My (Real) End of the World Letter

My guess and hope is that you are all with your loved ones right now.

Are some of you not, though?

Is someone out there actually reading this?

Do you, my reader, just now have no one to love and hold? No one to caress, to pet, to tell them how much you love them, and what a joy to you they have always been? How much better your life has been because of them?

Is there no one to hold you, and pet you, and say those things to you?

So that now you've gone online, reaching out through cyberspace for a hand to hold, a heart to touch?

Well, I'm glad you are! Because I am here, too!

I love you. And I mean it. Writing the truth as I understand it has been the goal and purpose of my whole stupid life. If no one reads what I write, my life would have a whole lot less meaning.

So thank you. Thank you. If I were there with you, I would hug and kiss you, and tell you how much you mean to me.

So here we are!

And soon, here we will not be.

Well. No real surprise there, right?

Who lives not knowing death is right beside them, ever and eagerly anticipating the moment it slips in to take their place?

And now we're all going to die at once.

How weird is that?

Probably good if you're a cockroach.

Probably great if you're a cockroach!

So God doesn't love us best of all.

Or maybe he does, and wants to be with us now, all at once.

Go now, friend, and be with someone. Anyone. Stop the first person you see, and tell them (if you are) that you're alone. Knock on a stranger's door; tell them you're alone. Stand on a street corner, and cry out that you're alone.

You won't be for long.

We are all together now.

Someone will open their arms to you. You will be loved.

You are loved. I have loved you. I do love you. You saved me, just now. You are saving me, right now.

God awaits us!

Let's not let him find any of us alone.

John also blogs at JohnShore.com.

 

 

 

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Comments

[William D Simpson]

12:51 AM on 05/22/2011

John, you really do have need of wisdom! The fear (awe) of GOD is the beginning of wisdom. Having read your articles for the last year, the one and only true GOD is not the central focus of your life. I sincerely do hope that you will one day come to your end and bow your life to Jesus Christ. This is the only hope you have.

[John Shore]

09:34 AM on 05/22/2011

The fear of God isn't the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is childish, friend. He's not your big mean daddy in the sky. A relationship based on fear is purely dysfunctional.

[babybelle]

07:01 AM on 05/21/2011

I'm going to yard sales this Saturday morning.
Have a nice day everyone!! :)

[Gary Caron]

03:29 AM on 05/21/2011

I guess I dont have to go to work tonight , awe that sucks..lol

[Kache]

12:07 AM on 05/21/2011

Get a grip folks - the world ended when it was supposed to, back on midnight Dec 31, 1999. What did you think hell was going to look like?

[prettyfreak1930]

05:27 PM on 05/20/2011

This is not a joke. All of you having satanic parties tonight will reap what you sow.
http://swellco2000.com/2011/04/wrath-friday-late/

[George Medley]

05:21 PM on 05/20/2011

I'm curious as to why post this now, Mr. Shore? Surely you don't give credence to Camping, do you? Just curious as to why now?

[John Shore]

12:05 AM on 05/21/2011

I thought a rewarding angle on this thing would be to imagine if I DID believe it---if it were really true---and to then, in that moment, start imagining I was writing the last thing I would write online, knowing it might be the last thing I ever write at all. And to then just ... write.

[Kache]

12:20 AM on 05/21/2011

If I thought tonight was the last night the interwebs would be working, I'd be at danni.com maxing out the VISA card.

[CiCicar]

04:09 PM on 05/20/2011

And, I thought we had till 2012! Oh well, what's the diff? Just keep on living a good life and enjoy every minute of every hour of every day ...

[TwigaRiq]

02:24 PM on 05/20/2011

Harold Camping has only the smallest likelihood of being correct, maybe one in a gazillion? All this talk about The Rapture seems another attempt by kristianists at a most deplorable type of escapism. There is also much talk about the world ending Dec 21, 2012, according to the Mayan calendar. But one of the most interesting commentaries on this, by an indigenous descendant in Central America, says that the real meaning is the end of one epoch and the beginning of a new one, not totally unlike the sense of transformation found in the Gospel: "The kingdom of this world is become the Kingdom of our God and of God's Anointed One".

[jhNY]

02:05 PM on 05/20/2011

You'll be laughing out of the other side of your mouth when the H-ll fire rains down, joker boy....and sadly, I'll be there with you, as I am through my own actions, mine and mine alone, entirely unRapturable.

[katybird241]

03:15 PM on 05/20/2011

As the man said, I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints; the sinners are much more fun.