DOOMSDAY

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have never believed doomsday predictions.

2012 was supposed to be a bad year.

Remember Y2K?

Many people moved out of the U.S.

Many people loaded up on “survival” supplies of food.

I joked that I had bought a lot of peanut butter.

Doomsday is not a book.

Well, actually it is:

Doomsday Book is a 1992 science fiction novel by American author Connie Willis.

The cries for food and water are getting louder.

Higher prices for food and fuel continue to rise.

Aliens and asteroids will not end the world.

Humans are doing the dooming all by themselves.

Don't give God the credit or blame.

IT'S ABOUT RENEWABLE RESOURCES!
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Fire and Ice

By Robert Frost

Some say the world will end in fire;

Some say in ice.

From what I've tasted of desire

I hold with those who favor fire.

But if it had to perish twice,

I think I know enough of hate

To know that for destruction ice

Is also great

And would suffice.

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The End Of The World
By

Archibald MacLeish

Quite unexpectedly, as Vasserot
The armless ambidextrian was lighting
A match between his great and second toe,
And Ralph the lion was engaged in biting
The neck of Madame Sossman while the drum
Pointed, and Teeny was about to cough
In waltz-time swinging Jocko by the thumb—
Quite unexpectedly the top blew off:
And there, there overhead, there, there hung over
Those thousands of white faces, those dazed eyes,
There in the starless dark the poise, the hover,
There with vast wings across the cancelled skies,
There in the sudden blackness the black pall
Of nothing, nothing, nothing—nothing at all.