The Future: the "Quickening" - and not Armageddon

by metatron 11 Replies latest jw friends

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  metatron

  Take a good look at recent world events:

  Violent revolution thruout the Middle East - which, after decades of dictatorial stability, may have been triggered by social networking on the internet and cell phones.

  All sorts of stories out in the open about UFO encounters, national governments releasing their files on the subject - and a NASA scientist claims hard evidence of ET life from a meterorite.

  While the braindead media follows Charlie Sheen's descent, the Focardi and Rossi experiments in Italy get ignored. Scientist Edmond Storms predicts a "stampead" if this is the final tipping point in favor of 'cold fusion' - a future of cheap, inexhaustable energy.

  'Watson' wins some remarkable victories on Jeopardy - suggesting solid progress towards artificial intelligence.

  Wikileaks threatens national governments and scofflaw 'too big to fail' banks.

  Scientists clone an extinct species, create artificial cellular life, come close to explaining the aging process and create near miracles with stem cells.

  When looking at the future, some use the term 'Singularity' - but I like the phrase "the Quickening" - a relatively sudden burst of technical progress that changes every aspect of modern life and culture. Emergent phenomena that wreck banks, crush stable industries, overthrow governments and leave many religious people confused and bewildered.

  It's not Armageddon - although for some, it might as well be.

  What would cheap energy do to the Middle East? Iran? Russia? Public utilities stock? Banks invested in big oil? Federal governments that depend upon the DEPENDENCE of citizenry?

  What will full disclosure do to organized religion?

  What will stem cells and regenerative medicine do to Social Security? Medical specialists? Nursing homes? Sales of "Depends"?

  The "Quickening" - as accelerated by the internet - is starting. It's going to be a very bumpy ride........

  metatron
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  jookbeard

  good post , certainly exciting events facing us
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  Mad Sweeney

  What is to stop the powers that be from continuing to keep this sort of stuff covered up indefinitely?
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  saltyoldlady

  Dear Metatron - great post. I too am thinking we are at some very climatic times in history and I like your choice of the word "quickening" - I myself have been following the work of Thomas J. Bearden - and John Bedini - free energy is out there and the means to use it is now known.

  In the medical field the regrowing of body tissue - even limbs is happening - the means of curing tragic diseases with electromagnetic energy has been demonstrated -

  the ability to engineer weather is known and used - sometimes for extremely evil purposes but the knowledge that could be used for good is there.

  and the warfare of the future will more likely be scalar interferometry than nuclear in manner - the list is endless of the changes that are out there and most are unaware of the dangers lurking in the shadows beyond all comprehension from past experiences

  and even the knowledge of how to go beyond the confines of space and time dimensions is looming - the ability to warp and change them are already present and men are not at all prepared for the horrors this could bring upon them

  Buckle up the seat belts is the understatement of the year! But the words and the blind shall see and the deaf shall hear and the lame shall leap are no longer figments of imagination so there is a good side as well as a dark side - we just have to hold on tight til we get thru - Nick Begich is another site I follow.
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  Nathan Natas

  A recent TV show about tectonic activity in the area of the Great Rift valley in Africa explained how the sedimentary deposits around the Red Sea show periods of approximately 10,000 years of considerable (violent) earthquake activity (demonstrated by fantastic compound folds in the normally flat sediment layers) followed by 10,000 years of relative quiet, earthquake-wise.

  According to the geologist, the Middle East is ending its most recent period of quietude. Of course on a scale of 10,000 years one cannot make predictions in terms of hours, days, months, years or even decades, but future generations may see a resumption of the kind of tectonic activity that consumed Sodom and Gomorrah and leveled early Middle Eastern human settlements.

  One Roman fort from the time of Masada was shown - it was build directly above the fault line and one part of its wall was separated from the other part by what looked to be a distance of about one foot. The geologist explained that knowing what they know of the drift rate of the plates involved, that separation was about FOUR FEET too short, which suggests enough potential geologic energy is stored to produce an earthquake of magnitude 7+ on the Richter scale.
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  Aussie Oz

  One thing is certain

  Our cherished civilization WILL fall.

  History demands it. Progress demands it.

  Our industrial revolution fuelled, accelerated lifestyles of consumerism is unsustainable.

  Even if China and India become the dominant world powers and we western nations go into abject poverty and third worldism, they too will fall eventually, as would any middle eastern power house if that should rise for a time.

  And who knows... the earth itself may be on the brink of entering a once every trillion years cycle of imploding before an ice age or some other new beginning.

  The 'quickening' is nothing new i am sure. The earth and humanity has been in turmoil since day dot. Every civilization known to man thinks it is the cleverest so far... and surely must last forever!

  ''Buckle your seat belt Dorothy.... coz Kansas is going bye bye''

  oz
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  teel

  I really liked the approach to singularity in the movie Waking Life: http://vimeo.com/2319926 (too bad it's audio only because of copyright, the whole movie is well worth watching)

  Here's a transcript:

  If we’re looking at the highlights of human development, you have to look at the evolution of the organism and then at the development of its interaction with the environment. Evolution of the organism will begin with the evolution of life perceived through the hominid coming to the evolution of mankind. Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon man. Now, interestingly, what you’re looking at here are three strings: biological, anthropological — development of the cities — and cultural, which is human expression.

  Now, what you’ve seen here is the evolution of populations, not so much the evolution of individuals. And in addition, if you look at the time scales that are involved here — two billion years for life, six million years for the hominid, 100,000 years for mankind as we know it — you’re beginning to see the telescoping nature of the evolutionary paradigm. And then when you get to agricultural, when you get to scientific revolution and industrial revolution, you’re looking at 10,000 years, 400 years, 150 years. You’re seeing a further telescoping of this evolutionary time. What that means is that as we go through the new evolution, it’s gonna telescope to the point we should be able to see it manifest itself within our lifetime, within this generation.

  The new evolution stems from information, and it stems from two types of information: digital and analog. The digital is artificial intelligence. The analog results from molecular biology, the cloning of the organism. And you knit the two together with neurobiology. Before on the old evolutionary paradigm, one would die and the other would grow and dominate. But under the new paradigm, they would exist as a mutually supportive, noncompetitive grouping. Okay, independent from the external.

  And what is interesting here is that evolution now becomes an individually centered process, emanating from the needs and desires of the individual, and not an external process, a passive process where the individual is just at the whim of the collective. So, you produce a neo-human, okay, with a new individuality and a new consciousness. But that’s only the beginning of the evolutionary cycle because as the next cycle proceeds, the input is now this new intelligence. As intelligence piles on intelligence, as ability piles on ability, the speed changes. Until what? Until we reach a crescendo in a way could be imagined as an enormous instantaneous fulfillment of human, human and neo-human potential. It could be something totally different. It could be the amplification of the individual, the multiplication of individual existences. Parallel existences now with the individual no longer restricted by time and space.

  And the manifestations of this neo-human-type evolution, manifestations could be dramatically counter-intuitive. That’s the interesting part. The old evolution is cold. It’s sterile. It’s efficient, okay? And its manifestations of those social adaptations. We’re talking about parasitism, dominance, morality, okay? Uh, war, predation, these would be subject to de-emphasis. These will be subject to de-evolution. The new evolutionary paradigm will give us the human traits of truth, of loyalty, of justice, of freedom. These will be the manifestations of the new evolution. And that is what we would hope to see from this. That would be nice.
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  d

  Humanity has reached it's peak and it is facing a slow decline.Just like past world civilazations
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  Satanus

  There have been many such events in history, over the millenia. We may be in one, right now. They will likely come closer together and have exponential effects. They arise from a greater population, the effective shrinking of the globe through high speed communication, interconnectivity, increased knowledge, increased speed of information processing, increased freedom, increased equality, crises.....

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  Vidiot

  metatron - "The "Quickening" - as accelerated by the internet - is starting."

  In the end, there can be only one.