Friday, August 3, 2012
Surprises in Apocalypse
I must admit that I have not been truly surprised by any revelation, haha, about apocalypse during this journey. I have had an interesting time exploring just how deep an apocalypse can go. How personal an apocalypse can be. For years I have thought of apocalypse not as an end or necessarily as a beginning either but as a transition in the cyclical nature of time. I suppose if I had to name something that I have begun to more fully understand it is the fact that each and every day, each and every one of us experience apocalypses, be them large or small. Something new is revealed that causes us to look and see in a different way. That is apocalypse, though a small one. Now when doomsayers call out and claim the apocalypse near or here. The response that should be given is "Yes. It always has been. It always will be. We are constantly in the end times. But we are also always in the beginning. What was your apocalypse today?"
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Your statement that each of us experiences apocalypse each day says it all, maybe. I’d like to comment on “Necessity of Apocalypse,” your earlier blog of the day. That human way of knowing a word by what it is not . . . or knowing a world by what it is not . . . this may be one of the most compelling arguments for maintaining social and biological diversity in our world.
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