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The last and latest taboo: the end of the world. |
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| Keywords: end of the world, prophecy
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| Categories: News, Current affairs & Documentary, Self-help, Personal development & Spirituality
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| Published on: Jul 18, 2008 |
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| Last updated on: Jul 18, 2008 |
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| Views: 170 |
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 One of the first photographs I took as the proud 15-year-old owner of a very expensive camera was of an old chap carrying a placard bearing the words: "The End is Nigh". Forever summonable to my mind's eye, I've actually lost the original printed image - and the camera, for that matter - but the mixture of amusement, dread and wonder remains.
That formula has been re-kindled only today, as I've pieced together astrologer Diana Garland's forecast and thoughts around 2012, the (end-) time many a new ager has in mind for the next cataclysmic downfall for us humans, or at least some terrible turbulence.
I imagine the end of the world has been around since a few days after the world was invented. And as each of us knows we are likely to die (on a personal level), the end writ large, is at the very least, a salutory look in the 'cosmic mirror'.
But why 2012 all of a sudden? If the Mayan's (the foremost authority it seems on our downfall) were so good at predicting untimely ends, why do you never meet one - who presumably would have seen the writing on the wall and snuck off to somewhere safer?
I know that's a cheap and silly shot. It's probably my own discomfort finding solace in a tiny oasis of denial-based humour (a tried and trusted strategy in the face of an uncertain future and certain death).
Yet in my more considered and perhaps intelligent moments (yes - they do occur), I - like many a Mayan and modern day sensitive soul - feel the downward spiral of what we know and the upward pull of what might be. Dangerous and self-fulfilling as it might be, I'm even seeing what I consider 'evidence' in the form of the collapse of once-trusted institutions, socio-economic unease and a straightforward lack of deep fulfilment among everyday people.
Do you feel it too?
Anyway, I'll let my prophetic car parking ticket take some of the blame (pictured) and commend the insight of Diana Garland to you who can be heard here
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