Kupowered: Welcome....to Rapture.

Friday, May 20, 2011

Welcome....to Rapture.

Er....no, not this one.

This one. Apparently.

Now, while there are a couple places that I don't want to take this blog, religion being one of the bigger areas, this shit is everywhere.

And yet, there really isn't much to say about it. This sort of thing is pretty common, actually, and why it's getting media coverage this time around is baffling. Especially so, considering this isn't the first time Harold Camping, the guy who is shouting tomorrow as Judgment Day from the rooftops, has has predicted the Rapture.

Camping uses a mathematical formula linked to prophecies in the Bible. He once predicted Sept. 6, 1994 as Judgment Day, but that math didn't quite work out. This time around, Camping's organization took out an ad in Reader's Digest, stating: "The Bible guarantees the end of the world will begin with Judgment Day May 21, 2011."

So, essentially, he's going "Okay, for real this time, you guys." I, uh.....alright, guy. If you want to take a look at the big math involved in predicting the end of the world, it is here. (Spoiler: The only math shown is simple addition and subtraction.)

Of course, I don't mean to offend anyone reading this, as I'm obviously not poking fun at any religion, just at a guy saying he derived math from the Bible that guarantees the start-date of the Rapture when he was completely wrong before and predicting an actual -day- for a giant catastrophe is silly. I have a friend in Australia. It is tomorrow there. It has not Raptured yet. And the last time something was supposed to destroy the world, well, it just didn't happen, as you can see. (Protip: If you don't get that, look at the URL when/if you open it.)

Anyways, that's just all I wanted to address with this. Apologies for this being a fairly link/media-heavy article, but hopefully it brought around a chuckle or something. See you tomorrow!

1 comment:

ChanceMay 22, 2011 at 1:38 AM
I'm thrilled I didn't get sucked up to heaven by God's hoover of divinity. This way, I'll still be around to play Uncharted 3 this fall.
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What's all this, then?

This is going to be many things, but first and foremost, it is, quite simply and unsurprisingly, a place for me to write. Sometimes about video games, sometimes about movies, and other times, just to write out mini-stories and the like. As an outlet for me, it will likely reflect how I am; at times it will be entertaining, and other times it will be informative. I just hope that every time it's interesting at the very least.

The current goal is a post every other day to settle myself in; eventually, I will seek to post every day, if just to raise an inquiry that I've found I've tripped over most of that day, or to retell an amusing, or perhaps less so, tale from the day. I find that I can be long-winded at times, so perhaps this will be less of a concern than I imagine!

While it would make sense to change this to grow as "Kupowered" does, I hope to keep this just as it is and, sometime down the road, re-read it with a slight chuckle and mumble to myself, "I did it." So take this as a mission statement, if you will, and we will see how it works out!

Handy Post-Types Guide!

A Look Back: In lieu of reviews (which I might do in the future), these posts will be fond recollections of older games from my past, telling you why I believe them to be good and why you might be interested in playing them.
Giant Robot On: I like Giant Robots. Who doesn't? These posts will always be talking about something with Giant Robots in it, be it video games or anime or movies.
Less-Short Story: On occasion, inspiration will hit me and I'll want to write a short story or, as the name implies, expand on a story from my old Ficly. That will be these posts.
LittleBigThings: In these posts, I will be discussing (read: gushing about) things in the LittleBigPlanet series of games, from the game itself, to user-created levels, to my own adventures in Craftworld.
Music!: Fairly self-Explanatory. In these posts, I will talk (gush) about music I like, and possibly music that I don't care for.
Popcorn On: These posts will revolve around movies that I've seen that are just great in one way or another. The aim is to give you enough to interest you into seeing it without giving too much so that you feel you know what's going to happen.
Quick Note: These will usually be, as can be expected, short posts to keep in touch with the blog and it's readers if I'm not prepared for a full post or if I'm updating on a past post.
Ragequit: Completely opposite of A Look Back, these posts will be about the few games I've had to quit playing because they just weren't fun. (Or that I might have finished, but still hated.)

There will likely be more types of posts added in the future that will be explained here.