The End of the World?

(This post was originally going to be a youtube video, but my camera is dead and I don't feel like waiting for it to charge. So I figured I'd just type up what I was going to say.)

Ok, so supposedly the world is going to end (or something like that, anyway) tomorrow. Just in case you were worried, IT'S NOT GOING TO.

The world was going to end in 1994. It didn't.

The world was going to end in 2000. It didn't.

The world was going to end June 6, 2006. It didn't.

The world is supposed to end December 21, 2012. It won't.

The world is supposed to end tomorrow. It won't.

People seem to have the fascination with the world ending. It's really ridiculous, and it's getting quite old. It's to the point where it's almost boring, really. I mean, "oh the world's going to end? Again?" Right?!

But anyways. This thing with the world ending tomorrow. It's the really religious people who think that, right? I'm not a religious person. At all. I don't like religion. But I'm not one of those people who are like "People shouldn't be religious! Religion is stupid! Blah blah blah." That's not me. I'm more like "Ok, cool." Just don't try to force your beliefs on me. That WILL make me not like you. But anyway, I'm kind of rambling on.

If you don't care why I don't like religion, just skip over this whole paragraph. But, if you want to know why I don't like it, here ya go: weren't there a lot of wars and stuff caused because of people's different religions? And people couldn't accept the other people's religion? Like... I wasn't exactly one who paid attention in history, because that class was SO BORING to me, but weren't the crusades a religious thing? And they were really bad, right? And even on the internet, people will fight over religion. But anyway. Religion (more specifically: people who are EXTREMISTS in their religion) is kind of like... Ok, it's cool you've got something to believe in, but there's people who take it way too far. People who don't take credit for their own actions because they didn't do anything on their own accord because God (or whatever other higher being) made them do it. They did it because God wanted them to, or some other nonsense like that. And the people who think that their religion is the best/right/whatever religion and who look down on people with other religions. And people who hide behind their religion, saying things like that being gay or whatever isn't right because God said so in the bible. And people who believe in Heaven or whatever because of their religion, I feel like it's just because they're so scared of death and dying, that they want there to be something else. And I mean... I'm not religious, I said that already, but I kind of think there might be something more after this, but I don't know. I don't think anyone really knows. I want there to be. But I don't think it's Heaven or Hell or whatever; I think it's more a reincarnation thing. But that's just me.

Ok, so back to the world ending. It's not going to end. And tomorrow night, when we're all still here, I (and every one else saying that this is all BS) get to say that we told you so. It's really really ridiculous to think it's going to. I mean, one day, it might. And at the rate we (the human race) are using up all our non-renewable resources (I think that's what they're called?) and polluting the Earth, and destroying our planet for the future generations, at the rate we're going, it'll probably end sooner rather than later. But not tomorrow. Not December 21st next year. Not any time really soon.

If the world ends before I see Taylor Swift in concert, I'll be pissed.

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