You know, far be it for me to question someone's belief system, but uh....don't you think this whole "it's the end of days because bad things are happening" thought process is...well....kind of backwards?
Here me out though.
Evil has always existed. No matter if you believe in God, Buddha or yourself. Evil is apart of the balance that is life. Evil has existed since the first cave man killed another for having better animal pelts. You know what else has always existed? Nature. Earthquake and storms and wild weather has been recorded for million of years. Floods and storms are nothing new. Not at all.
So these things....Evil men....wild nature...have always been present and real in our lives. Ask someone who has lost a child to domestic violence or ask an older person who has lived through various weather situations.
You know what IS new? Technology.
The world isn't just now going to shit. It has been going to shit. We just see it now due to Facebook and Twitter and Instagram. Look. The 24 hour news cycle was created in my lifetime and they have to fill the void. Good news doesn't sell. It never has. Scandal sells. Corruption sells. Sadness sells. FEAR sells. So we sit around and tweet about Boston and terrorism while we watch CNN. We watch the horror of Newtown and Chicago unfold as we Facebook back and forth on MSNBC message boards. And as we do these things, we perpetuate that there is no good in this world. No hope.
What I'm saying is this: bad things happen. Doesn't mean the world is ending. Just means we can't ignore it anymore.
