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Thursday, September 18, 2014

FOUR BLOOD MOONS



WHY ARE WE SO OBSESSED WITH
THE END OF THE WORLD?


A friend lent me her book on the Four Blood Moons.

She wanted me to read it, so I did.  It made my teeth throb, but I did.

Echoes of Harold Camping murmured to me as the author Mark Blitz basically spoke of the Jewish festivals.

It took him to page 143 to even begin to talk of the Blood Moons.

Only 8 tetrads (4 consecutive blood moons in a row) have occurred in the past 2000 years.

This one will be the 9th.

Then, Mark transformed into Harold Camping:

9 is the last of the single digits.

It marks The End, the conclusion of the matter.

It is akin to the number 6 ... why he doesn't say, but he goes on to say 6 being the sum of its factors
(3 x 3 = 9    3 + 3 = 6 

 and $15.95 is what you just lost by buying his book!)

Mark furthers muddies the prophetic waters Camping style:

9 is a factor of 666 ( which is 9 times 74)
and it is one less than Bo Derek (that last is mine.)

Mark writes that the sum of the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet is 4995 (5 x 999). 

It is stamped therefore with the numbers of grace and finality.

(Italics his/ the head scratching all mine.)


Why all our fixation with The End of the world?

Writing strictly on a not-for-prophet basis, here are some of my thoughts:

1.) WE BALK AT OUR WALK-ON PART IN THE WORLD'S STORY

For many, the world doesn’t only revolve around us – it stops around us too.

1 in 7 people in the world right now believe it will all end during their lifetime.


2.) THERE'S A SENSE OF MEANING TO BEING THERE FOR THE RINGING DOWN OF THE CURTAIN.

The idea of an apocalypse pushes all the right buttons at a psychological level. 

Our minds have always tried to create some kind of framework of meaning to give history and our own personal lives some kind of significance.


3.) IT'S ABOUT POWER

Apocalyptic predictions are a way for people to try to control the way their (and others’) world works.

What you get during times of particular discontent – war, famine or general bad times – is a rise in apocalyptic preaching and ideas.

And at those times we seem to lap it up like there’s no tomorrow. 





4.)  IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN SOONER OR LATER

Robert Oppenheimer had a bet going with other members of the Manhattan Project as to whether the first atom bomb

(that they were about to set off) would start a chain reaction that would destroy the earth’s atmosphere. 

It does seem as if Man has a built-in Death Wish, doesn't it?


5.) THERE ARE NO CONSEQUENCES IF THERE IS NO TOMORROW

The same thought is the basis for the popularity of the movie, GROUNDHOG DAY.

When you’re mortgaged up to your eyeballs, hideously in debt, overworked, underpaid,

totally depressed about the global financial meltdown and climate change,

a little apocalyptic event might seem like a breath of fresh air, right? 


WHY DO YOU THINK WE ARE SO FASCINATED WITH ALL THESE SCENARIO'S OF
THE END OF THE WORLD?

10 comments:

  1. Ha! Ha! Funny book!
    I've just checked on Amazon: it's #391 in Books and #2410 in Kindle store...
    Tells you a lot about people, doesn't it?
    I think all religions have an apocalypse of sorts as punishment, don't they? After thousands of years of religion, the idea is ingrained in people's minds...

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  2. Vesper:
    I really do think it is the GROUNDHOG DAY scenario: if the world goes POOF! no more consequences.

    One day the apocalypse will happen sadly for it is within our natures to destroy ourselves: just look at Miley Cyrus!

    Thanks for visiting and staying to chat!! :-)

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  3. These doomsayers of today are no different than all the others before them. They give me a headache.

    Tonight I left the hospital from visiting hubs, drove across the bridge to daughter's house to give her assistance, drove around an electrical fire in the road, which we had to detour as lines were in the street, and finally made it home. . .more excitement than I need in one day.
    So, what apocalypse?

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  4. It will happen sometimes, and nothing I can do will change it. So I save my energy to worry about things I can alter.
    And if we are talking about the number nine? If you add the digits of any multiple of nine together you get nine as the result.
    I hope D.G Hudson's hubs is getting better and that she is making rime to be kind to herself. Her night sounded way too exciting for me.

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  5. D.G.:
    You have your own personal Apocalypse sounds to me! Like Elephant's Child writes: you pace and take care of yourself -- if you fall ill who will take care of those you love then?

    Some people have too much free time on their hands!

    Elephant's Child:
    You're right: do what we can with things in our power to change, right?

    You take care of yourself and thanks for your concern for D.G. and her husband and daughter!! :-)

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  6. Thanks for your concern, Roland and EC, my blogging time is Me time, but yesterday was extraordinary. I couldn't believe the electrical fires in the middle of the road right at the intersection I needed to cross, but I could feel the voltage from the road and no one was behind me at 1030pm so I backed up and got away from that. Scary! It appeared a cable had been overloaded and exploded with live wires feeding the fire.

    You know that would happen in an apocalypse but in greater number. . .

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  7. I laughed out loud at your sentence about wasting 15.95, Roland. Let me tell you, this Jewish woman wishes to clarify: that Blitz dud(e) doth not speaketh for my Hebrew tribe. I'm fairly informed on Jewish teaching, and I've never heard of any apocalyptic blood moon mishugenah (nonsense/craziness). I agree with all your points. We humans need to be in control and we believe we're the center of the universe and all that other mishugenah. Smiles.

    Take care. I'm hopeful you're feeling okay these days. Yes?

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  8. D.G.:
    Glad you survived that apocalyptic ride home! I pray this night was much better!!

    Robyn:
    When folks start reaming off factors of numbers they read in Holy Writ, I get troubled!

    My right eye is killing me for some reason. Maybe Blitz put the whammy on it?

    Yes, all of us need to chill a bit and just be there for our fellow human beings when the going gets tough for them, right?

    Thanks for thinking about me. You made my eye-sore evening better!

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  9. Hi Roland - I can't get enthused by when the world ends .. well beyond my lifetime I hope ...

    However those 'twitchy fingered' people need to just be aware and be sensible ... if that's a remote possibility - but don't give them a remote either ..

    We need to think and care for others ... I do hope your eye as it's now the 20th year has eased off .. and the other medical irritations are healing .. with thoughts - Hilary

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  10. Hilary:
    A friend suggested milk washes, and I tried them last and now have started black tea bags warm on my right eye. It has helped.

    Some people stress over the wrong things, right?

    May beauty and peace be your constant companion this weekend!

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