the air on streams of light, leaving the rest of us alone to think, “Damn. If only we’d believed Family Radio so that we’d had a chance to enjoy whatever it is those who disappeared are now enjoying.”  Well, unless of course they’ve all been harvested and are sitting on some alien dinner table. Staying here is better than that.

But, there’s no evidence that, beyond a tiny few nutters killing themselves because they felt it was their way of dealing with the much promised Judgement Day, anybody has disappeared.

So, I can only see a huge “FAIL” sign relating to the phrase “end of the world”.

That leads me back to “Judgement Day”.  Ok, I guess the cop-out on this one would be for Family Radio to say, “Well, yes our god came down and he judged everybody. You’re all in trouble now, yes you are!”  But, the way they’ve been banging on about it they made it sound like we’d at least see their god giving us the once over and tut tut tutting as he writes our names on the naughty list.  I never saw him.  Did you?

Maybe the get-out here will be that only the chosen ones saw him judging them or something.  No doubt Family Radio will have already started the spin!

When you have people so hypnotised that they don’t use any logic to question anything, you can tell them anything and they will accept it.  That explains why so many folk dumped off their annoying and no-longer-required-after-‘rapturing’ cash into a convenient Family Radio bank account in readiness for Judgement Day / The End Of The World / Rapture.

Will they want their money back?  Of course not.  They are far too hypnotised to think logically and realise they’ve been had.  They’ll just await new programming instructions like the good drones they are. Whatever spin Family Radio puts on Saturday having been, well, just a Saturday, they’ll take it in and completely believe it.  Their ‘common sense’ is being blocked by their programming, just as with any hypnotic state suggestion designed to block logic.  They’ll thank their god and go park themselves in a holding bay until activated by the Family Radio team to do whatever they are told to do next.

Yet, because Family Radio are Christians they’ll not only get away with it, and still get their tax breaks (why are god botherers given tax breaks?), but they won’t be prosecuted and dealt with under laws that protect people against deception and manipulation by other companies or organisations.  The people they’ve hypnotised should have access to the same protection that they would have against any other bogus organisation making wild claims.  I mean, if they say eating 10 of these pills will make you lose 30 kilos within a week, but nothing happens, the company making the claim gets taken to court.

Time for the false claims of Family Radio to be dealt with in court, too, and for religion to be dealt with each time it pushes out another false claim to be consumed by the hard of thinking.