Reasons why you don't call for the end of the world, you irresponsible chucklehead

Sure, it's one thing if you're a fool and "there's no fool like an old fool" but there's a great deal to be said for being responsible and going off half-cocked, even if you think it's for your god and whatever you think salvation is.

This is some of what this Harold Camping's handiwork did last week, with his call of the end of the world:

A California woman named Lyn Benedetto was one of millions who heard Camping's message, and became concerned that her daughters would suffer terribly in the coming apocalypse. She allegedly forced her daughters, 11 and 14, to lie on a bed and then cut their throats with a box cutter. She then tried to kill herself, though police arrested Benedetto and all three survived.

Others were not so lucky. An elderly man in Taiwan reportedly killed himself on May 5 ahead of the Rapture by jumping out of a building. He had heard that doomsday was imminent, and had taken recent earthquakes and tsunamis as early warning signs.

There were other unconfirmed reports of doomsday-related suicides around the world as well.

But what does "Mr. Apocalypse" do instead of clamming up and making sure the world never sees or hears from him again?

He calls for another end of the world this October.

Someone needs to tell this old fool to shut up.

Isn't that what wives are for?

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