The Coming Of The End

A bit of news:

The California radio preacher who predicted that the end of the world would take place last month is hospitalized following a mild stroke.

Staff at Harold Camping's radio company, Family Stations Inc., reports that the 89-year-old preacher has been recuperating in a local hospital after suffering the stroke on Thursday.

People are strange. It seems to be a common failing of the human race that people can't seem to distinguish the sense of foreboding that accompanies one's own death from the sense of foreboding that accompanies the end of the world. You will die: it's unlikely the world will die anytime soon, though. Yet, in our emotional lives, the two concepts are hard to distinguish.