End Times Trivia

Ok, here's a little end-times trivia : tongue planted firmly in cheek of course

Question 1: Given that our current climate of militaristic Pagan administration and hollow, pharisaical religious establishment closely resembles Judea at the time of Jesus, and using his first coming as a model, who would he be (humanly speaking), where would he appear and what would he do if he came now?

Here's a couple to get you going:

1: He would be a black bus driver from New Orleans who recently lost his house in Katrina .. He would make a name for himself roundly criticizing the Bush administration for not helping and not caring. He would head up protests and hungerstrikes until finally getting put in jail: after extensive lobbying by the Christian Right!

2: He would be a monk of indiscriminate religious affiliation, complaining that it was not in fact himself who founded Christianity, but Constantine among others, and that tons of them have got it all wrong and they shouldn't be naming this thing after him! And finally he would be put in jail: after extensive lobbying by the Christian Right!

Pray contribute....

Whaaaaaaaa.....??????

Alright, we get the picture, we're riding the world too hard and she's gonna buck us off. Yep.

Yesterday was 36 without the humidex reading, 46 with. I can barely move. Also last weekend I spent a couple hours with only a bit of sunscreen on my shoulders.... I then spent the next three days shivering with a fever and covered in a burning red sunburn while trying to lower my temperature which eventually got me a cold.

Perfect...

This doesn't seem plausible, except that I was there: get this: when I was ten.... 19 years ago, I could spend the whole summer with no shirt on and never bother my darker-than-usual caucasian complexion with the slightest pink.

We've also had three bang-crashing, hurly burly thunderstorms in the last week, incredibly unusual for this area. I guess we should start re-thinking using the terms "usual" and "unusual" to describe the weather.

Where's this all going...

Sometimes I wonder if the planet may clean and restore itself regardless of our best efforts to aid or prevent it. Maybe in the face of such a crisis our role will become less to prevent "disaster" through environmental action, a disaster which may be necessary, but instead to educate and encourage people on how to survive the "disaster".

Maybe we will await the earth's wrath and convulsive self-healing with joy, and hold on as best we can?

Imagine, networks of inustrial mass-production and polution splinter apart.... cities' populations are scattered, re-populating the vast tracts of industrial farming with a return to sustainable, clean, village economy. Individuals are forced to rediscover, by necessity, their vocational calling, and eke out positive existances doing simple things they love, and their former prisons, the gleaming towers of Babylon, collect seeweed and lichen under a newly formed sea.

Dangerous and Fun.