The End (flickr: ucumari)
A week-long discussion with our friends at Scientific American about things ending – good things, bad things, essential things – and how our lives will change as they do.
MoreAll week long, we'll be talking with our friends at Scientific American about things ending – good things, bad things, materials, animals, people and more – and how all of our lives will be affected as a result. We're asking you, our listeners, to weigh in: What's something that you'd be happy to see come to an end? What's something you'd be sad to see go?
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Regardless of their physical appearances, wind, percussion and string instruments, deliver harmony in diversity in an orchestra, as each demonstrates its unique contribution to the beauty of the whole. So too, universally, there's only ONE reality, where beauty and harmony can also be achieved through sharing, justice and love, since scientifically, nothing separates anything in the whole of cosmos. Hopefully then, the glamor of separateness will end, with the energies of synthesis and love of the new age of Aquarius.
Everything, be they physical or spiritual, that afflicts humanity would be good to see end. Alzheimer's, cancers of all stripe, diseases that destroy cogni-
tion are among the top that should disappear. These are afflictions over which we have as yet no control. The end of conflict and war will take more effort, however, since they are outgrowths of human will and diversity of thought and experience.
In today's introduction you mentioned that you would be talking about the end and referenced the "seven riders" in the book of Revelation. I'm just curious as to the inexplicable appearance of the three additional riders, I know of Pestilence (or Plague), Famine, War, and Death, but who precisely were the other three? A riding instructor? Squires? Groupies? Colonel Kurtz?
I'd have thought that: a) one would not reference a book one had not read, b) a cursory fact check would have caught this and c) even one unfamiliar with the religious text would have at least been familiar with the many pop culture references to the FOUR (not seven) riders of the Apocalypse and while the references may argue about the specific names of the riders, nowhere in my research could I find reference (apart from yours) to the seven riders (perhaps you confused them with the seven dwarves). Maybe we should talk about the end of fact checking.
Sorry I just couldn't resist busting your chops a little bit.
I would like to see the abortion industry end. Just like the end of slavery, it would lift a great weight from this country, and give it hope.
And not all good things come to an end, but all bad things do.
I would be happy to see cancer meet it's end. Cancer contributes nothing beneficial to humanity and leaves suffering and fear in it's wake.
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