Melting Ice, Volcanic Eruptions, Solar Flares...What's next???

Global Warming is but another doomsday scenario on the list of things to watch for in what many believe are the end of the world days that we are in.

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"The Antarctic ice sheet is one of two polar ice caps of the Earth. It covers
about 98% of the Antarctic continent and is the single largest mass of ice on
Earth."

Wikipedia

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The entire mass of ice on the Antarctic continent is about the size of a 30 cubic kilometer ice cube and if it all melted it is estimated that it would add approximately 70 metres of fresh water to the ocean. But that doesn't necessarily mean that the ocean would rise by that much, according to some, because fresh water is less dense than salt water therefore it requires less space.

Soon after the discovery in February of 2008 that about four percent of the Wilkins ice sheet had broken off of the Antartic continent, there came several reports warning that the Antarctic ice sheet seemed to be melting at a faster rate than some scientists had previously predicted. The Wilkins section of ice the journalist were referring to was 200 square kilometers big which is a fraction of the complete 6000 square kilometer Wilkins ice sheet. This however was enough evidence for some scientists to reconsider the validity of the timeline of their past predictions and the impending consequences and role that global warming was playing in this phenomenon. At one time they speculated that the entire Wilkins ice shelf itself would break away in 2020 or later.

These were however not the first pieces of the continent to move away from the continent. While there are not many records going back further than the 1970's, those that do exist show that even larger pieces of ice met the same faith in 2002 and 1995.

And then this week of September 2008 again a few more chunks displace themselves.

In a few reports from the National, a canadian news program, we find some more speculations from the science world about how they believe that the Antartic ice sheet is stable and though it may melt in parts, they say that the eastern side is safe for another 7000 years.

Speculation is to the interpreter what reality is to mother nature. This is the same for the prophecies of 2012. From the same canadian news service we find another article on the history of the Antarctic where the subject of solar radiation (solar flares from the current solar cycle 24 maybe) dating back some 13000 years ago ( half of the great year of the Mayan calendar) would have been responsible for similar global warming effects on the ice shelf.

This is however just speculation. In another article we discover that Global Warming may not be the culprit at all. The phenomenon may be the after effect caused by some oceanic volcanic eruptions beneath the Antartic continent.

Who to believe ????

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One Question: One Answer

Cowardice asks the question - is it safe ?

Expediency asks the question - is it politics ?

Vanity asks the question - is it popular ?

But conscience asks the question - is it right ?

And there comes a time when one must take a position that is
neither safe, not political, nor popular, but one must take it because it is
right.

Dr Martin Luther King, Jr

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What is 2012?
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Why a Spiritual Ascension in the year 2012

On the one hand the wonders surrounding the year 2012 are about the soul and consciousness and about the probability that time has brought humanity to the edge of a paradigm shift that will transform us into a more spiritual organism with our surroundings. This spiritual event horizon is a greater good, yet the other side of the 2012 hype is about terrible people and terrible weather patterns and cosmic patterns combining into a perfect storm that will leave the post 2012 planet in complete shambles and perhaps to the brink of human extinction.

2012 prophecy is not alone in telling us of these coming events but most other warnings are not so specific about the time that these things will occur.

Is there such a thing as the soul ?
Is there such a thing as oneness ?
Is there such a thing as universal consciousness ?

Give me a concrete answer to any of those questions and i'm likely to walk away from you as fast as possible knowing full well that no one can answer those questions. I guess that's why they call the belief that there is any metaphysical nature, such as soul or oneness, faith.

There's a bit of irony in this faith stuff. Whether you believe 2012 is the time of either an apocalyptic set of events that will have millions perish or whether it is simply a time where the human population undergoes a quantum leap into an unknown mental dimension or whether nothing at all occurs it is still a matter of faith that one would believe in this leap. If you believe it will occur exactly on December 21, 2012 or as the product of some mental reaction to the solar flare activity from what is called Solar Cycle 24 or if you believe in oneness or some form of spiritual ascension which some call soul ascension then you have faith.

Why should this spiritual ascension occur in the year 2012 ?

That is a question of faith and a question of belief. Some people couldn't be convinced no matter how hard you tried to tell them that there is a reality beyond the body. These people, in my opinion, must be completely empty and i tend to run away from them even faster than i do from faith dogmatists. Yet they may be correct. I don't have the answers.

Those faith dogmatists are those who are so entranced by this or that sacred book that they will follow the interpreter of those doctrines without much question as to the validity of it's content. They tell you that they have the ultimate truth and any question that you ask them can be answered by that book ( their or their leaders interpretation of that book ). It's the same for the Qu'ran, the Bible, the Book of Mormon, and other sacred books. In the end the Books may be the only truth remaining but the interpretation may be the corruption that guides humanity to it's own demise and extinction.

It's the same with the prophecies of 2012. Again, there are prophecies of a spiritual ascension that seem to point to a combination of cosmic energy fields related to the motion of stars and planets and the year 2012. Again, it's about the interpreter of these prophecies and not about the prophecies themselves.

It doesn't take a brain surgeon to understand that nature is going through a period of increased energy. The storms are fiercer, the earthquakes more determined, and the animals seem to be disappearing at a greater rate than before.....hmm, hmmm....might i add those pesky alien appearances are also on the rise.

What's going on ?
Is 2012 more than just a collection of hyped up predictions and prophesies ?

More importantly maybe is to ask how long will it be for man to come full circle and return to the oneness that he once was. If it doesn't happen in 2012 it will be sometime thereafter for those who have faith in such things as a soul and an existence beyond the current realm that we understand.

Bring it on i say. 2012 couldn't be early enough for humanity to finally rid itself of it's sickness of self. Is anyone else sick of these wars and rumours of wars and.....

Sometimes i think that it isn't evil leaders who cause all the problems of the world as much as it is a collective of evil people who simply choose a person to represent them as a leader.

The meso american such as the Mayan or Aztecs would have called that person or energy Tezcatlipoca. The alternative to this evil energy, they would and still do call Quetzaltcoal. The Christian have their own version, as do the Hindu, Muslim, and other believers or faithful.

So are you evil or are you good and if you are then who do you choose to follow ?

BRING IT ON!!!!!
Doomsday never seemed like such a good idea.






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What is 2012?
Venus Transit - Galactic Alignment - Spiritual Ascension - TimeWave Zero - 13.0.0.0.0 the end of the Baktun Long Count - December 21, 2012 Winter Solstice - A portal into the Yuga Golden Age
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Biblical Rapture and 2012 prophecy

Just as it is the nature of religious men to find signs of the second coming of their lord without putting exact dates on this Christian foretold time according to Sacred text, it is evident that many New Age Christians and Evangelicals are finding it difficult not to point the finger to the Mayan end date of December 21, 2012 as the apocalyptic prophetic time described in the Book of Revelations and other prophetic bible books.

Several Christian movements have adopted their own version of this end time and within this interpretation they have included a specific understanding of a phenomenon called the RAPTURE.

What is the rapture ?

Basically it is a moment in time when the true disciples of Christ, according to Rapture theory, are taken out of the material body and risen to the spiritual world at the side of their understood saviour. Those who are not spiritually ready, again according to rapture theory are left behind to face the events of the apocalypse.

The rapture theory is mostly formulated from bible scripture such as the following from Matthew 24: 40 - 41

Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.

and Acts 1: 9-11

After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.
They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. "Men of Galilee," they said, "why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven."

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  Rapture Theorists use several other biblical passages to convince themselves and others that they have interpreted the word of God according to the Bible properly. Such passages might include :
  
  Matthew 24: 30-36
• John 14: 1-3
• 1 Corinthians 15: 51-52
• 1 Thessalonians 4: 15-17
• Phillipians 3: 20-21
• and others

Where does the Rapture Theory come from?

In the 19th Century an Irish Christian evangelist named John Nelson Darby taught the message of the rapture to a group a believers in the United States. The message continued to gain prominence among evangelicals under the guidance of William Eugene Blackstone who used the printing press as a propaganda tool through a highly popular book called "Jesus is Coming".

On a side note it is interesting to mention that as this is happening in the early to mid 1800's the Mormon Church of the Latter Day Saints is newly founded by Joseph Smith in the same generation. The Mormon however do not believe in the Rapture as the Evangelicals do.

We move passed the 1950's and there are new Evangelicals such has Hal Lindsey and Russell Doughten who are teaching those who want to believe them about this concept of magical ascension into a metaphysical realm. ( On a side note...and making a fortune in the process). These people and the rapture theory is supported by song writers and actors who agree to again use the media as a propaganda tool to extend their message.

Further into the new millenium the Rapture believers are still at it. Hal Lindsey is still at it and now we here a new name playing the same old fiddle. Here we have the good ole TV ministers Jack Van Impe and his beautiful wife Rexella who are convinced that they are schedualed for a trip into the ethereal realm of the spiritual just before the great tribulation is about to unfold. ( Now i feel a little cheated by this act of grandeur...how dare you take all the money and run when the kettle is about to boil over....). The Van Impe's are right into this 2012 prophecy stuff. Good old Jack can't put a date on it since that would go against the teachings of St. Matthew where no one knows the hour, yet you need only to watch is program once to see him grinning at the very possibility that those dang gone pagan mayans might have been onto something.

In fact they have mastered what they believe to be another great video in their endless series of videos that should keep them in the money until they disappear from the scene, a scene they describe as an horrific time that the rest of us will need to deal with from our earthly material body. I haven't personally seen the 2012 Van Impe video but i imagine it takes every Mayan concept of spiritual ascension or end time concept and turns it into a Christian issue. (Isn't that just a continuation of the original Mayan idea burning that the Spaniards started in the 16th century ? ).

Other names associated with current rapture theory spiritual ascension include Tim Lahaye and Jerry Jenkins (not to be mistaken for John Major Jenkins, the galactic alignment theorist) who brought us the film and book "Left Behind". I did see that film and it was as stupid to me as the recent 2012 Doomsday film that i recently viewed. 2012 Doomsday also pretty much raped the crap out of the reality of the Mayan legends of 2012 and turned it into a Christian festival that includes the rapture.

However this rapture concept is not a phenom that is agreed about by all branches of Christianity. The Catholic Church for instance deny the rapture. As mentioned before the Church of the Latter Saints or Mormons don't support the rapture concept. Even some evangelicals question the merits of the Rapture Theory.

To remain a generalist i am telling you that it might be true and the again it might not be true. What i can say is that i wish i was making a fraction of the money that some of these evangelicals make on selling religion while they wait to get scooped away before the @#%# hits the fan.

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What is 2012?
Venus Transit - Galactic Alignment - Spiritual Ascension - TimeWave Zero - 13.0.0.0.0 the end of the Baktun Long Count - December 21, 2012 Winter Solstice - A portal into the Yuga Golden Age
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2012 Doomsday - yet another religious attempt to steal the moment

I was all excited about having the opportunity to watch a movie on my favorite subject which is 2012. I was however completely disappointed with the film entitled 2012 Doomsday.

The entire film is about evangelical christianity and the supposed rapture and the coming of Christ. It wasn't enough for these Christians to rip off the entire beauty behind the mesoamerican calendrical legends that surround 2012 when Hernandez Cortes and the Spaniards presented themselves has the ultimate lord Quetzalcoatl in the 1500's and continued on at that time to corrupt and destroy a civilization.

Now there is a new breed of Evangelical's in town taking hold of the great possibilities that can be part of the 2012 legacy and turning it into a Christian religious festival.

There are several moments where i got really turned off during this film. The first was when the preacher with his cross his explaining to another person about the Mayan Long Count....DOH!!!! The film is about the last 24 hours or so leading up to December 21, 2012 therefore i would imagine that his buddy would have to have been living under a rock not to have heard of the Long Count. Then they have to bring in the birth of a Christ-like child in the Chechen pyramid of all places. Of course there isn't a Mayan priest or should i say pagan priest or priestess involved in the whole process.

The whole show is a cheap sales pitch for the evangelical Christian fallacy of faith which in their mind includes a rapture moment where they get saved and the rest of us go to hell.

This movie called 2012 Doomsday is the biggest insult to the Winter Solstice event of 2012. There may be a spiritual ascension which involves the consciousness somehow and this may come about on December 21, 2012 but i highly doubt that it will come about as the wantabee movie depicts it. This is more likely a first step shift of consciousness which will involve generations of humans in what has been referred to as the age of Aquarius.

Then again this is only a review of what i found to be a sick piece of work by some very desperate soul thieves. If you like the Evangelical rapture believers then by all means keep filling their pockets with your tithes.

We can all use another laugh and we will get it once 2012 passes and you find some other event to sound your trumpet.


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What is 2012?
Venus Transit - Galactic Alignment - Spiritual Ascension - TimeWave Zero - 13.0.0.0.0 the end of the Baktun Long Count - December 21, 2012 Winter Solstice - A portal into the Yuga Golden Age
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