People in my office are saying that the world is going to end

[Patiod]

that the hurricanes are a sign. Why do people think like this?

What about the massive midwest blizzards at the end of the 1800's? The year without a summer (the year Krakatoa blew)? The mini ice age during Shakespeare's time? Pompeii?

Doesn't something cataclysmic happen most decades? And haven't people been taking these things as signs for hundreds if not thousands of years?

[kick-ass-bob]

1. chicken littles.

of course, global warming isn't exactly helping.

[Shell Beau]

2. It is just that if you believe in the Bible(Revelation), you tend to look

for signs. With the 9/11, the wars, tsunami, hurricanes, global warming, etc., people tend to freak out. Yes, these things have been going on forever though!!

On edit, people for some reason like to panic. :shrug:

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. Because their ministers are useless turds

who don't understand the Bible and are addicted to the gloom and doom aspect which they think is in there, but isn't;

AND

because preaching end of the world, gloom and doom, brings one personal power as well.

Thank God I grew up in a church (The UCC) that isn't into that bullshit.

[Shell Beau]

4. Well, just cause you don't necessarily believe it,

doesn't mean it is bullshit! Just sayin'

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. Logically, yes, you are correct -

however, i call it bullshit anyway. And not because I don't believe it - it's the other way around. I don't believe it, because it's clearly bullshit. It comes not only from a totally unsophisticated reading of the Bible, but a very false way of interpreting that unsophisticated reading.

[Shell Beau]

13. How do you interpret Revelation?

I'm being serious too, not sarcastic! I am really just curious.

[Spider Jerusalem]

22. Revelation is an allegory, not a prophecy.

It's a hopeful vision of the eventual triumph of Christianity against Roman oppression. The "great beast" is the Emperor Nero. ("Neron Caesar", transliterated into the Hebrew alphabet, has a numeric value of 666.) And John of Patmos was probably out of his mind on hallucinogens when he wrote it.

[Shell Beau]

24. Some of those guys do sound like they were a little stoned!

[RevCheesehead]

7. I like to think of myself as a useful turd.

[Rabrrrrrr]

9. But you're a good minister!

You went to a legitimate seminary (even if it was probably Methodist... :-)) where I'm sure you learned how to read Scripture in a sane way and apply a hermeneutic that isn't rooted in 12th century alchemical mysticism.

[RevCheesehead]

11. I went to Duke...

for the basketball.

What's this "hermeneutic" you speak of? :silly:

[iwalktheline]

6. religiously insane

primates' brains are wired badly

our culture breeds mass numbers of these defectives

they cyclically reach a critical mass and totally fuck up human cultural development for a few generations or a few hundred years, until we collectively realize that they are insane and reassert civilization

but being civilized, we are too lenient about removing the seed wack jobs from the gene pool and suppressing the irrational, fear-of-the-other-based insanity and so inevitably the cycle begins again and again and again

we may well be in the end times--the end of human rationality (at least for a time)


Puh-raze Jeezis!

[aquaman]

8. The world will not end,

Humankind may end at some time, but the world will be around and will recover. In mothernature's eyes, humans are like cockroaches that should be exterminated.

[iwalktheline]

12. who is "mothernature"?

:shrug:

If humans do not, I don't care if the world survives

[aquaman]

14. Who is mothernature???

Are you serious?

[Shell Beau]

15. I think what they are saying is

Is mother nature God, or what? I am just trying to explain what I think they meant. Like who or what controls mother nature. :shrug:

[Shell Beau]

19. You've been a memer since 2003 and only have 22 posts?

That is nuts. :wow:

[WCGreen]

10. Tell them that they are right....

And ask them to sign there assets over to you....

[kmla]

16. Because they are ego-enabled enough to think that IT is

going to happen during THEIR lifetime....

People who tend to think this way are typically an "OMG!!!! THIS IS HUGH!!!!1111!!!!" kind of crowd. (At least in my personal obervations, that is.)

But mostly, they are just morans.

[no name no slogan]

17. Well, the world IS going to end

eventually. However, nobody's quite figured out that riddle yet. Even the Jehovah's Witnesses keep changing their date.

[Redstone]

18. Don't know about the end of the world, but does ANYONE

have any questions about global warming NOW?

Redstone

[Tafiti]

20. My dad said the same thing.

He's a fundamentalist Christian, and in response to Katrina, and upcoming Rita, he said, "It's a sign of the times."

You know, the end times. :eyes:

I don't even bother to respond anymore...

[johnnie]

21. Hell, it might end whenever

My thought on it is, who knows and who cares?

[DS1]

23. Ask them if any of them have any nice cars they won't be needing

any more. Porsches are preferable.

[evlbstrd]

26. Bumper sticker idea:

After the Rapture, can I have your car?

[caty]

25. The world has survived

for millions of years. A number of hurricanes isn't going to end the world. And, we can't even imagine what nature as done in the past before we humans came along---and yet, the world survived. We may become extinct, but the world will probably go on. The earth has a way of adjusting to change. The question is, can we evolve so that we can keep up with the changes?:think:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

27. Your question is right on the money.....

To me, that is the pivotal question.....

Can we keep up with the changes? Because if we can't, then we will be doomed, IMHO.....

And the cockroaches will inherit the earth.....

I truly believe this, BTW....

:hi:

[AllegroRondo]

28. All "end-of-the-world" prophets had one thing in common

they were all wrong.

[mitchum]

29. They really sound too stupid to be working in an office

further proof that America is NOT a meritocracy

[jus_the_facts]

30. Yes...when they DIE...their world will definitely come to an end.....

:eyes:

[Uncle Roy]

31. I think that people who are always predicticting the end of the world

do this because in some dark corner of their minds they WANT to see this world end, and be replaced with some fantasy world in which they are not such losers. Resentment and vengefulness lie at the heart of it.

[DawgHouse]

32. Why are they in the office if they think the world is ending?

I could think of better places to be and better things to do!