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Owatonnabill was hugely disappointed this a.m. when he looked out the window and saw his part of Owatonna still intact. Lady across the street was out warming up her van. Recycle bin still in place by the curb because our intrepid garbage service is running behind because of THE THREE WHOLE INCHES OF SHOW we Owatonnans were blessed with over the last day or so. And the phone bill is still due. No Four Horsemen galloping madly down the street. So much for that. So when's the next Doomsday supposed to hit anyway?

Well another disaster averted. Time to forget this one and prepare for the next one that is certain to occur. Wonder what it'll be the next time...hmmm...alien invasion from outerspace? another whopper from Harold Camping? I'll be pragmatic and pick economic disasters for $16 trillion.

It won't take long for someone to "reinterpret" a poem by Nostradamus or some other source and target the next end date so they can sell their books. Yawn...

Next up: Year 2K bug. . .in 2048.

The real purpose behind all these wacko predictions is to discredit the real apocalypse, as prophesized in the Bible book of Revelations. The Bible makes it clear that the real end of the world will come at a time when people least expect it, as a thief in the night. Any date thrown out there is immediately suspect, as Jesus himself said he did not know the day or hour. By turning the Bible's apocalypse into one giant joke, very few actually believe there will be an end to civilization as we know it. Wacko predictions about the end of the world turn people off from any serious discussion about the need to look to the Bible for answers.

You could substitute the term "global warming" for "doomsday" in your article and you'd get the same kind of put downs of people who buy into all the talk of global warming doomsday. Of course the "good part" of the global warming side is all the believers sending money into the lawyers "cashing in" on running "environmental" organizations.

"The real purpose behind all these wacko predictions is to discredit the real apocalypse, as prophesized in the Bible book of Revelations. The Bible makes it clear that the real end of the world will come at a time when people least expect it, as a thief in the night. Any date thrown out there is immediately suspect, as Jesus himself said he did not know the day or hour. By turning the Bible's apocalypse into one giant joke, very few actually believe there will be an end to civilization as we know it. Wacko predictions about the end of the world turn people off from any serious discussion about the need to look to the Bible for answers." bible, mayan, both fairy tales....you say potato, I say potatoe,

Did you hear, when doomsday did not occur, they turned over the Mayan calendar and saw written on the back "Continued on next stone" :)