| follow
me.... myspace
/ twitter / facebook
My
Blog...
Archives...
Australia:
Land of Contrast
Tasmania:
Animation, Self Gratification and Appreciation
Malaysia:
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
|