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Thursday, December 28, 2006

Apocalypse Now?

One thing I notice is that lately, major natural disasters have been occurring around this time. No doubt that when volcanoes start spewing, earthquakes start shaking and typhoons start blowing, these can occur at any time. But in recent years, it seems only during this period of time that the major ones start to occur.

Whether it is a coincidence or whether it is a sign, I have no idea. But why is it only during the festive season, just post-Christmas, that major destructions occur due to natural disasters? Some parts of the world are still recovering from the massive tsunamis of Boxing Day two years back, and now there is a big earthquake that disrupts many of the cables bringing wireless access to all over the world.

Of course what is a mere disruption of internet as compared to the many people who lost their lives, homes, families and land due to the big tsunami? By right, we should be grateful for what we have, as compared to those who have been through worse. But being humans, people tend to just take things for granted and lament about any inconvenience in their lives.

Yet when I see what the world is coming to, I cannot help but feel is the end near? Are we fast approaching the end of the world? There is something in the Bible (Revelations I think) that says something about this, if I am not mistaken. Something about how the world will become worse, calamity after calamity will strike, and after that it will be the end of the world.

And it seems to be fast coming true. More diseases are striking people, animals are getting sick (first the cows, then the pigs, then the birds, and now with the mercury poisoning and virus in fish), vegetables being poisoned by insecticides or fertilisers, water being poisoned by toxic waste, icebergs melting at a fast rate, volcanoes, earthquakes and forest fires occuring more frequently than before. All these seem to be going towards apocalypso.

If the end of the world is coming, then is there a way to prevent? Will it be even worse than the flood during Noah's time? Somehow I cannot seem to live comfortably anymore when I think that the end may be near, anytime soon, within years, months, days even.

1 comments:

Patricia Carter said...

I dont think the end of the world is coming. Unless we are talking about man made reasons.
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