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My friend (and regular guest at the StarShipSofa podcast) Dr. Amy H. Sturgis wrote an essay that lists all the ways we all will die in 2012. It's a surprisingly long list.

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He Spreads the Burning Sands With Lava

In the past I have warned you about the Yellowstone Caldera and told you that we are all going to die. I was laughed at. Now it seems that, when the great rain of fire and brimstone wipes out all life in North America and plunges the world into years of subzero temperatures, initiating a period of human suffering never before seen or imagined, I will have the last laugh.

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Meals

Over at Sacred Space, which comes courtesy of the Irish Jesuits, the thought for the week calls us to make a particular reform:

As we move into Lent we might wonder if fasting has any meaning for us today. It has. It is really asking us to look at our relationship to food and drink. Jesus loved to eat with his friends. Meals were important for him. For families too, meals are a time when children watch and listen to their parents and vice versa. But family meals are in danger of disappearing, what with fast food and the lure of TV, which is sometimes left on even when the family are eating together. Like mobile phones in company, it reduces our presence to one another. For many families a good Lenten resolution would be to have meals together at least once a week, and expose themselves to the need for listening, sitting at peace, knowing how the rest of the family is, and going for slow rather than fast food.

Heavens to Murgatroyd, have things declined in Europe so much that one lousy meal per week together as a family is considered challenging? Are they, perhaps, that bad for many in North America as well? Australia?

No, wait. Don't answer that question.

UPDATE: It turns out video games are probably succeeding in teaching kids the skills they will need to survive in a post-apocalypse environment. I'm feeling better already!

Labels: Culture, We're All Going to Die

Nightfall

Via Arts Journal, we learn that in 2006 we are going to have a very, very bad year. That is assuming we survive next Wednesday:

As I write, fears focus on the asteroid Toutatis, a mountain-sized planetoid that is expected to pass very close to Earth on Wednesday, September 29, 2004. For months, the internet has been abuzz with woeful speculation that Toutatis will hit us rather than miss by a few Earth radii. Depending on where such an object landed, it might devastate a hemisphere—or worse. An impact at sea might send colossal waves, or tsunamis, roaring around the globe to smash and drown coastal cities from New York to Singapore.

I question the timing! And there are other doomsday scenarios:

Depending on whose imaginings you sample, there is a terrifying risk that rising sea levels caused by global warming will put present-day seacoasts under water…North America soon will look like a tattered croissant…the San Andreas fault will give, with calamitous results for California…Antarctica and the Arctic will wind up on the equator…

Moving the equator around? Oh, well, we know all about that, don't we.

…the Yellowstone caldera will erupt again…a huge undersea landslide will send monster waves crashing into shores around the Atlantic basin…we will freeze and/or starve in darkness as global oil supplies are exhausted during the coming decades.

He's trying to scare us. He doesn't realize some of us like this kind of stuff.

Labels: We're All Going to Die

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