Did You Buy Your Ticket For The Ark?

"Ticket of the Tibet Noah's Ark" by a Chinese netizen

The Communist Party may go down in the “flood”

On the first working day after the Chinese New Year holiday, Chinese usually greet each other by exclaiming“Happy New Year!” This year, it's also popular to ask,“did you buy your ticket for the ark?” Many predictions, such as a popular interpretation of the Mayan calendar, predict that this year people will face the end of civilization as we know it.

Noah's Ark is believed to have saved lives from the great flood.

In the Hollywood movie “2012”, people boarded arks built on a Tibetan plateau to save themselves from an oncoming flood. The earliest description of such an ark appears in the Book of Genesis as Noah follows God's instructions. He built a big square ship out of cedar wood to avoid the catastrophic flood. 

Some Chinese try to make arks and prepare to flee.

According to a report in the Henan newspaper “Dahe”, some people living in Luohe city are making an ark from a used oil tanker. Currently the ark is in the final welding phase. Additionally a netizen named Lao Fancollected a series of links to where to buy lifeboats. He humorously posted: “If the predictions regarding 2012 are correct, I know where I can get the right boat.”

Zhang Tianliang, a Chinese columnist, says the Chinese are waiting for a revolution, not the end of the world. "Many people feel it will be difficult for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to maintain its regime. There is a lot of democratization in the world, such as in the Middle East and North Africa. Dictators in many countries have stepped down. People believe that China will go through such a radical change. It's only an issue of time.”

Chen Yongmiao, a Beijing constitutional scholar, commented that Chinese people have an uneasy feeling about the CCP regime, which faces a crisis-ridden status. "You can sense a general political and economic uneasiness regarding whether the political system will collapse in the near future.” There are tens of thousands of protests in China, and there is hyperinflation as prices soar. These are indicators of a Doomsday scenario for the CCP.

Can the Chinese buy a ticket for survival?

Zhang Tianliang points out that in Chinese culture there is a saying, “what goes around, comes around”. The CCP is an evil regime. If 2012 is a special year, people shouldn't support the CCP nor stand with them. That will be good for everyone's sake. At the end of November 2004, “The Epoch Times" published an editorial entitled "Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party." The Epoch Times website then initiated the “Three Quit”movement. This movement is to get people to quit the Communist party and the Communist Youth League and Young Pioneers groups. So far more than 100 million Chinese have quit the CCP and its related organizations by issuing a public statement online.