The earth has shaken again, quite a few times in last couple of weeks. Not so surprisingly, as an eventuality many of the uber-religious, ever faithful children of God are moving around wide eyed, anxiously palpitating for an imminent apocalypse.
I came to notice this ever so banal phenomenon first on Facebook (where else?) this time. It was in the form of a status update from a friend that somewhat goes like: "is this the beginning of the end?"
Hmm… such cryptic query bounds you to inquire further into it; you scratch your head in confusion and curiosity: "what's this 'this' that she is talking about?"
Fortunately, Facebook has answer to that too, in the form of comments that follow of course. By further probing into a plethora of comments that she has received and made, I came to realise that it is the recent earthquakes that she was talking about… and my brain immediately went like 'tingggggg', voilà, déjà vu, this has happened once again (take, for example, similar vacuous cerebrations in the wake of the 'swine flu' pandemic just a while back). I guess at this point it is rather redundant to mention that she is one of those many who attribute everything including their own achievements to some ectoplasmic hand of God.
It gets better from here (sarcastically speaking of course), the comment thread in question now shows the latent paranoia of God's children that is full of befuddlement (on my part) and contradiction (on their part). One sanctimonious fellow comes up with the evergreen (or should I say 'everyellow') statement, "God always does whatever is best for us; it may or may not be a sign (for apocalypse) but we have to keep the faith".
'Tadaaaa'… problem solved then; we can now merrily go back to whatever insignificant earthly task we were doing… but no, then he adds, "God willing, He will answer our prayers and keep us safe…" errr… you've lost me there buddy, utterly bemused… didn't you just utter a dictum that God always does the best for you; then why are you praying to God to protect you from sky falling onto you? Buddy, did you just decide all by yourself that staying alive is the best thing for you? What if, for some uncanny megalomaniacal reason, God finds devastation as best recourse for you? What if God just loves to say 'Muhahahah' and thinks it's sweet for you? Did you just use your earthly human brain to make a decision? Make up your mind mate and save me from this daze...
Nevertheless, the comment thread continued (and most probably is still continuing) with lots of prayers and may be with some materialistic offerings to God that often present themselves in the form of delicious sweetmeats.
Anyhow, this was a part of my eclectic circle of acquaintances. But this phenomenon of cerebrating over the 'mystic' earthquakes is certainly not limited to them. The whole lot of the uber-faithfuls all over the world are seriously pondering upon it. Some are even coming up with some reverse dictum, like this Aussie nun. Indeed, what a matter to ponder upon...
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