So with the New Year coming up, I thought I'd throw this out there. Probably not the best place to do this but oh well. Sometime ago, a rather air-headed woman stated that the Rapture would come in her life time. That was soon echoed around the country by others that I'll just call religious. And that got me thinking about this so-called "End". What is it? How do we get there? Did I miss it? And why the hell is it so important?
I'm not trying to answer them. That's for you to do on your own. Free-will and all that.
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So, I'm no theology student. But I was brow-beaten by the Southern Baptists and Methodists as a child. I was threatened by "THE END" most of my childhood. That moment when "GOD" would be done with us. Come on, you all know it, Fire and brimestone, when all the gays, Jews, non-christians, me are going to "hell" for some "sin" that we did or some "virtue" we didn't commit to. When those that thumped a book, got up early on Sunday, commited themselves to slavery of the mind, believed that all that was wrong was right and that which is right is wrong, would go to some everlasting reward.
I started to wonder why we obsess over this "END" that we keep referring to. Now, I'm just grasping at straws here, so correct me if I'm wrong. But haven't people been preaching "THE END" for something like 6000 years? Shouldn't it have happened by now? If all these people know the will and word of "GOD". Then why have they ALL been wrong? Last time I checked, we weren't living the video game of the gods. Nor have I been a character in some book waiting for the last page to turn. Maybe I'm really naive, but the only end I see, is the end of the human race. Oh, just to make it clear, that end comes not from some "GOD" but by our own hand.
Now, we know that there have always been death cults, armageddonists, and doomsayers through out history. And I can't say to know about to much history, but I do know that in 1999, a great deal of people were worried about "THE END". So, I thought that it probably would be safe to say that the same happened in 999. And in 0000, we all know the story there. Or most of us do anyway. Yet, and I come back to it again, it never happened. They were wrong. No great beast, no angels smiting the wicked, no horns or trumpets, nothing.
Before I started this, I didn't give it much thought. Then I heard that woman say something about the Rapture. And it seems that it has become some sort of (a Kossack has this in their sig) exit stratgy for all the crap they do. No rights for gays, "GOD" said so. No rights for Jews, "GOD" said so. War is a good thing, "GOD" said so. But he/she/it didn't say those things. Man did, and he wrote it down with the premise that "GOD" said it. Now, I have to confess, I never heard him/her/it say that, maybe I wasn't paying attention. Now, I'm trying to wrap my mind around this. But these folks, preach hate in the name of "GOD", abuse the power of something that may or may not exist, abuse those that believe, both in mind and body, and then they want to run to this Rapture thing, and hey, they don't have to deal with it anymore.
Ok, so I've said my peace on that. Now, I'd like to move on to something else. I will call it "NOT THE END". Because there is no end. Time marches on. All the mistakes we make will not vanish at "THE END". They and we will live on or really other generations will. Crazy I know. But just for a moment, I want you to suspend your belief that "THE END" is coming. If you can do that, then the future stretches on for a long time. Meaning that everything we do will be felt for THOUSANDS of years. Everything from social injustice to war, hunger to economics will be felt by people who will know very little of why we do what we do. History will not be kind to GWB, but it won't be kind to the rest of us either. How will we as the people apprear to those future generations? When we rolled over to allow our goverment to do these horrible things and we did nothing to stop it. Oh, you'll say that we couldn't because of blah blah or they did it and we couldn't stop it. I wonder how many future generations will look at each other and say,"Why didn't they just put thier foot down?". Ha, that is the easy one. They won't be asking that, because they will be what we shape them to be.
Now, some of you are asking, "What the hells is this freak's point?". Well, I had hoped that it would be clear, but, in case it's not. Here, take this, if there is no end. If the future is there and not some mythical "END". Then just perhaps you and I should think a little more about what and how we do it. Think about it when the New Year rolls around.
May you have a safe and fun New Year. Don't drink and drive.
Or drink and drive and remove yourself from the gene pool.
Peace ^_^