Will the World End - 2012

There is a lot of talk and speculation lately that the world is coming to an in the year 2012. Are you one of the people who believe in this 'fact' or are worried about the consequences of this 'ending'? The answer in my opinion is a simple no-brainer - 'No'. It is certainly not the first time that the world is being put through this speculative ending. Two thousand years back, the chroniclers of the Bible started the neo-thesis then about the second coming of Jesus (The Bible was written two thousand years back - The New Testament part at least). Two thousand years hence, the evangelists continue to pepper-spray people with the same second coming, everyday.

Back in the late '70s and even during the early part of the year 1980, when I was a teenager, there was a similar 'ending' which was to befall all earth in the year 1980. The evangelists then were fervently preaching about the coming of Jesus and the impending end of the world. Perhaps by luck or fate, Jesus failed to turn up on that year, even as many feared the worst of disasters to befall the earth. Sadly, the same tape was played out during 1992 to en cash on the public despondency. Doomsday predictors again cashed in on the euphoria during the turn of the millennia in the late '90s. Fortunately for many, the memory of the masses is short lived, as people rightly tend to move on even from disastrous situations in life. They say, 'time is the best healer' and when things turn rosy again in the minds of the beholders, all becomes well and the past is passed off from the RAM in to the Hard Disk, only to be recalled when absolutely necessary. That in many ways is a good trait, because we invariably look for the optimistic side within ourselves and try to move on from setbacks and painful situations.

Atheists are lucky in many ways because it is immaterial to them if there is a god to come or not, because they choose to be blissfully unaware of god and themselves. It would really not matter to them about 'where they jumped into the world from' or 'what happens to them' after death. The same holds good for an agnostic person because they choose to be blissfully unaware. The real question about the threat of an ending of the world today or tomorrow gets seeded, only in the minds of the 'believers' of God. Paradoxical as it may sound, it is the believer in God that need not worry about endings of the world. Simply because the ever-loving God-head is going to take care of the people he loves, 'come what may'.

Science provides us ample proof that the world got formed eons back. They provide credible evidence of the Cambrian explosion of marine species and the subsequent species happened circa 520 million years ago. The older religions of the world like Sanatana Dharma talk so in a similar manner of the continuum of time. Christianity talks about God's painstaking creation of the heavens and the earth over six days of 'his' time, and found them 'very good'. History and Archeology talk about very advanced civilizations of yore. The Mayan and the Incan civilizations existed 17,000 years back. Unfortunately they were annihilated do to some unexplained cataclysmal tectonic shifting of the earth's outer crust. Our current highest recorded earthquake intensity ever felt stands around 9.0 on the Richter's scale. Perhaps, one can imagine the effects of 'what would happen if it were to be say 12 or 'God forbid' 15, on a similar scale?'

Surely, it cannot be imagined. Not even in my wildest of imaginations. Would the world come to and end in such an event? I would dare say, 'no'. The world ends for you and me, the day we die, period. The soul and the spirit within can never die. It has to continue on its quest. Each soul is blessed with all that is needed to nourish it from the past. Each soul is provided with all that is needed to sustain its live on the earth. Each soul will invariably carry the learning's of many lifetimes, in its everlasting quest for perfection to become one with 'GOD'.

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