If you're a believer and regular listener to Family Radio then you know that tomorrow is our last day on earth. (
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According to the believers, tomorrow at 6 pm earthquakes will begin dismantling the earth at the international date line and the sweep around the globe until, at 6 pm, time zone by time zone, the entire world it wiped out and judgement day will commence. Apparently, it will take a full five months before the process is complete and everyone is judged. Sadly, only the few chosen will go to heaven and the rest will endure unspeakable suffering. We all, apparently, should have been taking things more seriously the last couple of years, getting our good will in order, and so forth.
This, therefore, could well be among the last rants I write. If it is, I guess I shouldn't be too sad, it's been a good run. I guess I'll know by tomorrow morning here in the Mountain Time zone since surely word of the destruction of the far East will be upon us before then.
Do I actually think the world is going to end? No. I don't but here is what I do think on the topic...
(a) I think the reaction to the doomsdayers by the Christian / Jewish / Muslim establishment has been fascinating. The man behind the prediction who shall get no free PR here from me is being vilified. How come? He supposedly used the Bible to make his prediction. Well, if he's wrong, and he used the Bible then either the Bible's wrong or his method is wrong. Either way, the world's Abrahamic religious are in a lose-lose proposition. If he's wrong, he makes them look bad, if he's right he makes them look really, really bad. Plenty of the world's clerics have been aligning against the movement saying it's sinful to try to predict the end of the world.
(b) Like members of a cult, thousands upon thousands of people have joined in the movement, given away all possessions, and so forth figuring it's all over what's the point? Does this all stem back to Sarah Palin quitting her governorship? Quit when the going gets tough or you no longer see any point? It's difficult to imagine if there is a God, that would be what He wanted. How about do good deeds until the end? How about do good deeds? How about give up on the hate agenda – this means you Tennessee the senate just passed a bill banning curriculum materials in elementary school and middle schools that in any way talk about homosexuality. (
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(c) It would be a shame if the world ended before the Iraeli-Palestinian conflict were ended once and for all, however, it seems President Obama is the only one in the world who gets how to end the conflict. Really? For decades the US has appeased Israel and allowed settlements etc. That policy not only failed, it painted a gigantic target on the back of the USA which gave Osama bin Laden the justification he needed to attack the US. Despite all the treaties and truces and time, nothing much has changed for the Palestinian people. They have no where to go. Great Presidents and awful ones have tried. The problem is that this isn't going to be resolved effectively by anyone who doesn't see the validity of both sides and empathize with them both equally. The minute you favor one over the other, you're toast. People who actually read and listen to what President Obama said will see he put important language together for both sides to let them both know what he will and won't accept. He won't accept negotiations with Hamas. He won't accept continued Israeli occupation of territories accumulated post 1967. In the end, that's really the point isn't it. Both sides have to give in for their to ever be a solution. It's too bad that alarmists and extremists don't understand this, but then they are the ones who have fueled this fire for decades. What is too bad is that Israel has all the power in the world to solve this problem, if they wanted to, they obviously do not. (
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I apologize that this was not my strongest rant ever, but if the world ends, there won't be anybody to care. I personal hope is that the world does not end; but, rather, we seize this moment as a species to take a step back and think about our planet and what we are doing to it. It would be sad if we bring doomsday upon ourselves.