Originally posted by neo96
reply to post by rabzdguy

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There is that free word agian so what does that have to do with

History of Doomsday & Apocalypse FAILURES

Yeah I can see a failure there.

What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us? (D39)

Because the universe of our existence is necessarily anthropomorphic, there must be realms that are inaccessible to human awareness. These realms become accessible when we expand what it is to be human.
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It is almost impossible for self-serving groups to act enlightened. (S171)

Enlightenment is the global awareness that can develop through living in an understanding of the problematic nature of the self and the world that seemingly surrounds it. A self that becomes defensively entrenched, contracted and isolated, has no opportunity to achieve such awareness.

All creatures must carry some kind of destiny stamped out by purposes of varying strengths, by the fixation of experience and disposition. Any delusions of Free Will harbored now must be merely the prisoner rattling his cage. Our curse lies in the fact that we see the cage. (M102)

The configuration of our existence clearly is determined in many ways by forces beyond our control. The existence of a self precludes other existences and places us in inferior relations with certain aspects of other. Constraints are a system of barriers that are, while impossible to eliminate, somewhat amenable to choice and rational construction. However, awareness of the barriers is a prerequisite to choice in their construction, and involvement in construction turns confinement into habitat.

If you would possess your humanity, let go of the universe! Humans cannot bear much reality. Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your heads into the stanchions and munch contentedly until you die. Others use you for their purposes. Not once do you live outside the stable to lift your head and be your own creature. (C229)

Originally posted by neo96
reply to post by DerepentLEstranger

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That was called staying on topic ATS has rules about that stuff like people should be talking about Doomsday and the apocalypse, but alas all it seems is they want to deflect, and talk about everything but.

When the Last Tree Is Cut Down,
the Last Fish Eaten, and the Last Stream Poisoned,
You Will Realize That You Cannot Eat Money

Henny Penny, also known as Chicken Licken or Chicken Little, is a folk tale with a moral in the form of a cumulative tale about a chicken who believes the world is coming to an end. The phrase "The sky is falling!" features prominently in the story, and has passed into the English language as a common idiom indicating a hysterical or mistaken belief that disaster is imminent. Versions of the story go back more than 25 centuries and it continues to be referenced in a variety of media.

The moral to be drawn changes, depending on the version. Where there is a 'happy ending', the moral is not to be a 'Chicken' but to have courage. In other versions where the birds are eaten by the fox, the fable is interpreted as a warning not to believe everything you are told.

Originally posted by beezzer
reply to post by MDDoxs

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Nice reply!

So social engineering since Gog and Magog?

Are we that gulable as a species??

10. The Jupiter Effect, 1982 In 1982, two professional astrophysicists, John Gribben and Stephen Plagemann, floated the idea that a rare alignment of all nine planets in 1982 would create a combined gravitational pull that would place huge stresses on the planet’s tectonic plates, causing killer earthquakes and severe changes in the Earth’s climate. The book they wrote together, The Jupiter Effect, caused quite a stir at the time, but after the alignment passed without incident (with even the combined gravitational pull of all eight planets having barely any measurable effect on Earth at all) their professional reputation took quite a beating. They later claimed the theory was intended simply as an exercise in astrophysical speculation, but by then the damage had been done. While The Jupiter Effect proved to be a bust, however, it was one of the first popular doomsday scenarios which held nature responsible for the end rather than God’s wrath, for which I’m sure the Almighty was mightily pleased Read more: www.toptenz.net... Read more at www.toptenz.net...