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A Notable Difference in the Omega Point
a review of Beyond 2012, The Omega Point
Whitley Strieber seeks answers through writing. Through a brilliant progression of books over the past quarter century, he has continued to ask and offer answers to some of life's most mystifying questions. It is to his credit that he can accomplish that feat by utilizing the vehicle of spell-binding fiction, much of it empathically linked to his personal encounters of the fourth kind. [See ,Communion 1987]
As another male of the Baby Boomer generation, I can personally relate to his evolution of consciousness. Strieber's personal path to wisdom has run a crooked path through a paranormal labyrinth, often causing him and his readers to question their grasp on reality - and to ask the disturbing question first put forth by anomaly investigator, Charles Fort: "If there is a universal mind, must it be sane?"
In "2012: The Omega Point," the author weaves a good Hollywood tale. As with his earlier collaboration with Art Bell on "The Day After Tomorrow," this latest work begs a screenplay adaptation. For the sake of extended sales, Strieber is smart to speculate that Winter Solstice 2012 marks only the beginning of a decade-long deterioration in the physical dynamics of our solar system.
Readers experience through Strieber's colorful characters the manner in which individuals psychologically deal with eminent collapse of the world as they know it. To do so, provides more food for thought than your standard, annihilation-by-the-billions apocalypse.
A notable difference in "The Omega Point" is Whitley Strieber's personal attempt to make peace with his Creator. To that end, he has added twenty-two pages of Author's Notes to the end of the book seemingly as clarification and explanation not only to the prophetic and spiritual ramifications of this novel but of the total body of his works - post-"Communion" - and how it has shaped his current syncretic theology.
Yet, this too is indicative of the threshold where we Boomers now stand. With the vanguard of our generation entering their mid-sixties, we must face the naked truth of our own mortality. The Peter Pan Generation that never wanted to grow up is now growing old - and maybe, just maybe, we are not so damned special that the whole world is going to collapse when we croak.
This reviewer finds somewhat of a spiritual kinsman ship with Strieber, knowing that he has come full circle through the possibilities of the mystical universe and landed right back here on earth, on a wind-swept natural amphitheater in northern Israel where a penniless rabbi is teaching the meek that ultimately they will inherit the Earth - and with it, the Edenic paradise this planet was meant to be.
Truly, with this latest work, Whitley Strieber has now taken us, his readers, from the beginning to the end; the A to the Z; the Alpha Point to the Omega Point.
-- Gerald Logan MacLennon, July 30, 2010
Whitley Strieber seeks answers through writing. Through a brilliant progression of books over the past quarter century, he has continued to ask and offer answers to some of life's most mystifying questions. It is to his credit that he can accomplish that feat by utilizing the vehicle of spell-binding fiction, much of it empathically linked to his personal encounters of the fourth kind. [See ,Communion 1987]
As another male of the Baby Boomer generation, I can personally relate to his evolution of consciousness. Strieber's personal path to wisdom has run a crooked path through a paranormal labyrinth, often causing him and his readers to question their grasp on reality - and to ask the disturbing question first put forth by anomaly investigator, Charles Fort: "If there is a universal mind, must it be sane?"
In "2012: The Omega Point," the author weaves a good Hollywood tale. As with his earlier collaboration with Art Bell on "The Day After Tomorrow," this latest work begs a screenplay adaptation. For the sake of extended sales, Strieber is smart to speculate that Winter Solstice 2012 marks only the beginning of a decade-long deterioration in the physical dynamics of our solar system.
Readers experience through Strieber's colorful characters the manner in which individuals psychologically deal with eminent collapse of the world as they know it. To do so, provides more food for thought than your standard, annihilation-by-the-billions apocalypse.
A notable difference in "The Omega Point" is Whitley Strieber's personal attempt to make peace with his Creator. To that end, he has added twenty-two pages of Author's Notes to the end of the book seemingly as clarification and explanation not only to the prophetic and spiritual ramifications of this novel but of the total body of his works - post-"Communion" - and how it has shaped his current syncretic theology.
Yet, this too is indicative of the threshold where we Boomers now stand. With the vanguard of our generation entering their mid-sixties, we must face the naked truth of our own mortality. The Peter Pan Generation that never wanted to grow up is now growing old - and maybe, just maybe, we are not so damned special that the whole world is going to collapse when we croak.
This reviewer finds somewhat of a spiritual kinsman ship with Strieber, knowing that he has come full circle through the possibilities of the mystical universe and landed right back here on earth, on a wind-swept natural amphitheater in northern Israel where a penniless rabbi is teaching the meek that ultimately they will inherit the Earth - and with it, the Edenic paradise this planet was meant to be.
Truly, with this latest work, Whitley Strieber has now taken us, his readers, from the beginning to the end; the A to the Z; the Alpha Point to the Omega Point.
-- Gerald Logan MacLennon, July 30, 2010
Positivity and Hope for Our Children rather than Alarmism and Despair
2021. It is time to give children of this world a diet of positivity and hope rather than alarmist despair.
Swedish teen, Greta Thunberg, and those who “condone her alarmist nonsense” are tragically destroying young people, according to Australian Commentator Alan Jones.
“We have learned that vulnerable students have fallen through the cracks over coronavirus,” he said.
“We have been told that schools don't have a proper review process to prevent - a frightening term - suicide clusters.
“Young people are constantly comparing themselves to others on social media and suffering mental health problems as a result.”
Mr Jones said there are “two blunt answers” as to how this crisis has “accelerated to this point”.
“The first is an appalling absence of political leadership,” he said.
“But young people are being confronted by uninformed, disinformed, illiterate and often innumerate protest leaders urging young people to march for causes they don’t understand based on arguments that can’t be proven and trading on fear which is destructive.
“Why have leaders in the western world given international exposure to the uninformed and dis-informed utterances of Greta Thunberg?”
Greta Thunberg’s “dishonest, alarmist rubbish” is now seeing its manifestation in massive emotional and psychological instability in young people, according to Mr Jones.
“It is a farce; a sickening farce,” says Alan Jones.
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The following "Wake Up Call" comes from an anonymous source on Facebook:
To all the school kids going on “strike” for Climate Change.
You are the first generation who has required air-conditioning in every classroom.
You want TV in every room and your classes are all computerized.
You spend all day and night on electronic devices.
More than ever, you don’t walk or ride bikes to school but arrive in caravans of private cars that choke suburban roads, pollute the air and worsen rush hour traffic.
You are the biggest consumers of manufactured goods ever and update perfectly good expensive luxury items to stay trendy.
Your entertainment comes from electric devices.
Furthermore, the people driving your protests are the same people who insist on artificially inflating the population growth through immigration, which increases the need for energy, manufacturing and transport.
The more people we have, the more forest and bush land we clear and more of the environment is destroyed.
How about this…
Tell your teachers to switch off the air-conditioning.
Walk or ride to school.
Switch off your devices and read a book.
Make a sandwich instead of buying manufactured fast food.
No, none of this will happen because you are selfish, badly educated, virtue signalling little turds, inspired by the adults around you who crave a feeling of having a “noble cause” while they indulge themselves in Western luxury and unprecedented quality of life.”
Wake up, grow up and shut up until you are sure of the facts before protesting.
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Again... Australian Commentator Alan Jones:
Consider this: there are alarming incidents -- and they are increasing -- of suicide and attempted suicide among today's teenagers. Even more are considering it. Many experts are saying this is the tip of the iceberg and these incidents won't go away.
There are so many other factors at work here: social media that can say anything it wants about any other person. Kids live off of this stuff and, as a result, are made to feel unworthy.
The teenage Greta Thunbergs of the world are telling their peers, "There is no hope. People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We're at the beginning of a mass extinction." So she whines on and on.
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THE CHILD BORN TODAY WILL HAVE MORE OPPORTUNITIES AND A SAFER FUTURE THAN ANY OTHER CHILD AT ANY TIME IN HUMAN HISTORY
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It is disgraceful that these assertions go unchallenged by adults who call themselves 'leaders'. Young people are privately terrified and wonder where they belong.
The system is broken and badly broken. And only by admitting that, can we seek solution. Stop preaching alarmism and look at the facts rather than the propaganda they are fed.
That learned, the child born today will have more opportunities and a safer future than any other child at any time in human history.
That child in the classroom will be blessed with a longer life expectancy than of any time in human history.
That child is entering a world where poverty, health and freedom are at an infinitely better level than other time in human history.
That child will find the availability of food better than at any time in human history.
We'll be safer from extreme weather. Last year, deaths from extreme weather were the lowest ever recorded.
That child will enjoy more leisure time than any other child in human history, and the greater slice of his or her life is focusing on things like music and the arts due to improved nutrition and living standards.
That child in the classroom is unlikely to ever take up arms in the defense of a nation; never have to climb into a trench or out of one; never have to storm a beach under machine gun fire.
Surely it's time to give these children a diet of positivity and hope, rather than alarmism and despair.
-- Alan Jones, seconded by Gerald Logan MacLennon
Swedish teen, Greta Thunberg, and those who “condone her alarmist nonsense” are tragically destroying young people, according to Australian Commentator Alan Jones.
“We have learned that vulnerable students have fallen through the cracks over coronavirus,” he said.
“We have been told that schools don't have a proper review process to prevent - a frightening term - suicide clusters.
“Young people are constantly comparing themselves to others on social media and suffering mental health problems as a result.”
Mr Jones said there are “two blunt answers” as to how this crisis has “accelerated to this point”.
“The first is an appalling absence of political leadership,” he said.
“But young people are being confronted by uninformed, disinformed, illiterate and often innumerate protest leaders urging young people to march for causes they don’t understand based on arguments that can’t be proven and trading on fear which is destructive.
“Why have leaders in the western world given international exposure to the uninformed and dis-informed utterances of Greta Thunberg?”
Greta Thunberg’s “dishonest, alarmist rubbish” is now seeing its manifestation in massive emotional and psychological instability in young people, according to Mr Jones.
“It is a farce; a sickening farce,” says Alan Jones.
-------------------------------------------------------
The following "Wake Up Call" comes from an anonymous source on Facebook:
To all the school kids going on “strike” for Climate Change.
You are the first generation who has required air-conditioning in every classroom.
You want TV in every room and your classes are all computerized.
You spend all day and night on electronic devices.
More than ever, you don’t walk or ride bikes to school but arrive in caravans of private cars that choke suburban roads, pollute the air and worsen rush hour traffic.
You are the biggest consumers of manufactured goods ever and update perfectly good expensive luxury items to stay trendy.
Your entertainment comes from electric devices.
Furthermore, the people driving your protests are the same people who insist on artificially inflating the population growth through immigration, which increases the need for energy, manufacturing and transport.
The more people we have, the more forest and bush land we clear and more of the environment is destroyed.
How about this…
Tell your teachers to switch off the air-conditioning.
Walk or ride to school.
Switch off your devices and read a book.
Make a sandwich instead of buying manufactured fast food.
No, none of this will happen because you are selfish, badly educated, virtue signalling little turds, inspired by the adults around you who crave a feeling of having a “noble cause” while they indulge themselves in Western luxury and unprecedented quality of life.”
Wake up, grow up and shut up until you are sure of the facts before protesting.
----------------------------------------------------------
Again... Australian Commentator Alan Jones:
Consider this: there are alarming incidents -- and they are increasing -- of suicide and attempted suicide among today's teenagers. Even more are considering it. Many experts are saying this is the tip of the iceberg and these incidents won't go away.
There are so many other factors at work here: social media that can say anything it wants about any other person. Kids live off of this stuff and, as a result, are made to feel unworthy.
The teenage Greta Thunbergs of the world are telling their peers, "There is no hope. People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We're at the beginning of a mass extinction." So she whines on and on.
------------------------------------------------
THE CHILD BORN TODAY WILL HAVE MORE OPPORTUNITIES AND A SAFER FUTURE THAN ANY OTHER CHILD AT ANY TIME IN HUMAN HISTORY
------------------------------------------------
It is disgraceful that these assertions go unchallenged by adults who call themselves 'leaders'. Young people are privately terrified and wonder where they belong.
The system is broken and badly broken. And only by admitting that, can we seek solution. Stop preaching alarmism and look at the facts rather than the propaganda they are fed.
That learned, the child born today will have more opportunities and a safer future than any other child at any time in human history.
That child in the classroom will be blessed with a longer life expectancy than of any time in human history.
That child is entering a world where poverty, health and freedom are at an infinitely better level than other time in human history.
That child will find the availability of food better than at any time in human history.
We'll be safer from extreme weather. Last year, deaths from extreme weather were the lowest ever recorded.
That child will enjoy more leisure time than any other child in human history, and the greater slice of his or her life is focusing on things like music and the arts due to improved nutrition and living standards.
That child in the classroom is unlikely to ever take up arms in the defense of a nation; never have to climb into a trench or out of one; never have to storm a beach under machine gun fire.
Surely it's time to give these children a diet of positivity and hope, rather than alarmism and despair.
-- Alan Jones, seconded by Gerald Logan MacLennon
