Well, this is mainly a Christian question (even though anyone can reply to it, as long as you don't insult the fact that I am a Christian, or demand "proof" of my religion, etc.), so if you are not a Christian, PLEASE do not degrade my thread or my beliefs, do that somewhere else, restrain yourself if you can OK?
K..Now then,
I find myself thinking about where we are right now in this world, and how our generation is, how we were brought up. Myself, I was born in 1966, so mostly remember growing up in the 70's and 80's. Things were pretty peaceful in my life back then. We just lived, and danced, and songs were a lot about fun and happiness, etc. We all got into "peace" in the 70's and caring for one another. Then things seemed to have changed a bit, and we all grew up, and our previous way of life was laughed at as silly. Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't, depends I suppose. Anyway, here we all are now in the present. "Adults" now, LOL (I say "LOL" cause I still can't consider myself an adult, I got stuck somewhere in my 20's). We have all grown up and read all sorts of doomsday scenarios that may befall us in the future, again, including in the bible. Now it seems that things have moved up a notch, with these terrorist attacks of such a huge proportion. Makes one wonder what is next, and are WE the ones who are to live through the "final times." Of course, there have been many instances over hundreds of years wherein people thought "it was time" and were wrong. Could be the same thing as now. But still the thought runs through your mind nevertheless, as you start to recognize the fact that now we as humans are more advanced than ever before, and capable of all sorts of destruction, just sitting there waiting for a reason. So the question remains, is it time? I feel a domino effect has begun, and our generation may be the ones to live or die through it. I always wished that I would be long gone when true shit hit the fan, but dunno now. I am not paranoid, please do not misconstrue me, I am just tumbling thoughts around in my head. And I have always over the years hoped that I could live a life and die without seeing war in an "advanced" way, meaning bio or nuclear weapons, which I always felt was inevitable and only a matter of time the way things have been progressing in the world. Now dammit I'm almost 36 and here I am, here WE are, living it, wondering what will happen next..
Basically, after so much above spam LOL, what I'm getting at is this, I feel that everyone was born not only as a certain person, but at a certain time as well. I feel that we all are supposed to go through this, for a reason. I also feel that God thinks that we can achieve whatever unknown goals are set upon us, I feel that even though we may not think or know it, we really are ready for anything, and will stand tall, and make God proud of us. We are meant to see this, we are meant to feel this, we are meant to learn from it,we are meant to overcome it, we will succeed I know it. Dunno about anyone else, but lately I have felt God much stronger than before, my faith has grown immensely recently.
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