Doomsday Report

The End of the World is near. No... the end of the world as we know it is near. That must mean that the known world is about to end, since everyone knows a different world. Or maybe the mapped world will change... Continents suddenly rip apart, or break off and fall into the sea. It might be the modern world is about to change.....? Isn't it always? And how is it that so many clairvoyants saw the present Pope as being the last? How could the Church end? That's a longshot.
I'm betting the present Pope dies (Saint or not), and another is named to replace him. I'm also placing my money on the world continuing to spin; Continents continuing to grind and move as they always have, and the next twenty six thousand year cycle through the Zodiac to begin on time and as expected December 21 2012. Whether or not the Pope dies is really the only question worth wagering on. So much for the end of the world, now on to more interesting things.
There was a wet spot. A pool. The sun would shine into that pool and the energy would heat the water. There was a chemical reaction and a film began to grow in the warm water. The film became a mush. The mush an algae. Eventually the algae evolved into a life form with a central control system and a consciousness. It could move, it could think, it was certain it was the center of the universe.
The life form flourished. It created Gods, Religions, Governments and Society. It had architecture, science, astronomy, medicine and great knowledge. Then at the pinnacle of it's existence it disappeared. Scary huh? It happens.!!!
Future life forms would be impressed by the legacy of it's relics, even though they weren't sure of the knowledge. Some things in the previous world could not be explained. There was great debate about whether or not it was an "advanced" civilization.
But the world didn't end. Those gods died, immortal as they were thought to be, and their religions with them. Those governments failed along with their social systems. That species died and with them their knowledge. The pond dried up, but the world upon which it sat continued to spin, erupt, upheave, evolve, and be part of a living universe that in reality is not "life" friendly. It's a miracle we're alive in it. Ahhh...the miracle of life. As far as we know, only on earth.
So, The end of the world ? No. That's a bet against billions of years of cycling. Betting the surface of the earth becomes uninhabitable is a better bet. Or ...Pick your poison... It only matters how if somebody survives . Someday Doomsday is coming, but until then enjoy the miracle of living in the wet spot.
And by all means Don't be Afraid !