the end is near

     Most of my friends and companions happen to believe that everything this morning, the rain, the grass, the trees, the clouds .... it all smells a whole lot like Armageddon.

     My readings in history tell me that the odds that the book of Revelations is factually correct AND that the time period under discussion is NOW, are quite small. In fact, the Roman Empire, at the time known to be the entire civilized world, managed to collapse totally, over several centuries it is true, but nevertheless totally .... and yet, Jesus was not sighted, neither the antichrist or any of those other characters .... and certainly, many, many other supercilious, egocentric empires have also collapsed in the interim, and it has not meant the end of humanity, the end of the known universe, the end of time, or even the end of white bread.

     My opinions have never been widely read, never widely accepted, its just that, while I have always been somewhat early in my predictions, I have, fortunately or unfortunately, been correct ..... my opinion is that this is not the fall of man we are facing, however it is the fall of civilization as we know it ... in the next five to fifty years, the great  majority of the people now alive are going to die, in ways that they did not expect .....
and the age of technology, made possible by the use of fossil fuel, is now over, forever and ever .... those who survive will have to use the labor of their own backs, as well as that of animals and primitive windmills and watermills, built primarily with wood and other natural materials ...

...and the good thing is that they will be, mostly , vastly happier than you all are now, but that's kind of an intangible thing which is hard for me to explain .....