Who thinks the World is about to end.?

Answer 1

I've got a tenner on it

Answer 2

Many people believe the world will end.
I suppose the first one we know about was Zoroaster (Zarathustra) about 1200BC in IRAN or Afghanistan.He taught that the world would end with a great battle between light and dark,good and evil, the world would be consumed with fire, all evil would be destroyed, and a pure new world of light would be established.
This idea was taken up by other religions, and many Christians, Jews and Muslims have similar beliefs. The same kind of Ideas arose in many ancient civilisations.
It seems that the earliest ideas when people lived a tribal existence, hunting, food gathering and simple farming led to ideas of cyclic existence, but once people began to live in towns, more remote from nature, where human history was more important than the cycles of nature, they turned towards thoughts of a linear progression, which would lead to a final end. They put in the end the thing they feared, so the northern people thought the world would end with a cataclysmic winter.
These beliefs become more urgent in "interesting times" and in those times leaders would arise and claim that the end of the world was imminent.
Nowadays, the groups of people who believe the world will end soon include some religious people, especially Christians, Jews and Muslims who think God will end it; those who think Human beings will end it with misuse of science and technology including weapons of mass destruction; those who think it may end by a natural accident, for example by being hit by a comet or destroyed by a super-volcano; and some people think that certain ideas might develop in such a way to produce some crisis that will lead to a collapse of confidence in continued existence leading to a kind of suicide of the species.
Of course all scientists think the earth will become inhabitable, but they usually put the date (barring accidents) in the far distant future.
Do I think it is going to end soon? I don't believe that god will end the world.I think that although it is possible that people may ruin the world, may wipe themselves out, there will be some living things left alive, so it won't be a complete end. At the moment it seems possible that we could end up killing ourselves by getting caught up in a spiral of revenge, I think it unlikely that it would destroy all life and the whole world.
So that leaves the accident. This is possible, but it is unpredictable. It may happen tomorrow or not for a hundred years, so it's best to live your life as if it won't happen.
So on balance, I do not think the world is about to end, though I can understand why someone might.

Answer 3

It's been ending since it began. Kind of like...we are all dying from the day we are born. *marvels at the bleakness of her own comments* Anyway, yes, I think it is the end of the world but and it's a very big wideload-ate-too-many-donuts type of "butt"....but not just ending completely....just an end of the world as we know it. The prophecies say it really won't end...just change after termoil and apparently it's supposed to kick into high gear in June or July 2006. Oh, my looky here it's July 2006 already....yeah, I guess this could be the beginning of the end.

Answer 4

What do you mean end...cease to exist? That the earth is somehow going to vanish? Hardly likely that such a large object is going to disappear. Or do you mean that humans will become extinct? Happens to most animals, can't see why it won't happen to us too eventually. We'lll just be interesting fossils for the next intelligent life form to deciepher. Hope they're better at it than we were!

Answer 5

it depends on what you mean by about...i mean what reference of time frame are you looking at...for example say the world is 3/4 done with its lifespan, but thats like billions of years, so to a human it would be far away but for the world it would be about to end...so explain the time relation to answer that one fully...perspective is stupid though..oh well

Answer 6

For the thinking mind, the world is always about to end.
The thinking mind creates the world, and lives in fear of the illusion ending.
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Answer 7

Nostradamus thought.
The Muslims. According to Quran

Answer 8

its not going to happen soon but will eventually happen. if no big catastrophic events happen the world will over populate then we will die off till there is only 20,000 people left on the planet like it has done before over the course of our planets lifetime then we will populate the world again and die off again this will happen over and over until the planet dies.

Answer 9

i believe it is going to happen, it might not happen in our life times but i think in the next 70 - 150 years. everything the bible predicted is happening, the only thing is are we ready, i have only just started going to church i always believed but never went, my dad does not believe in god and my mum is a jehovah witness. hope that is how you spell it. i feel i am a good person, im ready to meet my maker, after i have sex a few times though. tidy

Answer 10

i do I'm going to bed so my world ends in about ten minutes

Answer 11

The world,as you perceive it, might end for you, but my world is constant--my world is eternal.