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| Christian Minister Harold Camping |
This follows hot on the heels of the geriatric Christian minister Harold Camping, who predicted that the world would end on the 21st of May 2011.
Obviously I am still here, and so is Harold Camping and his former
followers, although many of these are bankrupt having given away all
their worldly goods before the event, which must make his preaching
close to criminal.
He has now revised the date, and is now confident that God would spare humanity "hell on Earth for five months" and the apocalypse will now happen on 21 October 2011 ..... but don't hold your breath, or give your house away, because the man is a deluded old fool, who should be locked up for his, and everyone else's good. I mean what's the difference between this and any other grifter routine?
Which brings me on to the next "End Of The World" moment and how to survive it .... Bugarach, is a small ancient village in the French Pyrenees, and another bunch of nutcases (in this case UFO and God is an astronaut believers), have evolved the idea that when the world ends, this village and its inhabitants will be rescued by alien astronauts who live in the mountains.
This particular bunch of crackpots have combined a misunderstanding of the Mayan calendar cycles, with the ancient astronauts visited earth theories. According to their understanding of the ancient Mayan calendar, at some point towards the end of 2012, the world will come to an end ....... of course its actually just the end of one cycle of the calendar and the start of the cycle again.
Apparently for some years, rumours have circulated on the Internet (in certain forums), that extra-terrestrials live in the mountain, and come the apocalypse, the top will open and they will emerge with spaceships, and rescue the local inhabitants .... no, really, that's what these headcases believe.
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| This childish drawing is Graffiti that's appeared in Bugarach |
The local mayor, Jean-Pierre Delord, told the BBC that groups of people that could be 'sects' are believed to be planning to head to the mountain top and some have already taken part in strange rituals. And others, dressed in white outfits, have also been seen holding furtive gatherings in the forest near the village.
Of course the authorities fear another Jonestown Massacre type tragedy (The 'People's Temple' sect founded by Jim Jones 'talked' over 1,000 members into a mass suicide), and a special parliamentary committee has warned that sects may be considering mass suicides in 2012, on French territory .... oddly, in the next valley there is another tiny village, Rennes le Chateau, which has a fortean significance of its own (ignoring the Dan Jones tosh that the BBC repeat) .....
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