People really believe this?

In one of my earlier posts I wrote about how there were speakers that liked to talk about how the endtimes were certainly upon us for numerous reasons. I couldn't believe that people actually thought such things and got a few examples of how people in fact did. Well today I got my own reality check from a few friends. I forget how it came up but a few people, whom I like and respect a lot, both told me in the course of a conversation we were having that they thought they'd be alive to see the second coming. I was dumbfounded. Really? REALLY? I just didn't get it. One even told me on of their frineds had been told in their patriarchal blessing that they would live to see it. That made me think of two questions 1) Is your friend one of the 3 Nephites? and 2) Did those that settled Salt Lake have similar things in their Patriarchal Blessings?

The answer to the first is obviously a no, but the second will stick with me even though I'll never know. And how did my friend know what was in their friends blessing anyhow? Aren't members supposed to keep those things a secret? I still dislike this part of the faith, the book of revelation is fun theatre and all, but that's all I ever get from it. Who knows, I guess I can stop investing in my retirement now though.