--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Robert Gimbel" <babajii_99@> > wrote: > > > > Therefore there have been many prophecy's of this time; > > So, the real question is: > > With so many people, expecting something like this to happen; > > These fanatical thought forms... > > Will there be a chance to change this apparent destiny? > > A good question. > > Not to comment on your last question (I have > no answer) but on the first statement, a couple > of the teachers I've worked with had an inter- > esting interpretation of people's fascination > with Armageddon and impending disasters and > prophecies of Huge Events and possibly even the > end of the world being right around the corner. > > They termed it 'self importance.' > > I think there is some truth in this. When there > is an upsurge in the number of people believing > that they're in the Last Days, there is prob- > ably *also* an upsurge in the self importance > of the people who believe this. "I'm so important > that these Huge Events are going to happen during > my lifetime," "Aprés moi, le deluge," and all that. > And thus there is probably a corresponding upsurge > in the *fear* that accompanies identification with > the self. > > You heard the same thing in the Middle Ages, and > in the Renaissance, and in thousands of eras in > thousands of cultures all over the planet. And > we'll probably *keep* hearing it for a long, long > time. It may be a buncha cockroaches saying it, > with no humans left,
Which would mean that the last humans around before the cockroaches took over were right to believe they were so important that the Huge Events were going to happen in their lifetimes....
