No Hope-Pope

So the Pope is finally dead. And no, it's not some April Fool's Day joke either.

Ironic how they put him on a feeding tube when someone a continent away desperately needed the same treatment. Where was the Catholic Church for Terri Schiavo in her hour of need? I suppose that answer went to the grave, pun completely intended.

So already the conspiracy theory nut-jobs and Doomsday-assholes are making all sorts of wild and crazy predictions on Rense.com . The sad thing about having a free press is any asshole with a pen and some paper, an internet subscription or a video camera can pollute the airwaves with their agenda. Some dickhead is saying there are only 2 more Popes in store before the Catholic Church calls it quits and Armageddon engulfs us all. Some other dude sniffing paint said Terri Schiavo was found in the Bible Code, and linked to some website that has some verse written in Heeb and circles out her name and spells out her death, literally. I'm like "What the fuck?". I'm not Jewish, I can't read Jewish alphabet, so for all I know, there could be an ad for Coca-Cola found in the Bible spelled out in Hebrew, and I wouldn't know the difference.

This is the reason why I am so reluctant to listen to these Doom n' Gloomers and Naysayers. All throughout recorded history there have always been these crackpots that prey on people's fears, all in the name of power, money, or both. Remember those assholes that killed themselves a while ago? Heaven's Gate was controlled by some manipulating Star Trek Nerd that resembled that guy from My Favorite Martian oddly enough. Perhaps it was no coincidence. All I remember is this charlatan sold his flock a load of bull, how some UFO was in the tail of the comet that was passing by the Earth, and how their space brothers were waiting for them to join up a la Jonestown Kool-Aid method. After all was said and done, alot of families were stuck with egg on their faces and an expensive funeral reciept to pay since their insurance companies don't cover "Death by Lost in Space".

The same thing is happening now. People will freak out and do some stupid shit now that the Pope is dead, and some religious asshole is going to scream how the Anti-Christ will run up and grab his chance at the throne, and how all this crap is going to happen and there's nothing you or I or anyone can do about it. Art Bell especially.

So I say don't worry about it. Life will go on. You will still have to wake up in the morning and will still have bills to pay. You will still sit in rush hour traffic like you did the day before, you will still hate the boss you work for, and still wonder whether or not you look fat in those jeans and should get a gym membership. None of these assholes predicted September 11th, nor any other disaster in recorded history. Nostradamus predicted America would go to war with China in 1999, officially starting World War III.


Yawn.