The End of the World

The End of the World

I thought I better get busy and write another installment on the blog before tomorrow, as it could be my last. Big Dates have a lot of power and the hype around this one has certainly charged up ol’ planet earth’s humans to a higher frequency that they normally resonate. Add to this some additional holiday hype and a looming fiscal cliff and there is a recipe for disaster brewing somewhere…………..or everywhere…………who knows?

I had an interesting discussion with a young man of (almost) 14 yesterday about this subject and he admitted to being worried because of all the TV he watches BUT he also went on to say … “well you know dinosaurs lived for 50 million years and we’ve only been around for a few thousand , so that makes me feel better”. “Whatever gets you through the night” I said to him. When he asked what that meant I told him they were lyrics from an old song that have now become “philosophy” like many songs. He shook his head and probably got worried all over again................OR "youtubed it" 

Seriously, (actually not seriously) I have been thinking about this “prediction” for many years now. I know many scholarly types have some concrete data they point to surround all of this and I respect them. Over the past few weeks I’ve been thinking just how many times the world (as I knew it) has ended in my short lifetime and I came to the conclusion that it has been too many to remember. World ending in my opinion comes in two flavors - gradual and sudden.

An example of gradual would be dating/marriage (unless it involves booze and Vegas) also included would be children, education, divorces, illnesses, wars, peace, careers….etc.. In a matter of months or years what you used to see and feel as YOUR WORLD shifts into a new world and life goes on……..hopefully.

One example of sudden is the FLOOD OF 1999.

On New Years Eve afternoon a HUGE water main broke outside my office and flooded the basement with all of my archives. Folks were pretty sure the end of the world was going to happen when 2000 rolled in in a few hours but for me the loss of decades of records, family heirlooms, prototypes, original drawings and photographs was enough to change my world forever.  Several years later a tornado brought the whole building down……………go figure !   Other examples of “sudden” would obviously be catastrophic events including sudden deaths.  This month has certainly had its share of these too.

My astronomical / astrological friends tell me that we are moving closer to the Galactic Center and this movement will continue to “ramp thing up” for many more months (assuming we survive to experience said ramp). I don’t have a “plan” for tomorrow but I am sure enjoying all the humor surrounding it and particularly the word play off of Mayan…………

I am heartened to know that Intelligent life does exist on this planet…

….. if just for another few hours.