One warped comment to add into the bogosity mix: > People are not destroying the planet.. maybe themselves > individually and in collective groups.. but not the planet..
I agree with this part of Richard's summation, but he may be viewing the situation in the context of a narrow religious prophecy. Understandable, yet .... This prophecy, and others from diverse traditions, may be both surprisingly accurate in terms of a coming disaster, yet at the same time - misleading ... horribly misleading if you are among the hopeful class of believers looking for "rapture" based solely on faith, and especially if it is a faith which accepts war under false pretenses, and wealth accumulation in the face of enforced poverty, as acceptable goals. As it turns out, ancient prophecy from many traditions can be reinterpreted into a modern context, which end-result may be more troubling to 'true believers' than some kind of Armageddon which favors only a "chosen" group. IOW there is a kind of 'end of days' scenario approaching, in the guise of an evolutionary jump, but it is extremely doubtful that the individuals who think they are in the chosen group really are - as the criteria will likely be a big surprise; and will have little to do with what most dogma indicates. The master plan is like a many-layered Russian egg - but it may unravel - as the secret could not be hidden from all. IF -- all the data about the human interaction with the planet were to be evaluated by a superior but non-human mentality, there is one conclusion, which every almost every human has missed, thus far. Indeed, ID is not a fiction, and yes there 'could be' evidence of goal-directed ongoing planning, especially in the rapid advances in the past two decades in computers, artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, networking and robotics .... .... there 'could be' evidence that the master plan involves a forced evolutionary change... and that the NWO will involve much more than a united world government. ... there 'could be' evidence that the master plan will involve an extreme forced reduction in human population and Matrix-like enslavement (instead of rapture) for the survivors. How would the reality of "pre-planned" global warming, and the efforts under way by some to abet and co-conspire - i.e. to force the alarmists to ignore the implications of that trend until it is too late to do anything to halt it - how would that possible scenario fit into the revised 'Russian egg' triple-cross prophecy? Without sounding too cynical, it is pretty clear than an "evolutionary jump" is much closer at hand than many of us chose to realize, and that the way is being paved for recipients of that technological largess to be chosen for the big-jump (i.e. a 'rebirth' not spiritual but physical, into an advanced race) based on criteria which is a total heresy and abomination to what is contained in scripture (until that dogma is drastically reinterpreted, which will happen). ... yet all the while, those who are in-the-know, are holding out some kind of false hope (a kind of facilitating promise) to the 'mass of believers' who will be triple-crossed, in the end. Curiously, even the present US administration is NOT in-the-know, and they are being duped by yet a higher order of ID. Harry Tuttle, who has been spying on the NWO for some time has told me privately that the Neo-Con thing was just a ruse. Yes, people like W are tools (in more ways than one) and are getting direct messages from ID - but the conent is bogusly decieving. Yup ... sorry to say it, W, but the trickster has been hard at work, once again, and it will be mostly the Limo-Liberals who will be positioned and selected for the new master race. Enjoy you rapturous stay in the NeoCon wing of the Matrix .... Kokopelli rules ;-)