Learn from the Past, Hope for the Future, Live in the Present

Learn from the Past, Hope for the Future, Live in the Present
~Ken Lancaster

Well, this morning,
I attended the Sunday Mass...
I really appreciated the Homily of Fr. Mariano...
He's really good...
And for this time, the homily answered the question blowing in my mind recently...
Thank God!

Well, the Gospel talks about the end of time and the second coming of the Lord...
In the homily, Fr. Mariano told us that we should live our present in hope for the future...
He also told that living in the present means preparing for the future and second coming of the Lord...
In his homily, he emphasized that the Lord will come to Earth for three times...
The first coming happened in the past (as we know)...
The second coming will happen in the future (in the end of times)...
And the most important, the third coming happens today, in our present....

He also told a story about the Indian tribe..
It is all about the chief who wants to know who will be the best successor among his three sons...
He summon his three sons to climb the mountain and look for a thing that they think would be the most important for their tribe...
All of the three sons climbed the mountain and returned home...
The first son brought home a very precious flower...
Everyone in the tribe knows that the precious flower is only found on the top of the mountain and all of them were amazed and thought that the first son may be the good successor of their chieftain...
The second son brought home precious stones of different color...
Everyone were amazed also and they knew that those stones are very rare...
The third son returned home with nothing...
His father asked him why...
He told his father that he can't bring anything home for what he found on the other side of the mountains is a fertile land with spring of water and he thinks that the tribe should go on the other side and live their...
The father was amazed of his third son and he believes that this son of him would be the best successor because he looks after the future of his tribe...

Fr. Mariano also mentioned about the movie "2012"
He noted that a chieftain of a Mayan tribe in one interview told that none of the books from their tribe foretold about the end of the world...
He also noted that throughout the history, from past to the present time, many "prophets" foretold about the end of times (and yet, they were wrong)...
But he noted that in the Gospel it was written that
"But of that day or hour, no one knows,
neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father."
No one can foretell when the end of times will happen...
If we believe of this predictions, it could affect our present lives...
It can affect how we should act....
If can affect our personality...
And hence, we couldn't live our life to the fullest and in hope for the future...

By the way, I want to post some videos from the youtube...
My brother has been watching these videos for so many times...
I know that he feels a little bit afraid about the end of the world...

Ok here's the videos:

Part 1


Part 2


Part 3


Part 4


Part 5


Part 6

The Long Wait is Over

At last, my long wait is over...
2012 is now out in movie theatres...
But I found it too expensive to watch the movie in a movie house...
per head would cost 140 pesos...
everyone here in our house wants to watch the movie...
so instead, we waited for about 3 hours of downloading the movie from stagevu...
well, there are many sites streaming the movie, but you need to look for the right one...
there's another movie named 2012...
my classmate's friend bought a pirated dvd of 2012...
they told me that the movie sucks...
i told them that it's not the 2012 directed by ronald emmerich...
i know that movie that sucks...
based on the comments of people...
it really sucks and it's really boring...
by the way, here's the site that provides links to streaming sites of different movies...
www.watch-movies-online.tv
(note: if typing the address don't direct you to that site, just search through google and look for "watch movies links net"...
the site always changes its url)
i recommend it since i had been visiting this site for more than a year...

a week after this coming week...
i would watch the movie "the road"
well, it's a post-apocalyptic story...

that's all for now...

2012 and the end of the world...

well, i just heard early this morning in a radio program that NASA has put in its website an article about the 2012 end of the world...

it really strucked me...

so, right away, i looked for that page in the web...

i found this article ---> 2012: Beginning of the End or Why the World Won't End?

ok... they put some questions and answers in that page...

also, they put some links below the page...

i saw there an article in a magazine...

here's the link ---> The Great 2012 Doomsday Scare

i get their point...

and i know that their answers are all based on their knowledge on science...

they're scientists...

but on the other side....

no one knows when will it happen...

human mind cannot encompass the knowledge of when will be the apocalypse...

it is beyond our thinking...

only God knows...

so..

it might happen on 2012 or not...

we all don't know...

we can't know those things...

we all don't know how and when will be the Judgement Day...

like others told me...

always live your life to the fullest...

live life with no regrets...

and most importantly,

wholeheartedly accept God as your Savior...

ok...
i posted the comments here for convenience...

azikunah said...

by the way, i want to take note a paragraph in the magazine article "The Great 2012 Doomsday Scare"

here:

"What did the Maya themselves think about End Times? There is no evidence that they saw the calendar and a world age ending in either transcendence or catastrophe on December 21, 2012. Some Maya Long Count texts refer to dates many baktuns past 13 and even into the next pictun and beyond. For instance, an inscription commissioned in the 7th century A.D. by King Pacal of Palenque predicts that an anniversary of his accession would be commemorated on Oct. 15, 4772."

November 11, 2009 9:34 PM

azikunah said...

another link would be

Nibiru and Doomsday 2012 Questions and Answers

November 11, 2009 9:49 PM

close call

Well, everybody has a close call...
Just thinking of it right now...

These words are blowing my mind away....
Thinking of it since i watched the movie ' Meteor: Path to Destruction Parts 1 & 2'

Huh...
By the way, the movie '2012' will be showing in theaters soon...
I've been waiting for it since its 2008...
Can't wait to watch that movie...
It's also about close call

And, by the way...
There's one more movie I've been waiting...
'The Road'
The story is all about post-apocalyptic experience of a father and son...

woo...
Can't wait to see those movies...

It's been running in my mind since then that I have learned about 2012 Mayan predictions...
Since then, I noticed that I have been watching more and more apocalyptic movies...
it's triggering all my senses...

By the way, tomorrow's the first day of classes and yet i can't sleep..
WTH...

Masyado na kong nai-involve sa mga mysteries about 2012...

Well..
Hope tomorrow's a very good and happy day...

knowing

kakanood ko lang kanina...
ganda ng visual effects...
and..
nakakasakit ng damdamin ung ending..
pero ganon talaga eh!

in fairness kay nicholas cage...
puro SciFi ata ginagawang movies...
meron palang true to life

pero ganda movies ni nicholas cage...
daming matututunan...
dami ring mapagmumuni-munihan...

nga pala...
parang napapadalas na yata yung mga gantong movies...
puro end of the world and aliens...
parang 'the day the earth stood still' lang...

in fairness to me...
ang hilig ko manood ng mga gantong movies...

merong pa nga lalabas sa nov 13..
2012 yung pamagat...


kakatakot lang isipin...
peo wala naman nakakaalam kung kelan nga mangyayari yung end...

CURIOUS? try searching the mayan predictions about December 21, 2012...
or read this --> end-of-the-world movies

hehe!
ilang gabi rin akong pinaisip nito...
pero di kalaunan ...
wala naman talaga tayong magagawa eh...
tska...
bakit ba maniniwala sa mga ganyang predictions?
walang nakakaalam ng kalooban ng Diyos...
and anyways...
pag time mo na, TIME MO NA...
di mo mapipigilan yun...
sabi nga ng pari dito samen...
we should not think about the end of the world coz yung tunay na tinutukoy ng mga salita sa Revelation sa Bible is our own end ...
actually, it's not the end..
it's just the beginning...
beginning of a new life...

ewan ko ba!

hay...

>>>>> PAHABOL <<<<<

TO ALL MOVIE ADDICTS WHO HAVE INTERNET CONNECTION:
try nio tong site na to --> watch-movies-links.net
pwedeng manood ng movie dyan kahit pinapalabas pa lang sa sine...
kelangan lang stable ang connection sa Internet para mabilis magbuffer...

enjoy!!

end-of-the-world movies...

haha!
here's a good movie by keanu reeves...
it's kinda patterned to the mayan calendar which is about to end on december 2012
actually, the exact date is on december 21, 2012
in the movie.. it's on the 12th day...

i research about this "end-of-the-world-thing"
i've found out that there is also one movie made like this one...
the showing of the movie is on the month of july next year...
the title of the movie is 2012...
it's very clear!
it's all about the year 2012...
to be exact...
the doomsday on year 2012
which is on the 21st day of december...

the first time i saw these movies...
i researched all over the Net and spared by precious five hours reading lots of articles about 12.21.12
most of what i have read claimed this day as the doomsday...
huh...
if you're the one who'll read those articles...
i'm sure that you'll be somewhat amazed and weary...
talking about the doomsday is very serious and sensitive...
in these articles... many people claim that on that year the earth would be at the center of the milky way galaxy...
being at the center would cause the polar shifts...
somewhat like that...
polar shift would (as they say) cause many catastrophes such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, solar flares...
and great deluge would happen (just like that of Noah's time)
others would claim that it is as if the time would stop...
others tell that extraterrestrials would kinda visit the earth....

visiting and reading such sites lead me to some other sites that tell that extraterrestrials made the human beings and they are kinda disappointed with us because we don't care about nature... we're so attached with our human bodies....
huh...
very very ...
i can't explain...
i'm having mixed feelings and emotions...
i couldn't explain it by words...
some claiming that the antichrist would come....

few only claim that it doesn't really mean that the world would end...
just like when the year ends on the month of december...
it would just go back again to january...
it's a cycle!

actually the mayan calendar would end by 13.0.0.0.0
somewhat like that...
and this mayan date is on the 21st of december 2012
the mayan calendar or anyone or anything of their civilization don't tell more about that date...
it's up to us how would we interpret that date...

like what i'm just saying...
that others don't claim this as the end...
they interpret the date as the time it would start for a paradigm shift...
paradigm shift is like a shift of knowledge...
for example...
the people first believed that the world is flat and the sun, moon and the stars revolve around the earth...
the people changed what they believed when it was proven that the world is a sphere and it is the earth that revolves around the sun...
that's paradigm shift...
that would even cause a major technological boom...
somewhat like that...

i hope the negative interpretations would not really happen...
i'm kinda afraid...
i would be graduating on 2011...
then i would have only one year to live (if it would happen)...
how could i fulfill my dreams with only one year to live?

by the way, the movie "the day the earth stood still" is just a remake of the 1951 film with the same title...
they just change some parts of the story or the story line...
in the 1951 movie, the alien (i don't really remember his name) was about to end human life on earth because humans are very hostile... they always wage war against one another...
in the remake, keanu reeves (the alien in the movie) would end human life on earth so that earth would live... humans are so arrogant that WE cause global warming...
there are some parts or some plots of the story that were changed in the remake... if you want to know... just search in wikipedia...

here is a trailer of the movie "The Day the Earth Stood Still"



here is the trailer of the movie "2012"