Okay, I'm not trying to knock anyone's view of the "coming judgement," but don't you think people are taking these things a bit too far? Especially the Christian churches, they annoy me. (I remember my grandmother telling a story once of a guy who said to her "Ma'am, Jesus is coming soon, so your daughters don't need to go to school, do they?" My mom has a Ph.D.... And still no Jesus) I'm gonna post some reasons people need to lighten up about this whole apocalypse thing.

1: Natural disasters - They are exactly that, natural disasters. They happen all the fricking time, indiscriminately. So just because you're seeing the devastation on TV, does not mean it hasn't happened before/it's the end of the world.

2: Nostradamus's Prophecies - a hell of a lot of people are resting their faith on Nostradamus' prophecies' fulfillment meaning the coming of Christ... One thing about Nostradamus' predictions. They were so bloody vague, it's extremely easy for them to come true. I'm dumbing it down a bit, but to quote Robin Williams, Nostradamus' predictions were pretty much like this

And I think people are getting way too worked up about this whole apocalypse crap. It's what happens when people have nothing better to do, sadly.

3: "The four horsemen" - War, famine, pestilence, and death. Since WHEN, has there not been, WAR, FAMINE, PESTILENCE, and bloody DEATH? Ahem, black plague anyone? Crusades? World War I? World War II? Punic Wars of Ancient Rome? Great Depression? That's the main thing that pisses me off about this whole apocalypse rant. War, famine, pestilence and death have been around through all the history of mankind... it's that simple. Geez, people need to find something better to do than preach about the apocalypse, cause fuck, it bothers me, and certainly plenty of other people.

Well, that's about it for now... rant complete!

I wish I had something more insightful to say, but...

AMEN!

Pondy... that is REALLY ironic...

Here here! About time someone said what i was too lazy to type! It'll happen when it happens.

*gives prize*
I agree. Look at the Da Vinci Code. Over-reacting, anyone?

Yep, this whole thing is a bunch of overreactions. I mean, natural disasters and global warming happen in a cycle. Think about it, there've been hundreds of ice ages, then it heats up, then cools down again, with another ice ages. All the global warming crap happens in a cycle, so Al Gore and bite me.

Although the last ice age was 10000 years ago.

However, I do agree. I don't think it's the end of the world for at least another 100 years.

It won't. It won't ever end until the sun swallows it up.

Nah, the sun will get closer as it grows, and the heat will kill us. I'd say if anything is to blame for global warming besides the earth's natural cycles, it's the sun. =O

The thing that keeps us alive is the thing that will kill us. Like Micheal Schavio!

Oh god, not Schaivo again... The world'll end when the sun either goes blooey(which it won't, it's not big enough) or when the sun kills us all by getting too big/close...(Like Safer Sephiroth's Super Nova...

THAT is the Apacolypse, of all things. The end of the world. Buuut, we would have migrated to somewhere else by then.

The sun will blow up, but it will have to grow big enough to swallow like, marz first. That's at least a billion years away, by then Earth might die. <_< (expload)

U no watch National Geographic.

But I do pay attention in school. :P

ROFL!

Look at the ads at the bottom of the page.

"The Four Horsemen" "Catholic Prophecy E-book" "The Coming World War" "Bible Prophecy"

...never heard of the Nos-dude's prophecies, but as to the other things, it more has to do with the increase of those factors than the fact that the factors are present

sorry if I disrupted the off-topic conversation :P

Well, have you never heard of the Dark Ages? A period in time in which the world was in such chaos, that they probably believed then that the end was near? Could be the same case today, don't you think?

Eh, do we really know that's what they thought? That time period is called the dark ages because the pleague made it so that very little was documented, so we know little about that time period.

I was thinking more along the lines of nuclear war if that would ever happen :S

Christian churchs tend to exagerate things... That's really all I have to say. o_o;

I am the Apocolypes; debate resolved. B)

Eh, IMO if that happens, it'll maybe heat us up a little, but a nucular war won't end the WORLD. Just maybe a few countries and stuff. Plus, think about it, countries are so uneasy about nukes, so if one country uses them, the world is going to attack that one country, and nobody else will be stupid enough to use them. Except...

1. Countries might be too afraid to get involved, thus stay out, and leave it in between the country that got nuked, and the one that used it.
2. The country that got nuked might nuke back, thus creating a kind of stand off, which I don't believe would grow into a nuke war very quickly.

...please elaborate

nukes may be strong but you need to realize that if the contry with the nukes dosen't have a good enough army they're just going to get overun anyway. nukes aren't very tactical though, you can't land it on a mobile army and unless you plan to lose a bunch of your own men you'll probaly never it the enemy troops. after all a nuke isn't fired like a catapult, it's a big difficult to control rocket. plus you can't capture territory with a nuke either.

also, it's is quite puposturous to think that humans will ever truly die off, only another more powerful race can do that, though i doubt that one even exists. earthquakes can lose their effect on specially designed houses, experiment are being done to stop wind related disasters, by making the air warmer or somthing using a special chemical, it already has the power to reduce it's effect. Just because a nation is involved in a war dosen't mean they're dead at the end, people always talk as if all the people on both side die. but we still need something to stop a volcano, maybe you could redirect it's energy, or just not live in a dangerouse place to begin with