A Dudeist take on Judgment Day:
"That’s great, it starts with an earthquake…"
Not only is that a line from one of our favorite REM tunes, it also happens to be what some folks believe is going to happen this weekend.
According to a fundamentalist radio preacher named Harold Camping, prepare to have your plans for Saturday night micturated on. That’s when he claims a massive earthquake will rock the world after Jesus (Christ, not Quintana) returns to Earth from his 2,000-year sabbatical.
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That’s being verrrrry unDudeist.
As we point out in our upcoming Abide Guide, Dudeism isn’t “all hung up on figuring out what happens in the End Times; we’re all about remembering how to live the right way in These Here Times.”And according to our laid-back ethos the right way to live in These Here Times begins with realizing you can’t worry about that end-of-the-world shit, man. Life is going to go on. Parts, anyway.
So, while Camping and the media are stoking up fears about Judgment Day this Saturday, the Church of the Latter-Day Dude encourages toking up and remembering to just take it easy this Friday, May 20, 2011 for “Can’t Worry About that Shit Day.”
And when Camping and his confused cohorts are wondering where the Jesus is on Sunday, join the rest of us in celebrating “Life Goes On Day” on May 22.
More:
http://dudespaper.com/its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it-and-we-feel-far-out.html