OK, we all know the world has to end sometime, so the questions are how and when? I think it will end due to a biological super flu in 2023.
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My fiancee informed me the other day that it's apparently set to happen on our wedding day.
How: Entropic dissolution.
When: We're working on it, but can't give you a time table.
My fiancee informed me the other day that it's apparently set to happen on our wedding day.
Since this is about an engineer setting the deadline, it's anyone's guess when it will actually happen, but the one day I'm now absolutely sure it won't happen is 2011/05/21!
The most exciting sound an engineer hears in his daily work is the sound of a deadline zooming past! :D
Otherwise, I'd have advised you to move the wedding forward a couple of weeks to get a proper honeymoon!
Seriously: An engineer studying the Bible? Is anyone else reminded of that Firefly episode where River goes at Book's Book with scissors and glue, trying to fix it? :D
December 21, 2012?
... due to world wide rioting as a result of Sarah Palin's presidential election.
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I think it'll happen one of 2 ways. A massive catastrophe thats sudden and with little to know warning (Like an asteroid). Or a slow death, with our resources dwindling to nothing and population too high wars break out everywhere, we slowly destroy ourselves, til the last depressed starving vestiges of humanity finally fall after a lifetime of pain, disease, and starvation.
My fiancee informed me the other day that it's apparently set to happen on our wedding day.
You are going to get married on that day and everything is going to be just fine. It's on my birthday in 2012 that the world is going to explode like it was hit by a laser from the Death Star.
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Twenty ways the world could end
1. Asteroid impact
2 Gamma-ray burst
3. Collapse of the vacuum
4. Rogue black holes
5. Giant solar flares
6. Reversal of Earth's magnetic field
7. Flood-basalt volcanism
8. Global epidemics
9. Global warming
10. Ecosystem collapse
11. Biotech disaster
12. Particle accelerator mishap
13. Nanotechnology disaster
14. Environmental toxins
15. Global war
16. Robots take over
17. Mass insanity
18. Alien invasion
19. Divine intervention
and my favorite ...
20. Someone wakes up and realizes it was all a dream
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My fiancee informed me the other day that it's apparently set to happen on our wedding day.
On a serious note congratulations!!!!
Nice Strawman, dude.
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice for Spanky.
'The human race just keeps on going, keeps on changing; life will out! HA!'
Russell T. Davies, Dr Who 'New Earth'
On another note.
Matthew 24:36 for anyone who has thought they figured it all out.
I've always taken that to mean that if anyone were to discover the date of the Apocalypse, the Lord would have to move the date. The only way around this is to say that the world is going to end EVERY day, that way things keep going on forever!
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Not with a bang, but with a whimper...
My very first thought on seeing this thread's title.
The Hollow Men
Mistah Kurtz—he dead.
A penny for the Old Guy
I
We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats’ feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar
Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;
Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death’s other Kingdom
Remember us—if at all—not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.
II
Eyes I dare not meet in dreams
In death’s dream kingdom
These do not appear:
There, the eyes are
Sunlight on a broken column
There, is a tree swinging
And voices are
In the wind’s singing
More distant and more solemn
Than a fading star.
Let me be no nearer
In death’s dream kingdom
Let me also wear
Such deliberate disguises
Rat’s coat, crowskin, crossed staves
In a field
Behaving as the wind behaves
No nearer—
Not that final meeting
In the twilight kingdom
III
This is the dead land
This is cactus land
Here the stone images
Are raised, here they receive
The supplication of a dead man’s hand
Under the twinkle of a fading star.
Is it like this
In death’s other kingdom
Waking alone
At the hour when we are
Trembling with tenderness
Lips that would kiss
Form prayers to broken stone.
IV
The eyes are not here
There are no eyes here
In this valley of dying stars
In this hollow valley
This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms
In this last of meeting places
We grope together
And avoid speech
Gathered on this beach of the tumid river
Sightless, unless
The eyes reappear
As the perpetual star
Multifoliate rose
Of death’s twilight kingdom
The hope only
Of empty men.
V
Here we go round the prickly pear
Prickly pear prickly pear
Here we go round the prickly pear
At five o’clock in the morning.
Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom
Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow
Life is very long
Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom
For Thine is
Life is
For Thine is the
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
T. S. Eliot
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I've always taken that to mean that if anyone were to discover the date of the Apocalypse, the Lord would have to move the date. The only way around this is to say that the world is going to end EVERY day, that way things keep going on forever!On another note.
Matthew 24:36 for anyone who has thought they figured it all out.
That is brilliant in a Douglas Adams kind of way.
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Actually I never understood Rapture Theology. Does anyone here actually have a clue about it????
Here goes from memory of being brought up in such a church. The study of End Time Prophecy called Eschatology. Most fundamentalist christians believe that there will be an event called the rapture which centers around an event called the 7 year tribulation. There is debate among them when the rapture will occur (the bible isn't very clear. It mostly says "No man shall know the day nor the hour when the son of man cometh) there are 3 lines of thought from various clues given in the scriptures
1) Pre Tribulation rapture- The rapture will take place just before the 7 year tribulation period. This is the most popular line of thought out there, basically it could happen anytime.2) Mid tribulation period Rapture- During the 7 year tribulation the rapture occurs (one verse hints at this but nothing explicit found in Revelations I believe)
3) Post Tribulation rapture- as in when god comes to establish the millennial reign all the judging will happen then.
The 7 year tribulation is a time believed to occur sometime soon basically at this time a world leader will appear on the scene will set up a one-world government force everyone alive to take his "mark" and if you refuse he cuts off your head (also if you do take the mark you are condemned to hell no getting out of it). Most call him the anti-christ. Many, many judgements occur during this period killing off the vast majority of human population. Also at this time the beast will have a companion who will unite the worlds religions (except the true believers) the companion is called the harlot of Babylon. After this tribulation period God returns, disposes of the anti-christ and the Harlot. He then sets up what is called the "millennial reign". Where he rules directly on earth for 1000 years. Also at that period all people of the earth are eternally judged.
Many fundamentalist christians believe this time is foretold to happen soon. But every one of them interpret different world events to mean different things that are signs. But really no one event is agreed upon as a definitive sign.
Thats the extent of my knowledge on the subject.
I always thought the world would end when the sun reached the red giant stage and swallowed the charred, broken corpse of the earth into its expanding layers, friction dragging the hunk of rock into a slow death spiral towards the sun's core where everything that has ever existed is vaporized in cleansing nuclear fusion.
The world will end when I push this little red button right here on my console. Yes, this little one right here.
Should I push it?
finger edges toward the button
No, not yet, but soon....
The world will end when I push this little red button right here on my console. Yes, this little one right here.
Should I push it?
finger edges toward the button
No, not yet, but soon....
Do it!
Actually I never understood Rapture Theology. Does anyone here actually have a clue about it????
Aside from ignoring that it's the Daily Kos, they do have a good layman's synopsis to explain the theology and the verses from which it was drawn to prop up this exegetical thinking. Here.
Do it!The world will end when I push this little red button right here on my console. Yes, this little one right here.
Should I push it?
finger edges toward the button
No, not yet, but soon....
No, I have to wait. If I blow up the world before our current campaign ends, I'll never know how it turns out. And the GM will annihilate me right down to the last quark. So no, not yet. But when the campaign is over, it'll be really over!
My fiancee informed me the other day that it's apparently set to happen on our wedding day.You are going to get married on that day and everything is going to be just fine. It's on my birthday in 2012 that the world is going to explode like it was hit by a laser from the Death Star.
You're awfully sure your birthday wish will be granted...
I've always taken that to mean that if anyone were to discover the date of the Apocalypse, the Lord would have to move the date.On another note.
Matthew 24:36 for anyone who has thought they figured it all out.
Personally, I've never seen the Lord as the kind of guy who absent-mindedly misplaces His Filofax for people to stumble upon.
But your theory has a fatal flaw: God could just have this little rule that when someone does manage to find out the actual date (not by wildly guessing or anything), He will move the date - to the very moment the guy finds out what the day is, or just an instant before that. That would have a great hubris angle, too. Curiosity ended the world!
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Actually I never understood Rapture Theology. Does anyone here actually have a clue about it????Aside from ignoring that it's the Daily Kos, they do have a good layman's synopsis to explain the theology and the verses from which it was drawn to prop up this exegetical thinking. Here.
Ok that was more in depth then what I have been exposed to previously. I still fail to "get it" I guess.
This is how it will all end apparently...Link
I think this video starts at a point far beyond when the big decisions will have been decided. I think that if we survive another 1000 years or so without offing ourselves, we'll truly be The Shit 50000 years from now.
"Sun getting too hot? People complain about everything these days. Alright, we'll send another cooling ray up there, it will be better in about 16 minutes."
"You're getting your knickers in a knot all over a silly little rogue galaxy? Geesh, you're a little crybaby! Okay, Okay, I'll meditate and then I'll send a mind blast to blow it off course. You know, if you spent less energy whining about and more on your psi curriculum, you could do that yourself!"
Don't even dare to mention small fry like asteroids or death viruses. They're just beneath contempt.
I've always taken that to mean that if anyone were to discover the date of the Apocalypse, the Lord would have to move the date.On another note.
Matthew 24:36 for anyone who has thought they figured it all out.
Personally, I've never seen the Lord as the kind of guy who absent-mindedly misplaces His Filofax for people to stumble upon.
But your theory has a fatal flaw: God could just have this little rule that when someone does manage to find out the actual date (not by wildly guessing or anything), He will move the date - to the very moment the guy finds out what the day is, or just an instant before that. That would have a great hubris angle, too. Curiosity ended the world!
This gets into the weird area where philosophy and psychology touch- assuming the guy never thought the world was going to end in this fashion before, does that mean that the instant he even considers the possiblility is the time that the world ends, or does he need more concrete evidence? What about when he is working towards finding out when the date is- does that count since he is actively making progress towards the goal? It's a weird one, I'm more comfortable with my interpretation.
Ok that was more in depth then what I have been exposed to previously. I still fail to "get it" I guess.Actually I never understood Rapture Theology. Does anyone here actually have a clue about it????Aside from ignoring that it's the Daily Kos, they do have a good layman's synopsis to explain the theology and the verses from which it was drawn to prop up this exegetical thinking. Here.
Thanks to Jack Chick, I like to call it The Great Snatch! Unfortunately for him, based on his cartoon, I'm taking it to my usual level of depravity. ;-)
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Thanks to Jack Chick, I like to call it The Great Snatch! Unfortunately for him, based on his cartoon, I'm taking it to my usual level of depravity. ;-)Ok that was more in depth then what I have been exposed to previously. I still fail to "get it" I guess.Actually I never understood Rapture Theology. Does anyone here actually have a clue about it????Aside from ignoring that it's the Daily Kos, they do have a good layman's synopsis to explain the theology and the verses from which it was drawn to prop up this exegetical thinking. Here.
Hey, I've been to that Disco. It's on the other side of the highway from the old Circuit City.
Baba Vanga tells us the world will end in 5079. Of course a lot of nonsensical things will happen before then. Take a look and laugh.
Baba Vanga tells us the world will end in 5079. Of course a lot of nonsensical things will happen before then. Take a look and laugh.
Because in 5079 is when the Horrors are supposed to break through from the deep metaplanes, of course. And then at the end of the Sixth Age they go back to sleep and the humans rebuild again once the magic is gone.
Makes about as much sense as any other apocalyptic prophecy.
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Thanks to Jack Chick, I like to call it The Great Snatch! Unfortunately for him, based on his cartoon, I'm taking it to my usual level of depravity. ;-)Ok that was more in depth then what I have been exposed to previously. I still fail to "get it" I guess.Actually I never understood Rapture Theology. Does anyone here actually have a clue about it????Aside from ignoring that it's the Daily Kos, they do have a good layman's synopsis to explain the theology and the verses from which it was drawn to prop up this exegetical thinking. Here.
Yeah, I guess that is why I never took it seriously. I had a coworker once who thought I was insane because I dare as where exactly in the Bible it said that. They mumbled something and left.
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Baba Vanga tells us the world will end in 5079. Of course a lot of nonsensical things will happen before then. Take a look and laugh.
Did she watch a lot of Doctor who?? This "profit" is a new one on me.
The concept of The Rapture was invented by some nut job in 1849. It's all stupid, and the Book of Revelation was not about some future event 2000 years in the future. It was about the events that were going on when it was written. It amazes me that people actually believe in that. Its insane, it really is...
The concept of The Rapture was invented by some nut job in 1849. It's all stupid, and the Book of Revelation was not about some future event 2000 years in the future. It was about the events that were going on when it was written. It amazes me that people actually believe in that. Its insane, it really is...
I'm only posting to remark that I'm not the guy who wrote the above. :)
The concept of The Rapture was invented by some nut job in 1849. It's all stupid, and the Book of Revelation was not about some future event 2000 years in the future. It was about the events that were going on when it was written. It amazes me that people actually believe in that. Its insane, it really is...I'm only posting to remark that I'm not the guy who wrote the above. :)
Can we still blame you and call you a filthy atheist? ;)
The concept of The Rapture was invented by some nut job in 1849. It's all stupid, and the Book of Revelation was not about some future event 2000 years in the future. It was about the events that were going on when it was written. It amazes me that people actually believe in that. Its insane, it really is...
There are also some reason to believe that the guy who wrote it may have been tripping on magic mushrooms at the time.
The island it was written on is famed for it's magic mushrooms and imagery follows patterns common amongst the users of the specific variety of mushroom.