05-21-2011, 02:00 PM
I am NOT proselytizing here, and since it is the lower berth, I just have to chime in as one of the resident ministers here...
The Christian scriptures remind us who believe that NO ONE, not even Jesus himself, will know the day or time of the Messiah's return - only God the Father. These crackpots come up with all kinds of theories but either ignore that part of the Bible or find some verbal jujitsu to twist it around and make it mean something else besides the plain meaning. I've had conversations with such folks and there's usually a deeper, emotional issue driving their fanaticism.
So I don't buy it that today is the end. But I DO think something serious is going to happen in 2012 - not the end of the world, but I've heard too many folks speak about it to completely dismiss it altogether. Something big is going down next year...
OR, an alternate way to look at it is that 2011 is the year the stuff hits the fan and 2012 is the beginning of a new peaceful and prosperous era. We're certainly due for a major spark event in this present 4th turning crisis period, if the MENA events weren't enough. All the ingredients for major global catastrophe are here, just simmering away. All we need now is one good spark to set it afire before we make up our minds to live differently and build a better world. IN other words, it's gonna get worse before it gets better.
Okay...enough for now.
Galen
The Christian scriptures remind us who believe that NO ONE, not even Jesus himself, will know the day or time of the Messiah's return - only God the Father. These crackpots come up with all kinds of theories but either ignore that part of the Bible or find some verbal jujitsu to twist it around and make it mean something else besides the plain meaning. I've had conversations with such folks and there's usually a deeper, emotional issue driving their fanaticism.
So I don't buy it that today is the end. But I DO think something serious is going to happen in 2012 - not the end of the world, but I've heard too many folks speak about it to completely dismiss it altogether. Something big is going down next year...
OR, an alternate way to look at it is that 2011 is the year the stuff hits the fan and 2012 is the beginning of a new peaceful and prosperous era. We're certainly due for a major spark event in this present 4th turning crisis period, if the MENA events weren't enough. All the ingredients for major global catastrophe are here, just simmering away. All we need now is one good spark to set it afire before we make up our minds to live differently and build a better world. IN other words, it's gonna get worse before it gets better.
Okay...enough for now.
Galen
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