An internet rumour has caused thousands to take a day off and flee Rome today.
Apparently an Italian earthquake legend, Raffaele Bendandi ,who died 30 years ago predicted that the Eternal City would be flattened by an earthquake today.
Bendandi, who was knighted by Mussolini, is said to have predicted several disasters, including the Friuli quake of 1976, which killed almost 1,000 lives.
Local rag La Repubblica said that applications from the capital's public employees for a day off – and, presumably, out – were 18 percent higher than for the same day in 2011. Education officials were said to be expecting school attendances to be down by a fifth as parents decide it is better to be on the safe side.
Whether or not you believe that Bendandi could predict earthquakes is largely irrelevant to the story, because he never predicted an earthquake would hit Rome.
The head of a foundation set up in Bendandi's honour in his native town near Bologna, said the rumour of aneEarthquake today was an urban legend, probably caused by that internet thing.
Paola Lagorio, the president of the Osservatorio Geoficico Comunale of Faenza, has gone on record saying that in Raffaele Bendandi's papers, there is no prediction of a earthquake in Rome on 11 May 2011. The date is not there. The place is not there.
What seems to have happened is that someone has gone on the World Wide Wibble and written rubbish on a bog somewhere and it has snowballed into an internet reality.
Coincidently there is another earthquake prophet in Taiwan who claims the country will be split in two by a huge quake today. If he is right then the Rome office of TechEye will be still here.
Oh joy. Skewering Evil, finally. Let that be a lesson to the Living Dead everywheresss. You can run [for “Office”] but you can’t hide, but true to the words of The Divine, The Seven Hills will not be affected, 7 being the complement between [Immediate] Divinity [3] and Humanity [4], a truly magical combination which gave rise to the days of the week and the musical scale but with Pi being an “irrational” number just because 7 is involved, meaning that when infinity is beyond control/ownership/manipulation/realisation, it is then “irrational”. No wonder earthquakes are delivered to remind egomanics everywheress who is The Boss. Especially when one is trapped between the infinites of Witness and Love as being in-between two parallel mirrors. When you are between The Witness and The Love, you too will become infinite.
Indeed, Infinity and Nothing are not the irrational ones, it is The Truly Finite who are irrational, being limited by their worship of The Past and their saviourship of The Future, Infinity being Zero in Reality. Meaning O’ Bat of the Fruit? Meaning that when one is limited by one’s irrationalities, oka being constantly finite through one’s irrational behaviours, zero and infinity then become real and are then divison/relative-empowerment which the illusional-cum-delusional constantly desires - chasing rainbows as it were. It is stupid to imagine that you are powerful when you are merely rejection and it is dumb to be deluded into desiring power when you are powerful. All because those who reject only need to realise that they are truths and those who accept need to realise that they are power and not the other way around. Not that anyone in orbit will be able to realise what all the mumbo-jumbo means. Just like Rome being torn asunder by The Living Dead. Wonder if they speak Italian too. That’s the real question. Be simple, innocent and virtuous/moral and everything real will become a part of you. Be complicated, sophisticated and forever chasing after rainbows/Fame, Fortune & Immortality, and not only will you become unreal, it will all end in ashes.