I have a prediction. This will not be my last post unless in the outside chance Harold Camping is correct about May 21, 2011, 4pm eastern time to be exact. Reality has a way of doing it's own thing. For many, it gets in the way. I suppose the rapture performs a necessary escape for those that want a simple answer. The world has become too complicated for them and so a magic man is going to come and make it all better. That will show the other several billion of us or so! I'm sure they won't have an "I told you so" or, "you should have listened to me" attitude when they reach heaven. Or will they? The rest of us will be stuck here on earth trying to work out all the devastation and havoc that judgment day has brought. Escaping it would be nice but some of us will be left cleaning up the mess. So what if Mr. Camping is wrong? Well that's okay because we have 2012 and it's right around the corner. What if 2012 comes and goes, what then?
I have a tendency to listen, actually eavesdrop, on random people that I find along the way. The other day I was in a Cambridge bookstore and overheard a man who was clearly articulate with above average intelligence explain to the patient bookstore owner that he saw remnants of the Atlantian civilization all up and down Massachusetts Avenue and that somehow MIT was involved and it, along with the military industrial complex, knew all about this. Moreover, in the very store I was standing in was an actual relic from that former advanced civilization. It was a collage "dare he say" that was on the wall that had a distinct Atlantian metal bracket as part of the piece of art. When the owner pointed out that a friend of his had made the art piece and had given it to him as a gift the Atlantian expert asked whether his friend had any particular knowledge as to where that metal piece came from? The truth is a sticky wicket. It's hard to identify especially when you are less than 100 percent sure. You see, if what you are espousing is less than 100% truth it is technically not true. You can say it is and perhaps many will believe you and it may even make you feel better but it is only a theory or road sign pointing you hopefully in the right direction. I guess we will never really know the truth about that bracket and whether MIT is using that bestowed technology from Atlantis for good or evil.
Before headlining a GOP fundraiser, the Tea Party darling and possible Republican Party candidate for U.S. President, Michele Bachmann, told a group of students and conservative activists in Manchester, New Hampshire, "You're the state where the shot was heard around the world in Lexington and Concord." My ancestors who fought on both sides of that war were apparently wrong when they thought that those shots were fired in Massachusetts, not New Hampshire. It's probably just me, but isn't it ironic that the Tea Party has a name that goes back to the Revolution and that its main spokesperson doesn't have a clue that Lexington Green is where the shot rang out in 1775? Most of us would say the man in the bookstore was mentally ill or delusional. But why? He believed what he was saying was true. Doesn't Mr. Camping and Michele Bachmann also believe in what they are saying? Does the truth even matter anymore? What is one to do?
So here is my prediction: I, and about 7 billion of you will be left here on this blue planet tomorrow. We will still be surrounded with war, poverty, famine, earthquakes, floods, global warming, opportunists, the naive and gullible, naysayers, scientists, skeptics, dictators, followers, con artists, peacemakers, the pure in heart, dreamers, optimists, philosophers, the weak, the afflicted, the powerful, the haves and the have nots, etc., etc., etc.
So what are we to do then? Here is a thought: Pretend God is coming and let's clean up the place so she enjoys her visit. If God doesn't show up at least your children and grandchildren will be happy you left something for them that you cared about, respected and didn't waste. Another thought: What if we showed God, the universe, or your big toe that this creation didn't all have to go to hell and that we decided just to have heaven on earth? Seems more logical to me in the long run.
