We are now approximately 5 months away from the most-watched date in history ─ December 21, 2012. And I feel the need to put my 2 cents in, along with the rest of the human population who are divided into two ranks ─ the debunkers and the believers. On a scale of 1 to 10, I definitely weigh in more to the believer side. This has led me to practice being prepared for the worst, the best that I can, for an uncertain future.
There are many of us wide-eyed wonderers out there, gobbling up information and searching books and websites for an answer as to whether the end of the world is really coming or not. I confess to eating up everything I can about planetary mysteries such as Planet X ─ reputed to be gravitationally pulling our own planet Earth into destruction ─ plus earth-bound anomalies like the escalating strange and violent weather patterns, multiple superquake/earthquake occurrences, tsunamis and even the strange and bizarre behaviour occurring in people who might have been at one time, well-adjusted, socialized and functioning human beings (the recent zombie face-eaters in the news comes to mind).
If the story doesn’t challenge common beliefs or provide some sort of quirky fiction meant to explain life and how it’s all going to turn out, then I’m not interested. Being a thrill junkie has resulted in invisible boundaries being subconsciously set up around my psyche, limiting my reading and viewing pleasures to anything that tells me ghosts really do exist or that planetary aliens will come to earth to either embrace us or eliminate us for their failed experiment. And my favorite ─ there are definitely more dimensions to this world than just our little existence. Call me crazy – don’t care. I used to feel guilty for not being more grounded, but now I believe this way of being has led me to be exceptionally open minded and ghoulishly prepared for whatever comes.
So is there a higher power watching us, judging our progress in science, deciding whether we are making the grade? Is this higher power on its way to us, horrified by our demonstrated inability to treat Earth and each other with grace, respect and intelligence? Are we attracting a more sinister outcome? Or is it all a natural 3600 year old cataclysm simply meant to happen as it should and regenerate our solar system, taking us down in the aftermath?
It is all fascinating stuff. It’s not that I’m looking forward to some kind of man-made or natural disaster dramatically changing Planet Earth and life as we know it, but I do stand by the belief that whatever may happen in the coming months, is something we cannot control and by NOT preparing the best we can, we are ensuring a lack of manpower to pick up whatever pieces that may be left.
I have three massive survival kits stored where we can get easy access. This takes an hour out of my life once a year to update the contents and it gives me peace of mind that I at least have done something. We are told no one living near the coast of any land mass will survive. I have a remote, well-hidden smidgen of land in the prairies (lucky ─ I know) that we quite often joke about moving back to and setting up camp on before the end of this year 2012. Or are we joking? I do know that this year, beavers on that land have done something they have never done in history ─ they have dammed and flooded 100 acres, creating their own giant reservoir. Do they know something we also know, but refuse to acknowledge? Or have we moved so far away from intuition and nature that we really don’t have any inkling of coming events?
It is like searching for the truth as to whether there is really life after death. We won’t know for sure until we get there ─ then it’s too late to go back and tell everyone else. Watch the video “Surviving 2012 and Planet X”, spend an hour making a survival kit for yourself and your family, get informed, grab some open-minded thinking and wait to see what happens. If the time comes, the regeneration (or whatever) starts and mankind and nature become the waste left behind, you will know you did your best and accept your fate gracefully. And if nothing happens, you can look me up and say “HA! See? Nothing happened, you idiot!”
Good luck finding me. We might be lounging around our 100 acre swimming pool, eating canned food and granola bars, listening to our wind-up radio……happy to be wrong. For now.
Surviving 2012 and Planet X
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaeyGsOi9ls
Photo Credits
Thunderstorm and Super Cell – Wikimedia Public Domain
Colliding Planets by NuclearVaccuum – wikimedia Creative Commons
Truly the end? – it seems like the latest distraction: a kind of perverse entertainment we engage in and the ultimate escapism as well: “Hey – cool – I won’t have to go to work on MONDAY, cause the world’s gonna end!” I’m not pointing my finger. This is going on in my head. But in my heart of hearts I can’t really say that I truly believe it’s all gonna end in December.
Be that as it may – I also have hard time believing that the world is going to keep on chugging along very much longer: virus- over-population – global warming – rising Oceans – peak oil – collapsing economies – nuclear proliferation – random rocks from space… what have I missed? Any of these things can do us in. So what! It hasn’t happened yet. And if it’s coming, it’s not in your power or mine to prevent.
Hi Robert,
You are absolutely right. We can speculate all we want but in the end, it is not in our power to change the outcome. We cannot ignore the obvious signs that the world is changing in a ominous way. This is what leads us to search for a reason as we have a NEED to know what is coming – but we may never know. One of life’s great mysteries may be how it all ends.
Thanks for reading and commenting Robert.
Best of everything,
Wanda
Dear Wanda,
Over 100 years ago, Baha’u’llah, the prophet-founder of the Baha’i Faith wrote:
“The world is in travail and its agitation waxeth day by day. Its face is turned towards waywardness and unbelief. Such shall be its plight that to disclose it now would not be meet and seemly. Its perversity will long continue. And when the appointed hour is come, there shall suddenly appear that which shall cause the limbs of mankind to quake. Then and only then will the Divine Standard be unfurled and the Nightingale of Paradise warble its melody.”
Quite a warning don’t you think?
Sandra
Dear Sandra,
I wonder what Baha’u”llah meant by “there shall suddenly appear that which shall cause the limbs of mankind to quake.” It is quite a warning and appears to be something that will come with no forewarning by his inference to “suddenly.”
It’s too bad the many prophets who predicted the end of life as we know it, did not have more specifics for us – it’s all very vague and open to interpretation.
However – if we knew everything, we would have nothing to talk about! Humans do love a mystery.
All the best,
Wanda
Wanda, you certainly hit the nail on the head! A very provocative and interesting piece of writing. You surely have made me re-think of what (and how old!) is my little cache of “readiness”., and what I should do about it. I am sure many persons will take your invaluable advice seriously.
Thank you Mary! I do hope people will think a little bit more about things and take seriously, the evidence which is mounting, that something does certainly seem “afoot”. There is no harm in taking the Boy Scout’s code of “Be Prepared”. The worst that can come of being prepared is…..nothing.