111111 Ad Naseum

OK, I get it.  Dates that have a certain symmetry only come around once every few years.  I understand this.  However, all this 11/11/11 nonsense has really gotten on my nerves.

For years, I listened to people go on about 11:11.  How you should make a wish.  How, if you notice it on a clock, it's a message from *fill in the other worldly entity of your choice*.  It's a magical number!  The list goes on.

OK, no one paid attention to 11:11 before digital displays on clocks were the norm.  Your old, round clock with hands?  11:11 is far from a noticeable time.  Especially on analog style clocks that don't have any dits or dashes to indicate the minutes, other than at five minute intervals.  So 11:11 is far from some ancient angel or fairy dust type thing that the white lighters have turned it into.  It is simply a time of day where all four numbers on a digital clock are the same.  It is the only time of day where that happens.  Unless of course, you've got a European clock.  Then, once a day, your clock will say 11:11 and it will also say 22:22.  To an American, 22:22 is 10:22 PM.  That just doesn't have the same symmetry, does it?

So, suddenly today, 11/11/11 isn't a day to make a wish.  Oh no.  It's a day of doom and gloom and don't do this and don't do that and hide under the bed until it's over!

Which leads me to ask...  What the fuck is wrong with these people?

I didn't think anything of it, until last week.  When someone asked me if it was safe to travel today.  Someone had told them they had a bad feeling that planes would be falling out of the sky today.  That it was a day to stay indoors and don't venture out.  I thought this was an isolated incident.  I was wrong.

The doom and gloom sayers have been on about Comet Elenin.  It was supposed to hit sometime between the 9th and today!  Um...  Did they not read how the comet broke up and wasn't even going to give us a show?  Did they miss the part about how that asteroid on Tuesday was going to be infinitely closer than this comet?  Oh, they married the idea that this comet was going to kill us all.  So when it broke up, that was the government hiding the truth from us.  Have they never seen a comet before?  I mean, they're in the solar system in droves.  Every few years, one is giving us a show that can be seen with the naked eye or binoculars.  You don't even need good binoculars for those, either.  Once again, Comet Elenin is a complete and utter washout.  It no longer exists as a comet, just random debris.  It was never a threat and now, it's even more of a non-threat.

Oh, you're wrong!  What about the nationwide Emergency Alert System test?

OK, once upon a time, we called it the Emergency Broadcast System.  I'm so out of touch, I thought they still called it that.  TV stations are required to test once a week.  We all grew up being paranoid every time that test came on.  Those of my generation can pretty much recite the, "if this had been an actual emergency," spiel.  The test had nothing to do with some mass emergency that was going to happen today.  And now that 11/11/11 is over in most time zones, (not in mine though,) I think we can put that paranoia to rest too.

But Congress took the week off!  Um, have you not noticed that the President has been criticizing Congress, especially the House of Representatives for their lack of getting anything done, other than fluff bills?  The House announced it's taking most of 2012 as a vacation.  The House is full of the laziest representatives in nearly 100 years.  However, the fact that most of the people who are screaming about FEMA death camps, the EAS test, Comet Elenin and all the doom and gloom are members of the Tea Party, well, that hasn't been lost on me.  So complain to your Representative about how much time they're taking off.  What, you elected a Tea Party rep in your district, so you can't say anything bad, lest you admit you made a bad choice?  Heh.  Deal with it.

It hasn't been all doom and gloom though.  People are getting married in Vegas in droves.  A baby made the news for being born at 11:11 on 11/11/11.  The Silicon Valley had an all day hack-a-thon for charity, as this is the last binary date of the century.  That is something I really liked, the fact that this has been named the nerd new year based on it being a binary date.

People are so hung up on this new age pseudo-science of 11/11 and 11:11 that they have forgotten the meaning of the day.  This is Veteran's Day in the United States and Armistice Day in the United Kingdom.  On this day in 1918, World War I ended.  So we set aside this day to remember veterans of foreign wars.  It isn't a day for all this New Age complete and utter bullshit.  It is a day to honor veterans.  There are still three WWI veterans alive, one of whom is a woman.  One in the United Kingdom, one in Poland and one in the United States.  Andy Rasch, the last living American who was in WWI turned 110 last week.  I guess there is no massive media coverage because he's 110, not 111. 

If you want to consider 11:11 lucky on your clock, be my guest.  If you want to believe it's a message from the spirit world, that's fine too.  But don't ram it down the throats of those who are seeking.  Because it's not going to help them find what they need.  Also, how many of you actually have made a wish at 11:11 that has been granted?  Maybe 1% of you?

I understand that dates with symmetry only come around once in a blue moon.  The last one was 9/9/99.  I seem to remember people being paranoid about that one too.  I also remember a few friends paying bills late, because they wanted to put that date on the checks.

But let's put an end to this nonsense.  I'm so sick of all this doom and gloom and the world is ending.  This is what, the fourth time this week that the world was supposed to end?  How many times this year?  What bugs me is, all the people who are claiming the doom and gloom associated with various dates, with the exception of Harold Camping, claim to be lightworkers.  Most don't even understand that term comes from the I AM/Ascended Masters movement.  But I don't see the lightwork in telling everyone the sky is falling.  As a matter of fact, that attitude is totally out of touch with the Violet Light.  Those of you afraid to live and wishing for the death of humanity, I really wish you'd all get psychological help and take your meds.

That said, I shall sit here for five minutes, so I can post this at 11:11 PM, my time.  Just for the fun of it.