So... Rapture.

For any of you who haven't been keeping up with the news/internet/world in general or have otherwise been in a coma of some sort, today is supposedly the beginning of the apocalypse. That's what Harold Camping thought anyway (let's not forget that he also predicted it would happen in 1994). 6pm local time, he said.

In Australia right now it's past 9pm. Nothing's happened. Of course, it's not like anyone expected it would. I mean the idea of anyone being able to predict the rapture is ridiculous in itself, especially when it says in the bible that only God knows the date of it. By predicting it with any certainty he's already disproved himself. He really should take more time with his bible, the way he's supposedly "calculated" it by taking numbers from the bible and stuff, for one, the book is meant to be accessible for everyone, that's the whole point of it: face it Harold, there are no secret messages, it's all in your head.

Despite the general scepticism that the idea has been met with, the internet seems to be using it to make a new meme. Indeed I expect there to be pictures of memes such as socially awkward penguin and things with captions like "predict the apocalypse, nothing happens". At least someone's getting some fun out of this, unlike all those Christians who think they're really going to be leaving the earth to meet Jesus. Imagine if you'd sold everything you owned for this day.

Still, having a party might have been nice, just to celebrate how we're still here and there isn't actually fire and brimstone raining down from the sky. No giant earthquakes yet either, and hopefully there won't be, but if it did happen I'd put it down to sheer coincidence anyway.

Let's face it though, Harold Camping probably isn't going to stop doing what he's doing, unless today is his personal rapture. We all have to die sometime after all. And if not? Well, third time's the charm Harold.