It's The End of the World As We Know It, And I Feel Fine

Scully: Mulder, these people, even when they were alive, mangled biblical prophecy to the extent that it's unrecognisable. The year 2000 is just their artificial deadline, and besides, 2001 is actually the start of the new millennium.

Mulder: Nobody likes a math geek, Scully.

Episode: 'Millennium'
'The X Files'

Hi All,
Before this post, I've done 66 posts on this site. And today's 6/6/06. OOOOOOOO! Insert creepy music here. I was talking to my brother the other day and he made a joke about the end of the world happening today. I wasn't connecting the dots with the date so I had no idea what he was talking about at the time. But now that the day is here, I wanted to post some reflective thoughts about Life, Love, and The End of Time. Please note sarcasm and lack of seriousness.
I think life has been a great test for us all, preparing us for the next world, which some call Paradise. Or, if you've been very, very bad in this test run, you might call it Hades. Sometimes, for the fun of it, I walk along in the green fields as I mow, and yell, "If you're testing my ability to have a clogged nose and sneeze profoundly, point taken!" Or if I'm walking up a couple of flights of stairs, I yell, "Stop the misery! God help me!" If I've just tripped and fallen in the parking lot, like I did last night for no apparent reason other than my feet would not work correctly, I yell, "Had a good laugh, did ya?!!"
But there are also things I yell out thanks for. Like, when you come and put your hands near the stove after a day outside playing in the snow, and you yell, "Thank You Jesus! Warmth!" Or when you get on a really good stretch of empty road on the interstate and you can fly along, cranking tunes. That's when you yell, "I'm the king of the world!!" But sometimes even kings get pulled over. ;)
Love? Why did I include that in my thesis? Well, because Love is what makes the world go round, right? Like, when you have a really good piece of Devil's Food Cake (I had to reference the devil somehow today!) and you're all happy from the chocolate, and you think: "I love everybody right now." Or the obvious, after you've just had that 'best sex of your life' and you're laying there thinking, "I'd marry him right now, if he asked. Heck, I'd do anything he asks." So he thinks: "I'd really like to order a pizza." But there's so many types of love, like the love of a parent to a child. My mom says all the time, "I'd really love you more if you weren't such a Madonna fan." (JK; she doesn't say that. But she's no fan of M. Well, you can't win them all) Or the love some of us have for pets. I personally love my cat just like she's my child. Except she costs much less and doesn't talk back to me. ;)
So what if it were the End of Days? What would we do? I had a dream last night that it WAS the End of Days. It was hilarious. I was in my grandmother's house, which did not look like her house inside, but I knew it was her house, right. So my dad comes in and says a storm's brewing. I go outside and it's all Terminator-esque out there, like from the end of that movie when the gas station attendant tells Sarah that a storm's coming, and she says, "I know." Well, anyway, no Sarah Conner in sight, unfortunately, but the sky looked all grey and overcast. This huge (bigger than me) black crow comes and lands in the yard. I should point out here that I saw a picture of an eagle that was almost as big as a man the other day, and I had no idea they got that big. Well, anyway, taking a page from the symbology books I read, there comes the big black crow symbolizing Death. We conveniently had some yard tools laying there, nearby, so I grabbed a very heavy hoe and started waving it at the bird in an effort to scare it. Bird just stares at me like I am an idiot (no comments, wisenheimers). So Dad comes out with a lawn chair and sits it down right in view of the mountains and the impending storm. Dad says, "We might as well enjoy the view." With that I woke up. I laughed thinking about that as I showered. "We might as well enjoy the view."

Indeed. Ominous birds, lawn chairs, and hoes: That's what The End will be, if you asked me.

Other Numbers of Significance
1) 13. Actually a GOOD LUCK symbol originally, it got changed somewhere along the way by superstitious types or Christians. Must have been Catholics who turned it into an 'evil' number. Those Cathloics! So odd and dark. I like them.
2) 7. Not just a great song by Prince. Also the number of God. So on 7/7/07, we should all be as happy as larks.
3) 47. A very important number in Rambaldi Prophecy, according to 'Alias.' Or, the number of people who've gotten their ass kicked by Sydney Bristow.
4) 2000. Every 2,000 years, some major event is supposed to happen. The last new Peanuts comic appeared in this year. It was the end of Peanuts. I'd say that was a major event. A sad event.
5) 4,8,15,16,23,42. The 'Lost' numbers. What do they mean? We'll never know. The Producers made them up just to confound us.

Well, looks like the world carries on, so I must get to work here.
Have a great day, and if you see any huge birds around, reach for the hoe!