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Apocalypse How?
By: Dustin Pari

People ask me all the time if I worry about the 2012 prophecy. If the Mayan’s were really onto something, if it is the end of times, if we have any hope.
I have researched it, I have looked deeply into its significance and also how the date relates to other enigmatic facets of different cultures, rituals, beliefs, sages, madmen and various Doomsday prophets.
Is the veil thinning? Is there a rag-tag band of demons just standing in line, listening to their iPods, waiting, as the date grows increasingly closer?
Is any of this 2012 stuff a significant thing to be concerned with in the least?

Well let us take a look and see.
The fact that our good friends at NASA have expressed their own curiosity with the date in regards to the alignment of a black hole with the center of our galaxy, while the Earth is in alignment with the sun, a galactic event that takes place only once every 25,800 years, that raises my eyebrows. They do not know what the result of this may be. It could be a dramatic change in the world and in life, as we know it. It could be a subtle, yet catastrophic shifting within the magnetic polarization of the earth that would take years to complete. It could be nothing at all.

Also, there was a recent study at Princeton that has garnered evidence to suggest the magnetic poles of the Earth may have shifted before. The fact that Albert Einstein proposed a theory similar to Pole Shift back in 1955 gives me pause, as I do respect anyone with an outlandish hairstyle.

Every generation has its moments when people think “The End is Near”; but could it really be it this time? In the great galactic lottery, do we hold the ticket with the final numbers on it?

In Biblical times, when Jesus died and was resurrected from the dead, there were many people whom believed he would return in their lifetime and that would be the end of days. Yet here we are, so many years later, still waiting.In 1999, The Artist Formerly Known as Prince, and then known as Prince again, enjoyed a brief resurgence of his earlier hit as many people did indeed party like it was 1999.
However, sadly, in cold musty basements and shoddily constructed bomb shelters across the globe, sat those who did not party at all. Instead, they counted down the last moments of humanity surrounded by wooden palettes, stockpiled high with canned vegetables, Spam, Twinkies and bottled water, waiting for planes to drop out of the sky and for their toaster oven to turn into a rabid killing machine; all because of some silly computer programmers and their binary world literature was coupled with yet another loosely interpreted Nostradamus prediction fueled by such captivating and factual reporting by the staff of the now defunct Weekly World News.
And now, here we are, still standing, and defiantly staring down yet another apocalypse.

So what do I think about the 2012 prophesy? I find it intriguing. I find it more plausible than the other end game scenarios that have been presented. Yet, I am not terribly concerned with it.

Instead, I am more concerned with the blatant disregard mankind is showing for each other in these troubled times.

Earthquake after earthquake, tsunamis and hurricanes, flooding and wild fires; yet, all we are concerned with is ourselves. Sure we donate some money, we retweet the phone number to help the victims, we sneak into grief stricken countries and steal, I mean save, their children. Then we go back to our lives, our Facebook accounts, our iPhones and our distraction. Never looking at the big picture. Never stopping to change the ways in which we live our hurried, egocentric, isolated lives. Never looking up from our text messaging to see the young child crossing the road. Never taking a break from our reality shows on Tivo to see that in reality our neighbor is in trouble. Never stopping to help the girl in Seattle as she is brutally beaten by others. Never looking at our own lives and seeing how, even in some small way we can initiate change. Never seeing that we are all in this together; that all are one. That we need each other, that we need hope, that we need faith, that we need miracles, and that a life without these things that I have mentioned means we shall surely perish in spite of ourselves, in 2012, or at some other time.

For a society living in a time where there are so many ways to communicate, not much that truly matters is being said. We are LOL-ing. We are sexting. We are taking overhead photos of ourselves at arm’s length as we stand there in our underwear for the entire world to see our shame. We are friends with so many, yet utterly alone as we care for no one but ourselves.

In regards to the end of time, there is one report I have read that I have complete faith in. It is full of prophets, full of celestial beings, full of predictions. Even as it pertains to what is going on today, it seems right on target. It’s the Bible. And though Jesus never gave us an exact date like our friends the Mayans, he did say it would happen and that if we have our spiritual houses in order, we have nothing to fear.

So, do I worry about the 2012 prophecy?
Nah…I simply live in faith, not in fear.

God Bless