IS the end of the world nigh???

Answer 1

only the end of the world as we know it........as we grow we change, so our personal world ends and begins many times in one lifetime, some poeple do not seem to change or no longer change, is not that sad, what a bore that becomes........would you be happy marring one the never evolves, that never learns new ways to make you happy.......is that how devorce comes about....so many devorces, and all they had to do was allow change, to allow new insight, to want to create, oh my love how much do care for you,how far will i go to make you happy, will i go the distance, will i sacrifice my pride for love, what is pride if it is not accompanied with love......change is in demand at all times.....our children go to school to learn new things, they go to work to deepen that learning, if you love some one, do you not want to deepen that love, or is it enough as it is..........i say every thing can get deeper,greater, there is no limit to what love will do.......love loves to love, therefore love evolves always to greater love, or else it no longer truely loves love.....now is that possible...............process........see ya lovas on the other side

Answer 2

Jehovah's Witnesses think so. They believe that 144,000 people, who were born in the year 1917 (the year could be wrong but it's definately around that year) that were "chosen". They say when the last of the 144,000 chosen ones die, then Armageddon. In other words, since it is 2006 that would mean the chosen are now 89 years old. When the last of them has died then kiss your butt goodbye. The end of the world is here!

And to make matters worse, the 144,000 get to be God's little helpers up there in heaven while everybody else, well I should say all those that are JWs get the wonderful job of cleaning up and burrying the dead. Good thing they will then live forever because that's how long it will take to straighten up!!

Answer 3

1. The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics states that the quality of all energy in the Universe is degraded irreversibly....the inexorable death of the universe is not only predicted, its mandated by entropy.
2. It's an astonomical surety that our Sun will supernova in a billion years, leaving the earth a burned crisp...

The thought that by the very nature of entropy the ultimate and only possible future for man is annihilation has infiltrated our culture like a paralysis. "How is it possible to understand life when the entire world is ordered by a law such as the second principle of thermodynamics, which points to death and annihilation?" This is what philosphers since the early Greek days have been wondering...

There are many forms of extinction you may not have heard of. For example super-volcanoes, the most destructive force on this planet. An eruption would destroy a vast area of land and trigger a nuclear winter. The whole of Yellowstone is a massive super volcano - and it is 40,000 years late in its cycle of eruptions. Scientists have been noticing some strange tectonic activity in the park…

The combined nuclear capacity of the US and USSR is more than enough to kill every human on this planet. Nuclear Holocaust is the stuff of nightmares but the Cuban Missile Crisis showed us how close we can come so easily. But there are little known incidents in which nuclear submarines have been shockingly close to launching, with no crisis elsewhere.

There is also the threat from bacteria and viruses. Bacteria are becoming immune to our antibiotics at a much faster rate than we are discovering new ones. Eventually we will have nothing left to fight them with. Terrorists and leaders of rogue states have long been trying to produce large quantities of tropical viruses, such as Ebola and Lassa Fever. New technology allows these viruses to be engineered to be more contagious, stronger and harder to kill. Their effect on the human body is already terrifying.

The Bible prophesises the end of the world in the Battle of Armageddon. Many scriptures in the Bible describe this event, and give clues to how and when it may happen. Several of them seem to point to a date of 2007 for the return of the Antichrist and the beginning of the Battle. They depict in detail how the Battle will be fought - it starts with an alliance of Arab nations invading Israel.

Millions could also die with rising sea levels. If the Antarctic ice sheet were to melt then sea levels around the world would rise by 55 meters, completely flooding hundreds of large cities such as Los Angeles, New York and Tokyo. Now there is a large amount of evidence that the ice sheet is thinning and global sea levels are starting to rise. With the predicted rise in global temperatures over the next century the rate of melting can only increase.

Aliens invasions are the stuff of science-fiction, but could soon become very real. Of all the trillions of other stars in the universe, surely we cannot be the only ones with life. There are numerous ways that aliens could break the light speed barrier; such as worm holes, folding space and 'hyper-space'. There are numerous reasons why an alien race might wish to invade Earth, such as needing new land or resources, or simply doing what we call 'ethnic cleansing'.

New experiments being carried out at a particle accelerator called the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) could have unthinkable consequences. There, and at other such places, scientists are attempting to recreate the big bang - the event that formed the universe. Some predict that they could cause a black hole which would consume the Earth, others that it could turn Earth into a planet of 'strange' matter, leaving it with no substance, and another possibility is that an explosion would be released from the lab with infinite energy.

The most famous example of an event that could cause Armageddon - possibly due to the movie - is a Near Earth Object (NEO). This term describes asteroids and comets passing close to Earth. There are millions of these capable of hitting the Earth with apocalyptic force. Impact would cause vast fireballs, huge earthquakes to ripple round the globe and towering dust clouds that would cause a nuclear winter.

Answer 4

It's hard to apply a time-table to the word nigh. I believe nigh means coming, or inevitable. If that's the case then yes the "End is Nigh".

Answer 5

Not for at LEAST a half-billion years. (See timeline below.)

Myopic pessimists have been predicting the end of the world for ages. They think that they and the time they live in are somehow exceptional, and warrant being thought of differently from all the aeons that came before or which are to follow. But time doesn't listen to the doomsayers.

Oh, and before anyone mentions it...even the worst-case scenarios for global warming (which themselves are pretty unlikely) would not result in the "end of the world;" at worst, a historically brief hiccup in civilization.

Answer 6

What world are talking about ?
The planet earth or our psychological world. The planet earth might be destructed sooner but we don't want to end our psychological world. Our psychological world is our thinking, our selfishness (free will whatever you call it , ourselves). Our limited and being exclusive mentality is the one that is destroying our mother earth. We don't want to die to this greediness, the pyramid mentality that every one wants to be on top wants to be somebody and kick everybody around us. If each one can stop this horrible personalities of ours then that's the end of our psychological world and we can let this mother earth lives forever.

Answer 7

depends on your perspective, from the stellar view yes once the sun goes red giant the earth should be doing it's popcorn impression any time now but alas we are only mortal so suck it up and keep moving

Answer 8

Forget Nostradamus, religion, doomsayers. Go to your local bookmaker. Odds on, start worrying

Answer 9

Sure it is, now just take it easy an the doctor will be RIGHT over.

Answer 10

it ended in 2000,remember? this is just a big illusion