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Is it the end times?

CNN and Faux News seem to have been fixated on the literalist (fundamentalist) interpretation of the bible that holds that an "end times" scenario is upon us.
Never mind that this "scenario" is trotted out every time something ominous is happening in the world (Do I really have to pull 9/11 video up from the memory hole?).

And yea, the poll hath unto three options and verily I did summerise them, saying:

1) Don't care
2) Olde-timey preacher
3) Sane, rational, dismissive of the whole idea of Armageddon.

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The world won't end but lots of wars and disasters will happen.No end though.

Would you mind defining "end times"?

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I went back and editing in a link to a CNN video clip that should defne it nicely enough for you. If you don't already know what the "end times" concept is, vote accordingly.

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I don't think the end of the world is upon us anymore than it usually is.

Tell you what, if the world ends in the next 20 years, I'll give you $100 Million.

Granted, there are a lot of really uncool things happening, but I don't think the end of days is upon us.

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If you can't fix it with a hammer, you have an electrical problem.

I think there might be a lot of big changes coming--particularly in domestic social issues in the US--but I don't think that the world will end anytime soon.

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The meaning of life is 'bucket.'

FOR PONY!!!

Don't be stupid. Even if big changes DO happen (which they might but not necessarily), the world is NOT going to end.

However, it will eventually, when the sun either
A) gets too big and hot and we fry
or
B) it blows out and we just plain die.

Hey, a rhyme! And the rhythm is good too.... that should be a song or something.

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So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, blue skies from pain. Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell?

Fire and brimstone shall befalleth us, woe is ye!

I dunno. Things aren't looking good...Everybody's turning against Israel, heat wave's coming, ice age, global warming, metor here, metor there, this, this, and that. It's too much to capacitate! The good times are over!

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Yeah, but...people have been predicting the end of the world for centuries now...and it still hasn't happened.

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The meaning of life is 'bucket.'

FOR PONY!!!

Every generation has seen the disasters around them as signs of the end times. So far, our track record of correctly predicting the apocalypse is 0%.

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According to the literal interpretation of the Bible, the day and hour are unknown. There are some signs of the end of the world (all of which have been fulfilled for many years), but it doesn't mean that once they all happen, the world will end right away.

Well, most of those weren't really based on things that could end the world like wars and stuff; they were just kind of significant dates... but yeah... the middle east has been fighting since like Jesus' time (maybe sooner even), so it's not like they're gonna end the world next week.
doot doot doot doot
Gets too large and we get drilled
or explodes and we all get killed!

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I'm an amillennialist, which means I really don't give a care about all this "Left Behind" end-of-the-world garbage.

Martin Luther was once asked the question: "If you knew Jesus was coming back tomorrow, what would you do today?" He replied, "I'd plant a tree." The lesson? We Christians aren't to waste our time with all this "end of the world" doom-and-gloom sensationalism. Rather we are to live out our calling as God's people in the here and now. Christ will come when he comes, not a second sooner or later. And nothing the funduhmentalists or the zionists do will either speed it up or hinder it.

Frogger: What else is new? This kind of stuff has been happening on and off for the past 1900 years.

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The world is definitely gonna end, but not for quite a while. By then, we'll all be long dead, so we won't have to worry about it.



I would totally sig that if I didn't already have a good sig.

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How do you know that? Sure, it's nothing to worry about, but no one knows when it will be.
Cool, 2222 posts. And the time is 22:02...

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I don't see the end coming anytime soon. We shouldn't worry about it anyways, just live our lives like we normally would.

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Nope, it's not the end times. It hasn't been for quite some time now.

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beep beep I'm a Jeep

Personaly, I belive that the world is constantly ending and begining again in every moment that we live. So, the idea of "and end to everything" just doesn't scare me.
That said, I see no reason to believe that this current hezbola shooting match will turn into a reginal conflict. The Lebonese government has had the good sense to not commit militarily, and the Syrians are content to use Hezbola a proxy army so you won't be seeing Syrian troops crossing any borders any time soon. The Jornadese have no stake in this conflict, and the Egyptians are supporters of Hezbola.
Iran's millitary couldn't fight it's way out of a wet paper bag much less engage the modern IDF in any meaningfull conflict. Al they have are vast numbers of untrained troops, outdataed soviet-made tanks, and a pathetic air force that would fall from the sky like so many waxed anvils if they engaged the IDF.
(How do I know all this? NWS NWP-FC that's how.)

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What is that, some form of Last Thursdayism?

Seriously, though, I'm intrigued to know what you mean by that.

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The meaning of life is 'bucket.'

FOR PONY!!!

Don't you mean last Thrusday?

No. I'll go with Piano Man and DG on this one. My life is completley wasted. So I don't really care.

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Only if you are living in last Thursday. It's a form of "living in the moment" and it's just my own personal philosophy, so it's not an 'ism'.
In other words, I'm saying that everything is constantly changing, so trying to arbitrarily say that an event is going to take place is foolhardy if you have no evidence (one needs actual evidence, not presupposition or wishful thinking or any of the other religious prediction fallacies that people fall into when they do "predictions of the end of the world"). It's also a way to see how the moment should be the place where your heart is living in. People that are obsessed with Armageddon seldom appear to have much of a connection to the now, and the now is where real living occurs.
So, predicting the end of the world isn't just foolish, it's disingenuous and destructive to the health of your inner being. (Not to mention what it can do to other people) A healthy person does not care so much about something that has been merely imagined and isn't going to happen. It's a passing amusement, at best. Much like art can be. To obsess about the end of the world is to obsess about death, and that's never a good thing for anyone.

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Exactly. Everyone thought the world was going to end January 1st, 2000, but nothing happened. People probably thought the same on January 1st, 1000.

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Well, not everyone. For one, I didn't. I knew enough about how computers work to know that the so-called Y2K bug was being overhyped. Also, I knew people were busy doing re-programing to get ready for the Y2K, so I knew that even if the bug was as serious as the doomsayers were saying it was, it was being fixed at the vast majority of affected sites. A lot of people made a lot of money from the Y2K bug, most of it from programing and software development.

Oddly enough, the Y2K scare lead to circumstances that mitigated the 9/11 disaster; Y2K encouraged businesses to invest in backup solutions and to not put all their IT eggs in one basket. So, when the WTC went kaput, most the IT that was there had mirrors & backups in other places.

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And that, is also what I believe.

I believe in a second comming, but it isn't going to be dreadful.

Infact, it will be the polar opposite.

I prefer to just live here normally untill that day comes.

Sadly, I will not be around for the end of the world. I will be long gone by the time Armageddon happens. I will say that it should be a devil of a time.

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Don't be stupid, it's not the end of the world.

OK, so our totaly non-scientific poll has shown that an overwhelming majority (82% so far) of people who answered either dismiss the notion that the end of the world is imminent, or they didn't think the question was not even worth answering.
Or at least that's how I'm spinning it.

Hey, look: H*R Wiki forum goers are less insane than you may have thought. Who knew?

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What? I'm not insane! You're nuts!

Toastpaint

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right, the world is about to end. is this before or after jesus comes to save those who were clever enough to be christian?

It will be after Jesus comes for His saved people.

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It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.

Seriously, people have been talking about the end of the world since there was a world. What makes our current time so special?