Prophecies and other duds
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| Aldrin Cardon |
It was around 1987 when I first believed in the prophecies of Michael Stipe. He didn’t croon but he ranted. “It’s the end of the word as we know it.” And yes, I felt fine.
I felt fine that, in fact, I’m still alive 24 years later. And doomsday, it seems, looks very far, it won’t happen in my lifetime.
I have to give it to Jay Sean, who gave us reassurance end of the world’s not going to happen in 2012, as one hit movie claimed. But Jay Sean says it’s okay to party like it’s the end of the world, and we can “turn it up, and mash it up, and keep it rockin’ ‘til 6 am, from New York to London over to Japan.”
It’s Japan, however, which gave us a shocker. Waves ripped across its beaches, sweeping along cars and large boats and planes, along with the small houses they could gorge in one wallop.
And doomsday believers had a field day, claiming Japan was a reiteration of events leading to the world’s meltdown. Cool, not!.... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110316com6.html
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