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Yes, that is part of the song from R.E.M! Everybody raise your hand who has not heard this before..anyone? Every few years the world is ending, or so some group would want us to believe.

I was thinking about what I have read or heard about the world’s end arriving in five short years. We Americans at least attribute tremendous foresight to civilizations such as the early Egyptians with their pyramids. The pyramid builders looked into the future, and determined we would have the mathematics to decipher what they built into the Great Pyramids concerning the world’s end. The Aztec’s and Mayan’s with their calendars seem to have done the same thing. They were truly incredible people in their time.

I remember Jim Jones who was responsible for the massacre of almost one-thousand people in Guyana. What was so sad about this is Mr. Jones took his flock of believers to Guyana to survive a coming nuclear holocaust that was to destroy most of the world.

David Koresh, came along who proclaimed himself the Lamb of God and was to break open the Seven Seals and also end the world. While he technically did not break any seals that I know of, it was the end of his world, for this go ’round anyway. I found it sad that so many others died there too.

Once again the Indigo Children are arriving, after having first made money for folks in the late 1800’s. They are back in full swing and making money for some savvy marketer’s. I read they are here to do great things, and lead the world into a new level of awareness! Never mind that the characteristics they are allegedly to share with each other have a lot more in common to a child with to many things, and not enough parental attention than to a highly evolved human being from the future.

Here is a link I found to the most well known end of the world dates. I do not think we are going to see the 2007 predictions come true. Seeing there are only eleven more on the web page, I suppose that is alright as we missed the previous two hundred and nine dates.

When I think about these things, I am saddened by a few thoughts surrounding these events and predictions. My first thought is that some people should be so miserable that not only do they want to see the world come to an end, they want the world to end for others too. For some of them I think is the smoker’s out. They are not killing themselves, the cigarettes are. Finally, what do these people who market the worlds ending think they are going to do with the profits from their endeavors?

Secondly, if they really believe in what they are hawking, they must know there won’t be anywhere to spend their fortune. If there was someplace to spend their fortune on, there would be no one to take their money. And there would be no one here to tell them they were correct after all.

For myself, I think of the people who were alive in the middle ages and the black death that killed so many, many people. I heard estimates that as many as four out of five people died during those times. This wikipedia link reads that estimates go as high as ninety percent in a population of five million people in China alone! When I imagine those numbers, and everything that happened in that time, I would know the world is coming to an end if I had been alive then. If the world did not end for them, I do not see much on the horizon that I have to worry about.

Finally, I think about what is going to end really? We as humans speak through our ego’s when we speak of the world’s end. The best we may do on our own is cause the extinction of the human species. It is likely that the world will continue on without us just as it did before we showed up.

When you hear or read the world is coming to an end, look at the person telling you, and guess if they have anything to gain by what they say to you. Other than normal conversation among friends, chances are they do have something to gain and it probably resides in your wallet or purse.

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