Is chicken little right, or is he being repeated?

By jimrob | May 24, 2008

As is the norm when I go to bed at a “normal” time, I woke up at 3 a.m. and couldn’t drift back off. Giving up at 5:00, I got up, showered, and made breakfast. I flipped on the kitchen radio to 1040, and was surprised to hear Art Bell on Coast to Coast AM. (Didn’t he retire? Is this his third comeback?)

He was interviewing Major Ed Dayne (sp?), a “remote viewer” who claims to have practiced this skill in some secret military program. What he and his group claim to be able to do is “see” into the future. He states clearly that he isn’t a psychic; he cannot predict events. Rather, he can simply focus on a future time and see what will happen. Same thing, different name I guess.

He’s making the standard late-night doomsday claims. Bird Flu will ravage the Earth killing innumerous people, the U.S. economy will collapse and drag the world down with it, and life as we know it will end. This will all culminate with the solar peak in 2012 which he says will basically fry our brains.

Doomsday predictions are nothing new. Mankind has been predicting it’s own demise since… well, mankind has been around. We are creatures obsessed with our own mortality. Whether this is genetic or a function placed in us by God to make us realize our finite existence is not the point of this post.

It seems that claims such as these are increasing in number, and many take this to be “the quickening” that Revalation predicts. I wonder, however, is it really? Are predictions ramping up or are they simply being propagated more?

When Nostradaumus made his radical claims in the 15th Century, they basically stayed local to France and the surrounding region. Consider though what would have happened had the internet been around. His “predictions” would have spread worldwide in days, and grabbers-on of the doomsday glory would have began making similar ones.

I do not belive the world will end in 2012. The basis for these predictions is on a stone calendar in Mexico which ends in 2012. Whoopie. We rarely hear the associated facts, such as that the natives which made this calendar used a base-12 numbering system.

Some do mention, in passing, that the calendar simply starts over in 2012. They quickly follow this up by stating that this isn’t a simple matter of an increase in the next significant digit; it’s representative of “mankind starting over again.” Whatever. With all the increases we have in modern science and technology, it’s Mexican natives who practiced human sacrifice that were able to foresee the end of the world.

My main reason for not beliving any of this garbage, however, rests in my Christian faith. The world will not end until Christ returns. Nobody knows, nor will anybody know until that moment, when it will happen. Matthew Chapter 24, v. 36-39 states:

36″No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son,[a] but only the Father. 37As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man

It doesn’t say that nobody but remote viewers will know. It doesn’t say that nobody but Mayans will know. Nobody will know when it is going to happen. Nobody. So you can take all of your claims of doom and despair, write them down on a piece of paper, and wad them up and throw ‘em away. That’s all they are worth. Nothing.

One sidenote: Art asked Ed who will win the Presidental election. After much hemming, hawing, and stammering, Ed said he’s been “too busy on this terrorism thing to worry about it.” Art quickly stepped in to change the subject and save Ed’s hinder.

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