I think I’ve seen this in a movie.
Camper loads of happily deluded new-age pilgrim-hippies (pippies sounds like a good term to coin here) have descended upon the Pyrenean village of Bugarach, where a mountain overshadowing the tiny hamlet has been labeled the landing spot for an extraterrestrial Noah’s Ark that believers expect to arrive on December 21, the mythical Mayan doomsday.
I’ve been reading about this sort of nonsense for years, but I’m still amazed at how people can be so detached from reality and, in this case, normalcy. Honestly, would anyone you know give up their lives to go camp out at a mountain waiting for ET? I’ve been to several UFO conferences and can honestly say I’ve never met anyone who expressed this kind of wish (out loud, anyway). Then again, there really is a flat earth society.
My suspicion is that this will strangely resemble the days after Harold Camping’s final “prophecies”….the only real difference being that no authoritative religious texts warn against gathering on a French mountain in anticipation of the Mayan “end of the world” (or calendar, at least). If nothing happens, they’ll at least be in a great place to celebrate Christmas.
loved it.
Are you seriously inferring that the earth is not flat with that quip?
oops … just kidding 🙂
I do not believe this is the first time someone has been waiting for a UFO to come rapture them. Let’s hope and pray when it does not happen that they will repent and come to Jesus instead of drinking kool-aid….