The Coming Dawn of Universal Consciousness (redux)

[Magical Realist]

Evidently the New Agers are looking forward to their own imminent "rapture" again. I remember Dec 22 2012. The alleged day of the Great Ascension as prophesied by the Mayan Calendar and by hundreds of new age gurus including Terrence Mckenna. I remember looking out the window on that day marveling at the sunny blue skies. So quiet and unexceptional. Nothing at all happened. Just as it never does with every single prophecy of the end of time. This is not a Marvel movie. We just need to accept that nobody is coming to rescue us from our chaotic world. We are here and it is ours. Let's just get along and try to make it better.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/577420358058429

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1247566546663582R

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjxSCAalsBE

[C C]

After circa 2029 to 2033 (or 2035 at the very most), that should at least do it for the Christian divinations of future doomsday and rapture.

That would be in the ballpark of 2,000 years after Christ's ascension, and add to the supposed 4,000+ years before that to mildly pass 6,000. The allegorical six days of week, with the remaining seventh day representing the "thousand-year reign of peace".

Based on "With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day." (2 Peter 3:8).

That's taking into account that Christ was crucified in AD 30 or AD 33, that he was around 33 years old (3 years after his ministry began), and that BC-AD calendar designers goofed-up when placing his birthdate at AD 1 (he was born on a BC date).

Still fits the "no human knows when I return" since the above is fuzzy -- it doesn't output a precise time.

Once that period expires and nothing supernatural or "from beyond the simulation" invades the natural world, the claims don't have a leg to stand on anymore in terms of having a [supposedly] biblically legit "But, but, but...." to fall back on.

[Syne]

I don't understand why people attempt such predictions. Seems outright contrary to "no one knows the day or the hour."

[Zinjanthropos]

If the dawn is coming then it means we’re still in the dark. How long have we been in the dark? That’s worth pondering.

[Magical Realist]

Another guy's take on "The Big Event" that is coming. Spoiler alert: UFOs will be involved. Oh, and a massive solar flare...

https://www.facebook.com/reel/591641813292738

Real effects of a major solar flare:

https://www.google.com/search?q=effects+...Od9k8,st:0

[Magical Realist]

I dreamed last night the end of the world had come! Everybody was running around in a panic as black clouds were gathering and a thick fog was sweeping across the land. Then the dream quickly degenerated into some weird situation where I was in a strange woman's apt who was busy working on straightening my severed penis. Dreams...yeah.

[C C]

I dreamed last night the end of the world had come! Everybody was running around in a panic as black clouds were gathering and a thick fog was sweeping across the land. Then the dream quickly degenerated into some weird situation where I was in a strange woman's apt who was busy working on straightening my severed penis. Dreams...yeah.

I suppose there's a potential "afterlife" of sorts, even after the world's end. Either the eternalism of one's temporal parts prior to death persisting or the quantum immortality route of Hugh Everett.

The latter option arguably likewise featuring "quick" degenerative or intermediary episodes before finally stumbling into another stable trajectory lasting months, years, decades.

One would eventually have to split and detour off into some pretty radical versions of one's self and bizarre renditions of external habitat, so to avoid the ultimate consequences of old age and termination in this universe. The worst part is that the personal memories of what "normal" once was aren't going to survive those specious transitions to elsewhere.

One is stuck with the past information of whatever brain or alien mind or robot equivalent that one sports in that parallel reality. Just as in this life, there is no recollection of having died in an accident at the age of 27 in Cosmos #32. One's past seems a continuous, coherent, and unbroken sequence -- not a labyrinth of alternative survivals.