The Judgment Day: Another Hoax

Come May 21, 2011. The entire world will be transformed into a bundle of mega devastation by the nature's fury and the real apocalypse is here this time, claims 89-year-old Harold Camping, the president of Family Stations, Inc., a California-based religious broadcasting network. Without criticizing his belief in any particular religion, let's be bit critical to all his previous predictions, which in all probability, he predicted, the world could have met the doomsday in 1994. And 17 years after, this world is still living its life like king-size with greater degree of progress, innovation, and overall social and economic development. His radio stations are continuously engaged in spreading the message that this time, the world will certainly meet the doomsday on May 21, with a massive earthquake with rip apart this earth and majority of world population will die within 153 days of “death and horror.” For that matter, he uses his deep understanding of Bible and numerology skill to arrive at this date, which he thinks is absolutely correct.

Well, I have never read Bible and I believe there is any need to read any religious scriptures to understand the complexities of nature. For that one should be scientifically knowledgeable to understand how this universe was created and how various evolutions and natural events have shaped this world over billions of years, what we certainly do enjoy living in with great conviction. Irrespective of all clairvoyance, prediction, and religious references, this world will not finish that way what these pseudo prophecies claim. There is a long way to go. And all these hoaxes become extremely nagging, as we are living in a connected world. A small, trifling piece of misinformation, which has no scientific evidence, often haunts us because every time we come across such tantalizing news, we forget to apply our intellect to see through it, and what eventually creates a complete chaos in the society. Perhaps, this helplessness nature of human being can be attributed to the irrational side of mind.

What Camping is doing in spreading such misinformation is an indication of his naivety in understanding the evolution of this world. Neither he has scientific capability to conclude the veracity of his analysis nor he has that immense rational strength to join the sequence of past events to extrapolate a probable incident, but again that could be entirely misleading too. So a prediction like the next doomsday is another hoax peddled through Internet.