1:25 P.M. "Living on a time bomb"

"Some say the world will end in fire,
some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire,
I hold with those who favor fire.

But if I have to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
to say that, for destruction, ice is also great

And would suffice." - "Fire and Ice," Robert Frost


I've always loved this poem so much I committed it to memory. I love poems that make sense...

...and are timelessly relevant. This poem makes the most sense to me today, the supposed end of the world as prophesied.

Why do people keep predicting something that has already begun to happen? And when will they realize that this world will continue to exist, even without its human inhabitants? So, technically, it's not the end of the world, but the end of human existence.

This planet has been surviving for more than 4 billion years. There have been several ice ages, mass extinctions, and geological "facelifts," all in the name of planetary survival. This planet has a way of purging itself when it couldn't take anymore poison and abuse from its "tenants." 

When will these prophets of doom realize that the end has been happening for ages now? It's happening in stages. Like cancer, the end day is showing its "symptoms;" all we have to do is open our eyes and our ears to the signs of times:


...newer and stranger "religions" have been cropping up for centuries, claiming to be the truth, but drawing the people away from the One True God;

...materialism and capitalism have been embraced as religion by most people of this age who call themselves "yuppies" (Young Urban Professionals) and who believe that the ultimate goal of one's existence is to amass wealth and be popular, even at the expense of others;

...mass media has been distorting our concept of love, self-image, faith, hope, family, and everything that matters by "repackaging" role models and by redefining values and virtues according to what they think will sell big;

...people all over the world build walls, instead of bridges; they choose to hate, a real-life scenario that the movie industry is just too willing to depict in their blockbuster movies;

...the scientific communities around the world have been playing God, cloning organisms, altering life's genetic makeup, building particle accelerators that could produce enough energy to incinerate the whole planet, developing more efficient weapons of mass destruction and more efficient fuel sources at the expense of the planet;

...the corporate world has been turning humans into soulless machines by creating these "spiritual blackholes" (term borrowed) called "call centers," depriving their agents of a healthy social life as well as a meaningful spiritual life...

The list goes on and on. This culture of hate, humankind's unrestrained self-indulgence, materialism, distorted value system, etc. -- these will bring about the end of our existence. We're living on a ticking time bomb, which we ourselves will detonate. It's only a matter of time. And we're running out of it.

Meanwhile, this planet will go on.