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Post by 3piggles on Dec 21, 2012 13:34:37 GMT
I totally understand why the ancients celebrated the winter solstice. It is rainy and gloomy today, the shortest day of the year. Still, tomorrow will have a few more minutes of sunlight, and there will be more sunlight time ever day until midsummer! I happen to be a sunlight lover, and have sun light bulbs in lamps around the house. When nature provides it for me, I don't have to pay the electric company for it. Works for me   |
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Post by Bean on Dec 22, 2012 14:48:14 GMT
Yes a mid-winter party is just what's needed and we still get one - even if the details of the celebration have been reworked a bit over time!
And the world didn't end yesterday either - what a surprise! I don't know how many of these apocalyptic events we can be expected to live through...
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Post by 3piggles on Dec 22, 2012 16:45:44 GMT
I wonder about the mentalities of people who embrace or fear these alleged apocalypses. I'm always planning for the next day/week, etc. and don't really have time to worry about it all maybe ending! If there were some guarantee, that would be different |
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Post by jolovespiggies on Dec 25, 2012 15:47:54 GMT
I think it will happen all of a sudden, with no warnings. I think the earth is just going to say "I've had enough" one day. I am hope I am wrong and am sorry to sound so gloomy.
Hugs
JO xx
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Post by Bean on Dec 27, 2012 14:03:47 GMT
I think the earth will probably do okay in the long-run, but I'm not sure how long people will last... We've been around for such a minute fraction of the earth's history that even if we're around for thousands of years more, we'll still be but a blink relative to the success of dinosaurs on earth.
I shan't worry myself about it though - there's not much you can do to avoid mass extinction events!
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Post by 3piggles on Dec 27, 2012 17:25:25 GMT
Since we are endlessly under threat of asteroid strikes, volcanic eruptions and the constantly moving tectonic plates, I think it's very likely we will have a very earth-based apocalypse. But worrying about it or trying to plan for everything that could possibly happen just causes endless stress. I'm just going to roll with it, and whatever happens, happens!
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