A Few Doomsday Updates…
CDC on the Zombie Apocalypse
You heard right, the US Govt Centre for Disease Control now has a page devoted to surviving a zombie outbreak. Word quickly spread and the servers crashed!
…a typical CDC blog post might get between 1,000 and 3,000 hits. The most traffic on record had been a post that saw around 10,000 visits. By the end of Wednesday, with servers down, the page had 60,000. By Thursday, it was a trending topic on Twitter.
How typical! In the event of a mass outbreak of something, the CDC servers are unlikely to be up and providing information when we really need it. Say after me – “the government will not help you when you need them the most”.
Rapture Services
Not services at the church, but rather sneaky ways of getting some bucks out of believers. One US business, Eternal Earth-Bound Pets, promises to look after your pets (pets don’t get to go to heaven in most Christian religions) once you have been beamed up to be with the Lord. These atheists will actually adopt your orphaned pet for just $135. If anyone in Melbourne, Australia needs such a service – email me, I’m an atheist animal lover.
In a similar vein, You’ve Been Left Behind are quite sure that a window of opportunity will be available between Rapture and Salvation. Basically, you get to send emails to people you care about, in an attempt to convert them so they can be saved as well. The folk running the service are Christians. When they fail to log in after 6 days, rapture will be presumed to have occurred, and your emails will be sent out. Only $15/yr.
Robert Fitzpatrick in Times Square
This is the chap who spent six figures promoting Harold Camping’s doom date of last month. Some of this blog’s readers have pointed out a resemblance to 2012 author Patrick Geryl. He was brave enough to be at Times Square (as in NYE), and was surrounded by debunkers when the world failed to end.
“I didn’t water my plants, I didn’t do my dishes before I left. I didn’t expect to go back home,” Fitzpatrick conceded. NY Post
