Maybe the world should end.

I watched a debate this weekend between a Palestinian and a Israeli; during their exchange I realized that nothing will ever change in that part of the world. Watching the madness unfold in our own country, with Black Friday, and stores opening even sooner, until Thursday is the new Friday; the constant bickering of our elected officials, every religious group and organization trying to force their agenda down our throats; constant pharmaceutical company commercials trying to further medicate an already over medicated population. It all makes me sick. Makes me think this planet needs a good purge to flush out a good part of the population and get everyone to focus what is really important in life.

Christmas is a farce; a day that Jesus himself would loathe. He preached for people to turn away from greed and consumption; the very things we now embrace in his name. I am not a religious person, in fact, I dont believe in many of the things that the religious institutions of our world indoctrinate into us from birth. But I have read the Bible and even I can see that we are on a very different path than the authors intended.

A lot of people think the world will end on December 21st, 2012 because a Mayan calendar ends on that day. I say, if the Mayans were so smart, why did they make a calendar that included days five hundred years past their collapse. If they knew about the end of the world, wouldnt they also have known the end date of their own civilization?

Almost every prediction is proven false in the end. Just like the rapture a year ago: Some nutjob claims to have had a vision, everybody jumps aboard, and throws logic right out the window. The last time the world was supposed to end was in 2000, because the bible claims that Jesus said his reign would last a thousand years but not thousands before his return: Well its 2012 and he didnt show up. Most of the stuff in the new testament was made years after Jesus died and it would be really hard for something he said to be remembered verbatem after so long. I am sure like most of the Bible, it was embellished to add dramatic effect, after all, controlling the populus is its main function.

What I am trying to convey here is that people should use the one thing that we know came from God; our brain and our ability to reason. Dont be that guy or gal, pushing little kids out of the way to save a buck on something that good advertising made you think you have to have. Take a good look around you at what you do have that matters: Your health, your family (and their health), a home, food to eat because there are a lot of people in this world that have a lot less.