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[dyknight]

Is the world coming to an end? Is there more pandemonium today than ever before in history?

The Iraq war, the Timor Leste insurgency, the Congo civil war, the Thailand political crisis, the Israel-Palestinian conflict, the Japan-NorthKorea-US tension, the Bird Flu, the SARS, the Hurricane Katrina, and, they all seem to point the world in one direction: self-destruction.

Why is there so much more fighting in a modern world that champions globalisation, peace and diplomacy? Why is there so much more diseases and natural disasters? Is it God, or is it us?

[husker]

Hmm, hard to say. We're all to blame though, and God doesn't start wars and conflicts, we do. The world will never be peaceful. There will always be conflicts, but I don't think the world will end. Some events, such as Bird Flu and Hurricane Katrina, there is no one to blame. Basically what I'm saying is some things we can control and some things are just meant to happen, but nothing will be some terrible that the world will end. Any other thoughts?

[MaineFishing45]

Forget your religion for a moment and for get God and all the other things that you believe in. You need to drop who you are and your background, and just do some plain thinking with me.

...now that were on the same page. We are all human, no madder what makes us different from each other, we are all people. And people are not the most perfect thing that inhabit this earth. But one thing that we know is we are always fighting at each other for stupid things. I don't think the world will end, but people will be the fate of themselves. Instead of blaming others, we need to start preventing problems, not starting new ones.

People are the fate of themselves. So basicly I think that we will be gone, and what is here will stay, just the animals and nature that surounds us. Anyways, we all will end up killing each other off the planet, unless we can stop locking horns all the time.

But I think the web community and Trap17 Community are a different breed of people. People that have a interest in technology are most often calm and have some sense of common sense, if that makes sense at all. ! Anyways thats a little unclear of a point, but we all get the basic concept around the end of the world.

[adriantc]

I think sooner or later the world will come to an end... "Everything that has a beginning has an end!" (Oracle Matrix). Even though it is a quote from a movie it is real and true. Major steps in evolution where taken after great extinctions. The dinosaurs had to become extinct in order for menkind to appear and evolve. Our ancestor the cavemen wouldn't have stood a chance against a T-Rex...
We should also remember that death is a part of life. We, as individuals and to generalize as human race, are not made to live forever. Death is a natural part of evolution... if we wouldn't die we wouldn't feel the need to reproduce which is the engine of evolution.

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The Iraq war, the Timor Leste insurgency, the Congo civil war, the Thailand political crisis, the Israel-Palestinian conflict, the Japan-NorthKorea-US tension, the Bird Flu, the SARS, the Hurricane Katrina, and, they all seem to point the world in one direction: self-destruction.

The crisis (some bigger, some smaller) you underlined seem to have only one conclusion: self-destruction. But you should also remember that in recent history menkind has nearly averted some even bigger crisis like the Cold War. It is, up to date, the biggest crisis of all time. We were half an hour away form nuclear war and self-destruction.
I believe that the world will someday come to an end, but surely it is no going to be in the next 100 years.

PS: Someday in billions and billions of years the universe and with it life, will come to an end. So end of the world ... yes... tomorrow or the day after tomorrow ... no!

[dyknight]

check this out:
Bible: End of the World

[gameratheart]

dyknight, on Jul 2 2006, 12:54 PM, said:

check this out:
Bible: End of the World

Notice how almost all the predictions made on this page have expired. I think we should stop trying to predict the End of The World, as we're never going to get it right! Besides, doesn't the BIble say that "it will come like a thief", in other words, not forseen by any?

[Dooga]

I personally don't think the end of the world is going to affect us....

[Cerebral Stasis]

Not us as a generation, no. The fact is that we humans aren't powerful enough to destroy ourselves completely. There will always be survivors, no matter what weapon we use (excluding something completely fictionous like a planetary explosive, ozone decompiler, or terrestrial temperature modifier). However, radiation in space and the limits of speed in the physical world as we know it will pretty much restrict us to this solar system, of which this is the only inhabitable planet (and will remain as such for thousands if not millions of years). That means that either we as a race or our evolutionary descendants (if you believe in that stuff) will be destroyed either by a collision caused by a stellular body (either an asteroid or the moon crashing down on us), or the burning out of Sol (our solar system's star).

To sum it up, we're screwed, but we're just screwed in a very predictable way and we won't be screwed soon enough to make worrying about it worthwhile.

[pixieloo]

It's our fault there's gonna be an end of the world. But God is the one who's gonna end it. It might be today, tomorrow, the day after.. we won't know.

[heavensounds]

I think, that we have to define what world is first. There is another question adn that is: "From where did it come from??" only than we can talk about where it is going! People often talk about the end of our lil' earth, but nothing like that really matters to our life and joy in it. We will never be happy even if the world is not about to end because we are surely going to die so why bothering with things like that. Just try to live joyfully and believe me if one lives really joyfully, that is only possible by respecting the nature and everything including earth - if everyone respected themselves and tried to live a really joyfull life than they would respect earth and live according to all the natural laws that are easy to follow...

DON'T TRY TO SAVE THE NATURE, TRY TO LIVE BY HER RULES, BECAUSE EVERYTHING BUT US IN NATURE IS WORKING PERFECTLY!