Post-Rapture Thoughts

Another rapture has come and gone. What have we learned?

Well, I for one have been thinking a lot about probability. Was it probable that Harold Camping could have accurately predicted the rapture? Sure, anything is possible. But the odds were most likely astronomical, putting it generously.

Then again, what were the odds that you would be born exactly as you were? Think about that for a second. Go back through all your ancestors and think about what might have happened if your great-great-great-great-grandfather was unsuccessful in courting your great-great-great-great-grandmother. Would you still be you?

Now think about all the circumstances that had to be JUST right for your parentage to line up just the way it did - all the decisions that had to be made at just the right moment, all the life experiences that led your ancestors to be together, and all the genetics, memories, and experiences you have that make up who you are.

What were the odds that all those things would happen? I don't know for sure, but I'm willing to bet that 10,000 years ago the odds were against you ever existing.

But you beat the odds, and here you are! Way to conquer circumstances completely out of your control!

So what's my point in all this? While some things may seem completely implausible to us now, there are currently millions of improbable things happening around us every day. So instead of laughing at some old man and millions of followers that he bilked, let's all take a moment to think about life's little improbabilities that are actually happening right now.

Who's with me???