05-04-2012, 10:34 PM
Will the world come to an end? The world I grew up in already has. It disappeared 40 years ago.
I agree with Mark. There is always someone predicting the end of the world. Although the Hal Lindseys of the world use such things as the book of Revelation from the Bible to predict the end of times, all indication are that it was talking about events happening at the moment it was written, as it even references Paul when talking about the false Churches. You cannot even find most of what people attribute to Revelation because most of it is speculation from Lindsey's book. The Mayan calendar is just stupid. The Mayan's like many civilizations (see Hinduism) believed that things were circular, which is mainly an extrapolation from the cyclic nature of the year and crop growing. In that sense you could say the world ends every winter. There have been end of the world prediction as far back as writing, which would be the Sumerian cuneiform circa 4000 BCE although that is from stories that must date even further back. even if a nut job did get a nuke, the first world countries would make a deep hole in the ground where he was before they would stand by and let someone wipe out the entire race. Most assuredly the world will end at some point, but the odds are that it will not be anytime soon. Thinking that it will, is more an indication of our overblown sense of self importance, rather than anything related to reality. Obsession with oneself, makes a person quite gullible. I know because I use to play psychic at new age fairs, and with a few leading questions people would tell me everything I needed to know to "predict" their future. I was regarded as quite an amazing psychic, and usually had a line of people waiting to give me their money! As Barnum said...
Dale
I agree with Mark. There is always someone predicting the end of the world. Although the Hal Lindseys of the world use such things as the book of Revelation from the Bible to predict the end of times, all indication are that it was talking about events happening at the moment it was written, as it even references Paul when talking about the false Churches. You cannot even find most of what people attribute to Revelation because most of it is speculation from Lindsey's book. The Mayan calendar is just stupid. The Mayan's like many civilizations (see Hinduism) believed that things were circular, which is mainly an extrapolation from the cyclic nature of the year and crop growing. In that sense you could say the world ends every winter. There have been end of the world prediction as far back as writing, which would be the Sumerian cuneiform circa 4000 BCE although that is from stories that must date even further back. even if a nut job did get a nuke, the first world countries would make a deep hole in the ground where he was before they would stand by and let someone wipe out the entire race. Most assuredly the world will end at some point, but the odds are that it will not be anytime soon. Thinking that it will, is more an indication of our overblown sense of self importance, rather than anything related to reality. Obsession with oneself, makes a person quite gullible. I know because I use to play psychic at new age fairs, and with a few leading questions people would tell me everything I needed to know to "predict" their future. I was regarded as quite an amazing psychic, and usually had a line of people waiting to give me their money! As Barnum said...
Dale
How long after picking up the brush, the first masterpiece?
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.