Does the title of our blog confuse you? Well, it is my concoction. It is a symbiosis of "doom's day" and "predictions". It is a kind of "blend" to use a term from semantics. It means future prognosis that suggests a terror-causing scenario.
Well, "doomsdictions" are a regular feature of climate discussions. Tuesday, for instance, began with the Pune District Collector's edict making rounds on the wapp groups of all the educational institutions. Pune and the surrounding areas were to experience terrible thunderstorms and horrible rainfall.
All sorts of, orange to red, danger indicators, alias 'alerts', were making rounds of the social media.Well, as things turned out, there was not a single raindrop. Of course, by the evening, there was a heavy downpour of memes and mocks.
Actually, weather predictions is no laughing matter. Such are the huge 'space-ial' parameters, with complex movements of winds, hurricanes, cloud patterns and oceanic current movements that weather predictions can never be hundred per cent accurate.
To this web of uncertainties is now added a universal dimension. Yes, as if to prove Monsieur Nostradamus right, there are constant rumours of asteroids, the size of a mountain, colliding with the earth. June 27 was one such 'end of the world' date.
Yes, it was maintained that this collision would be a replica of the millennia old collision which destroyed the dinosaurs. Well, the fateful 'date' was missed. Yet the 'doomsdictions' did not die! Newer dates emerge every day, quoting Nasa, moreover! Yet again so vast are the parameters that the very possibility of predictions, enclosed within nebulous mystery, is a wonder.
Hence the extended space stay of Sunita Williams is no mocking matter. The only prayer is that it should end happily like the famous "successful failure" that finally brought back all the astronauts.
Astronomy is not astrology, the most favourite arena of the "doomsdictions"- mongers, who inhabit the newspaper columns and t.v. screens, not to mention the e-space. Saturn, Jupiter, and others, eons away from the earth, are supposed to influence our fate! Actually, most often than not, it is the kinda much too much close 'frenemies' who are up to some crazy fun which causes all such lifelong headaches!
Yet neither astronomy nor astrology, when studied in depth, would always go wrong. Beyond the horizons are such vast wondrous possibilities that exploring them is itself a fascination!
Pratima@ Paulo Coelho argues that when you wish somthing from the innermost soul, the very universe conspires to fulfil it! Why worry then over the "doomsdictions"?
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