Is It The End Of the World As We Know It?
Latest News: A volcano beneath Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull glacier began erupting on 14th April 2010 for the second time in less than a month, triggering floods and shooting smoke and steam kilometres into the air. Flights in and out of Britain and many other European Airports including some of our own SAA Flights were disrupted on Thursday 15th after a cloud of volcanic ash started drifting across Northern European Airspace.
The 14th April 2010 earthquake struck China’s western Qinghai, rating a magnitude of 6.9 on the moment magnitude scale and was followed by several aftershocks.
The 27th February 2010 Chilean earthquake occurred off the coast of the Maule Region of Chile on February 27, 2010, at 03:34 local time, rating a magnitude of 8.8 on the moment magnitude scale and lasting 90 seconds.
The 12th January 2010 Haiti earthquake was a magnitude 7.0 earthquake, with an epicentre near the town of Léogâne, west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital.
Ok is it just me or does there seem to be a global increase in environmental disasters lately? Now I have always been a positive person and have always taken the sensationalist “End of the World” rantings of extreme doomsday prophets with a pinch of salt. The general consensus amongst these individuals is that the end of the world is coming and it’s coming soon, they even have a date, 21st Dec 2012 @ 12:00am. To some people this means a positive, spiritual change. Others consider this as a catastrophic event such as a geomagnetic reversal, asteroid strike, supernova or something more intimate, like a flu pandemic, or a nuclear war.
Looking at the latest stats and the current condition that our own country is in, I‘m starting to sit down and take note of the seriousness of the situation. The Earth is ‘pissed off’-excuse the expression- and if people don’t start changing their lifestyles drastically and soon, I believe that Mother E will do it for us.
What is your take on the situation?
References: News24, Wikipedia
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This is a topic that will bring all sorts of comments – some informative, some wonderfully weird (like aliens that are about to zap us with their xzx-laser guns), some green and some religious ones. Depending on your believe system. I’ll be back with my take on this.
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There are some that say the increase in natural disasters is due to technological advances in monitoring instruments and thus there is no real increase as such, but more of these phenomena are being measured/observed/recorded than previously.
Add to this the way in which we are connected as a global village, in the sense that all of these instances are now being shared at an increased rate.
As far as the end of the world is concerned, i.e. the Mayan calendar, it is my humble opinion (and that is all it is – an opinion), that this marks the end of a particular cycle, which is to be followed by the next. These cycles are probably non-physical, i.e. subtle . . . or spiritual, if you like.
People, in general are obsessed with the material/physical plain and are completely oblivious to other levels of existence, experience and understanding.
All this is bye the bye of little importance.
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David I completely agree with what you are saying with regards to more technology therefore more information/news which in turn seems that we are experiencing more natural disasters then we have before. But….. and there is always a but. I’m not looking too far back in time here, maybe 5 years and the general trend was that there was 1 major natural disaster a year, we had all the technology then too. So what I’m trying to compare is that we have gone from a general trend of once a year to now, where we have had 4 major occurrences within the first 5 months of this year. Does that not strike you as odd?
with a typical Paterson answer do we need a reason?
Perfect, will see you then. Hopefully sooner though?
My opinion is based on what I believe, as a Christian. That these are all signs of the end times. I am not planning to sell my stuff and go sit on a mountain and wait for Jesus to come, no. But I am aware that every prophecy in the Bible has come to pass, so when this amazing Book tells me that earthquakes, famine and other disasters (and the increase thereof) mark the end of this age, I believe it. I don’t believe things are going to get “good-better-great”; I believe it will slowly get worse as we approach the end times and I’m cool with that. This earth is my tent, my real pozzie is elsewhere
Get a grip everyone, its just a little dust in the sky!
I hope its 12am our time because then at least we’ll be asleep when it happens!
If God brings you to it, he will bring you through it!