At the appointed time my wife and I were sitting in front of the stereo listening to a nice jazz station and slurping something decidely alcoholic (just in case). Sorry guys - I'm still here - your gonna have to put up with me for a bit longer (heaven doesn't want me and hell is afraid I'll take over, lol).
As I said above most people are really sheeple who want to be led thru life. They do not want to make decisions for themselves or be responsible for the results of those decisions. They want someone to make those decisions for them and an excuse that places the blame for bad decisions anywhere but where it should go (on themselves). Religeon is an overly convienent medium and there will always be those more then willing to "help out". Phrases such as "The Lord works in mysterious ways", "Its the lords Will", "Its the will of Allah", etc. are universal cop-outs from responsibility since its all encompassing and can never be proven one way or the other. Religeon itself isn't a scam but far too much associated with or derived from it is. Its just too damn easy (and there are no laws against fleecing your flock).
Keep in mind folks we get to go thru this all over again next year when the Mayan calender completes its (current) cycle. Its already started in a way (the movie was great, lol). Calendars are all cyclic. Ours is every 12 months. Were still here after 2011 cycles. The Mayan calender just has a longer and more accurate cycle (the Mayans were great astronimical observers). Then there was the Jan 1, 2000 flap. Again we are still here despite myrid doomsayers cries. It will never stop until it actualy happens (and you will never convince me in a gazillion years it will happen in such a manner). World war 3, asteroid strike like the dinosaur killer like 65 million years ago, super volcano eruption, etc yes. The heavens opening up and (only the brain dead faithfull) being wafted to the heavens - no.
There is evidence the human race almost went extinct about 80,000 years ago when a super volcano in southeast asia went boom. It is estimated we were down to about 3000 individuals. This is based on genetic diversity. Our genes should have a large amount of diversity yet test after test sez no -we are far too non-diversified. Tests seem to show diversity was wide until about 80,000 years ago when it ran thru a bottle neck. It has slowly been widening ever since but what caused the bottle neck? A genetisit happen to sit in on a lecture on super volcanos and when the vulcanist mentioned the super volcano in southeast asia went boom 80,000 years ago the genetistst about fell out of his chair. There was the reason. They got together after the lecture and had quite a talk.
Finally keep in mind yellowstone is not only a super volcano but the largest super volcano. It goes boom every 600,000 years (and last went boom 640,000 years ago). Get ready to duck folks, lol.
Ben (who obviously likes to read too much for his own good, lol).