Noah: a channelling

I wake up in the morning,

numbed by winter's chill,

listening to the news

of shootings, revolutions, starvings, floods,

etc,  etc.,

and I think:

Are we there yet?

Is it Armageddon

yet?

How far do we have to go

before it's sheer hell

on earth?

We don't really have to destroy it,

we just have to destroy

each other --

and in the last
desperate gasp
of humankind as it extinguishes
itself
we'll see it:

the end of time

as we know it

because TIME,

as we know it,

is time.

Outside of our perception of time,

there is no time.

(My cats have no conception of time;

they siddle up to the table

when I sit down to eat, 

and not because they know

it's "dinner time."

I eat at all times,

and they

are always not too far

away.  They're dictated by pack,
not temporal,

instincts)

So once we destroy

each other,

our conception of time

will be gone

(though earth will go on, and regenerate.)

And the humans who will live on

are the ones who don't give a damn;

they're the ones who pay attention not

to the rat race created by humans, not

to Wall Street, or the New York Times

or not even Aljazeera

;

the humans who will live on

are the ones who don't give a damn;

they only pay attention

to the earth,

and they see the signs

and build a boat

(or a flying machine,

or a solar paneled house)

or whatever the earth seems to be telling them

that they need to build.

This is all we really have to do

to survive

as a race and as a planet;

just stop

being such stupid bastards

and killing 

each other so much.

( 5magazine )

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Let's imagine this:

for a second:

Jesus will come again . . . 

in 2012 if we --

                  all humanity --

could make peace before then.

Because if we all make peace,

and

if we find a way to live

with one another,

Jesus will not have to 

make a journey,

S(H)e will 

be here.

~ ~

( APOD 11/27/2011 )

~ ~

Let's imagine this,

for a second:

what if 

there really is to be

a spectacular planetary alignment

on 

12/21/2012,

and that alignment produces,

(imagine,

for a minute)

no explosion,

but instead, 

a mere glasslike,

placid

timelessness

,

and in that glasslike

placed

timelessness,

we were challenged

to look at ourselves

in a mirror

for an eternity.

(After about 2 weeks of looking in that kind of mirror, believe me, you would start seeing your

flaws,

and, well into eternity,

they would be all that you would see.)

And imagine this:

the image we must face,

is only us, individually, no one

else is anywhere to be seen, just

you                      

and

you                        

and

you                          

and

you                           

and

                         I

each held before the mirror

of eternity,

                                      for a eternity.

The thing is:
now we have the choice to decide
what we will see
in that moment

of facing the mirror

of individual and communal extinction:

we can either have an individual & communal

image of hatred and loathing

for eternity

                     or

we can have an individual and communal

image of caring and forgiving

 for eternity

or we could have an eternal image

of something in between.

Imagine

that.

 ( experience project )

 We,

we happy humans

are the species

who were given the job

to go further

                        and further and further

and with each step forward, we --

both as individual 

and as a group --

get more perfect.

Like Tiammat and her youth,

each generation

perfects the features

of its generator.

Imagine that:

it's just the nature

of the human

beast:

Each generation is meant to be

better than the last.

and if they're not,

it's stasis,

even

self destruction.

Like an eternal winter.

Imagine that.

~ ~ ~

I woke up this morning

numbed                                     

by winter's chill, listening

to the news

of shootings, explosions, jihad,

illness, and homelessness,

and I wonder:

are we there yet?

Is it Armageddon

yet?