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Thread #44437   Message #653597
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
19-Feb-02 - 04:54 PM
Thread Name: BS: Time for Tomorrow
Subject: RE: BS: Time for Tomorrow
And then there is the Muslim calendar and the Jewish calendar and...

Just as well this doesn't seem to have hit the mass media, or there'd be millenial cultists lining up to top themselves and so forth, with an excuse like this. Still, they'll always find an excuse. The world won't end on Wednesday.

For the end of the world was long ago,
And all we dwell to-day
As children of some second birth,
Like a strange people left on earth
After a judgment day.

For the end of the world was long ago,
When the ends of the world waxed free,
When Rome was sunk in a waste of slaves,
And the sun drowned in the sea.


(From THE BALLAD OF THE WHITE HORSE By G.K. Chesterton)