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Apocalypse
How?
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
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