When the planets lined up.

I was thinking about one time when I was a small child, there was lots of talk about the planets were going to line up, and there was lots of speculation that the gravitational pull would cause disasters.

I was rather concerned about this, and my mother, being a religious sort, said, “don’t you think surely the Lord will have returned by then?”

Well, the talk had largely subsided, and the year of the alignment came, uneventfully, and I hadn’t thought about it in a long time. One day we were in Winn-Dixie, which was a large grocery store and had a toy section. Being a young child, I was looking at the toys while my mother shopped for groceries. I heard a loud strange noise. Suddenly the old planets lining up scare came to the fore front of my memory. I thought “uh-oh… this was the year the planets were supposed to line up.”

I ventured to the end of the aisle, and I looked around. Turned out the noise was a stockman’s cart. :slight_smile:

Sort of like Y2K…nothing happened.

When and if the Lord does return, I suspect we won’t know about it in advance.

It’d kinda defeat the purpose.

I agree.

Major apocolypse thread in 3…2…1…

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One time the news stations predicted an alignment of planets as described above. It was supposed to happen on my 9th birthday. I was freaking out and couldn;t get to sleep the night before :wink:

The world’s going to end in 2012. the Incas predicted it.

Meantime, let’s party! :party:

The planets line up in England.

Everything forms a queue.

It’s not the end of the world.

But you can see the end of the world from Leytonstone.

A friend reported that he got lost in Heathrow Airport some years ago. He saw a queue of people in front of a counter, so he got in line and waited a long time to get to the front. When it was his turn, he asked the person at the counter for directions to the place in the airport he needed to go. The answer: “You’re in the wrong line for the asking of that question.”

Best wishes,
Jerry

That’d be right. But things could be worse. At least when you finally get to the front of the right queue you don’t then have to pay a bribe.

Of course, you might have to pay a bribe to be directed to the right queue.

:laughing: the Incas have a very accurate calender wich starts with a new area in 2012,
they mention nothing about the end of the world, and they’re having a party like we do :smiley:

lixnaw, you almost have a thousand posts! :smiley:

i’d be better if i played a hundred tunes correct :laughing: :blush:

but i want to look at the bright side,
what’s wrong with planets lining up?
so instead of slagging others, i believe it’s a good sign :slight_smile:

It’s always seems to be news somewhere about the planets lining up etc. and I have come to believe no big deal but have wonder if God ever thought of pulling out his/her cue ball and cue stick and taking a shot just for the heck of it, sort of cosmic billiards.

Yelling Snooker!
MarkB

Men in Black?

Precisely! :laughing:

Every time I see this thread title, this starts up in my head and becomes one of those songs that you just can’t get out of your head for anything:

When the moon is in the Seventh House
And Jupiter aligns with Mars
Then peace will guide the planets
And love will steer the stars



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:laughing:

When I see the thread I think of the opening frames of “Third Rock from the Sun” and hear that Chuck Berry type riff they play for a theme tune…


Slan,
D.

This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius… ::goes off singing…::

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