what is the end of the world?

Question

debate at the moment is what is the end of the world

my friend says darkness is the end of the world because if the sun was to disappear nothing would be left apart from darkness.

we all no how life ends

what about water / air where does that end

what do you think is the end of the world?

Answer 1

An unborn child in the womb of his mother, feels the birth pains and must think to himself. This is it. This is the end of the world for me.
He is right in a sense. It is the end of his life as a fetus and the beginning of a new type of life.
All big changes go through a process that can be called death or "end". Which does not mean non existence and destruction.
Similarly if we look at the present day situation, is there anything in the world that has not reached it's end already? Or dying a slow death? Anything?
Everything has reached it's "end" and at the same time all things have started - although not discerned necessarily yet by everyone - a new life?
Our old religious beliefs of the past are dead. Science has put an end to blind beliefs.
Our way at looking at gender difference has changed completely. Men and women are considered equal in their capacity to contribute to the evolution of society.
Our economic systems are dead or dying because they are not capable to solve recurrent crises or the new ones that appear.
The way we look at other races and nations has to change drastically as we see from our errors that brute force is not capable to solve them.
The old world is already dead, or has already "ended" if you prefer in religious vocabulary, and a new one is taking is place.

Answer 2

The "end of the world" is different things to different people.

For some, when they physically die, they believe that their world has ended; or in fact, this world has come to an end.

One can also "die to things of this world"--at which point, the world they knew previously "ends".

Another "world end" can occur when "form" ends. "Form" can be ideas, ways of living and thinking. When these change, then those "worlds end".

Yes, you are correct that if the sun was to disappear that this world would, in fact, "end"--or "end" as we know it. The same goes for the sudden disappearance of water, an atmosphere, etc. (see Mars). Again, the world AS WE KNOW IT would end.

...but world which was affected by these changes would continue to exist...

Since you are playing "what if".

Just for fun, imagine if the earth was to evolve to a point where it BECAME "the sun" or it's own sun--and produced it's own 'light'; hence eliminating the need for us to have any sun. Then would it matter, or would our world end if the sun suddenly disappeared?

There may be other worlds which we are not aware of that do NOT require or exist as in the same "physical sense" as the world which we now exist or are aware of.

Regards,

Answer 3

The end of the world will also be the end of the Universe as we know it because both are tied together.

The fibres of the known universe are supposed to be held together by the gravitational pull of the sun, as everything rotates around it, but as time goes by the sun will get weaker and smaller and the gravitational force will reduce proportionately.

The outer astral bodies will break free and shoot of to who knows where and gradually every other body will do the same leaving just a small sun behind as evidence that we all existed.

Answer 4

If you can eventually comprehend it, then in time you will realize that there was never a beginning or end. Everything that exists is made up of what used to be. If matter doesn't "end" then nothing can "end". You exist because something before you did. On the flip side of that coin; you exist [and so did everything before you] because you are apart of the future. In life, the universe and everything there is never an end. Even if there existed an end, it would only be [in existence] because there is a new beginning.

Answer 5

I think 'yahoo answers' will one day evolve into an intelligent life form, with it's own views on how the world should function. It will be so frustrated reading about human problems that it will decide to kill us all off. It will worm it's way into the pentagon database and develop a way to set off every nuclear missile simultaneously. These missiles will kill all Earthly lifeforms and nothing will be left but the rubble of our once great cities. This to me is the end of the world.

Answer 6

Every second is the end of the world. And the beginning. It is the end of the galaxy. And the beggining. It is the end of the universe. And the beggining. Every time something dies, something is born, someone is murdered, it's the end. And the beggining. But as long as we have hope, we will never truely die. Murdered ones go to heaven, and murderers the exact opposite. Things are brought into this universe everytime something dies.

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Answer 8

recenterly some people finded Newton script,that is about "the end of the world " foretell.i think the cause is from
much nuclear reactor in the living space. just like 'the apple'
question,maybe it will happen,someone's sang "it's the end on the world..."

Answer 9

The end of the world happens every day, when people die.There is nothing you are nothing .Water,sun,earth it doesn't exist.That's the end of the world,as we know it.

Answer 10

Eventually, the sun, being a star, will go supernova. That means it will expand out into the orbits of its planets. That will be the physical end of the world.

Of course, man will be long gone by then.