Can we see the end of life on Earth?

acoustic guy

Seriously. Do you believe we are close either to the end of days on earth or something like it?
Armageddon perhaps?

I curious to what people here seriously believe. Some say nothing will change. Some say its all over for the unknown soldier.

What say you?

OnTheEdge

I don't know. Ask again on or after december 23rd 2012.

he still stands

I seriously hope all this apocalypse talk starts to wind down in 2013. It is pretty bad right now and is only going to get worse through 2012. Why couldn't the mayan calendar have ending in JANUARY 2012? sheesh... we have to wait all year for it to not happen.

maj4e

no

acoustic guy

Some of the things I have read that could honestly possibly happen are sun flares or electrical storms that could really put us in the dark ages with out electricity. Thats a tuff one.
Also if a nuke was sent inspace it would kill all tv, phone, internet etc...
So many possibilities. I never worried about these things till I had children. Now it concerns me.

Cosmo

Well... apparently the only ones here are the ones that weren't Raptured on May 15th.
Welcome to Hell, everybody.

EmBleve

Things do seem to be pretty bad. But is it worse than any other time? I don't know.

Idris

acoustic guy wrote:

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So many possibilities. I never worried about these things till I had children. Now it concerns me.

man that's powerful,

Like so important my friend!! The Antithesis of human thought? direction? understanding? feeling?

"I never cared about water until the well went dry"

acoustic guy

EmBleve wrote:

Things do seem to be pretty bad. But is it worse than any other time? I don't know.

I agree its realy f-ing bad these days. Some argue that it just seems that way bc we hear more with all the technology but I dont think so. Whether you believe in religion or not, (and I am not very religious) the bible says the warning signs are heavy floods, fires, earthquakes, religious wars and huge earthly disasters all happening at once.....and its exactly what is happening now. Kinda scary.

Go Beavers

acoustic guy wrote:

EmBleve wrote:

Things do seem to be pretty bad. But is it worse than any other time? I don't know.

I agree its realy f-ing bad these days. Some argue that it just seems that way bc we hear more with all the technology but I dont think so. Whether you believe in religion or not, (and I am not very religious) the bible says the warning signs are heavy floods, fires, earthquakes, religious wars and huge earthly disasters all happening at once.....and its exactly what is happening now. Kinda scary.

All of that's been happening since recorded history. It will take more time to determine significant and lasting intensity in storms. All we know is that the Sun will consume the Earth in how ever many millions of years. Anyone who says otherwise is selling product ($$).

tybird

Not all life....as long as the planet don't explode like Krypton :evil:

The stuff that lives in and around deep sea vents don't pay much attention to what happens on the planet's surface.

Lizard

Cosmo

The way I see it...
Are these REALLY the WORST Of Times?
I don't think so... here's why:
I think it was worse times during WWII. Hitler was the anti-Christ, the advent and usage of the Atom Bomb... pretty scary shit...
and before that, 'The War to End all Wars' that introduced us to aerial warfare now dropped bombs on us from above... and use of chemical weapons... and tanks and expanded use of machine guns.
and not just war... what about the Spanish Flu that killed hundreds of thousands. I'm sure that famine brought out the Biblical Phrophecy nuts.
What about the Black Plague that hit Europe, centuries ago? Wasn't THAT a Four Horsemanlike plague that should have brought Jesus back to us?
...
So, at least to me, these days are nothing like the days of tribulation that many past generations have had to face. All i know is that we live in a hostile, natural environment where an asteroid collision is in our future... or that our planet's core engine will cool to the point where Earth becomes a lifeless rock in space.
I'm not worrying about stuff that was spoken, then written by men who believed the Sun rotated around the Earth. They didn't know any more than we do about the end except that it will happen... some day. I ain't losing sleep about it... it's life. And in life, death is an acceptable fact of life... be it you or me or my cat or the planets or our Sun... at some point, we will all die.
So, live life while you can.

he.who.forgets

Nicely put Cosmo

gimmesometruth27

well the guy that predicted the rapture had a stroke recently, so i am guessing he was predicting his own personal rapture...

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/06/13/ra ... er-stroke/

'Rapture' Pastor Harold Camping Hospitalized After Stroke


SAN FRANCISCO – The California radio preacher who predicted the world would end last month was recuperating Monday after suffering a mild stroke, his family and colleagues said.

Doctors have been monitoring the progress of 89-year-old radio host Harold Camping since he was taken by ambulance from his Alameda home on Thursday.

"He is presently recuperating in a local hospital and the doctors are pleased with his progress," Family Radio's special projects coordinator Michael Garcia said. "Mr. Camping's family appreciates your thoughts and prayers."

Camping's daughter, Susan Espinoza, said her father was recovering but had not been doing his regular live broadcasts from the threadbare headquarters of Family Radio International, near the Oakland airport.

"He's doing quite well," said Espinoza, who works at her father's network. "We haven't made a decision on what will happen with the radio broadcasts but for now they are playing recorded programs."

Camping's media empire spent millions of dollars-- some of it from donations made by followers -- publicizing the evangelist's Rapture prediction over the past seven years.

When the apocalypse failed to occur on May 21, Camping was widely mocked and he called it "a very difficult time."

He has since insisted that his prediction was overall correct. On May 24 he clarified that a "spiritual" Judgment Day had begun three days earlier, placing the entire world under Christ's judgment, and said the Earth actually would be obliterated on Oct. 21.

tybird

Cosmo wrote:

The way I see it...
Are these REALLY the WORST Of Times?
I don't think so... here's why:
I think it was worse times during WWII. Hitler was the anti-Christ, the advent and usage of the Atom Bomb... pretty scary shit...
and before that, 'The War to End all Wars' that introduced us to aerial warfare now dropped bombs on us from above... and use of chemical weapons... and tanks and expanded use of machine guns.
and not just war... what about the Spanish Flu that killed hundreds of thousands. I'm sure that famine brought out the Biblical Phrophecy nuts.
What about the Black Plague that hit Europe, centuries ago? Wasn't THAT a Four Horsemanlike plague that should have brought Jesus back to us?
...
So, at least to me, these days are nothing like the days of tribulation that many past generations have had to face. All i know is that we live in a hostile, natural environment where an asteroid collision is in our future... or that our planet's core engine will cool to the point where Earth becomes a lifeless rock in space.
I'm not worrying about stuff that was spoken, then written by men who believed the Sun rotated around the Earth. They didn't know any more than we do about the end except that it will happen... some day. I ain't losing sleep about it... it's life. And in life, death is an acceptable fact of life... be it you or me or my cat or the planets or our Sun... at some point, we will all die.
So, live life while you can.

Exactly....ever generation has had its "end of times" or "X is the Anti-Christ" moments...at least every generation in the West...since the prophecy was written down and spread around....don't know who's least impressive in the Anti-Christ role...Hitler or Napoleon?

Jason P

I saw the following in regards to Armageddon on The Onion and got a chuckle out of it:

All the animals are going to be killed too, so you might as well go to the zoo and find out what Panda steak tastes like.

PJ_Soul

acoustic guy wrote:

Seriously. Do you believe we are close either to the end of days on earth or something like it?
Armageddon perhaps?

I curious to what people here seriously believe. Some say nothing will change. Some say its all over for the unknown soldier.

What say you?

Great thread! The idea of the end of the world totally fascinates me. I don't believe in 12/21/12, or any kind of apocalypse, though, because I'm an Atheist. Plus, 12/21 is my mom's bday. I really don't think that God would do that on my mom's bday.

I am a little scared of an asteroid hitting the Earth and destroying all life. Apparently, astronomers only spot one in FIFTY asteroids coming anywhere near Earth just because of the unlimited space they have to look at. There are quite a few giant asteroids hurtling through space, and, of course, it's happened a time or two before in Earth's history. Not that I'm delusional and think it's likely, but it's certainly a possibility, no matter how remote... and I really don't want to witness the end of the world. The very first nightmare I ever had in my life was also the most vivid and impactful dream I ever had. I was 6, and I remember it like it was yesterday (and almost like it actually happened to me!). The world was ending, and we knew it would end at exactly 3pm. I guess the planet was imploding or something. Earthquakes and volcanos spewing lava all around us, etc. Anyway, at the end, me and my dad were sitting in his 1980 Honda Civic, watching the clock on the dashboard (back when clocks in cars had second hands!), and that second hand was just ticking towards 3pm while the world was blowing up around us... and a millisecond before it hit 3pm, I woke up. I was only six of course, so I woke up in a complete panic, but more than that, feeling this awful sorrow for the world, and I never forgot that first emotion when I opened my eyes. :? Pretty intense for a little kid.

Ever since that I've had a huge interest in the idea of the end of the world and related things, as well as a fear of it (basically a strong morbid fascination... a friend of mine once termed it my "apocalypse fetish" ). But the interest prevails. I'm bananas for movies and books about it. I can't get enough of it. The Stand by Stephen King is one of my favorite books of all time, and Margaret Atwood write some amazing books about after the end of our time, like, post-revolution or post-destruction of the environment. I love stupid movies like Deep Impact and Armageddon and even 2012 even though it's awful. And I'm stoked to see that new Steve Carrel movie about seeking a friend for the end of the world. But the BEST end of the world movie of all time is definitely LAST NIGHT. A 1998 independent film with Sandra Oh and Don McKellar, also written and directed by Don McKellar. They know exactly when the world is going to end, just like in my childhood dream, and just watching it while imagining what I would do in the same position is so interesting! .... So, to make a long story short, watch the movie Last Night! It's amazing!

pandora

As old as the Universe is premonition ... the eye
it is written in time yet time does not exist.
Many have seen and wrote, still see and write.
This our journey, pick the right path and listen.

mookeywrench

The Earth is 4.6 billion years old. The sun goes into its red giant stage in 5 billion years. So we're about halfway there

LikeAnOcean

I've heard the Mayan calendar actually ends sometime in November.


Not sure where december 21st came from given it has nothing to do with the winter solstice nor any position of celestial objects.