Without going into a great deal of detail, (as it would "muddy the waters" and confuse the issue) history is cyclicial. Everyone has gone to the movies and, within the first few minutes, realized "Oh God, not this again!' After a few times it would seem that there are in fact, only a handfull of plots possible and the thousands of movies made are just new varients on the same story. Its true. There are only a limited number of stories and each one gets told and re-told. In the case of history this process continues until the final telling at which point, history is fulfilled and the story ends. The problem is that we know this and we are trying to avoid the end because, well...its the end. So at each iteration we manage to avoid the culmination of the process that is inherent in the story just enought to require the whole process to re-initialize and start again. "Do it again Daddy! Do it again!" We are trying to avoid the end of our childhood as a species, we don't want to "grow up", we don't want the summer to end, and "we ain't gonna...so there!". Think again. We are, whether we like it or not. No, we don't know what awaits beyond that foggy veil and we are only posponing the inevitable and making things more difficult in the process. That having been said...

We are about to "Do it again". Biblicial prophesy is a function of our ability to exist in a unified, trans-temporal group mind state. Within that focus we are able to speak to the future and the past, as a group. Or, the past can speak to us. Try to imagine that St. John, in reality, had an alien radio that allowed him to speak to a news caster in the future, (say, Dan Rather) He might have had a great deal of dificulty understanding what was being said, assume further that this alien radio has a universal translator attached and, voila!, Nothing. You see, St. John would have had a hard time understanding anything that he was told or shown. The problems of global trade barriers would have invoked images of gigantic walls and fortresses to protect the "city" of U-Sah from hordes of A-shen "radios"(talking boxes? Little people inside?) The images that he transcribed are in a language that he shared with Nostradamus. A language that both shared with the universe itself..."Yes, thats right! ITS...not mathamatics, no, not music either...." . You see, the language of the universe is beyond all of that. For us, a word is a way of exchanging a thought about a thing. For the universe, a word is a thing, and it doesn't like being refered to as "a thing", as that is rather demeaning. (Although "thing" gets a kick out of it). A galaxy IS a word (as we, with our greatly limited perception and understanding) comprehend it. Language, thought, idea, concept, information, knowledge is what the universe is made of. quarks are thoughts. St. John, in the visions of the book of revelations was "seeing" and "hearing" in the simple form of the universal language that was (and is) available to humanity. So was Nostradamus. Being born and growing up is a phase, just one of many. Some even think that death is just the process that leads to the next phase. Who knows? Perhaps there is no end. I do know this, the history of the human race is the record of the process of conception, birth, and maturation of a being. and here at the apex of that process (again..."oh God, not this AGAIN!") We are still no closer to crossing the line into adulthood. Our survival is NOT assujred. We are NOT the "only game in town". To put that in terms that would seem more familier, God made the universe. We are the natural and proper result of that process. We are not the "choosen" of God nor are we the only "child" that God created. If we don't make it, sadness and tragedy aside, another will. In short, your not the center of the universe. stop acting like it.