Initial Thoughts

Epicenter is intense. My first feeling is how fragile everything really is. The fact that a great majority of the world isn't in the middle of war is incredible. And before anyone comes on and says that everyone is involved in war, I don't see countries like China r India fighting a war right now. Even the US is fighting on the road, the vast majority of Americans aren't directly effected by the war. That is thanks to people like Smurf who are willing to go fight for our country while a knucklehead like me reads books and watches House.

Rosenburg has been surprisingly accurate. You can't dispute that. Obviously there will be much said about how he has come to all the conclusions he has. I'm eight chapters in and he talks about looking through the world in three lenses. The first lens, political. The second, economical. And the third, Scriptural. I personally believe the Bible is an inspired book and that prophecies contained in it will eventually come to pass. I haven't studied the prophecies concerning the end of the world enough to be an expert like Rosenburg seems to be. I usually try to follow the teachings on what you should become as a person, rather than what chain of events will happen. I do think that a lot of the leaders of the world use religion as a basis of the choices they make, so understanding their religions seems vitally important to interpreting what decisions they will make.

Iran scares the crap out of me. The more I read about Russia, the more I'm worried, but something makes me think they have some reservation. The book paints the picture that they are helping Iran develop nuclear technology, but with the understanding that Iran won't develop the bomb. I sort of see them agreeing to that until they are self-sufficient enough to kick Russia out of the picture and then do whatever they want with the infrastructure Russia was nice enough to build for them. Iran doesn't seem to have any reservation about going any distance. I could see them launching a nuke over here just because they felt like it. And Ahmadinejad sounds like he is ready to personally usher in the end of the world. I agree with the book that his threats to Israel are just a way to get us involved.

This seems like an important book. I'm glad we're reading it. It's good to know what the other guy is thinking.