Existence

 

Existence is the ability of an entity to interact with physical or mental reality. In philosophy, it refers to the ontological property of being.

Annihilation is an act of completely destroying or defeating someone or something. The state of being annihilated is total destruction; extinction.

Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds, usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and recover may have been lost before this point.

Extermination is to get rid of by destroying; destroy totally; extirpate: to exterminate an enemy.

An apocalypse is a disclosure or revelation of great knowledge in religious and occult concepts. An apocalypse is a prophetic revelation, especially concerning a cataclysm in which the forces of good permanently triumph over the forces of evil. An apocalypse is any revelation or prophecy, any universal or widespread destruction or disaster.

The sixth Seal prompts earthquakes and other cataclysmic events. The seventh Seal cues seven angelic trumpeters who in turn cue the seven bowl judgments and more cataclysmic events.

The apocalypse event may be climatic, such as runaway climate change; astronomical, such as an impact event; destructive, such as nuclear holocaust or resource depletion; medical, such as a pandemic, whether natural or human-caused.

The Book of Revelation was written sometime around 96 CE in Asia Minor. The author was probably a Christian from Ephesus known as “John the Elder.” According to the Book, this John was on the island of Patmos, not far from the coast of Asia Minor, “because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus”

Doomsday scenarios are possible events that could cause human extinction and/or the destruction of all or most life on Earth (a ‘true’ or ‘major’ Armageddon scenario), or alternately a ‘lesser’ Armageddon scenario in which the cultural, technological, environmental or social world is so greatly altered it could be considered like a different world.

Didn’t request to be dropped here but by taking in the first breath one begins to exist. The color of your eyes or the number of your fingers or how tall you are is predestined to your existence here.

Here is a place where there is substance to consume to continue living. There is sunshine and rain and breezes and hot and cold conditions to adapt to. There are neighbors who also inhabit this place.

Life, as they call it, seems pretty good. This habitat is a good place to exist.

When the dinosaurs wondered about that big rock falling out of the sky did they ponder extinction? Only the sharks can tell you.

So the year is 2020. A divisive political competition has filled the airwaves while a life-threatening virus is floating through the air. The daily numbers are astounding.

The thought of ‘death’ is never one that anyone wants to contemplate, but it is evitable. A rational being knows that slowly the body will decay and die.

Still this Corona or Covid-19 virus that is spreading the globe is slowly wiping out the population.

If this virus had been presented that an enemy was invading our country, everyone would have united to defend the species. Unfortunately that didn’t happen. A little ball of fur isn’t as scary as an iron lung.

The human species has many options to destroy itself. War is a good start. Addictions to mind alternating substances shows we can’t cope with existence.

Medical invasions such as the latest virus is always been a struggle. The expanding field of professionals studying the causes and suggesting possible solutions is constant. There are no guarantees.

The pill or potion is prescribed to solve the angst of uncertainty to ease the pain. This time there is no foreseeable solution.

So the elderly and most vulnerable victims fall. Next the essential workers succumb.

The numbers don’t count the neighbors until you start to notice their cars don’t move.

The trash isn’t being picked up. There is no gas. The stores are no longer stocked. The banks are closed. There are no sirens.

The hospitals are closed.

People don’t walk their children and dogs up the street. There is no late night television news. The Internet doesn’t work.

The lights go out. The phone doesn’t answer. The toilet doesn’t flush.

Is this what the dinosaurs thought?

History shows that things will get better. It always has.

Except this time?

If some big rock banged into this planet we call home and caused us spinning off into the darkness, we have no options but to ride it out.

If our star suddenly pulls us closer we have no control to stop it.

If our humanity is extinguished with an invisible virus that is a submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of an organism, such is life.