The Revolution must start in America

Tyler Hicks / Redux / The New York Times

The unrest in the Middle East, the convulsions in Ivory Coast, the hunger sweeping across failed states such as Somalia, the freak weather patterns and the systematic unraveling of the American empire do not signal a lurch toward freedom and democracy but the catastrophic breakdown of globalization. The world as we know it is coming to an end. And what will follow will not be pleasant or easy.

The bankrupt corporate power elite, who continue to serve the dead ideas of unfettered corporate capitalism, globalization, profligate consumption and an economy dependent on fossil fuels, as well as endless war, have proven incapable of radically shifting course or responding to our altered reality. They react to the great unraveling by pretending it is not happening. They are desperately trying to maintain a doomed system of corporate capitalism. And the worse it gets the more they embrace, and seek to make us embrace, magical thinking. Dozens of members of Congress in the United States have announced that climate change does not exist and evolution is a hoax. They chant the mantra that the marketplace should determine human behavior, even as the unfettered and unregulated marketplace threw the global economy into a seizure and evaporated some $40 trillion in worldwide wealth. The corporate media retreats as swiftly from reality into endless mini-dramas revolving around celebrities or long discussions about the inane comments of a Donald Trump or a Sarah Palin. The real world – the one imploding in our faces – is ignored.

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It shall be unexpected

Regardless of if you have ever read the bible or not, you know that the world will not end tomorrow. The ending of the world is described as an event that will be unexpected and completely random. The world didn’t end for Y2K and certainly didn’t end on June 6, 2006. The world also didn’t end at the start of the new millennium  on January 1, 2000.

New York magazine interviewed one of the prophets that claims the world will end on May 21, 2011. Here is the way that the prophet claims the world will end:

[W]hen we get to May 21 on the calendar in any city or country in the world, and the clock says about — this is based on other verses in the Bible — when the clock says about 6 p.m., there’s going to be this tremendous earthquake that’s going to make the last earthquake in Japan seem like nothing in comparison. And the whole world will be alerted that Judgment Day has begun. And then it will follow the sun around for 24 hours. As each area of the world gets to that point of 6 p.m. on May 21, then it will happen there, and until it happens, the rest of the world will be standing far off and witnessing the horrible thing that is happening.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/world-ends-may-21-2011-5#ixzz1MuF7Voyc

To me, this sounds absolutely insane. Earthquakes will happen every hour in different time zones? Wouldn’t adjacent time zones be affected by each earthquake? Honestly, the end of the world has been predicted so many times that most people should be numb to predictions. Even the Mayan Calendar prediction sounds bad. It holds more weight than many past predictions, however, it is still just as crazy.

What would one do differently if they knew the end of the world was coming? I believe that most people would probably live their lives as usual. Some might start partying and doing crazy things. Some are going to suddenly attend church and become religious. Although, once they find out the world is still happening when they wake up in the morning, these people will be disappointed and go back to their average lives.

Nothing is going to change tomorrow. There certainly wont be 24 earthquakes every hour on the hour. What about the 16 time zones that are based on 15-30 time zone integers? Is this guy saying that there will be 40 earthquakes that are all going to but the Japan earthquake to shame? It is an idea so crazy that I don’t know why or how any one could possibly follow whatever religion he is a part of.