By: Natasha Archary
It’s rough out there, and with more bad than good, do people believe it’s the end of days?
The bible mentions a few cataclysmic signs preceding the end of time, famine, earthquakes, natural disasters such as floods, fires wars, disease, to name a few.
Somehow it seems wherever you look, there’s a sign that the “end is near” and the perception of most people is that there’s just too much death, destruction and devastation.
This, then must be a sign that we are at the end of days and the world as we know it is going to end.
Having survived a global pandemic, the July unrest, apartheid and rebuilding what was lost over the past two years however, most Kaya Drive listeners believe they can survive anything life throws their way.
Come what may, we’re ready
Sizwe Dhlomo shared some of the times things looked really bleak for the country and him thinking, there’s no way we’ll make it out alive.
Yet, the resilience of the land, it’s people and the world clock if you will decided it will not be overcome and another day dawned.
“Does anyone remember Y2K? Basically in 1999 on 31 December 1999, people predicted that the world was going to end. Because no one understood how the computers, in a digital age was going to reset to the year 2000.
Everyone was frantic thinking the computers were going to crash, that nothing, not the internet, not your phones were going to work. And what happened, come midnight there wasn’t a big bang, life just went on as normal and the computers were fine.”
Listen to the conversation on Kaya Drive:
Surviving 2012
Twelve years after Y2K, the Mayan calendar “predicted” the world would end on 21 December 2012. There were reports of an ancient Mayan prophecy which indicated that there was a mysterious planet on a collision course with Earth.
Let’s not forget about the panic that ensued after Earth and all her inhabitants were warned that a meteor the size of a plant itself was headed directly toward us.
For years, NASA’s scientists have dispelled the myths and any notions that the world is coming to and end.
But our planet has been getting along just fine for over 4 billion years and credible scientists say there is no pending danger that is going to change that anytime soon.
Whether you are a doomsdayer or your religious beliefs points you in the direction that we’re almost at the end of days, the key takeaway is to have the same outlook as the Kaya Drive listeners, who are ready for anything.
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