Rapture & the world ending today...

At 6pm tonight (9pm Eastern time as this comes from California), the world will supposedly end. Although technically, what's actually going to happen is the rapture.

This according to Harold Camping of the Family Radio Network in Oakland, California. The original date of his prediction was September 6, 1994. But that came and went and nothing happened other than Michael Jackson & Aerosmith winning awards at the 11th MTV Awards.

See a picture of this crazy person and read more about how he came up with his theory in an online article from The Independent.

As for my take on this (I guess I'm about to get philosophical or at the very least "deep"), I'm making plans to maybe go to Darien Lake tomorrow at one point. I probably wouldn't be doing that if I thought the world was going to end. Or rapture.

Apparently, what this nutcase thinks is going to happen is about 2% of the world's population is going to go straight to Heaven at 6pm Pacific time tonight. The other 98% will remain in a very bad place (which if I understand right ends up being right here on Earth).

Now I like being here. Got a lot of friends & family, awesome things to do (Niagara Falls, Phoenix & Viper roller coasters, lots of great books to read, etc), and a lot of incredible food to eat (I'm specifically thinking of the Flying Saucer Restaurant right now - that alone probably excludes me from Harold's crazy bus to the sky). I don't want to be raptured!

And to be honest, I'm pretty sure the world would be a better place if some of these lunatics that believe crazy Harold Camping did in fact get raptured and went away (of their own free will of course). That may offend some, but I know you were thinking it too! :)

The thing that really shocks me is this group has managed to collect a hundred million dollars over the past seven years for this cause! But they weren't able to spend all of that yet. Hey rapturers, since you're leaving anyways, can you send some of that leftover money my way? If of course you read this in the next few hours.

I was going to put up a video of Harold here, but I like this far better instead (because I know it will be appropriate at 9:01pm Eastern time tonight)...