just as the second coming of christ might be seen as the ascendancy of mankind's best instincts, the anti-christ might be seen as the possibility of our worst natures gaining dominance. just as the search for god is the manifestation of our desire for guidance, the search for its opposite seems little more than our need to find a scapegoat for our own shortcomings. unable to comprehend the infinite; this obsession with the apocalypse, armageddon, the rapture, ragnarok or whatever else you may call it seems nothing but our own need to define existence as something finite that we can understand.

i'm no shrink. i have no phd in psychology (or anything else for that matter); but as a long time student of human nature, as any one of us who has spent an inordinate amount of his life stoned to the gills must be, these definitions seem far more rational than the mumbo-jumbo described by the fanaticism of religion. not only is this way of thinking more rational, but more practical as well. instead of looking for the seeds of our destruction in others, we could be attempting to tame the demons within ourselves if we weren't so determined to blame outside influences for our eventual demise.

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