Is the world ending December 21, 2012? Will the world come to end as the believers in the Mayan Calendar and some tele evangelists seem to think? Are we living in the apocalyptic End Times? Or is Doomsday just around the corner? Or will the world just go on as it has for thousands of years? Gloom and doom, nothing new, it's been around since before recorded history.
So why should this prediction take precedence over the thousands that have gone on before? Rather than obsessing over the possible destruction of the world as we know it.
I believe we need to be asking ourselves these questions.
Can I do anything about it one way or another? Answer no.
If it is ending for example, by exploding back to into its basic elements, no amount of preparation is going to change it.
So why worry? Am I going to stock pile food? Or go to a safe place? Like where, if the entire earth is going to be destroyed, what difference does it make? So if it is going to happen there is absolutely nothing I can do about it.
I can't stop; earthquakes, floods, storms, famines, or pestilences, or alien invasions, can you? Can I know for sure one way or another? Answer, again no.
There are so many different and conflicting opinions to consider, time will run out long before we can make an informed decision one or another.
Even of the events are thousands of years into the future the time is still too short.
Can I research the available information? We can research the various views on the validity of the Mayan calendar predictions, or any other Doomsday, apocalyptic prophecy of the end of the world, but how are we going to know which one is correct? Finding "the truth" and recognizing it when we do find it is all but impossible for the human mind.
Why? Because many of the theories of why the prediction is correct involve "Alien Beings" returning to earth or in the case of the tele evangelists the return of Jesus, both of which require a belief in something, either aliens or a god.
Both options and I am sure there are many in-between, require a starting premise that is assumed to be true.
"I just know it is true.
" Which position do you just know is true? There are aliens and ancient man thought they were gods.
There are many gods.
There is one God.
Or is none of the above true? We can believe in the aliens and that the aliens gave the information to the Mayans.
Or we can believe there are no aliens but a god that says the world is not coming to an end.
Or we can believe that the entire thing is a figment of someone's imagination.
The point here is that we must believe something that by itself is the starting premises.
It is like the proofs in geometry the starting point is just given.
It is self-evident.
We can' prove it by any logical means we just accept it as being true and we just know it is true.
It is from there we go on to "prove" the aliens, did it, god did or that there is no truth in any of the positions.
When can we ever say about our self-evident truth that we have gathered all the information necessary to prove that our belief is true? There are opposing beliefs to every belief.
When have we ever gathered enough information to say, "I have gathered all the facts and these facts have proved to me what is true?" We can't.
We can always find more information on any topic.
I realize there are many ways to combine the beliefs.
But the point I am trying to make is not that there are many possible positions, but that we can't know the truth of any of those positions because it would be based on a starting premise that we could only assume to be true.
We can't logically prove anything without starting with an absolute and there is no way for the human mind to know what that absolute is except by recognizing it as something I just know to be true.
Just because I know something doesn't necessarily make it true.
And so the process of finding truth just continues to go round and round.
In conclusion, my answer to the question, can we know the truth of the Mayan prophecies or any other prophetic words, is no.
No! Why? Because our ability to reason requires a truth to start with and we cannot find that truth by human reasoning alone.
My advice, if you are in any way concerned over the possibility of the world coming to horrific end, is to consider and find the answer, for yourself, to the questions, who are you and why are you here.
There is one thing we can know and do know for sure.
The world for each one of us is coming to an abrupt halt as we breathe our last breath.
We are all leaving this earth one day in death.
Some people claim they know that there is life after.
But is there? Do you know for sure?