The Third Trumpet: Wormwood

"The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water— the name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter." (Revelation 8:10,11 - New International Version)

Verses ten and eleven describe a great star named Wormwood. This star could be a star, a meteor or a comet. The one which best fits the description would be a comet. There is no record of a comet of significant size hitting the earth, so we have no historical event upon which to understand what might occur.

In his book, Tibulation Triad (Bogard Press, 1983, page 67), Tom McElmurry writes about what might happen if a comet hits the earth:

The main parts of a comet are the tail, the nucleus, and the coma. The nucleus is made up of dust, frozen hydrogen, helium, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and cyanogen. . . . Cyanogen [is] a poisonous gas that liquefies at minus 21 degrees centigrade. Cyanogen may be thought of as the parent substance of cyanides of all types. . . . Our most recent spectrographical observations of a comet, the comet Kohoutek, at radio wavelengths revealed the presence of methyl cyanide and hydrogen cyanide. “Wormwood” means “undrinkable” - and I believe that the chemical composition of a comet is capable of generating sufficient poison into the earth's water supply to kill the “many men” of Revelation 8:11.

Forgiveness enhances our ability to see things better and in a more holistic manner.

If we do not forgive someone then we choose to play in the wrong hands. We behave exactly how the other person wanted us to... thereby failing to be what we are.

In life there are moments of joy and sorrow...that are commanded by the thoughts that take our attention under the microscope of mind.

Human mind which is a dynamic field of imagination, conditionings and logic strives to assess, assimilate and acquire thoughts that surround our physical and emotional being. These thoughts manifest as anger, prejudice or hatred.

Thoughts are largely driven by our ego and super ego. The science of Sahaja Yoga explains these elements as the two streams of energy channels which are juxtaposed within the human body – the left sympathetic nervous system and the right sympathetic nervous system.

When we engage our mind into thoughts about the future and our lives start revolving around the future plans the right sympathetic nervous system gets over heated which causes an imbalanced personality.

We may get unnecessary headaches and other health problems which we may identify being caused due to stress in our lives.

However, if we try walking on the beach and if we put our feet into the sea water we may find a lot of stress being eliminated from our minds. This happens because sea has the great power to take away our toxins into its great depths and therefore cool the human subtle system (right sympathetic nervous system). These great depths are symbolic of the depths that we have within ourselves and that we need to seek.

When we seek the depths within, we are able to rise above the illusions of life and we understand how forgiveness makes our journey of self-realisation easier and more meaningful. Once we learn to forgive people, we grow within ourselves and become vibrant and joyous because it is the only way to unburden our lives and jump into the ocean of joy.

I’m pissed Sania. Pissed.

For years I have tolerated your pathetic second round exits on court and not said anything in the spirit of feminism. For years I have not commented on the size of your ever increasing love handles brought on by copious amounts of biryani. For years I have heard you make an ass of yourself at press conferences and make incoherent excuses in a fake accent.

For years I have told myself that my friends in Hyderabad were wrong in saying that you stank and people didn’t like sitting next to you in high school. I even supported you when the mullahs were against your dressing sense (largely because your shaking thunder thighs reminded me of the good ol days of Silk Smitha’s erotic movies).

But today, along with 500 million other horny teenagers whose access to good looking Muslim women ended with Jemima Khan’s posters, I say enough!

Today, I stop cheering for you at your matches. Today, I stop calling your rack as the best on the WTA circuit. Today, I stop googling “Sania Mirza sexy hot pics”.

Today, I am switching to badminton and becoming a fan of Saina Nehwal. Look her up; she can be totally hot if she wants to be.

Of all the people you had to leave poor ol Mohammad Sohrab Mirza and his snazzy engagement Armani suit for – you had to go with Shoaib Malik?

What is it about losers that they always end up with others of their kind? Has Fatima Bhutto ever wanted to get married to Lakshmipathy Balaji? Has Shireen Mazari ever expressed love for Shiv Shankar Menon?


Sania Mirza’s decision to marry outside India is expected to reinstate Mandira Bedi as the most favorite sportswoman of India
Did you watch Veer Zaraa one too many times? Does your family not have a copy of Lakshya at home? Is this some lameass attempt at making the “Aman Ki Asha” campaign a success? Do you realize it will in fact do more damage as every Indian would get even more pissed off? Do you realize how this will only continue to reinforce the stereotype of marrying within the community?

Do you know you are already being called Pakistan ki Bahu even though Shoaib Malik was never even treated like their own son?

Do you realize how many visas our embassy will have to issue for his entire extended family to come down here for the ceremony? Do you realize why Shoaib Akhtar got a bout of genital warts?

Do you realize Asif Ali Zardari might end up at your wedding and make cheesy-ass remarks while grinning from ear to ear?

Do you realize the LeT will do a 22 gun salute in Muridke? Do you realize, your wedding might just have ONE DISH as per law in Pakistan? All that feminist bullshit and you will move because of your man to Dubai?

Dubai?! Who the fuck goes to Dubai anymore? Even Mohammad Asif said fuck this – I’m injecting at home. As if every tom dick and harry in this country singing Atif Aslam songs wasn’t bad enough. Not even the good ones.

Years of BCCI’s plans, foreign policy diktats and millions of young people’s aspirations have been broken thanks to your horny little uber-bitch move. I’m giving you one and a half years before you get pregnant and leave the sport. Anything more and I will start wearing a Barcelona jersey and keep tweeting about the UEFA Champions League as if my being a supporter will make anyone give a shit.

And take that damn nose ring off – it makes you look like a total slut.

(written by Khamba after six bottles of beer and posted without a stamp; the postal department delivered it to Faking News office instead)

With this constant news of crashes, altitude drops, near misses at airports & on runways one just has to sit & wonder why do these events happen one after the other so quickly & then suddenly drop off the radar like the planes themselves. These national air carriers are running in losses so why isnt the government privatising them unless there is something more to its balance sheets then meets the eyes. Or are the government employees & politicans so have with the free flyer program that they dont give a shit for the safety of other middle class people using these aircrafts. We used to use the manglore airport whilst studying in manipal & often when fetching my sis from the airport (i was budgeted to use the bus only) i used to wonder how the hell is the plane going to land on this table top runway & what if it misses - straight down. Thats what exactly what happened. Wonder what we common people see so obviously is so blinded to the experts of civil aviation. For the next event where the pilot went to the loo, wtf was the co pilot doing. He couldnt have missed what was happening inside the cockpit unless he was used to assisting the pilot in all his works including this one. Why in the world wasnt he opening the door to the cockpit. He couldnt have been with another airhostess as most of them are probably the age of hos grand mother. He could have been busy watching the latest bips video on youtube which my bil must have emailed to him too though it originated from bahrain. Today heard of a near miss at the runway when a flight was cleared for landing while there was another flight already under repair on the runway. Are these traffic controllers blind or what or they hell bent on appearing on these news channels for the wrong reasons. Most of the latest mishaps happening to flights from dubai. Is the duty free liquor a reason for this. I really wish the authorities put their foot down & screw these unions for calling flash strikes at the drop of a dick, tom or harry. They are so used to getting phokat ka salary & free flights that they dont care about the lives of millions of people who still feel pride in flying indian carriers & also cos they are definetly affordable. Please stop this or your tagline that Air India express is your permanent palace in the sky will so come true.