Humans are so megalomaniac. We always think the time we live in are very special. As if we knew what it felt like to live in any other time. But I must admit it is very very difficult to imagine how the Universe will continue to exist without me. I guess Jesus will be back just before I pass away, right? LOL.
Environmental crisis? I don't know. Maybe.
A theological end of the world is a fantasy of human megalomania, though. And a survival technique perhaps.
Pole
End of the World Near?
by love2Bworldly 32 Replies latest jw friends
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Pole
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Legolas
I never got the whole rapture thing!
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rocketman
Well, the Red Sox won it all last year, and nothing happened; therefore the "end" must be tied up with the fate of the Cubs.
On a slightly more serious note, it's hard to tell what will happen. There's been other "ends" in the past - mass extinctions, for example. Will mankind face some similar fate in the next 100 years? Darned if I know, but my biggest worry is some radical terrorist nutjob getting hold of nukes and doing a number on somebody. But even if that happens, I doubt that an "end" could be brought about by one or two nukes. In many respects the threat was greater when the US and Soviets were hostile enemies and were pointing all that stuff at eachother (which, btw, the US and Russia are still doing, just without all the "enemy" bluster).
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Elsewhere
Yes, the end of the world is near.
The only way you can survive it is by sending me your money.
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willyloman
After preaching "end times" for more than 20 years, I've settled into believing that every epoch is "the end" for that particular system of things. People resist change, and change is constant. Not being able to explain all the things we can't control, we invent some ticking clock somewhere that is counting it all down.
I suspect that in the long history of man, "the end" has come several times, and will again. More recently, in our parents' lifetime, WWII was clearly the end of some sort of system or another in that it brought vast destruction and changed the fabric of society along with national boundaries, political and military alignments and the global economy.
The spread of terrorism by suicide bombing may well trigger another holocaust that has a similar impact on the world scene.
A hundred years from now, it'll be something else.
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Daunt
I agree with willy on this. I just hope it's more of a mental change rather than a serious body count.
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Ellie
I don't believe the end of the world is near, there may be a lot of problems in the world but I don't think that its quite as bad as what is made out by the media.
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Descender
I agree with Pole. I think that people throughout all ages have thought that the world was in a critical state during their lifetime. But eath-shattering instant changes almost never happen. It's just slow change. World powers will slowly rise and fall, wars will start and slowly wane into distant memory. People will gain some freedoms and lose some freedoms. People will complain about their losses while praising their gains. Gas prices will keep going up and cars will slowly change to all hybrids, then to electric or hydrogen, then we'll all be flying or teleporting.
People will keep on being born, growing old and dying wondering why some earth-shattering event didn't transpire in their lifetime when in actuality amazing changes did occur, but they just occurred slow enough that it didn't register as much of a change. This will keep on going on until an actual earth-shattering event does happen, such as a meteor colliding with earth or the sun burning out.
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theundecided2004
I really don't want to think that this world is ending anytime soon, but if it does I feel it will have more to do with man-made hazards and irresponsibility than supernatural causes. Terrorists, so-called rogue and developed nations with WMDs, crooked politicians and businessmen that stop at nothing to exploit our environment, and religious fundamentalists that kill people because of their self-righteousness. Those will be causes of the end of earth as we know it, if it happens, which to me is very likely in 100 years if society doesn't get its act together.
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kazar
Elsewhere, I don't have any money to send you to hold off the world's end, but that sure was a funny post. Funny enough to give money if I had some.
I think Oral Roberts said something like that years ago. Or maybe it was that he would die if people didn't send money. I really don't remember exactly, but it was outrageous.