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Natural Disasters, the Quickening in 2010
Friends,
You are not seeing things. You are not feeling paranoid when the waves of foreboding without an apparent cause pass over you as if something is in the atmosphere or just under the soil. You are not having a bout of hysterics or heebie jeebies. The subtle panic attack undercurrent has a cause. A message is being sent. Something is coming. Something is already happening in us, around us. The presence of planetary beingness is responding to our unconscious compunction to abuse the Earth and ourselves.
My oracle described 2010 as the year Mother Nature would send a message: she has declared war on all that we mindfully and mostly unmindfully do to upset her natural balance. In Predictions for 2010, I described in detail what would be coming, where and when. I warned that immediately after the first day of the new year you would begin to see a dramatic uptick in natural disasters of climate and earth. Here is what has already happened in the first two-and-a-half months as primarily reported from earthweek.com with additional details I added from my own direct experience and what I gathered off the news wires:
JANUARY 2010–Week 1
The Great Northern Hemispheric Chill. The year 2009 goes out as the world’s tenth warmest year since modern global records began in 1880 with record cold snaps and blizzards across the central United States, across Europe and Asia. The arctic blast reached as far south as the tropics.
Tajikistan rocked by New Year’s weekend quake. A 5.3 Richter scale temblor in the Hindu Kush mountain range left at least 20,000 homeless.
The First Tsunami of 2010. On January 4 a 7.2 quake caused a deadly tsunami flooding the south facing shorelines of Rendova and Tetepare in the Solomon Islands with 500 homes damaged or washed away.
JANUARY 2010–Week 2
Monster Cyclone in the Indian Ocean. Cyclone Edzani reached Category 4 strength producing waves three stories high about 600 miles south-southwest of Diego Garcia. It is fortunate that Edzani remained far out at sea. If it has landed on the coastlines of Madagascar or southeastern African coast it would have inflicted considerable property damage and loss of life.
Northern Californian Quake (Jan. 9). An offshore jolt of 6.5 magnitude damaged hundreds of homes in and around the picturesque coastal towns of Eureka, Fortuna and Arcata, California.
The Great Haitian Earthquake (Jan 12). The worst recorded earthquake in Haiti in two centuries, a magnitude 7.0 temblor, pulverized the capital Port-au-Prince and the surrounding towns rendering a third of Haiti’s 9 million people homeless with the estimated lost of life approaching a quarter million. A number of powerful aftershocks in Haiti, along with moderate-to-sizable quakes rocked and rolled the Caribbean region in the coming weeks.
JANUARY 2010–Week 3
Haitian Aftershocks continue. The worst was a magnitude 6.1.
China’s Northeastern Coastline locked in by Ice. The Bohal Sea chilled to its widest coverage and thickness in 40 years.
Midsummer Night’s Snow Storm. In the peak of the Southern Hemisphere summer, Australian mountains in Victoria and New South Wales were dusted with snow, while…
Cyclone Magda hits Australia. Magda visited the Kimberly Coast region of Northwest Australia. It is the third major cyclone of the November-to-April Indian Ocean Cyclone season. In Predictions for 2009 I correctly forecast a powerful series of Cyclone seasons continuing.
Mexico visited by Violent Winter Storms. I cannot recall whether this happened in week three or four of January. Not long after my return from Mexico City in mid-January I saw a news photo of the very same freeway I took to the international airport under six feet of water from unprecedented January floods in the city. I personally experienced the opening cold snap hitting Mexico. It was the talk of the town. It also drizzled the night my hosts took me out to dinner, one of them shaking his head saying, “It never rains in January in Mexico City.” Actually, these meteorological phenomena though rare are not unprecedented. Below I will explain how climate change is altering our memories of what real winters used to be like from Mexico City to Minnesota to Manitoba.
JANUARY 2010–Week 4
Cyclone Olga floods Cairns, Australia.
Waves of Blizzards across North America (Dec. through Jan.) The times of each blizzard pass in my memory like a whiteout blur. I know they began in early December 2009 in North America. I recall a particularly bad week was had in Europe at the end of January.
FEBRUARY 2010–Week 1
Greatest Snowfall in Washington DC’s recorded History. Not since the American capital’s creation has so much snow fallen. The fools in the Congress cried, “Where is global warming?!” In my article dated 7 February (The Global Warming Washington Blizzard), I explained that a warmer climate atmosphere far more saturated with moisture than normal would endure record-breaking blizzards and snowfall in the initial decades of the coming climate change. Enjoy them. In ten year’s time you will be missing the snow piled and pressed against your window.
FEBRUARY 2010–Week 2
A New Island rises near Iwo Jima in the Pacific. Japanese vulcanologists predict the current explosive clouds of ash from a submarine volcano rising 300 feet above the ocean surface herald the birth of a new Iwo Jima (sulfur island).
Taiwan Quake. A sharp submarine temblor of 6.4 magnitude off the east coast of Taiwan caused landslides and injured dozens.
Mexican Quake. A 5.7 magnitude quake jolted the Oaxaca Pacific coastline of southern Mexico. It was felt as far north as Mexico City. When I was in Mexico City in mid-January doing a press conference for the release of History Channel’s The Nostradamus Effect in the Central and South American television markets, I was asked if Mexico City would suffer an earthquake soon. I answered, “yes.” I hope this Oaxaca temblor was it, though I think worse is coming later this year, in the summer months.
FEBRUARY 2010–Week 3
Caribbean Region Keeps Shaking after Haiti. In the month following the Haitian temblor there were at least two quakes of 6 magnitude or just below in the Caribbean region that were not aftershocks from Haiti. Earthweek reported, “Some of the strongest activity in nearly four years at Montserrat Island’s Soufriere Hills volcano sent ash soaring high above the Caribbean as clouds of super-heated gas and debris cascaded down the mountain’s slopes.”
Antarctic Rain Patterns Shifting South. Scientists pinpoint change in rain currents that will deepen Australia’s crippling droughts for the foreseeable future.
Tropical Cyclone Gelane. Brought strong winds and heavy rains to Mauritius and Reunion Islands in what is becoming one of the more active Indian Ocean Cyclone Seasons in recent memory.
FEBRUARY 2010–Week 4
Aftershocks in Haiti and moderate Quakes hit central China.
Blizzards continue to Visit North America, as the Canadian Permafrost Melts. Earthweek reports, “The permafrost around Canada’s James Bay is retreating northward as the frozen ground responds to a warming climate, Canadian researchers say.”
MARCH 2010–Week 1
8.8 Chilean Quake and Tsunami Catastrophe. The Chilean coast 200 miles southwest of Santiago rocked with one of the largest quakes ever recorded, actually showing the earth’s rotation by a few thousand milliseconds and altering the Earth’s axis by three inches. The temblor sent a Tsunami across the Pacific Ocean with little damage. However, a tsunami inundated and shattered towns all along the Chilean coast around Concepcíon sending houses and fishing vessels 2.5 miles inland in places. There are over a 1,000 dead and missing.
6.4 Quake rocks Taiwan. Earthweek reports: “A sharp quake and four subsequent aftershocks jolted much of Taiwan on Thursday morning, with the strongest causing at least 12 injuries. Fires broke out after the initial 6.4 magnitude jolt, including a smoky blaze at a textile factory in the southern city of Tainan.”
Volcano Erupts in Costa Rica. “Residents in communities surrounding Costa Rica’s Irazú volcano briefly panicked as the mountain produced a series of 9 tremors over a 30-minute period.” (Earthweek)
Vast Ice Berg Collision in Antarctica. “A collision between a massive iceberg and the mouth of an Antarctic glacier broke away another huge chunk of ice the size of a small country.” (Earthweek)
As We Freeze in Earth’s North, the Southern Earth heats up. Earthweek reports: “Global warming continues unabated south of the equator despite a bitter Northern Hemisphere winter that has provided a jolting reminder of what winters of yesteryear were once like, according to climate scientists.”
What Earthweek says is true. We look upon these cold blizzard events in the US or January rains in Mexico City as something new when indeed they are new to many of us just coming into adulthood, and those graying baby boomers old enough to remember but are encouraged by our short-term thinking societies to forget. One-and-a-half generations have been born since global weather patterns in the late 1970s began their aggregate climb in temperatures producing more moderate and warmer winters. I predict a new upsurge of climate change will come in 2010. The last significant jump and speed-up of climate change happened in 1998 when global warming began its current string of record-breaking years of higher temperatures. We have forgotten what winters in the Northern Hemisphere from your back yard to Mexico City once were like. Decades of warmer winters have made us forget. It is also convenient to forget; otherwise, you would have to change and stop playing the part of the overwhelmed citizen your overlords wish you to play.
MARCH 2010–Week 2 (up to 12 March)
Major Chilean Aftershock. A significant 6.9 temblor hit Chile the day its new president took office. The epicenter was Rancagua, 90 miles southwest of Santiago.
Lights out on Venezuela’s Lightning Light Show! Ever since the beginning of European colonization over five centuries of one of Earth’s most amazing lighting shows where the Catatumbo River empties into Lake Maracaibo have been recorded. For an average of 160 nights a year as many as 20,000 strikes hit the area each night. This year’s unusually strong El Nino (the ninth strongest ever recorded) may be the cause for an unprecedented blackout lasting two months and counting.
Rare Tropical Cyclone appears off the Coast of Brazil. The forming storm called “Invest 90Q” is only the seventh subtropical or tropical cyclone to form in the South Atlantic basin in recorded history.
Madagascar Flooded by Cyclone Hubert. Torrential rains and landslides that destroyed hundreds of homes, displaced 32,000 and killed at least 36 people inundated the deforested coastal mountains of the island nation.
Icelandic Volcano lying dormant since 1823 is about to Blow. Earthweek reports: “The Icelandic Meteorological Office said that the shaking felt in communities near Eyjafjallajökull glacier was due to magma flowing at full speed into the volcano… In 1994 and 1999 a series of tremors was detected in the area — believed to have been caused by magma intrusion deep inside the volcano. The Civil Protection Department was maintaining an alert for the mountain due to the unrest.”
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Stuck in the Ides of March’s Nor’easter Storm
Earthweek ends its reports every Friday. The Ides of March, the midpoint of the month, passed yesterday. At the time of this writing four days following last Friday, the Atlantic Northeastern states are witnessing one of the most significant Nor’easter storms since 2006 with some areas already buried in the last few weeks of snowfall now melting and drowned in three days straight of 3 to 5 inches of rainfall. Flood watches are still in effect along the coastlines from storm surges and inland too from swollen rivers bursting from their banks flooding thousands of homes and businesses across New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, Long Island and Maine. Hurricane force winds visited JFK airport and days of sustained 50 mph winds across New England knocked out the power to half a million homes over the weekend.
Perhaps the most ominous message my oracle has given in Predictions for 2010 is indeed bearing down on us. Mother Nature is rebelling against our abuse. There is developing a highly accurate seer synchronicity in my almanac of annual weather forecasts. I will therefore continue giving monthly reports matching events with prophecy.
John Hogue
(16 March 2010)
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John,
What do you see for 2012? Will these natural disasters increase exponentially up to 2012, satisfying the doomers that want to see “civilization” flushed down the toilet so they can start over again and live off the land. Do you detect my cynicism? I’m just irritated by the 2012′ers, and the recent increase in earthquakes have given them more fuel to pour on their cataclysmic fire. If you for some reason start placing more emphasis on 2012 (and I mean predicting the end), I’ll probably perk up to listen because you seem to be pretty level headed about these things.
At least it seems that way
HOGUE
Funny you should talk about the time I’ll be putting emphasis on 2012 because once I fatten my stock of blog articles to free up time I will begin work on my 2012 eBook for release this summer. I can promise you and everyone who reads me that it will not be your run-of-the-millennium-angst or run-of-the-millennium-airy-fairytale from the 2012 tree-killing pulp non-fiction mill industry. It will cut through the crap, send you into the stars of new insight into 2012 whilst bringing you back to earth. 2012 is just one year (and not that important a year either) in a 30-plus year advent window where many prophecy time cycles are rebooting. I will put 2012 in its proper context and not push it out of the crowd of child fashion models like some stage struck mothers of other 2012 books. Furthermore, I will bring my readers into the creative process in the coming three months. If you have any comments to make or questions to ask I will write a book that answers them to the best of my unique ability. (Be advised, whomever is reading this in the comments, I’m going to repeat this interchange and enlarge upon it in an upcoming blog.)
Dear John, maybe I’m being microscopically egotistical, but I feel in part at least that the comments in brackets are applicable to me. Here in Melbourne, Australia, we had a storm that was described as a ‘once in a century event’ on the 6th of March. Not sure how factual that is, but in addition to a post-apocalyptic slew leaves, they cancelled a major football (Australian Rules) and horse racing event. Not that I follow either, but these 2 sports are sacrosanct here! Really enjoying your articles and analysis from changing, multiple, paradoxical simultaneous and perspectives that really encapsulate the insanity of our constructed reality. Anyway, looking forward to your interactive blog, realise that most of your readers are Northern-American/Hemispheric, but love your references to Oz. The play I mentioned actually has a scene set in Uluru/Alice Springs in 2036 where fish have fallen from the sky, hope you get a chance to see it. Other questions I’d like to ask (apart from when are you coming down-under!) are about some of the other false/prophets (i.e. Alex Jones, David Icke, Project Camelot, Sisters of Sorcha Faal) but they can wait to another day. I tend to view these sights as ‘theories’ and along with MSM note recurring themes. One of the most impressive things about your blog is its unpretentiousness and lack of self-professed dogmatism, centered in the idea of multiples, possiblities, worlds, timelines etc. Have a good day! ~Ian…:)
John,
Im a 27 Y.O. Graphic design student and new mom. I also Live in the pacific northwest. I attend Portland State University. In all of my classed we discuss being “green”. There are lots of organizations and groups dedicated to being sustainable. I was required to take a class “environmental sustainability” last term. I learned many very scary facts about population control, and water quality. I felt very fearful of this planets demise. Not until I had my daughter did I begin to feel almost terrified for what may happen in her life. In my household we made many changes. We use less water, we try to live sustainably. But, even so, no one is perfect. Seeing neighbors being horrible to this earth makes my skin crawl. I try not to dig out of their trash and organize in into recycling bins.
Today I watched The show you were in on the history channel. In front of me, sat my daughter carefully examining her blocks.
I felt overwhelmed with sadness/panic/fear & despair. The show tried to end leaving me feeling hopeful, but I felt…. I cant put it into words. But Hopeful is NOT the word.
My brother is ALWAYS going on about these types of things. He often uses words like “they” or “we” But I dont know who “they” or “we” are. I think he means the government, and the people. The government isnt doing anything, and the people just keep messing things up, or vice versa.
In all honesty the earthquakes lately have me very freaked out. So after seeing the show, I searched for Nostradamus and Haiti and found this blog. I read through it to this page.
You keep telling of these terrible things to come.
What am I–a citizen of the word– Supposed to do? Try to get my states politicians to listen? Recycle my Styrofoam? WHAT?
Besides scaring me and making me upset to the point my stomach hurts , my throat feels dry, and I suspect I wont be able to sleep for awhile.
If this is all inevitable, what is the point of all of this? Thanks for telling me now what!!!???!!
I don’t know what all this doomsday stuff is supposed to do. Im not religious, but I TRY to live my life to the fullest. I TRY to be good. I help when I can.
Am I supposed to leave my daughter with her grandparents, drop out of school and devote my time to rebuilding a war torn country?
What Is it that I do now? With all of this info????
Because I feel hopeless and scared.
HOGUE:
Sarah, I am in receipt of your letter and my heart goes out to you and your newborn daughter. What you have put in words is what many people feel and the frustration and need for guidance is desperately needing an answer.
I wish to answer each of your statements in detail and I hope you will allow me the time to do so, not only to you personally but to the many thousands out there who feel as you feel, need as you need: some kind of answer, some kind of suggested direction towards individually empowering a better future for you and your beloved ones. I will answer your letter as part of a blog. I do this so I can share that answer not only to you, but to so many who are in need of some response. I am obligated to clarify how my views of the future are misrepresented by the television machine that plucks the scary and sensational out of context without the alternatives that I always provide but often find cut out of the final show.
I would first say this: never trust anything you see or hear on TV. I give hours of interview time to these shows that end up mangled. YOu might ask why I do it and see my message warped. My answer is, I can only hope that people will do as you have done and step past the BS veil of television and ask me directly, what is my view on the future.
I wish to tell you and many more that answer. I hope to do that very soon. Please be patient. I am but one man, alone. I will answer your many rightful observations and your authentic catharis as soon as I can.
I’ve news for you venus and everyone else..Everything that everyone says are ‘theories’
Achintya, I most definitely agree…until they happen of course.
Sarah: We are all born then we die. A special and unique passage in the Quran states (in summary) that all souls will experience death at least once. Which then begs the question “What were you before you were born. Buddists will simply say that everything is as it should be. There is nothing to fear, and if I’m wrong, you will never know, so therefore just be happy ‘every day’, and ponder your creator.
HOGUE
Sarah, beware of people pontificating their borrowed religious beliefs. Haris means well as most well-meaning people mean as they stumble down a dark road thinking they know something of life and death. They mean well when they try to drag you down their own darkness into History’s next ditch. Hell is paved by our well-meant yet unconsciously followed borrowed knowledge of things we have not directly experienced. Whatever happened to Muhammad on the mountain was authentic. Whatever has been passed down to those “not” on the mountain who “never” have had a divine glimpse is camel do-do.
The passer-downers, born in their particular corner of the world are forced to put on the chains of belief of their area. Indians bear Hindu and Jana chains, Muslims are fettered in Islamic chains. Christians are burdened with their cross, atheists are burdened with their cynicism, and so it goes. Everyone’s brain needs a good brain washing. We have all been programmed to fill our brains with the dirt of bogus religions — theist or atheist. One needs to wash one’s brain each moment to keep it clean and fresh.
The most fundamental borrowed belief is “brain-dirtied” into little children at such a tender age that they cannot know their real religiousness as been compromised. That “belief” makes them believe that they are thinking for themselves exactly when the opposite has been imprinted into them. Haris is a victim of this and perhaps will live his whole life unaware that all he is saying is borrowed from others and not his own experience. I say “perhaps” because I do not want that to be the outcome for him, even as he today would borrow from Muhammad and Buddha but he might not “become” his own Muhammad or Buddha. Just like “Christians” are programmed to be satisfied with their spiritually limited and mediocre “Christianness” and not seek to be a “Christ.”
Organized religions poison their Muhammads and crucify their Christs. They are like trees that pinch off the beauty of their flowers because in contrast the flower of the master exposes the ugliness of their branches. The flower of the master is the tree’s greatest potential. All religions are ugly trees that have killed their flowers.
I know for a fact that as he reads this Haris cannot conceive what I’m saying is true about him. It is impossible for him to see it. So deep is his conditioning. It is not his fault. He is a victim of conditioning. He is not alone. This is the dilemma almost every human being confronts unawares. Does what I say resonate in you, Sarah, and perhaps in others reading this?
If something inside resonates with what I’m saying here then the next step is to find ways to wash the brain clean of all this programming and borrowed religious bunk so that one can become simply and truly “religious” once again — a pure and naked religious understanding that comes from direct “knowing” of the mystery of existence. It is time to find and rediscover once again what has been buried alive underneath all of this mind-crap painted with the borrowed lipstick of lofty religious names and platitudes. I can share with you awareness techniques that can help one start giving the brain a long needed bath. If you are interested in receiving these techniques then ask for them. It is time to build a Noah’s Ark of Consciousness inside. That is the only thing that can bring about a golden future.
Sarah, I live just to the north of you in SW Washington. I went through a similar period as you when I first learned of peak oil several years back. It consumed my every thought; I could not, for the life of me, get out of my head these horrible visions of a post-apocalyptic world of violence and suffering. I felt myself slipping into depression as a result.
I began meditating and found a hypnotist: one not only good at his trade, but also commonsensical. He helped me reach a level of relaxation I hadn’t felt before and face some of these fears head on. He also talked to me a bit about the silliness of some of my thoughts (I am not trying to downplay the seriousness of what we currently face in this world nor undermine some of the things Mr. Hogue addresses; simply drawing attention to the fact that many of your negative thoughts are probably completely unfounded). As a result, I got turned on to the many wonders of the world, including some of the great scientific discoveries out there, many of which we don’t hear much about (I ended up with a deep fascination of nanontechnology).
HOGUE
There are good thoughts and there are bad thoughts and there is the one “thinking” them. I can appreciate what you are saying in this letter, Tyler. It is a good step to balance the bad with the good. The world is full of wonders and every moment is a miracle. My interest is in sharing a deeper step. In the realm of this deeper step within, behind the mind, one can have a glimpse of something beyond good and evil. Beyond the need of balancing what is wrong with the world with what is right. Becoming a witness to the simple “thisness” if “it” will actually bring a permeation of joy and celebration of life that a mere balancing the check book of plusses and minuses in the mind can’t know. It is into this deeper understanding that my point-for-point discussion of Sarah’s first letter will go.
I didn’t walk away thinking science would solve all of the world’s problem. I just realized that I was constantly searching out things that upheld my belief that the world was going to hell in a hand basket, while ignoring all of the many good things going on. Once I broke that chain, things have been much better for me. While I don’t ignore the negative, I make sure I seek out the little reported positive. This is what you need to do.
HOGUE
Good. Now must come the next step. A step beyond the pendulum pull of seeking good to balance the bad. Be aware of the mind’s tricks. Be aware that comfort is not liberation and that one can be just as bound and attached to the good as one can gain something out of fixation on the bad. That’s what happens. We feed and suppress a subtle negativity when we work to be against negativity and mask it with the positive. Suppressing the negative to be positive eventually undermines our positivity. Then you have to go back and regain your positivity and that feeds the suppressed negativity and there we are, round and round we go in the merry-misery-go-round. Running away from the negative, desiring the positive, suppressing the negative and then it hatches out again. Or, one fixates on the negative until the burden is too great. A crisis happens and one must be converted and desire the positive. The positive and the negative are like two dysfunctional people in a marriage. They feed each other’s need for positivity and because they are both needy. Because they are needy for the positive they get eventually negative. Perhaps it is time to be divorced from both positive and negative dysfunction and seek something completely revolutionary in these revolutionary times. That is what I try to indicate first in words and then in an invitation to “experience” something beyond words. My blogs have many layers in them, and my readers tend to find that level that satisfies their interests, but there is something between the lines and far more important than prophecy involved in these blogs. I am a smuggler of something else. Something wonderful and mysterious. It is beyond all hope and therefore beyond all hopelessness too.
I have a four year old son and he is truly the light of my life. While I am not a “religious” person, a friend of mine told me a couple of years ago something his pastor said to the church that was especially poignant being a new father. A man was asking God for help in teaching his young son how to be like him. God replied, “I didn’t put him on this earth to learn to be like you, I put him here so you could learn to be like him.” Watch your daughter; learn from her and try to be like her. Kids are truly amazing gifts. Especially since they don’t allow themselves to worry endlessly about things that will probably never happen.
Apologies for the rambling, but I know the place you’re at right now (know it well unfortunately) and it’s not pleasant. Just know that you can get out of it and on to better things. Should you want the contact information of that hypnotist (he’s just over the bridge from you), Mr. Hogue he has my permission to provide you with my email address.
Perhaps it is time to wipe the dust from that old family bible & see what God has in mind for the future of mankind since we have made such a mess of this world;& we have.John the revelator says he was ‘in spirit’ when he was shown a vision of man’s future while exiled on Patmos.Revelation 21 shows a whole new world that God will create at some future moment.I find that as something to look forward to.
HOGUE
The feeling or deep desire for a new start runs in many religious traditions. This prophetic will to house clean. The last time someone tried to give John of Patmos a psychological examination was in “Apocalypse” by D. H. Lawrence. It was his last long essay written just before he died. I sense that much of John of Patmos’ vision is coming from his suppressed frustrations at being imprisoned and perhaps being a deeply scarred, post tramatically disordered grump. Where Daniel’s Book is the language of a mystic, John’s second-rate and hyperbolic rehash of Daniel is written in the language of an angry mad man. Daniel’s book is psychic. John’s is Psychotic. Also, there are fundamental points in his narrative that clearly show he intended his prophecy for his own immediate future and not for our times. So, if what I’m saying is true, then to desire God or anybody else to end this world is a mistake. It is a lust for the end of life. It is anti-life — a psychological disorder I called in my book Messiahs: Propheganda.
Hi Everyone,
I saw in one of the Reuters news this past week that China’s drought is becoming far worse than expected. They say that some 7.5 million people are having to cut back on water, are nearly without water, or are feeling the strain of little water in sight. In either case, there is a huge crisis building…
It’s time that this planet become a gathering of many, many, decent human beings, ready to openly communicate with one another and enact actual change on this earth that will have lasting effects.
What does the Chinese government think will happen to its people, in another 10 years, if there is no change in the drought, if there are no further restraints on coal burning, there?
John, anything for Southern Africa, we need some change!
John, Thanks for posting Sarah’s letter. I have seen you on the history channel as well… but knew that editing likely took place. I sense this from the media networks I watch at times and can get one quite fired up over certain issues. I mean, WOW! people are paid lots of $$ to twist and contort content to make an issue important enough to get the publics attention. I wonder if that is waht happened when the bible was put together by many different individuals under the same contexts for the public? This contextual chang even happens in our own education from the textbooks that students are reqired to read. For example, a history book. I hope I made some sense.
my comment is awaiting moderation. please dont allow it. it was written in anger.
HOGUE
I loved your letter and thought it deserved a point-for-point reply. I am grateful you sent it. However, I can understand the burden you must feel trying to live up to being a “holy” rinpoche. (I guess being merely a rinpoche is not enough.) So, if “his holiness sri sinsei rinpoche” recovers his “holiness” and does not write in anger a new edition of the letter, I would welcome the chance to give such holiness the in-depth examination it deserves. I’d be happy to grant you three days to recover your holiness and send a new edition of your letter; otherwise, I will have to answer the first letter as best I can. I promise you that my answer to the old or new edition of your letter will be fair and compassionate to your holiness.
i walk to get around, and have spent many hours keeping an eye on weather patterns as i go so as to avoid heavy rains, shifting weather fronts, snow storms, etc. i felt the weather patterns change and shift many years ago. they have not been the “normal” we are accustomed to for at least 10 years or more. i fear that the “abnormality” may only be increasing.
as far as the Irrelevation of John of Patmos goes, im aware of at least one train of theological analysis that indicates, based on internal evidence, that the writings pointed to Rome(=Babylon) being the party getting it in the neck in the near future. this particular book was not included in several early lists of canonical books of the New Testament, and Sylvia Browne’s church rejects it absolutely.
Natural Disasters, the Quickening in 2010
Please ignore my 1st attempt at posting – never did this before.
Anyway, I found this article very informative – it helped to made me feel a part of something, since I also believe most of what I’ve read in this article. I often make comments to friends, family – similar to this article, and the posts. Most just dismiss me, or think I’m a “treehugger”.
For my own sanity and serenity, I do not subscribe to any TV service, no newspaper, and do not listen to the radio. I have plenty of music CD’s to enjoy – with the knowledge that I’m listening to what I want to hear, and when. I also play DVD’s, from a wide variety to choose from. Most are region 2 from the UK – I live in the USA, but prefer the more subtle, classic English humor, mystery, or travel programs. Plus, I “actually” read books and English magazines.
I work from home, and live (kind of) in the woods – surrounded by my gardens. I suppose I’ve cocooned myself from the increasing brutality, brashness, and misrepresentation of the world “out there”.
I drive a fuel efficient car, and make only necessary trips (groceries, taking a friend – who does not drive – to work, etc.). Every time that I pull out of my plot of solitude, I know that I’m about to enter a frenetic world of semi-crazed drivers, appearing to speed aimlessly (and dangerously), with a cell phone pressed against their ear – many with videos playing on drop down screens in their over-sized SUV’s, and others with stereo’s blasting so loudly, that the sound waves cause my mirrors to vibrate. Ten years ago, the boulevard that leads toward the entrance of the drive toward my home, was lined with majestic trees. Today, I’d guess that 90% of the trees are cut down – some replaced with twigs, many properties left bare.
I read alerts – from various sources – that our planet is in peril; Yet, many (most) of the people that I encounter “out there”, seem to be living as if there is no tomorrow. The vehicles appear to be getting larger, the traffic is getting heavier, and the frenzy seems to be increasing – year by year. When I think that people would become more earth conscious, they seem to be going in the opposite direction – as if they’re trying to speed up the coming cataclysm. I’m sometimes reminded of the classic movie “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”, and I wonder why I’m still able to comprehend what is taking place, and also sometimes wonder if / when I’ll join this crazed trend.
A friend of mine – whom I thought was earth conscious – recently applied for a job as a humvee limosine driver. The vehicle seats 18 !!! Not that 18 people are riding in this “bus” at the same time. When I heard this, I thought – “we lost one more rational person”.
I do not know what the future holds, and I also do not fear the future. I have faith, and believe that what is taking place, is (for whatever reason) supposed to be happening. I’ll continue to do my part in “saving the environment”, in whatever small ways that I can. I’d suggest staying away from TV “news”, and trying to live one day at a time. This helps me most of the time, although – I must admit, that I sometimes feel overwhelmed.
John
what do you see will happen in the GOP? Who will be the Republican nominee for president? Will Sarah Palin become the first woman ever to be nominated for POTUS?
Obama’s approval number continue to sink and its been 3 months under 50%.
No president have won a second term with approval numbers less than 50%.
HOGUE
No president was ever an African American. We are in a period of revolution. The usual ways to play the educated guess have changed. Obama has two-terms in his destiny if he can turn his first term around. He is beginning to do that. With that said, and to be prophetically fair, I wrote a whole chapter on how the GOP can redefine itself and once again be a party of significance. You can read it in Predictions for 2010.
I grew up on the streets as an orphan, I had no mother or father that raised me, My grandmother taught me well until she passed away when I was 11. I grew up in the city and then I moved into the woods when I was disillusioned with life in general at the age of 24. I can survive without anything for years without going into a town or even speaking with anyone. Only thing is that it gets pretty lonely out in the woods. I think people should go and take a few years into a wooded area and try your best to avoid dealing with other people and just live on what you have or acquire while out there as training. Do it now so that when true hard times come you can just disappear and not be caught up in the crazy drama that will for sure be taking place all over the city’s and towns. After a few years or so then you can emerge from hiding and those that survived will have thought out a new way of existing. Of course if you don’t like it you can always go back into hiding and not emerge until years later when things may have become a little better if it’s possible.