Cuba’s Santeria priests predict upheaval, but no end of the world, in 2012

[Dover]

HAVANA — A body of top Afro-Cuban priests is predicting a year of change and upheaval in 2012, but the group says fears the world will end are wrong.

In their annual New Year’s forecast, the priests warned the world could see more earthquakes and increased global warming, and they cautioned that people should also be vigilant against matrimonial discord.

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But Cuba’s priests say that “what needs to die is not the world itself, but rather the ways in which the world has lived until now: confrontations, wars, misery and discrimination,” said Lazaro Cuesta, one of the island’s leading Santeria priests, or babalawo. “For us, an old world must end so that a new world is born .... It is not a physical end.”

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/americas/cubas-santeria-priests-predict-upheaval-but-no-end-of-the-world-in-2012/2012/01/02/gIQAAu4KWP_story.html

[SpiralHawk]

1. "Matrimonial discord? You rang?" - Teh Newtie (R - Family Values)

"Another one of my specialities. Smirk." - Teh Newtie (R -Sanctimonious Man-Strumpet)

[whathehell]

2. Oh good....I feel so much better now, LOL. n/t