[stefaan]

How can you know where you are spiritually?
And what if you find yourself to be not where you should be (spiritually)?
Then you’re f***cked?
Are should you very very quickly try to get there? You never know you get there just in time.

"what will matter is where you are spiritually"
If this is true, then all those preparations Avalon is about are useless? Unless it concerns spiritually preparations, of course.
Should I stay or should I go In that case I can stay. As long as I am spiritually in the right place, or hurrying to that right place.

Very confusing, this end of times thinking, doesn't it?

Me, I'm not afraid of death. Only of dying. I hate pain, don't you?.

You know, there are two fundamental ways of looking at the world: materialism and dualism.
Materialists say there is nothing else than matter. No spirit, no soul... Indeed they are atheists too. After death there is nothing. Death cannot hurt that way. You don't exist anymore once you're death.
Dualists belief there is more than matter. What that more is, is another story. Spirit, soul or whatever you want to make of it. Mostly it means there is something after life. Amongst a lot of other consequences. One of those is the possibility that this other thing than matter is able to grow. A very common idea.
Materialists have good reasons to be materialists. Dualist have good reasons to be dualist. There are weak through strong arguments. Both believe in something. Materialists (or atheists) always protest if you say so. But materialism is as much a believe as dualism is. And as it is with much believers, you can experience difficulties discussing with them. Sometimes a good discussion is even totaly out of the question.
I don't know anything. So I guess, the best thing to do is to put me between both positions. In that way I have to call my self an agnostic.

Well, with all this end of times thinking, it's the same: I don't know, I cannot know.

What I do know is end of times thinking has always been there. So much so, there is a study field called eschatology. A eschatologist studies end of times thinking. Well, well.

What I do know is, it is a very lucrative commercial thing. A whole industry has been build around it.
Still, this doesn't mean it's all a hoax or mere superstition.
Maybe the "gods", who once visited earth, told people they would come back again at the end of time and this message went from generation to generation just until now.
Maybe end of times thinking just for fills a certain human need.
No, agnosticism isn't easy. That's for sure.

I am making this too long now, I know.

One last thing. Even if there is no cosmic event waiting to happen. Even if there are no factions wanting to eliminate most part of population; even if there are no wars at hand, etc... One thing I know and we all should realize: we ourselves (not the others) are very busy destroying this world. Maybe others too, ok. But don't forget, you too are playing your part in the destruction. (the chance you're not, is very small)
Don't look to the aliens.

Just kiddin' folks. You shouldn't take it all to serious. Ok?