You know I've been thinking that very thing lately. I like to keep an opened mind. But then I start to remember how many times in the past the last days were suposed to have been here. How do you think people felt just before the US entered world war two? I'll bet they really bought into the "last days" idea, and indeed for many it was thier last days.
Same with WWI, and the 1914 prophecy of the early Jehovahs Witnesses. I remember my dearly departed father, a JW all his life, sitting by quietly while I was all worked up back in 1974, because I thought these were the very last days. I couldn't understand why my dad wasn't as worked up as I was. Well in 2002 I finally get it. My dad had seen this all his life, he was born back around 1917 and died a couple years before 2000. He believed all his life he would never die, I guess, right up till close to the end. That was my wake up call for sure cuz he wasn't supposed to die before the end came, another JW prophecy turns out to be nothing more then "crying wolf."
When sept 11 came last year, and we were under attack, I saw many people both on these forums, and around me, clinging to these end of the world prophecies. I even found myself reading Norstradomas again and wondering. Then I realised why people cling to these prophecies. It is because they are looking for some shortcut to actually facing the events they must face in life, they want to know the outcome ahead of time. Phrophecy gives a false sense of knowing the outcome of an event. After the initial fear of sept 11 started to dwindle, everyone realised that phrophecy really had nothing to do with any of it and once again sat thier books of prophecy back on the shelf.
It is a very natural thing to gleen any and all information about a situation when your survival is at stake, but my expierence is that phrophecy can be aligned to work accurately only after an event has taken place. Thier was not one person that I know, not one Religion that truly had any answers before hand about sept 11, and I was watching. There were only kaotic members of religions, kaotic people reading books, and confused freightened people trying to understand what was happening, with thier noses buried in Bibles, shaking in fear. Doesn't the Bible say that the evil ones were supposed to be shaking in fear?
Anymore I try to resist those impulses to turn to phrophecy to explain my current fears about events. When events happen we need to face them clear headed and see them for what they are, not acts of God but acts of men and governments or acts of nature. We need to remain in a state of clear focus, and those who turn to phrophecy, all showed me a mental state of "fear and confusion".
So that is my expierence at watching world events and the effects of phrophecy on people.
I recommend, to quit reading phrophecys, and begin living in the present moment. All that we will ever be will exist in the present moment, why not bring our focus to bear on that? Bring our beliefs into the present, and start using them in real life. Time spent in fantasy of the new order could be better used working for a charity and extending real love to others in need. Without judging them, without condeming them. Love shown to the "least of souls" is what Jesus taught.
Love and Light
DL
