arch/ive/ief (2000 - 2005)

For this skeptic, it started when a fellow ranch hand, Wayne Hicks, sent me a book (Blindsided! Planet X Passes in 2003! by Mark Hazlewood) and said read it -else he would bother me until I did. It took me awhile to get through the condescending attitude of author Mark Hazelwood and try to understand what message he was trying to convey. For some reason, Hazelwood spends the first 35 pages or so of his post 9-11 paperback screaming and yelling, over and over again, that a big 'Planet X cover-up' is being perpetrated by 'the controllers'. You should either listen to what he is saying, or just be a dumb little sheeple and die with the rest - "the media will cover it up and keep you blind".

Being one that doesn't need to be talked down to, I simply hit the Google search engine on our main page, typed in the words 'planet x', and lo, came up with enough reading material on the subject to last until that big rock (dark star, brown dwarf, whatever) finally gets here.

This means - PLEASE DO NOT SEND ME ANY MATERIAL ON THE MATTER.

Cover-up? Yeah, right. Only a mouse click away.

Planet X, according to author Mark Hazelwood and many, many others, is a very large planet which orbits our sun every 3600 years, swinging far out into space for the majority of that time, and then falling back towards the sun and, inevitably, coming into close proximity to our own planet Earth. And that, as they say, is where the trouble lies.

According to those who have researched and studied Planet X (known also as Nibiru, Wormwood, Varuna, and a host of other names), there are records in history and antiquity of great planet-wide calamities caused by the planet's passage , and this one will be no exception. In fact, if the planet makes its scheduled appearance in May of next year... that's right, only ten months from right now... it is highly likely that our poles will shift, plunging much of the United States into ocean waters, and killing as much as two-thirds of the world's population in a span of time as short as one day.

Cool.

Of course, there are those who debunk all this hype, but these days, it is certainly getting a lot of mileage in the alternative news circles. So what gave me the gumption to write this article?

Answer: "No man knoweth the hour or the day". I won't cite chapter and verse, but Jesus said it somewhere in there. I don't consider myself an old man yet, but I still remember the drop-dead dates of 1968, 1984, 1988, and of course, Jan 1, 2000. I could just guess how many times in the last three millennia someone has been out there preaching the end of the world as we know it (a.k.a TEOTWAWKI). That's one reason I'm not going to freak out about the whole thing. But that's just one reason.

Another is that once I got past the first 7 stages of Hazelwood's rantings, I began to read things that I had seen - and yes, thought about - before.

You see, as a child, I was a fan of things like Atlantis, The Bermuda Triangle, ancient civilizations, and yes - space exploration. Yes, I had dreams of being an astronaut like many others. Doing studies on my own made me believe long ago we were getting fed a line of bull in our classrooms.

Let's take the dinosaurs: remains were found with evidence of undigested food in their stomachs. In some cases, whole families were found together, as if they were having dinner - as in whatever happened to them, had to have happened fast - not some ice-age thing. Same goes for things like the Wooly Mammoth. These dudes were found frozen solid with tropical food in their systems. I read about this in books long ago.

I then remembered our solar system. Between Mars and Jupiter sits the Asteroid Belt, some junk yard of rocks that floats around the sun just like every other planet. I always figured that was probably a planet some time ago that was hit by - well, something - so powerful that maybe an asteroid, flinging off of the shattered world, hit earth, wiping out the dinosaur population, and other civilizations we are just now finding pieces of. Question was: what hit us, and where is it?

Well, this could answer the question. And if so, when will this 'thing' return?

No man knoweth the day or the hour.

While NASA scientists are tight lipped about the whole thing, yet resigning for their cottages in remote places, if this is true, there isn't a darn thing we could do about it, and it might explain a lot of weird things going on around the world, not to mention stupid new environmental and homeland security proposals.

Is it just me, or are we getting a little more than normal amounts of earthquakes, floods, famines, droughts, and darn weird whether? (You folks in Boise enjoy that 110 degree day?). Beached whales, squid all over the place, and if you folks in Texas think your floods are bad, talk to the folks in central China. And what ever happened to that chunk of ice that broke off Antarctica, the size of Connecticut?

You go figure it out, but no one is arguing that something is going on with our weather atterns, and I never did believe that global warming crapola.

All these things - we are told are signs of TEOTWAWKI.

So, freak out? Hardly. In fact, I'd say if it IS true, have faith in our Creator, obey the Commandments, and think about the positive:

1) It should pretty much end the War on Terrorism, drugs, and poverty.
2) We won't have to leave our posterity the legacy of the Internal Revenue Service and every other stupid alphabet soup agency of the federal government.
3) No more spam mail.
4) Worried about that mortgage? Forget about it!
5) So much for Global Governance.
6) Survivors can homestead all the federally protected land they want.
7) It should end the debate on the New Testament
8) You Islamic folks want martyrdom? Problem solved.
9) If I don't survive, I can die happy having the last laugh - in the face of Sierra Club executives
10) C'mon, admit it. The place is so sick, you figure either God was gonna clean it up soon, or He has a really good sense of humor.

My opinion: True or not, buy your survival gear soon. I have a feeling that by Thanksgiving, the prices will be through the roof for one reason or another.

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