Apocalypse now

Wes and I discuss current events from time to time. One concern I've voiced recently is the possible government takeover of credit. Given the current situation, it's not at all unlikely, and if it does happen, it is the Mark of the Beast.
For those of you who aren't familiar with the book of Revelation in the Bible, one HUGE sign of the apocalypse is this mark of the beast thingy. Basically "the devil" takes over and assigns everyone a number, and without this number you cannot travel or trade. Some people were calling the "national ID card" the mark, but your purchasing power is not limited by the ID card. It would be by a government credit card.

Now I know some of you are saying "Oh man, she's gone Christian on us!" But that's not anymore true than saying that I've gone Mayan and started sacrificing people. I do still view the bible as largely fairy tales and parables. After all, Revelation is presented as a dream, full of imagery and metaphors.
And even as Wes and I talk with certainty about the coming end times, we remain calm, almost observant. This whole sequence of events seems very alien, barely reaching our lives. I mentioned to a coworker that aside from my sliding "college savings account" I don't even notice a recession. Shit, have you seen gas prices? They're freakin awesome.

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Actually, I just remembered how we got on this topic. I was thinking about how the government is printing way too much money and it's leading to inflation. So I proposed we burn massive amounts of cash to increase the value of the dollar. However I soon realized the possible worst-case-scenario of civil war over cash supply, at which point the government would step in and nationalize credit, leading to (BUM BUM BUMMMM..) the mark of the beast.

p-p-p-planet x (i need a better hobby)

so, a few days ago, i posted about planet x, or nibiru, or our sister star, or whatever else it may be.

there seems to be some discrepancies to what exactly is going to be passing through our solar system. most videos ive seen say that the star will be passing through, that we will see two suns (ive seen one video that asserts we can already see it in the southern hemisphere) in the next few years coming. one video (ill try to find it and post it if i can) says that it will be one of the star's planets, nibiru that will pass through.

regardless *what* is gonna go through our solar system, it will wreak havoc. our moon's gravity pulls our oceans up and gives us the tides, imagine what a much more massive, much hotter object added to the equation would do to us. if it really is coming up from the south, then that may explain the depletion of the ozone at the south pole...

the important thing to remember is that civilizations have survived this before. our species has teetered on the brink of extinction before.

i can only hope, however that this is the end of us. i know thats about as pessimistic as you can get... but seriously, this earth needs change. it needs a break from us. we are raping mother earth a hundred times over, leaving her almost barren. this is why the apocalypse gives me hope. i personally and ready to die when the time comes. there's more to life than existence.

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theres two versions of this is seems (first one is third in a series, the second is a "revised version" but says different things)
__i should not i dont buy into everything these videos say. i havent researched much into these things, but i would say itd be hard to find an official source on this. (but then, the videos had to get their info from somewhere..)__

"planet x", our sister star

I was watching this last night, its 50 minutes long, but you could probably skip most of it, or have it on while youre playing a video game (i was on wow healing an instance, listening to it)

It talks about how we are in a binary star system, with a brown or white dwarf, that every 2400 years causes "the end of the world" when it returns to our part of the solar system. we have seen this other star twice in the past 25 years: in 1983, as it was 50,000 light years away, and again a few years ago, as it was 9,000 light years away. It is quickly approaching, and will be here by 2012.


there is another series, that while it doesnt acknowledge that "planet x" is our sister star, it is much more concise, and provides a slightly different view on the events to come in 2012




learning about this has showed me that time is cyclical. the rise and fall of celestial bodies, and their interaction with our part of the solar system has drastic effects on it. Not only that, but there is a regular pattern to these events that the ancients were able to synchronize their time to. the universe replicates these tiny cycling objects over and over and over again, from electrons spinning (or at least moving) around the nucleus, our earth rotating about its own axis, our solar system flying through space on an arm of our galaxy.. who knows how high (and low) this pattern goes. Infinity is a very simple concept to grasp if you dont try too hard. i think of winding up a great cosmic clock and letting it go, letting entropy unwind.

things are much greater than we know, what we think we know.
we are inevitably running towards death, unable to stop or slow down.
enjoy your cancer.

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on a personal level, as i have said ive always been interested in space. I have always believed in aliens, and to a certain degree spirits/ghosts. When i was younger and on my first alien "kick" sometimes i could feel a presence, as if something was out there (or very close) watching, knowing. Last night, i felt that presence again, but only briefly. it was distinctly familiar, and i hadnt felt it for many years (many to me is 7 or 8, oh how young we all are).

i am reminded of a dream i had once. the aliens had come. i remember walking out into my living room, and a giant eye was looking through the picture window. the radio told us all to go to the mall. once there, it was very crowded, of course it was as the whole town was there. the aliens were calling people forward, to take with them. i kept asking them to take me, but i was not selected. i was not meant to go with them.
i had another dream, that i had gone outside to play with a gun, and i shot towards the sun, and made it, destroying the sun. everything was slowly growing colder and darker, this process would take a few years. everyone knew it was my fault for shooting out the sun and dooming them all.



i have also realized that in light of this "blogging revolution"/information age, much of our data is stored on centralized servers. If a world destroying sun (our own little death star) did bring down a rain of meteors, much of our information would be lost. This destruction of information seems to occur with every cycle we go through. imagine how much information has been destroyed over the millennia. when the major servers are destroyed, especially those for blog sites, the "lives" of millions will be lost forever, for once, not in the literal sense but figuratively. where we previously has journals, and tactile evidence of the past, we now store much of our data electronically, which not only makes it more efficient to contain, but also to destroy.

what did our ancestors know that has been lost to the ages?