The end of the world·Preface to 2012·The ticket to the end of “2012” Yin Qian

When I was writing this book, I thought about a problem, that is, it is meaningless to discuss Darwin's "Evolution Theory" and Buffon's "Degeneration Theory", just like when I was thinking about human beings, I felt like I was being fooled when it came to the question of whether a monkey transformed into a human being, or a monkey transformed into a human being. No matter how many species they have studied and provided quite strong evidence, when it comes to humans, all their conclusions are the product of imagination. On the contrary, when people generally paid attention to and discussed the topic of the "2012 doomsday" prophecy, I realized that this is a problem about people, and only when people face death will they think of God. However, at this time, I thought of people, because if the earth is really destroyed on December 22, 2012, then this destruction is also the result of human beings' own fault.

When disasters become unusually frequent, we may discover the powerlessness and weakness of science and technology. But we cannot control the development of events. Politicians as well as technicians and scientists cannot prescribe the development model of the new society. They cannot even know what will happen tomorrow in their respective fields. When rivers, lakes, seas, and even the environment we live in are polluted to this extent, we obviously realize that we are to blame and become the victims of our own achievements. To this day, the shadow of the “2012 doomsday” still haunts everyone.

Although people have made a lot of efforts for environmental sanitation and tried to use various means to deal with the large amounts of garbage and harmful smoke they have produced, the speed of eliminating these environmentally harmful things is far behind the speed of producing them. speed. A large amount of toxic flying matter floats in the atmosphere, causing rivers, lakes, seas and soil to erode. It is plastic waste that does not deform and sewage discharged from factories. Some people are working hard, some are avoiding, and most people are even indifferent. People only care about the present peace and happiness and are no longer willing to think about the future. They believe that without the development of social civilization, there will be no imaginary paradise on earth. But who has thought about the issue between human dignity and social civilization? Have you ever cared about the serious consequences of this unorganized development? Many countries adhere to the belief that development is the last word and production is the basis for survival and development, to the point of desperate measures: they would rather lose the sheep than make up for it. The opposite of permanence is temporality, and we are always moving towards a break with isolation. A large amount of waste and no durability have become another feature of the contemporary era, which is also the trend of labor migration to technologically advanced countries and developed countries.

When I turned on the faucet one morning and found that the water in the cup was milky white, I stared at the cup in the hotel bathroom in a daze for half an hour - the water in the cup looked like sediment. After the lime water. I think this is exactly the problem that some people in some countries in the world are trying their best and eager to solve, while there are still some people who stand far away, indifferent or even let it go. They probably think that the crisis in the cup has nothing to do with them personally, and the future of the world None of the consequences of their unorganized development will affect them or their descendants. The world has undergone tremendous changes in too short a period of time, and the speed of change far exceeds the direction of change. People no longer have the confidence and strength to consider these seemingly redundant issues under the pressure of reality. Some people rely on pure water to maintain their lives. They have never thought about the problem of environmental pollution. They even applaud this rapidly developing world and praise the greatness of science and technology. They praise people's amazing abilities that have fully kept pace with the needs of the environment. Speed ??up: without clean tap water, they can drink pure water, and without natural food, they can eat genetically modified food. Perhaps they have never thought that there are more people in this world relying on the natural environment for survival. What is even more frightening is that the world has passed through the cable, without any reliable trend, and there is no effective way to stabilize and slow down the current speed of change. way. The future is very scary: national borders cannot divide our biosphere, but its destruction and damage are caused by economic development; the free will of a sovereign government cannot control the movement cycles of air and water, and it stops at a country's national boundary monument. It might be people, but it's definitely not chemical pollution.

Because the Bible also says that God will "deliver the godly from temptation, but leave the unrighteous under punishment to await the day of judgment"...

The book's discussion of eternal religion Views are not antisocial, evasive, unscientific, or unreasonable. To solve the problem of "doomsday", we can only bring peace to people of good will by accepting it. This is the philosophy that saved me. Perhaps I cannot see the general spread of this belief, but it is my ideal and duty to strive towards this goal.

However, I think that only faith in the true sense can turn our current sorrow into hope - in the life of the spirit and in the labor we are involved in, we will try our best to perfect human nature. Everyone becomes a person of conscience and assumes personal obligations to the society in which he lives and serves. Only true religious beliefs can make people feel collective emotions, and for this reason, they can stand up and bravely call for the urgency of a complete change of international direction, and call on the development of all countries not to point to war, but to peace; do not It is directed towards the interests of a few people, but towards the achievements of all mankind. Only in this way will the end of the world in 2012 become farther and farther away from us, and all predictions about the end of the world in 2012 will turn into rumors.

Yin Qian

January 18, 2011 in Beijing