For the record: I believe there is something particularly peculiar going on, and that all these old texts *were* talking about what we are experiencing now.
I also expect to be here in 2013, though I don't expect to be looking at the same culture I was before. I'm already no longer looking at the same culture as I was in 2001 just 10 years ago.
An Apocalypse (Greek: ἀποκάλυψις apokálypsis; "lifting of the veil" or "revelation") is a disclosure of something hidden from the majority of mankind in an era dominated by falsehood and misconception, i.e. the veil to be lifted.
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Look around us. Tell me that the veil isn't lifting.
Namaste

