2006-10-22 23:29:41 · 18 answers · asked by Panther 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
They are either crazy, or they use it as a scare tactic to get non-believers to convert.. You should have seen the Christian Network Channels around Y2K, they were preaching it back and forth, and trying to sell 2 days MRI kits for 29.99....... If they end was near, and you were a believer, wouldn't you be in the rapture? What would you want to stock up on food for?
2006-10-22 23:33:07 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Maybe they really believe it - or maybe they've got nothing better to do! (People have been walking around with these boards for longer than I care to remember, and I guess that one day their prediction will come true!!). Mind you, if we're talking about a personal end, then death is around us all the time and our own end could be near. If they mean the end of the world, human life is but a blink of the eye when compared to the age of the universe, so the 'end' could be considered 'nigh', even if it's thousands of years away. I think I'll stop there!
2006-10-22 23:40:32 · answer #2 · answered by uknative 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What would be the point of walking around with a sign that said 'The End Isn't Nigh'?
2006-10-22 23:31:46 · answer #3 · answered by Barks-at-Parrots 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
There has been a guy in our area going round with a placard about his body for well over 35 years saying 'The end is nigh', bless him I really think its very mean of us round here to not tell him that after 35 years he should give up the ghost and accept that for him he hasn't had too much of a life because he thinks the end is near, the end will come when it wants to and no amount of advertising is going to have us taking any notice is it.
2006-10-23 00:18:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
They're pessimists, or Christians or both, which seems most likely as it's such a gloomy religion. And I agree, they're more likely wrong than right, though having lived through World War 11 and the Bush presidency (so far) one cannot be sure. Such signboards were common at the end of the 19thC and had a bit of a revival at the end of the 20thC. Millenium ends seem to alarm folk. But most likely your sign-carriers are merely Christian fundamentalists who always seem to share the gloomy view (or wish) of the little girl at the back of the class who was prone to declare "You'll get into trouble!" with an air of enormous satisfaction and bloodthirsty anticipation at any opportunity. Such activities seem to spring from the same misanthropic inclinations that got Armageddon top billing amongst the devout. It's a perverted fear of one's own death which would be more bearable if everyone went with you, perhaps. Or maybe your sign carriers are environmental realists who reckon "it's closer than you think" (which one's own end usually is) and they may be right with global warming. There was a fellow in Sydney, Australia, 50 years ago who used to go around the city at night writing "Eternity" in chalk on the pavements in perfect copperplate script. I think his motivations were similar but less misanthropic - just a gentle feller with a fixation and a longer sense of time than most folk, particularly politicians.
2006-10-22 23:53:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
How do you know? Anyway, your end is closer than you think. You are only on this earth for a short period and every day brings you closer to the end of your life. There's always the possibility too that while you're gawping at the signs in the street you might lose your concentration and inadvertently step under a car and prove their point!
2006-10-23 00:05:32 · answer #6 · answered by Doethineb 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
"Clearly isn't?" and just how do you know that? We're all going to come to an end, but we don't know when. The whole thing could come off tomorrow. Or you personally could get hit by a bus on your lunchbreak, and never make it home today.
2006-10-22 23:49:47 · answer #7 · answered by anna 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They want people to stop for a moment to rethink the thinkable and think the unthinkable.
We think that we would be happy if we had much money; now with more sufferings occur in the prosperous America, it is time to rethink about it.
We vaguely conclude that it is impossible for mankind to become a happy family; now with great means of global communication, we should think about it.
2006-10-22 23:42:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
why do people walk around with signs in london saying golf sale also!
2006-10-22 23:32:08 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
.....because they're trying to speed up their own time of death by needlessly stressing themselves out and they want the rest of us to do the same.
Either that or they have a huge superiority complex going on that they feel compelled to advertise.
2006-10-23 01:23:21 · answer #10 · answered by wreck_beach 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋