I would consider it an honor and totally cool if this truly was the end of times.....

[trumad]

Think about it...Mankind has existed for a 2 to 300,000 years....

My existence on this planet---if I'm lucky will be 100 years.

If the end of times occurs in my tiny 100 years-----well----that would be fucking awesome.

Edited for correct time on earth.

[redwitch]

1. Pollyanna!

:-) Talk about the glass being half full attitude!

[trumad]

2. Hell yeah...

I'm 52--- so what if I get robbed a few years....

I think I've been watching to many doomsday flicks... going to see Battle LA today.

[Cal33]

22. There are those who believe they have not only a physical

body, but also a non-material soul. It wouldn't make too much
difference even if the whole earth were to be burnt to ashes
by the sun's becoming a super-nova (which, scientists say, will
happen in about 5 billion years).

There are zillions of other planets that can support physical
beings -- however these beings may look like, and whatever
the chemistry they're made up of.

So what's there to worry about? :o)

[Sky Masterson]

3. Being a devout non-believer in gods and the afterlife

I wouldn't be cool with it ever.

[Cal33]

20. The Swiss have built shelters deep into the Alps with enough

necessities for their whole population to last 5 years. Every year they
remove the oldest supplies and put in a year's worth of new ones.

Let's say there is an all-out world-wide nuclear conflict. The majority
of Swiss wouldn't make it on time to the shelters, but those living
nearby would. So, some Swiss would survive.

I understand the Swedes have some similar provisions for their population.
Some of them would survive, too.

The human race most likely will continue, regardless of what happens
(including natural disasters like being hit by a huge rock from space).

Some American expatriates are living in those countries.

[zeemike]

4. But it is not the end of the earth that is being predicted.

It is an end to an age....but it is then predicted that we will have a thousand years of peace....where we beat our swords into plowshares and every man sits under his own fig tree.
At least those are the predictions of the Bible.
So I too would welcome seeing the end of one age that was absorbed with violence and hate and the beginning of one of love and peace....you bet.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

5. Ever seen the film "Last Night?"

A great Canadian flick from Don McKellar. Half moving depiction of how people would react to the end/half black comedy

As the sun is about to go nova, McKellar's character makes the very same point as you.

[trumad]

9. I'll check it out

[Lefta Dissenter]

6. you're both

too damned cheery. Stop that and go to your room.

and while you're there, make your bed and fold your clothes. I don't care if the end of the world IS coming, it's not getting you out of doing your chores!

[Syrinx]

7. I've thought about this before

It would make dying more comfortable. If we all went out together.

[Fumesucker]

13. A song about all going together..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAEmhqdLFs

:hi:

[Syrinx]

14. dialup here

I'll check it out. It'll take some time. :)

[Uben]

8. Is Jeebus coming?

There was a guy holding a sign that said "REPENT" standing by the roadside asking for money. He looked a lot like Jeebus. I knew I shoulda gave him some bucks. Guess I'll prepare for a "warm" eternity.

[trumad]

11. Snarf...

Poor Jesus comes back---has no money....has to beg just to eat.

That would be a great movie.

[ixion]

10. Mankind has been around for several hundred thousand years, not millions, but other than that

Yeah, if this really were the 'End Times' it would be a bittersweet honor to experience one of the primary Long Term Prophecies of humanity.

[trumad]

12. I should have said creatures....

[trumad]

15. I edited it

googled and found it was just a couple of hundred thousand years.

[ixion]

17. cool...thanks!

:toast:

[Dennis Donovan]

16. if such a thing were to happen, I only hope that it's quick but that we get advance notice...

...because, as my last official act, I'd strip naked, take my guitar out into the street and play "It's the End Of the World As We Know It."

[madokie]

18. Why would you want to scare the neighbors

with all that nakedness :-)

[Tesha]

21. Yes, but would you "feel fine" about it???? (NT)

[Tesha]

19. What are the odds, ehh?

Powerful horsemen running around dealing death
and destruction, trumpets sounding, sheep and
goats, Democrats and Republicans being sorted?

How cool would that all be???

Tesha

[Cal33]

23. Just look at the larger picture: Our earth will end some day, since

all stars and their planets do. It's only a question of when and
how. But, out of the "ashes" new stars and planets will be formed.
This has been going on for the past 14 billion years, ever since
the Big Bang.

There are some 400 billion stars in our galaxy the Milky Way,
and some 100 to 200 billion other galaxies. From the sheer
numbers alone, mathematically there are bound to be other planets
capable of supporting living forms. Many of them have already
been terminated, and new ones are being formed. Our solar system
will go through the same thing. It's a natural process.