Took a microvacation: Not Raptured.

Actually, I'm kind of vexed at the stupidity of this whole weekend. Not my experience of this weekend--which involved a day off on Friday to celebrate my spouse's birthday with a lunch and some gadding about New Hope (which is my favorite place, seriously!), a serious spring-cleaning Saturday, which let me finally get some "outdoor plants" out of my rec room, and let me start the process of cleaning the big, empty aquarium that I might want to re-purpose, and then a baby shower with open bar today, which is obviously awesome.   But the "rapture" bits--that was vexingly dumb. That there are people who either want the end of the world, or seriously think some crooked old radio-preacher is going to know the date certain, tests me. But the fall-out.  The painful stupid, depressed-ass fall-out:

I've read stories about people who spent their life savings, euthanized pets, and even in at least one instance, tried to kill themselves and their children. This is the kind of thing that makes me really pause, because I can't process that kind of blind trust in something that is so improbable and deeply wrong. And I can't process what the aftermath for these people must be like, either. What guilt, what disappointment, what sense of horror at having their mental-space so occupied with heaven that they forgot about living here on earth.

I want to understand--but I don't think I will.  I think I'd rather leave that be a sort of mystery of faith that I will never know. But for the record, I don't feel smug or whatever over it. I just feel heartbroken that so many people feel living here on earth is such an ill fit, or that they feel so many other humans deserve rapid and unsympathetic judgement, that they endorse the destruction of our world to help those wayward souls to their just punishment.   Of course I think they are "off". Wrong, deluded, brainwashed. But I find it so horrible for them that what they envisioned as a triumph against people like me, is a tragedy for themselves.  Their God and their Kingdom didn't Come.I will leave it to their own willingness to understand whether this means no man or woman alive is a true prophet, or whether they now understand how the triumphal God-figure who made the world, and then disposes of same according to plan, is simply---

Not justified by anything they ever observed in the world.  And that is all.