Just wondering where everyone stands on this one.
2007-06-08 09:03:06 · 28 answers · asked by ZombieTrix 2012 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Every year someone predicts the world will end. Every, single, year.
Why would anyone believe these people?
2007-06-08 09:06:56 · answer #1 · answered by Scott B 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Global warming? I know that most of you weren't even a gleam in your fathers eyes yet but I remember when I was a teenager we were worried about global cooling. The next ice age was just around the corner. Its only been 35 years kiddies. I haven't seen the ice yet. I'm not too worried about it. So I'd say the extreme weather is due to natural cycles in the weather.
Earth warms up and the water temperature rises. the gulf streams melt the ice caps a bit. Cold water enters the gulf stream bringing colder temps south with them. The water cools the weather get colder then the natural warmth of the sun starts the process all over again. It's happened time and time again.
How arrogant of all of you to think that the climate we now have on earth is the optimum. You really have no idea. Its just more "pop" science.
However are we in the end times. Yes. But not because of weather.
2007-06-08 09:15:53 · answer #2 · answered by Tzadiq 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not the End Times, if it's the 7-year-long Tribulation Period you're referring to... since that hasn't started yet. Unless they are a preview. As the sequence of events from the 2004 Tsunami through Hurricane Wilma MAY have been a preview of the closer-and-closer spacings of disasters that are prophesied in the End Times' "birth pangs" scenario described in Matthew 24.
FASCINATING, though, is the possibility that the (now-determined-to-be-real) global warming that's going on has very little to do with actions by humans. Because the other planets are getting warmer, TOO! And that would mean that the sun has started to put out more heat. (Pluto's gone up 3 degrees; a place that is almost at absolute zero.) And THAT could tie in with impending End Times events.
2007-06-08 09:22:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you are right on both counts, because in the end times, prophecies are made in the Bible about the earth burning with a fervent heat, but it doesn't say all at once. So, it could be that God will use Global warming to bring about some of those prophecies. And yes, I do think we are just entering the end times, but that could take a long while to complete, so I'm not pushing the panic button.
2007-06-09 07:15:41 · answer #4 · answered by The Count 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I personally don't believe that global warming is caused by humans, and if it is, I believe that no scientist could accurately predict it seeing as how they can't predict a week's worth of weather.
However that doesn't mean that we aren't entering a climate shift. Only a few hundred years ago they believe the dark ages were spurred by a mini-ice age. Mother Earth is unforgiving- she gives what she can but she has her limits. It would sadden me deeply if this is a sign of the end of human life on Earth, seeing as I feel we are barely in the youth of our intellectual evolution, but it is inevitable. That is just the natural way of things on this planet.
2007-06-08 09:10:42 · answer #5 · answered by <Sweet-Innocence> 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Global warming. People have thought that we were living in the end times for thousands of years, interpreting every little earthquake and war to be some sign of the tribulation. You'd think we'd be over it by now.
2007-06-08 09:07:42 · answer #6 · answered by Drake the Deist 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Global warming.
2007-06-08 09:05:31 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced.
2007-06-08 09:06:59 · answer #8 · answered by halo 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I've only lived 60+ years but the weather isn't a lot different than when i was young. I don't get too concerned about it. I think the sun bloc people are making billions off it though and a few years down the road they will probably discover that sun bloc causes more cancer than the sun does.
2007-06-08 09:07:54 · answer #9 · answered by oldguy63 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Stop right now. For the last hundreds of years it has been thought as end times. Deep down people want to see the destruction of humanity, probably some freud thing.
2007-06-08 09:07:18 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Global warming. Climate change.
2007-06-08 09:05:56 · answer #11 · answered by Reported for insulting my belief 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋