And if you do how does that make you feel?
2007-02-14 09:42:35 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
No. Good old mother earth has been around for more than 4 billion years. Its the height of arrogance to think that something is going to pick the flash of time that we humans are here to end the earth prematurely. Its also arrogance to think we could even come close to destroying it. Destroying ourselves is another matter altogether. We might well manage that but the odds are still pretty low on that too.
2007-02-14 09:56:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Probably, I wouldn't care if it did. I was thinking about it earlier; like Christ coming back and everything. The way the world is now there's probably going to be like 10 people going to heaven, it seems at times. It's really deep these days; the overwhelming majority of people we think are living right and doing the right thing will probably be down here with the rest of us if and when that happens. There's a good chance that none of us even know anyone who is, or that so few of us make it in it wouldn't even disrupt life the way that we thought that it would, though things would certainly get really dark, really quick.
Then again in my lifetime they always have been. If you're talking about, the world ending, like the planet being destroyed or man killing each other, if there is a God, then no that will probably never happen, depending on what you believe or how you interpret that. If there isn't, then it could happen tommorrow. But there must be, given the devices of mass destruction that we have there's no logical reason why we didn't destroy the world 50 years ago. Then again, if we don't stop polluting the atmosphere, we'll all die before our time anyway because of the radiation from the sun. You know if we stopped polluting right now, it'd still take 50 years for the ozone layer to correct itself.
Quite honestly I don't care if it did happen. I'm not that old, only 34, but there isn't anything else I really want to do, nothing else I really want to see. If I have kids or am in the position to actually help someone else out, monetarily, emotionally, spiritually, that's about all I need. It'd be nice to be the best that I can, to live to my full potential, too see that play out but if I had the right mindset to do so I could live with that much ...
2007-02-14 17:51:30 · answer #2 · answered by collard greens with hash browns 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First, we need to learn what "time" is, because by modern views of the workings of time, the world has already ended, but this end is not yet widely manifested.
At the end of each mortal's lifetime, the "end" -- of the material world, at the very least, manifests itself to the individual. All legends and fables regarding the "end times" can therefore be viewed as symbolically referent to the death of the individual.
In this sense, the world "ends" with my own end.This both pleases and rebukes my ego.
2007-02-14 18:29:51 · answer #3 · answered by Dr. Souldogs 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope. The world will keep right on turning without any one of us just fine.
Much as our perceptions try to tell us we're the centre of everything (that belief conferred a real survival advantage during our evolution), our ever-growing knowledge of the world has steadily pushed us away from centre stage.
A few hundred years ago, we 'knew' our planet was the centre of the universe. Now we've discovered we're living on a tiny speck, way out on the edge of a nondescript galaxy that's just one among a vast multitude.
2007-02-14 18:12:17 · answer #4 · answered by mister science 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no. the world will go on further than i shall:
1.the sun will not burn out
2.we are a threat to outselves but not THAT big of one
3.a disaster would kill life but not end the world
4.our technology would tell us if a space object were a
threat
it makes me feel no difference. i believe in science.
2007-02-15 17:25:52 · answer #5 · answered by its ME !!! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it will but I kind of wish it would. Not becuase I get off on human death and suffering or want to die myself, but I want to experience the biggest thing that ever happens in all of human history which is what I expect the end of the world to be.
2007-02-14 17:47:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The world ends for everyone. It's just part of the deal and it is as natural as the beginning.
2007-02-14 17:59:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can't say yes or no. There's so much about our world and universe we don't know about... that no one can say what's going to happen tomorrow.
2007-02-14 17:47:56 · answer #8 · answered by Someguy234 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
of course, when I die the world as I know it dies with me
2007-02-14 18:00:57 · answer #9 · answered by BANANA 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When asked that question in the Bible, Jesus replied,"only the Father knows the exact day and hour".
2007-02-14 17:46:06 · answer #10 · answered by WC 7 · 3⤊ 3⤋