Do you believe the world will end?

Question

I'm curious to hear some thoughts on the issue. I am not entirely sure what I believe, but I know I don't believe in fire and brimstone or dooms day. I think if we as humans don't take care of our planet, our race will slowly die out. For if we are one with the earth, nature and the universe, and treat it well. It will treat you well in return. You get what you give. Any thoughts?

To help some of you grasp my question better, I don't believe in the whole revolations story of the end of them world. I do believe that at some point we as a race and our planet will cease to exist.

Answer 1

I do.

I happen to be a Christian, but ultimately it isn't relevant whether you are a person who believes in God, any god, or not.

As you do not believe in "fire and brimstone or dooms day", I'll approach it from another angle...

First, to propose we might be living the experience we call "life" from merely some alternate state of matter or perception is fine, but it fails to answer your question.

This can and does play a role for you, it does for all of us. If we are just perceiving this life, or dreaming it, then it will definitely end at some point. Not a lot more need be said about that. Once you cease to perceive this life and this world, it will be gone.

But I doubt that is what you believe either.

So that leaves us with this: If you believe in what the Bible teaches us, the world will end. If you believe no one is really here anyway, as I mentioned above, the world will end. And finally the other possibility is the purely scientific analysis. In that even there is no doubt, this world will end. We know enough about physics and astronomy to conclude that ultimately the world will cease to exist in one of two ways.

First it may be destroyed by some cataclysmic cosmic event such as a meteor or comet impact. Had the comet that hit Jupiter hit us, it would already be over.

Second is the fact our sun will eventually cease to exist via an incredible explosion and collapse that will destroy this world.

regardless of what human beings do, the life span of a planet is finite and beyond our control.

Hope this helps

Answer 2

scientifically...the sun will eventually turn into a Big Red and the Earth, if that is what you mean by world, will be engulfed into its fiery abyss...

life is the battle of the fittest...we as humans are adapting and becoming more fit for survival...natural selectionis inevitable and humans will probably be the last species that nature chooses to die out because we can think of overcoming it. The Sun may engulf the Earth but that will be over a billion years from now. Humans may not even live on Earth anymore...we may live in another solar system or even galaxy...who knows where technology will lead us but i know that humans are most fit for survival and most likely will be the last to die off...

everything however begins and ends...well is that necessarily true...did the universe begin and will it end?...we cant prove that. All we know is that science will find a way and religion will find a way to explain science...

Humans may never die off but chances are they will...but chances were that humans would not be picked out of the millions of species to reason...

The truth is there will be no end of the world refferred to as the universe, it is unpredictable for an end to the world refferred to as humans, and there will be an end to the world refferred to as planet Earth.

Answer 3

Nothing mankind can do will stop what has snowballed into the ruin of the planet. Individual peoples will continue to do what they want with little or no regard for the cumulative impact he/she adds to the trashing of the planet. We, as a people, have tasted the fruits of desire and will milk the planet for everything it's worth, down to the last drop! That would be the most likely way the world will end, but hate and war will be the final curtain call. Sorry, it can't be fixed, the boat is sinking and the hole is getting bigger.

Answer 4

I'm still not sure that it ever began.



This is more easily understandable if one considers the actual scale of the components of an atom. If one takes into account the fact that the neutrons, protons and electrons of an atom actually have huge spaces between them it becomes clear that the atoms that make up seemingly solid objects are made up of 99+ percent empty space.

This alone does not seem too important till you add the idea that the atoms that make up seemingly solid objects are more of a loose conglomeration that share a similar attraction but never really touch each other.

At first glance this does not really seem relevant, but closer analysis reveals that this adds a tremendous amount of empty space to solid objects that are already made up of atoms that are 99 percent space. When so-called solid objects are seen in this light it becomes apparent that they can in no way be the seemingly solid objects they appear to be.

We ourselves are not exceptions to this phenomenon.

These seemingly solid objects are more like ghostly images that we interpret as solid objects based on our perceptual conclusions.

From this we must conclude that Perception is some sort of a trick that helps us to take these ghostly images and turn them into a world we can associate and interact with. This clever device seems to be a creation of our intellect that enables us to interact with each other in what appears to be a three dimensional reality.

I hope that helps to answered your question.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 5

treat others the way you like them to treat you, i think that applies to mother earth too... maybe with all this global warming thing we'll end up in extinction, maybe if we have enough time we will build technology to repair whatever damage we made to earth or to escape to another M-class planet, revelations speak about fire falling from the sky, maybe that's how the old Prophets interpret global warming, that's only a theory, of course i like the creation theory, the one that say: if you are good, at the end God will grant you eternal life, that sounds better...

Answer 6

It has to. The governments of our world have already set the path. Look at what our govt has already done with this 911 thing and the war....it will only get worse...they are resonsible for global warming and all the bad that is going on right now. They control money and they do nothing to help those who need it most

Answer 7

Here's a theory...

Time is only an illusion produced by the succession of our states of consciousness as we travel through eternal duration, and it does not exist where no consciousness exists in which the illusion can be produced; but "lies asleep." The present is only a mathematical line which divides that part of eternal duration which we call the future, from that part which we call the past. Nothing on earth has real duration, for nothing remains without change -- or the same -- for the billionth part of a second; and the sensation we have of the actuality of the division of "time" known as the present, comes from the blurring of that momentary glimpse, or succession of glimpses, of things that our senses give us, as those things pass from the region of ideals which we call the future, to the region of memories that we name the past. In the same way we experience a sensation of duration in the case of the instantaneous electric spark, by reason of the blurred and continuing impression on the retina. The real person or thing does not consist solely of what is seen at any particular moment, but is composed of the sum of all its various and changing conditions from its appearance in the material form to its disappearance from the earth. It is these "sum-totals" that exist from eternity in the "future," and pass by degrees through matter, to exist for eternity in the "past." No one could say that a bar of metal dropped into the sea came into existence as it left the air, and ceased to exist as it entered the water, and that the bar itself consisted only of that cross-section thereof which at any given moment coincided with the mathematical plane that separates, and, at the same time, joins, the atmosphere and the ocean. Even so of persons and things, which, dropping out of the to-be into the has-been, out of the future into the past -- present momentarily to our senses a cross-section, as it were, of their total selves, as they pass through time and space (as matter) on their way from one eternity to another: and these two constitute that "duration" in which alone anything has true existence, were our senses but able to cognize it there.

Answer 8

if we dont care of it, what AL GORE walking around the globe, the phenomenal global warming, moreover, on the side of spiritual intentions nothing can assure neither declare the happening the end of the world, so long God is entrusted in this matter.

Answer 9

Yes. In 5 billion years our sun is likely to go nova.

In the meantime, our society will change. Just as many cultures have grown and then died off, the world as we know is likely going to change.

Answer 10

so what's to believe, its an astronomical certainty the earth will be turned into a burnt crisp by our sun's eventual supernova......