Armageddon. Is it coming?

 

Armageddon. Is it coming?

I am pretty used to looking at a mountain. Here in the Pass we more or less see the Crowsnest Mountain from everywhere. A very long time ago I lived in another place, The Jezreel Valley, from which we could see a hill called Armageddon. It is called “Har”, mountain but it is only a hill with a flat top. The significant part of it is that three major religions say that a fight between good and evil will happen there and it will be the end of the world. By the way, Armageddon is on the way between Iran and Jerusalem.

Why do I tell you this? Because mountains are a place of safety, an area where spirituality heightens, and also a reminder of doom. Look at the Frank Slide and remember. Also, a mountain gives a person the feeling that they can see farther than others. Others feel more closed in. In historical times, mountain fighters were the hardest to beat since you couldn’t use chariots in the fight.

Now there is a feeling in the air that we should consider the possibility of the end of the world. So many people died in a relatively short time, and many more will. No longer we believe the so-called leaders who convinced people that there is nothing to worry about. We know that those who perish reach the end of their own world often to save money for someone who has too much of it. What good will money do for us if we die to make a budget look good for the government?

Humans are a relatively recent phenomenon on earth, and modern humans existed only for a tiny fraction of the life of this planet. We came, grew, and can disappear with hardly a trace very fast. Just another extinct species. We are doing well, but our faith is in our hands and we devote a lot of effort to engineering our extinction. Now in the twenty-first century, even a child could look and say that collectively we are acting stupid. Just look at what we are doing and don’t tell me to see the bright side. I will believe in a positive side when we unite and help each other and the planet.

The US recently decided to spend many billions of dollars on modernizing nuclear arms, forcing the Russians to do the same. Great Britain announced the same measures and the rest will follow. Those missiles have only one possible purpose, to destroy human civilization. Of course, that money could finance significant improvements to people’s lives, but that is not considered important. The millions and billions of people who are barely managing to live, (some don’t) present another danger. Before people die, they most often try to fight for their lives. A war between the developing and developed nations will be our end.

Next comes the danger that we all contribute to. Our technology came to a point where we can use tremendous amounts of resources very fast but haven’t figured out what to do with the garbage that’s left behind. The worst is the damage to the atmosphere. Satellite pictures show that we are causing the polar caps to melt, which will bring flooding to large swats of dry land. Logically we should take major steps to correct the problem, but economic and political concerns stop us. This will be an unimaginable catastrophe that our next few generations will face and can end our civilization.

If we survive the first two problems, the next is socially oriented. In our recent history, we witnessed two world-changing revolutions in Russia and France. Now when the population is much bigger, communication is faster and education more widespread, we are facing a possible worldwide revolution that will probably involve modern-day weapons. We allowed the gap between the rich and the poor to become impossible to sustain, between countries and between individuals.

Another old reason for possible extinction is the conflict against microorganisms. We see a sample of it right now with the Coronavirus. Nature can produce an invisible enemy able to destroy humans and effectively overwhelm our defenses before we react. We could deal with the threat, but we are not organized enough to do so.

Your body is made of trillions of live cells that eat, breathe, multiply, die, and shit. They form a lot of tiny organisms that are all needed to make you you. All the parts are important. All must do their part for us to live. The bacteria in our stomachs are necessary for us to exist. Humanity is also made of many parts. Life on earth is made of many more parts, all with a job to do. We didn’t figure it out, but it works. People shouldn’t screw it up if they don’t know how to create something better. We know it exists on cooperation, so we should try to cooperate until we figure things out.

I look at the mountain and remember that Armageddon can happen at any time. I love to “eat, drink, and be merry” or trust in the Lord and not have bad thoughts. Yet there is no life without making an effort. We can live pleasant lives on this beautiful planet, but we are tasked with making good decisions, or we will bring about our demise.

All of us prefer to believe that saving the world is somebody else’s job, but it’s not. Every word that comes from our mouths counts. Every thought in our minds has real consequences. If we all fight instead of cooperating, future archeologists, humans, or another, will be studying our extinct civilization and write books about it.

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