Is the End approaching?

[Holubice]

In summary...

Fukushima earthquake and tsunami


Indonesia earthquake and tsunami, 230.000 dead



Will Israel strike Iran this fall?



The arab spring revolutions



Economist: Bank run, the biggest fear they cannot stop



And many other events I don't want to list now.  Have you, as me, a definite or strong feeling that too many what rotten luck are happening all together? And they are increasing in number and in frequency?

Is the show coming to end as predicted 2000 years ago?

[The Magic Pudding]

And many other events I don't want to list now.  Have you, as me, a definite or strong feeling that too many what rotten luck are happening all together? And they are increasing in number and in frequency?

Is the show coming to end as predicted 2000 years ago?

No I don't share your interpretation that a few natural and financial disasters relate to any ancient prophecy.

Tsunamis aren't new, there's seven times more people on the planet now than 200 years ago, a natural disaster is likely to have a higher death toll.  News travels quick so things that in times past wouldn't have been known are news.  I don't think we are living in the darkest days of the past century, not when there's been two world wars and a great depression. 

I don't see any significance in the Arab spring.

What are these 2,000 year old predictions anyway?  Things that the delusional loosers can twist to fit whatever is happening it seems.  Why didn't these ancient geniuses warn us of the need for prudential regulation or the down side of burning fossil fuels?

Do we ignore all the good things?  China, India and other Asian countries are doing better, people aren't starving as they used to.  Modern medicine is allowing people to live longer healthier lives.

The world faces serious problems and opportunities, some morons waste time considering crazy ancient babblings, if they keep out of the way I suppose I can just laugh them off. 

[Asmodean]

I say what Pudding said, only in less politically correct words.

[DeterminedJuliet]

Here's a list of 46 failed end of the world predictions between 30 and 1920 AD.
I'm sure there are plenty more since 1920, but I'm too lazy to check.
No. The end is not approaching. At least, not in a biblical sense. 

[Ali]

The world is ending, it's true.  In the same way that you and I and everyone on the planet are dying, right now, at this very moment.  Every moment brings us closer to the inevitable, that we will die and become dust, and that the world that we know will be eaten by a supernova sun or knocked out of orbit by a gigantic meteor, or whatever.  All things are finite, except the ones that aren't.  But the ravings of Bronze Age desert tribes have little to do with that, except to give the weak something else to hang on to, rather than peeking into the abyss of their own mortality.

(I'm feeling a bit dark at the mo.)

[Recusant]

Hello again, Holubice. The leopard has not changed his spots, I see.

Out of curiosity, which 2000 year old prediction of ultimate doom are you referencing here? If you're talking about the Bible, which specific prediction?

[Siz]

Worlds end, eh?! Ah well... not really such a big loss in the grander scheme of things is it? I'm not sure anyone else in the vast cosmos will grieve, care or even notice.
I certainly won't care. Why not? Because I'll be f**king dead!

What makes you think I even give a rats ass if the world ends anyway?

[Crow]

World ends? nah that will keep spinning for a good while yet I reckon before its destroyed. Could do you just never know.

[Tank]

World ends? nah that will keep spinning for a good while yet I reckon before its destroyed. Could do you just never know.

Something in the order of 4 billion years to go last time I read anything serious about the issue.

[Rune]

History always repeats itself but I'm not referring to the end but to these natural causes and turmoils.

[Anti-antidisestablishmentarianism]

Believing that mayans in loincloths hunting with spears 2000 years ago could actually predict anything when they failed to predict their own demise is a bunch of malarkey.

[En_Route]

Believing that mayans in loincloths hunting with spears 2000 years ago could actually predict anything when they failed to predict their own demise is a bunch of malarkey.

I read that some of them even predicted that England would win the European Nations Cup in 2012.How preposterous can you get?

[Buddy]

I had more faith in Paul the octopuses than I did the Mayans.

[Anti-antidisestablishmentarianism]

Believing that mayans in loincloths hunting with spears 2000 years ago could actually predict anything when they failed to predict their own demise is a bunch of malarkey.

I read that some of them even predicted that England would win the European Nations Cup in 2012.How preposterous can you get?

I heard they predicted that the Chicago Cubs and New York mets would Both win the NL pennant and they would declare that the AL would be out of the World Series. The game would then be declared a tie on account of the Psychols coming to Earth and declaring that they would be enslaving the NY yankees who would then be used as gold miners.  Both the Cubs and Yankees would be declared winners of the Series before being audited by the resurreced L. Ron hubbard who would then declare John Travolta emperor of Jupiter.

[xSilverPhinx]

*Yawn*

The same old "the world was a better place, it's rotten now" or "there are more natural diasters but the fact that people are both betetr able to defend themselves against them by predicting and preparing and that there are more people in the world so it's obvious that more people will be affaected by more disasters because nobody talks about some tradegy that happens in the middle of the antartic or Siberian ice lands andymore and whew that was a long sentence but I have so much to say and so little time if the world is ending but I will stop now because this topic really bores me.

*Yawn*

Full circle.