"The end of the world is Nigh"

[the_bob_delusion]

So the Christians claim the end of the world is approaching as indicated in the bible. Bushfires, viruses, flooding, earthquakes  and locus plaque etc etc have all been prophesied as signs of the imminent apocalypse and judgement day.

Do you think the world is ending?

Are you worried?

Do you think you'll go to heaven or hell?

[4channel]

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@the_bob_delusion wrote:

So the Christians claim the end of the world is approaching as indicated in the bible. Bushfires, viruses, flooding, earthquakes  and locus plaque etc etc have all been prophesied as signs of the imminent apocalypse and judgement day.

Do you think the world is ending?

Are you worried?

Do you think you'll go to heaven or hell?

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@springyzone wrote:

The Christians.

Sloppy reporting. There is no such thing as 'the Christians'. There are Christians of course, but they don't all put the exact same spin on things and I have not heard of the larger scale Christian religions claiming the end is nigh. Some Christians may think it, most do not.

If I said all muslims were terrorists, I'd have the boardies here outraged and down on me in 2 seconds flat with accusations of racism. But your post confirms my theory that people can say what they like about 'Christians' with impunity. Seriously, you can barely make a comment these days about muslims, race, gender, sexuality etc but it is always open season on Christians.

I am not saying that in an angry tone, just musing.

No, the world isn't ending just yet, it has a few billion years to go. Doesn't mean humans have though, that is a different question altogether, isn't it.

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Actually, most of the Australian media has had a field day blaming and demonising Muslims and they'll continue to do so as long as it serves someone's agenda. And the attackers will never let truth and fact stop them in their attacks. Oil drives people crazy if you get my drift. If they were to say that about another Abrahamic faith then there'd be hell to pay. But yes, to a lesser degree Christians often get demonised too because it serves someone's agenda in another way.

And to the bob delusion. Who knows if the world is near its end? I do know now that there are much more dangerous weapons and technology to make it happen though,

Locust plague? Well, in the age of genetic modification where the DNA of jellyfish is put into fruit, goats are bred with DNA from spiders so their milk can be used to make sink, rabbits glow in the dark, well ....  anything is possible.

Some folk could be forgiven for thinking that the crazies are already in control.

[joz*garage]

CO2..Currently 414.13 PPM and on the rise

Scientists predict once it reaches 440-450 PPM the place will become uninhabitable

[davewil1964]

As soon as the Arctic tundra starts really melting, there will be no going back for several thousand years.

[myoclon1cjerk]

Climate change.The gift that keeps on taking.

[rogespeed]

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@joz*garage wrote:

CO2..Currently 414.13 PPM and on the rise

Scientists predict once it reaches 440-450 PPM the place will become uninhabitable

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Better plant more trees 

[countessalmirena]

As far as I understand it, there's no specific day or hour for an end of the world scenario.

Springyzone has also highlighted how inaccurate it is to bundle people together into a group defined by the perception that they are (apparently) all imminently awaiting doomsday.

1. The world, as part of the universe, has a beginning and has an end. The observation of matter on a macro level points to the well-known Second Law of Thermodynamics giving us no real wriggle-room - unless we want to introduce the chaos of the sub-atomic world onto a larger scale than we tend to see. Order becomes disorder; ripeness proceeds to rotting; the living will end up dying. I don't just think that the world is ending; I know it to be so.
2. Worried... I suppose I half-worry and half-don't. Human actions have an impact on our planet, and unfortunately we have by and large proved ourselves to be poor stewards of it. It's not all our fault, of course, and we cannot play King Canute and hold back the tide of time itself. It's a pity and a shame that we can't respect life itself in all of its variety and beauty and power and complexity more than we - the human race - clearly do. I worried almost incessantly during the bushfires that caused such damage earlier this year, in particular because of the terrible, acrid, deadly smoke which made my father's symptoms all the worse. (Of course I also experienced a nasty lot of symptoms, as so many of us in affected areas did.) I worry about the devastation caused by the wildly infectious and dangerous SARS-CoV-2. I worry about the melting ice, the endangered species and those already (tragically) extinct, the shrinking biodiversity, the plight of bees. Then I remind myself that there are many things I simply cannot control... that what I can change, I do change, and where I can't, I want to let my eyes, my ears, my nostrils and my nerve cells and all that is sense and sensation find joy in what we do have. I drink a glass of worry-be-gone and get on with things.
3. J. Burton Russell has tackled most of the questions anyone's asked about heaven. It doesn't matter whether it's a state, a geographical location, etc., as I agree with him that one gets a sublime taste of what heaven may be more through poetry and metaphorical language than through prescribed Lonely Planet guides. I don't fancy the thought of hell, not even when it's Rowan Atkinson as the devil...

[lionrose.7]

I have made myself stop reading so many over seas papers, I just get to upset at what is going on in the world and feel helpless to do any thing about it.

I cant understand how people seem to lack empathy for their fellow man these days

Think i may have to stop watching the news as well and just take the nightime DGAF pill 

[davewil1964]

we cannot play King Canute and hold back the tide

We certainly can, with as much success. Canute was fully aware of his abilities and the tide thing was to prove to his sycophants that he didn't control nature.

[countessalmirena]

Well, we could play Canute and prove that we can't... or we can play the courtiers and expect that the tide can be held back... or we could just build a dam.

[icyfroth]

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@myoclon1cjerk wrote:
Climate change.The gift that keeps on taking.

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Yes. Planet Earth will move on, despite the destruction to species that have lived upon it.