RIP Harold Camping – or not

Harold Camping died

Unsatisfied

Even though he’s gone

the  world goes on

When Peter O’Toole died, we all looked back in sadness and nostalgia, but the happiness lingers and the love will last forever.  Everybody was sharing their favorite Peter O’Toole movies.  I think of him in My Favorite Year, The Stunt Man, and some thing I can’t remember where he was running a lame haunted castle for tourists in Ireland but then the real ghosts decided to get in on the action and hijinx ensued.  I’ve never actually seen Lawrence of Arabia, so I think of him in comedic roles.

Harold Camping July 19, 1921- December 15,2013

Harold Camping also died this week.  I don’t think many people noticed.

Sure, you  may not remember the name, but do you remember May 11th of 2011, when the world was supposed to end? Yeah, that Harold Camping.

He didn’t get raptured.  Well, maybe he did, we wouldn’t know, but since there was a distinct lack of mass disappearances on Sunday, when he died quietly in  his home at the age of 92, I’m going to assume it was natural causes.

I wonder if he was bitter? I wonder if he felt he had been forsaken by God? If his life had been in vain?

Well, tough luck, Harold Camping, your  life was in vain and, since I very much enjoy being alive in a world which hasn’t ended, I’m really glad it was.

I don’t know what happens when we die.  Neither do you, dear reader, even those few of you who think that you do.  And neither did Harold Camping.

Perhaps I’m being a bit harsh.  He was an old man, he never killed anybody, and the people who gave him all their money gave it perfectly willingly.  So, I wish him all the best in the afterlife, whatever it might be.