The End is Near

[Onkel Neal]

Ok, I am not posting this to elicit general religion bashing, that's pretty boring. I did find the article intersting, how people can adopt a belief about the end of the world and cling to it so fiercely. That's pretty amazing.

I really wish/hope the journalists follow up this article when the day after the end comes, and I hope I can find it. I wonder what these people will think and feel....?

Road trip to the end of the world

If you thought you had less than three perfectly healthy months to live, what would you do? Would you travel? Spend time with loved ones? Appreciate the joy life has given you? Or would you ditch your kids and grandkids, join strangers in a caravan of RVs and travel the country warning people about the end of the world?

[Growler]

I always kind of thought about it this way:

The end of the world is kinda like death. If it does happen, chances are, you won't care. If it doesn't happen, most people won't change how they are on every other day. Look at the doom n' gloom around Y2K - when nothing happened, nothing else happened, either. We just changed calendar pages and went back to our lives.

That said - I'd rather spend real time with the people I love everyday than try to cram a lifetime's worth of living in the last few hours left. I still grieve my mom these three and a half months on, for all those times I didn't do that.

[Takeda Shingen]

May 21st, huh? Damn, only two weeks into summer break. And I was looking forward to growing some tomatoes.

[nikimcbee]

Well, as long as we're not talking about subsim....


I got to see some of this my freshmen year in college. When Iraq invaded in 91, I knew some people that were convinced this was it, the great war with babylon. They were hysterical at times.

[nikimcbee]

Why couldn't the world end before april 15th, it would save me some money.

[Armistead]

Seems he said it would end in the 90's, but admitted he goofed on dates. I suspect that's what he'll say again and his troops will be marching on.

Having spent years in church when in my 20's and a few years of bible college, although more agnostic now, the prophecy of the end times is fairly amazing. By luck or will, it doe's amaze me how close the bible sets up the end times, the world economy, names the players, etc...

[TLAM Strike]

Their Proof
http://www.familyradio.com/graphical...oof/proof.html

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by Armistead

By luck or will, it doe's amaze me how close the bible sets up the end times, the world economy, names the players, etc...

Maybe because nothing has changed. The bible doomsday is like a game of fill in the blanks.

In times of economic strife a leader will rise up that everyone loves and cause a massive war...

...right... how many times has this happened? Napoleon? Hitler? Lenin? Anytime life sucks people tend to listen to the crazies saying they have the sure fire way to fix the world.

In the time of great climatic disruption...

...right... the weather changes sharply some times. El Nino explains some of it, the dynamic nature of the Earth's environment explains a lot too. FCOL we had a partial ice age a few centuries ago. In fact the Earth should be a hotter planet than it is right now.

Seriously people...

[nikimcbee]

There is one church (I won't name names) that has projected the end multiple times and... had to adjust the date. I guess they were all in the meeting hall waiting for it to happen one time...

oops.

[krashkart]

I don't worry much about end-of-world prophecies. It was supposed to end in 1977, one year after I was born. But nothing happened; no comets or asteroids or whatever it was that was supposed to wipe us all out. Which is good. It gave us the chance to watch Airwolf when it debuted on TV a few years later.

[breadcatcher101]

It depends what you mean when you say "the end of the world". Do you mean the end as we know it or do you mean the total destruction of the planet. To me that would be the true meaning of the end. Should it happen due to a very large impact that reduces the planet to dust or being ripped apart by the slowly expanding sun, that would be the true "end of the world".

A large impact would trigger massive quakes, how much would depend on how large the object is. It has happened before many times, we are already on our 3rd or 5th atmosphere due to massive impacts. There is not too much you can do about such things as that.

With our ever growing population, a shortage of food, the breakdown of the "system" as we know it, to me this is more realistic as to our lifetimes. Even so, nature has a way, sometimes cruel, about sorting everything out. So the "world" would still go on even if we are no longer calling the shots.

I try not to worry about such things that are out of my control but try to strive to live as best I can.

[Bubblehead Nuke]

I enjoy the end of the world crowd.

In NW Florida, they used to have bumper stickers that said: "Come the Rapture, this car will be unoccupied"

I used to troll them by having a bumper sticker that said: "Come the Rapture, can I have your stuff?".

[joea]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

Why couldn't the world end before april 15th, it would save me some money.

Cheapskate. Trying to get out of my birthday gift and the huge party you promised to organise.

Fair play to the Rapture man.
He may not know the day or the hour but he has made a cool $120 million by preaching to mugs and telling them that he does.

[nikimcbee]

Does this mean Neal will be serving kool-aid at the next subsim meet?