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Quote by XRW175P6MQ4By my count we got at least 40,000 years before the end.

Uh...can you explain why?

I don't get it...

Well my figuring is Jesus was a jew. So killing a jew is kinda like killing jesus right. It took Jesus three days to come back from the dead. Since the rapture cannot occur without Jesus doomsday cannot happen until at least three days have past for every jew killed. 6,000,000 in just the holocaust X 3days = 18,000,000days

18,000,000days X 1 year/365.25days= 49281 years approximately. so by that count we got quite a while left.

You can pick apart my reasoning all you want but i didn't spend very much time working on it so its really not worth your time. The truth is my guess is about as accurate as anybodies. Nobody has any real clue religious or otherwise. No matter what its highly improbable that it will happen in my lifetime or any of your lifetimes or you children's lives, or your grandchildren's lives. If it was to happen before then what would you do about? Crap there's a bible verse that would sound really good right here, something about dont worry about tomarrow for today has enough worries of its own.

that's a nice way to put it. i like "live today like there's no tomorrow" a lot more though.

Quote by oudorobouthat's a nice way to put it. i like "live today like there's no tomorrow" a lot more though.

Well i didn't say not to do that. I was just trying to say the world isn't going to end anytime soon. You're still going to die right on schedule.

i know. but you make it sound like death is preordained with that last sentence of yours. kinda like there is a higher being who controls our lives. i'd rather not believe a deity like that exists.

I doubt the bible really has anything to do with the world. The things that are actually contributing to the end of humanity are things like global warming, extinction of species, large collections of catastrophic weapons, and wasting limited resources. I have to disagree with that sentimant that we should be living our lives like there is no tommorow, because theres only a tommorow if you make it possible for a tommorow. We should be helping the world, not pretending that these problems dont exist and go on doing what is creating our own demise. We are spoiled rotten with how we have it, and we sure act like it.

heh. i said what i said because there really might not be a tomorrow for me. some of us hold very dangerous jobs (i knew what i was getting into when i joined the army). these kinda things happen. there are environmentalists who are trying their best to solve problems. some radically extreme, others peacefully. i don't blame people for destroying nature. if we had the ability to terraform other planets, we would've done so already and not waste our resources nor overpopulate. unfortunately, we don't have that ability as of the moment. besides, i doubt there is one person on the planet who hasn't wasted something at one point or another. i'm rather cynical and pessimistic but not about stuff like this.

Quote by oudoroboui know. but you make it sound like death is preordained with that last sentence of yours. kinda like there is a higher being who controls our lives. i'd rather not believe a deity like that exists.

Its all basic chemistry. Random chemicals get into the body start interfering with molecules in the body. DNA continually mutates and eventually ceases to function properly, and organs simply where out. Stuff breaks its life. No preordained being at work. All things break eventually. Metals rust, cars break down with repeated use(or neglect) earthquakes level cities and etc. People are nothing more than extremely extremely complicated things. Think the most powerful supercomputer times a thousand. You say that it must be God because we can't explain everything i say humans don't need to we just need to survive and replicate so that countless others may perish and rot. Or maybe just have some fun before the inevitable.

Believe me or not i only act as my chemical programming tells me. I am but a lifeless soulless machine. My thoughts are simply chemical reactions in my brain and my words are just electrical impulses sent the muscles in my fingers in a specific order that just happen to line up with keys on a manmade object. In many ways computers and machines are every bit as alive as you and I. That is if this is actually life.

And if there is a higher being how would it be any more alive than you or me? Are humans not higher beings in a way. We arguably are the superior intelligence on this cesspool of a planet. We have created machines/computers = life. If there was a god would that not make like computers or robots to her? We behave like we are alive but does that make us alive? And what if that god was just a creation by another more powerful being?

Why is it an issue who created who? I think we should just make the best of what we have and assume this is as real as it gets. Life is what you make it.

But i digress. my main point is that death is no more meaningful than simply stuff breaks. Heck even stars go supernova and disappear forever.

Plus don't forget tons of other stuff can end your pitiful existence long the before the natural degradation of you cellular structure off you.

i don't blame people for destroying nature.

-Lol, why not? We know its a problem, yet we do near nothing to stop the destruction of our single planet.

if we had the ability to terraform other planets, we would've done so already and not waste our resources nor overpopulate.

-Who says we dont? Its just not a large enough priority for people, just like helping the planet. Money seems to be a lot more important than the well being of our next generation it seems.

i doubt there is one person on the planet who hasn't wasted something at one point or another. i'm rather cynical and pessimistic but not about stuff like this.

-That would probably be beacause people arent educated enough (or are just plane pricks) to care about the environment. As well, the government isnt exactly making it easy to keep the world healthy like not trying hard enough to switch fuel sources for transportation, or recycling biodegradable garbage, or making incentive to buy solar panels. I think its terrible how everything is set up in our society. Everything is so wasteful and polluting.

-XRW175P6MQ4, though I agree that we are biological computers, I do not happen to agree with the fact that our DNA has one single deterioration rate written into it. There is something called epigenetics which is dormant parts of the DNA which can be released from bonds which constrict it through outward forces. So you might wake up a part of your DNA from such things as a famine, or silence others. Of course, these are very small changes, and can sometimes effect your children and not you.

There been people saying that the world's going to end for centuries, possibly millenia. I'm not about to start believing it until there's some scientific evidence to back it up, not just vague prophesies that could be interpreted to fit any meaning you want to support.

There are so many theories about how and when the world would end that I simply stopped caring I, for one, do not believe in religious predictions. It's not like God pointed His finger at a date in the calendar and said, "This is it, boys, this will be the end, so be sure to repent and get ready, OK?"

I agree with IronSerpent that the world will end whenever either natural or human forces will bring it, and that this sort of predictions are already a deja-vu.

I heard, however, that an asteroid *might* hit the Earth in 2012. I read that almost 10 years ago, but I remembered I was frightened at the thought. I have no idea if that's true or not, but if the end *really* is coming, then there's nothing we can do about it. In the end, there's nothing sad for yourself about dying. The ones who suffer are those left behind; but since at the end of the world everyone supposedly dies - I think it would be a release.

Just to clear things up: I still don'T believe the end is coming anytime soon.

the end comes when people at the most not-cautious situation, n there r earthquakes or the other disasters juzt like these times

The question is stupid. It seems no one noticed the mistake. The end of the world is different from the end of time.

What you all have discussed is the end of the world and there is a fine line that separates the two. Time will not end with our deaths nor with the destruction of our world. Time will continue for the rest of the universe as time is a concept. Just because we have died out doesn't necessarily mean everyone else have. The universe is vast and thus we cannot finalize that what we believe in is true.

As for our end? I'm sure it's not coming anytime soon.

Well thats life. You live, you die