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| BloodyValentine |
 Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 4:25 pm Post subject: End of the world |
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Imagine the scenario, the end of the world being known and we as human beings only have a year or two to exist. What do you think peoples reactions would be? Will it bring an emotional/physical toll on us? What would change in politics and world relations? The rules or would there even be any? Nihilism?
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| 425 Chaotic Requisition |
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The world would erupt in chaos and there would be pain and suffereing everywhere. The truth is beneath our poised appearence, we are completley out of control.
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| BloodyValentine |
| Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 8:47 pm Post subject: |
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| could you elaborate on that? |
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| hacobogoesrawr |
| Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 11:38 pm Post subject: |
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i'd bank on worldwide hedonism characterized by massive orgies and excessive drug usage. that's an apocalypse i'm SO ready for.
seriously, i think everything would fall into a state of chaos. i'm picturing a great schism between those folks who believe in something after and those who don't. for those who do believe, get ready to cough up anything of worth as i think indulgences would come back into reality full force. as for politics, I think it would fall nothing short of a completely failed endeavor. i figure politics are a means to regulate the dynamic human interactions that our societies are based on. when these interactions now fail to have any real consequences of substance, why would anyone act civilized? also, i think there would be strong correlation between fanaticism and how much sand remains in the hourglass.
then again, maybe we would all finally start to get along and hold hands as the final hour passes us by and sends us all light speed into oblivion. that's how it was in Einsteins dreams. |
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| 425 Chaotic Requisition |
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| BloodyValentine wrote: |
| could you elaborate on that? |
There you go.
But the yinyang wheel spins about, so something would happen to balance the terror, perhaps a well placed rapture  .
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| UKDutyPaid |
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I'm intrigued to think of what kind of evidence could exist that would convince, beyond question, the entire world that our end was certain.
But, if it did happen and providing there was no way to be a non-believer due to the strength of the evidence, then yes I think social collapse is imminent. I think we would see massive rifts and shifts in social/political groups. Nihilism for sure, as well as a good proportion of religious zeolots and I-told-you-soers gaining big followings and such.
Having said that. If the evidence that proved our imminent destruction also disproved, again beyond question, the exisitance of god or whathaveyou, then who knows what would happen to society. I really don't know if I could hazzard a guess. |
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| Scott Free |
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| UKDutyPaid wrote: |
I'm intrigued to think of what kind of evidence could exist that would convince, beyond question, the entire world that our end was certain.
But, if it did happen and providing there was no way to be a non-believer due to the strength of the evidence, then yes I think social collapse is imminent. I think we would see massive rifts and shifts in social/political groups. Nihilism for sure, as well as a good proportion of religious zeolots and I-told-you-soers gaining big followings and such.
Having said that. If the evidence that proved our imminent destruction also disproved, again beyond question, the exisitance of god or whathaveyou, then who knows what would happen to society. I really don't know if I could hazzard a guess. |
The end of the world is certain but it's the time frame that is unknown. Eventually our sun will turn into a red giant and destroy all life on earth, also we have weapons quite capable of doing the same thing and every indicator suggests that it is probable that we will do just that. |
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| zinjanthropos |
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If I knew the end was near then I'd do my damnest to be around when it all comes down. I wouldn't want to miss it for the world.  |
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| teeniewitabeenie1 |
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| UKDutyPaid wrote: |
I'm intrigued to think of what kind of evidence could exist that would convince, beyond question, the entire world that our end was certain.
But, if it did happen and providing there was no way to be a non-believer due to the strength of the evidence, then yes I think social collapse is imminent. I think we would see massive rifts and shifts in social/political groups. Nihilism for sure, as well as a good proportion of religious zeolots and I-told-you-soers gaining big followings and such.
Having said that. If the evidence that proved our imminent destruction also disproved, again beyond question, the exisitance of god or whathaveyou, then who knows what would happen to society. I really don't know if I could hazzard a guess. |
The end of the world is certain but it's the time frame that is unknown. Eventually our sun will turn into a red giant and destroy all life on earth, also we have weapons quite capable of doing the same thing and every indicator suggests that it is probable that we will do just that. |
it's so weird to think of that...that nothing we do now even matters, because one of these days for certain it will be like it never existed..all the greatest people of all time, it wont matter what they accomplished or what we will accomplish, because everything will be gone and no evidence that it ever was. Sun will become a red giant, swallow planents, it will supernova and die and no gravity pull and earth will spin out to be another piece of rock in floating out in space, until it shattered to a million pieces by another piece of floating rock......back to nothing....damn...im crying...
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| UKDutyPaid |
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| teeniewitabeenie1 wrote: |
it's so weird to think of that...that nothing we do now even matters, because one of these days for certain it will be like it never existed..all the greatest people of all time, it wont matter what they accomplished or what we will accomplish, because everything will be gone and no evidence that it ever was. Sun will become a red giant, swallow planents, it will supernova and die and no gravity pull and earth will spin out to be another piece of rock in floating out in space, until it shattered to a million pieces by another piece of floating rock......back to nothing....damn...im crying... |
Don't cry, you're focusing on the wrong thing. Don't think how sad it is that all must end. Think instead of how incredibly special and lucky we are to even exist at all. For me it makes my time alive much more exciting and special. Out of all the possible random combinations of random chaotic theory, out of all the possible combinations and ways that things could evolve, we came to exist, to share this thought. Yes, it will come to an end, but it could also not ever have happened. That's pretty f*cking amazing if you ask me. That makes me feel pretty damn special... and happy.
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| Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 9:24 am Post subject: |
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| UKDutyPaid wrote: |
| teeniewitabeenie1 wrote: |
it's so weird to think of that...that nothing we do now even matters, because one of these days for certain it will be like it never existed..all the greatest people of all time, it wont matter what they accomplished or what we will accomplish, because everything will be gone and no evidence that it ever was. Sun will become a red giant, swallow planents, it will supernova and die and no gravity pull and earth will spin out to be another piece of rock in floating out in space, until it shattered to a million pieces by another piece of floating rock......back to nothing....damn...im crying... |
Don't cry, you're focusing on the wrong thing. Don't think how sad it is that all must end. Think instead of how incredibly special and lucky we are to even exist at all. For me it makes my time alive much more exciting and special. Out of all the possible random combinations of random chaotic theory, out of all the possible combinations and ways that things could evolve, we came to exist, to share this thought. Yes, it will come to an end, but it could also not ever have happened. That's pretty f*cking amazing if you ask me. That makes me feel pretty damn special... and happy.
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that's a good point, we are special and lucky to be here just once even though life is hard and sucks most of the time. i am thankful. i was sad yesterday when i signed off, i was pondering all day even before bed, but then today i go, WHY THE HELL AM I FEELING LIKE THIS!!!my moto is "making lemons into lemonade" pull yourself together!!!!... ?....like mr stevey sunshine, there's always that silver lining with you, UKDutyPaid that's why we love you
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| 425 Chaotic Requisition |
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| "Be it matter if you are high or you are low, whatever the your mood, go with your cognitive flow". - 425 Chaotic Requsition. |
That basically means, if you are sad, be sad-it will pass. And if you are happy, be happy-hopefully it will last, then again that has to be balanced with sad so its your choice .
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| danspurs |
| Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 4:58 am Post subject: |
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heres my theory on the end of the world, if every day i said it was the end of the world, and tht i would bet 1,000,000 pounds on it and then one day the world did end i would be rich! 
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The four horsemen.
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| There would definately be chaos and anarchy. |
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