--- In [email protected], "hugheshugo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "tanhlnx" <tanhlnx@> wrote: > > > > Thanks - on what basis am I predicting a meteorite strike in 2017 > > that will wipe out 90% of the world's human population? Ans. For > > 20 years from 1975 to 1995 I worked with a person similar to > > the "Ghost 'Whisperer" who can communicate with the dead. After > > working with her a while initially and realizing that she could > > travel out of her body at will, I commissioned her to perform > > numerous "projects" in the inner (non-physical) planes for 20 > > years. [sorry - can't reveal more details regarding the nature > > of the work at this time]. Once, she told me she astral > > projected spontaneously into the year 2017 and found virtually > > nobody left on the planet. Her impressions were of a metereorite > > strike. > > Excellent, I feel vindicated for not having taken out a pension > scheme.
LOL. It's good to hear humor when these kinds of predictions come up. Anything is possible, of course. But I have to admit that I'm kinda jaundiced because of 1) a fascination with spiritual history, and 2) something a previous spiritual teacher said on the subject. History tells us that such predictions about the end of the world (or the near-end) have been around since the *beginning* of the world. They appear in every age and in every culture and tradition. What the teacher said may hint as to why. He suggested that another word for obsessing on apocalypse fantasies is self-importance. The bottom lines of the phenomenon are "I'm so important that important events are going to happen during my lifetime" and "I'm more important than you are because I know what's coming and you do not." Meteors, schmeteors...one good mutant virus could wipe out all human life on the planet in less than a month. Change is the reality of the relative. But it's unset- tling for many people to *live* with the idea of change as the only predictable thing in the universe, and so they (IMO) glom onto those who claim to be able to predict the *nature* of that change. And while occasionally some of them get it right, I've never encountered anyone who did better than a coin flip at predicting hard, concrete events in the future, and nailing them down to a specific date. Most of the claims of "My predictions are X% accurate" are about hazy, general stuff that anyone with half a brain could have predicted, just watching the News. Me, I'm just underwhelmed by the whole thing. I've never had much of a fascination with "knowing the future" because that would take all the FUN out of it, man. My future has always turned out pretty well when it became Now, and I suspect it will continue to do so. Unless it doesn't. And if that's the case, why do I want to mess up *this* Now worrying about it?
