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 !

My Vision

...is much clearer then people realize; from my perch I see the world.
Aaahhhh.....but am I clairvoyant? Nothing special, like all computers of some sort I assimilate information and draw conclusions. Here's one; people in the California city in the valley where the two rivers meet don't think of it as low lying land. Like Bangladesh, or New Orleans, or some of the Gulf states, that valley is as susceptible to 'coastal flooding' as the coast. Additionally, unlike the coast (which has the sea rising on one side), the valley must deal with draining first. The valley city in question's official elevation is 17 feet above sea level. Is that the valley floor? I don't know, but the important measurement is the elevation of the riverBED. In other words: how many feet does the ocean have to rise before that river quits flowing? Or just becomes sluggish? Salt water is already invading the delta... Rivers flow downhill. It will not be a matter of channeling water, it will be a matter of drainage. That valley is an inland sea in the future. Who will see it? WE will! The future is now.
Those catastrophic climatic changes that will happen over fifty years due to a three degree rise in the earths temperature... well, we're already two degrees there; the last degree won't take the rest of those fifty years. Can I see this? Only because studies and scientists all over the world are pointing to the change. And some of the documented psychics foretold it happening around 2012-13. 'The world will end as we know it'. Which indicates to me that mankind will not end, but civilization might.
How you live, and whether you live, might come down to where you live in the near future. What's the near future? As long as I live must be considered the near future, so ok... fifty-four years, or 2061.
Now using my twisted mind to do some figuring (even if it takes until 2050) that valley is going to see a earth changing catastrophe in the near future! And believe me (which you don't) 2020 is a lot more likely as the outside date if global warming continues as it has. So far the warming rate is exceeding all expectations.
What am I stupid? Have I been looking into crystal balls? 12 years ain't that far away? Look at the rainfall records broken this year... records shattered all over the world, but that valley is exempt? Now is the time... Sell! Live there if you must, but take your money and re-invest out of the cities. Go somewhere you can buy land and pay cash. Somewhere safe in a mountains, where the weather is conducive to farming with a small town or city nearby. Do it now! Then, your Safe-haven will be waiting and paid for! Just rent till your retirement checks go to the bank.
Then, IF there is a catastrophe, or you have to wait ten years to retire, and don't want to give the entire 'baby boomer' generation a head start on you, you will already be set!

Of course I wouldn't be so Brazen as to tell you how to live, or what's good for you, or what you ought to do. And you'll be smart to remember; only a fool would take advice from a twisted mind seeing the world from a hermit's perch! I write this to everybody and once again am seen as the asshole wishing everybody to doom. DUM DA DUM DUM.