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End of the World?

State Of Civilization?


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One in seven thinks end of world is coming: poll | Reuters

I'm not advocating an impending TEOTWAWKI event as much as questioning a rising anxiety among people that the world is becoming scarily confusing. With natural disasters increasing, environmental changes from nature and humans, urban sprawl, economic upheaval, lack of medical coverage, gov debt, ME unrest, continuous protests, terrorism, rising energy needs and costs of living is there an unease in today's world unmatched by previous generations? What seemed more clear about the right and wrong of things is very befuddling in media coverage and there's more division and disagreement than I remember in the recent past.

No doubt, society and the world has always been changing. With the advent of computers, digital media and electronic communication, technology is rapidly modernizing and altering the worlds cultures from traditional to new age. But is this sudden transformation from the historic values of our ancestors altering the psychic landscape faster than our civilization can handle? Is the angst of it being slowly torn apart semi-real or another headline for sensationalism and overreaction?
 
Apocalpyse? Hrrm...

the US is at %40 obesity while several hundreds of thousands are starving on earth any given day...

God is likely gonna redirect a meteor straight to north america...

that'd be sooo cooooool.
 
Nothing lasts forever - sure, the world will end: but I doubt we'll be here to see it. . . we'll check out long before that. And it won't just be the US going out - we're amid globilization, donchano!
 
Apocalpyse? Hrrm...

the US is at %40 obesity while several hundreds of thousands are starving on earth any given day...

God is likely gonna redirect a meteor straight to north america...

that'd be sooo cooooool.

That's a good point MK that there is an increasing divide between classes. The affluent and movers of society are separating from the masses like cream rising to the top. And though that has always happened, not to the degree that is now occurring mainly due to the Capitalism, Consumerism and Debt Crisis connection that's driving the current events. Almost everything that's happening is as a result.
 
Nothing lasts forever - sure, the world will end: but I doubt we'll be here to see it. . . we'll check out long before that. And it won't just be the US going out - we're amid globilization, donchano!


Yeah, but I'm not really addressing the inevitable scenario of the determinable future for humans. This is a question that are we currently facing a world altering transition, more dramatic than the industrial revolution or Dark Ages?

I used to be able to scan the Headlines and say "I got it" for the best part. Now I look at the world events and say, "Uhhhhh,, I dunno"? Got a sinking feeling the other shoe is going to drop because of the sheer volume of craziness unraveling.
 
The world is fine. Personally, I wish the 10% or so who think the Mayans were right would just off themselves now and make the world a better place for everyone remaining. Since they tend to be the less intelligent and educated, that's a net bonus.

So all you people who buy into the Mayan crap... put a gun to your head and pull the trigger for the sake of humanity.
 
the world will end when the sun becomes a red giant in a few billion years. only vampires and other immortals need worry, however.
 
End of the World?

That's essentially my signature, lol.

Yeah, we need a change... a big change... too much **** in this world.
 
I think there is major change coming. Whether we survive or not will depend on the decisions we make. The United States of America is an empire gone out of control around the world. We spread this notion of "democracy," but when a country decides to go against our wishes...we bomb them. The only countries that can stand against us are powers like Russia and China, or countries protected by either country. I think the American people are beginning to awaken from their apathy on foreign affairs.

A lot of people are asking "What have we become?" Here we are supposedly the "protectors of peace," yet we have been at war for over a decade. We have been at a state of covert war for longer than that.

Other then our foreign debacle is our economic woes. I can tell you that they American dollar is losing value. Why are gas prices higher? Is it because we don't drill enough? No, it is because our dollar today is considerably worth less then it was years ago. As the world tries to slowly convert to a world currency; it will be hell here when the dollar loses the world reserve status. People don't realize that our dollar at the world reserve status is the only thing preventing hyperinflation and that won't last forever. So, we're going to be dealing with an economic problem the likes of which nobody has seen.

With those economic strains and our ever growing cost of foreign intervention...the American empire will implode on itself. That is the direction we're heading into. We can't sustain being in 130 countries around the world, and losing our currency. On top of everything are these false unemployment numbers. They say we're "improving," but those numbers only indicate those under protected unemployment benefits and not those dropped or ineligible. Our true unemployment rate is near 20% when factoring all of that.

Will all of that "End the World?" If America collapses then it will cause worldwide catastrophe. Do we have to continue down this path of self destruction? No. Our decisions now will dictate what happens in the coming years.
 
We should be so lucky.....
 
One in seven thinks end of world is coming: poll | Reuters
No doubt, society and the world has always been changing. With the advent of computers, digital media and electronic communication, technology is rapidly modernizing and altering the worlds cultures from traditional to new age. But is this sudden transformation from the historic values of our ancestors altering the psychic landscape faster than our civilization can handle? Is the angst of it being slowly torn apart semi-real or another headline for sensationalism and overreaction?

Likely some of both. It is more than some people can handle, and not so for others. Personally, that is one of the reasons I live in relative isolation. Alot of people have a very low threshhold for anxiety-producing conditions, so I prefer to keep my distance. Whatever the case, one can't control anything besides one's own reactions and adaptation to circumstances.
 
4 billion brown skinny people will summon a torrential storm of human **** that will not end for weeks and will erase western civilization and leave the remainder fertile for the agriculture of the worlds abused...

...

XD
 
I believe the end of the world as we know it is coming, but not the end of life (even human life) on Earth. What I foresee is a massive change in what the world is like on a grand scale. A New Era if you will.
 
I also believe we are going to see a big change. It's likely to get ugly before it gets better. I don't really know what will set it off or if it will be in my life time. I just know things can't continue to go in the direction they are. There is entirely to much divide. Hell our own country can't even unite unless something bad happens.

I have prepared in case it happens while I am alive, but I hope it doesn't. I would rather the world worked out it's issue instead of fight them out. Either way I am prepared for both.
 
the world will end when the sun becomes a red giant in a few billion years. only vampires and other immortals need worry, however.

Actually, it will be a bad day for everyone, the planet will be incinerated. For a few million years before that, surface temperatures will be in the thousands of degrees. Won't happen for billions of years though, if we're still here, we deserve to fry.
 
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Actually, it will be a bad day for everyone, the planet will be incinerated. For a few million years before that, surface temperatures will be in the thousands of degreez. Won't happen for billions of years though, if we're still here, we deserve to fry.

No no - if we pass out of the Goldilocks zone then that means a planet elsewhere has passed into it and we'll just relocate. . .how else do you think we got here? :D
 
Actually, it will be a bad day for everyone, the planet will be incinerated. For a few million years before that, surface temperatures will be in the thousands of degrees. Won't happen for billions of years though, if we're still here, we deserve to fry.

Life on Earth will die long before the Earth actually gets consumed by the sun.
 
From a religious standpoint no man knows when the Rapture will ensue.

From a differing pov, who really knows when the world will end? I think the best actions for us as a whole is to use as much green energy like wind and solar as possible. Find the most effective means to cut back on exhaust fumes which pollute our ozone layer. Every person should invest in their own gardens for self-sufficiency. Take care of the Earth, nurture it, and you will provide, at least from an ecological view, a better world for your descendants.
 
From a religious standpoint no man knows when the Rapture will ensue.

From a differing pov, who really knows when the world will end? I think the best actions for us as a whole is to use as much green energy like wind and solar as possible. Find the most effective means to cut back on exhaust fumes which pollute our ozone layer. Every person should invest in their own gardens for self-sufficiency. Take care of the Earth, nurture it, and you will provide, at least from an ecological view, a better world for your descendants.

The Rapture is a whole different debate to me...it doesn't exist and you'll never see that word used in the Bible.

I agree with you on self sufficiency. Taking care of the planet is an issue to be taken seriously.
 
I was around in 1978. Today has nothing on that era.


Gas shortages, gas lines, gas rationing, people believing it was the end of the fossil fuel era. 3 Mile Island scares people off nuclear. The USSR was still expanding its evil empire and pointing missles at us and threatening to use them. Carter, talking about the "misery index". Recession, jobs gone, textiles gone, manufacturing going bye bye. Hostages in Iran. Plane hijackings every week. Israel and the middle east constantly on the verge of another war.


Many believed the end was near. The end of America, or the end of the world. Few felt any hope.


Those were dark days.


This? This is nothing.
 
If the GOPs get more power then they have or if the Dems don't grow a spine, we're doomed.
 
One in seven thinks end of world is coming: poll | Reuters

I'm not advocating an impending TEOTWAWKI event as much as questioning a rising anxiety among people that the world is becoming scarily confusing. With natural disasters increasing, environmental changes from nature and humans, urban sprawl, economic upheaval, lack of medical coverage, gov debt, ME unrest, continuous protests, terrorism, rising energy needs and costs of living is there an unease in today's world unmatched by previous generations? What seemed more clear about the right and wrong of things is very befuddling in media coverage and there's more division and disagreement than I remember in the recent past.

No doubt, society and the world has always been changing. With the advent of computers, digital media and electronic communication, technology is rapidly modernizing and altering the worlds cultures from traditional to new age. But is this sudden transformation from the historic values of our ancestors altering the psychic landscape faster than our civilization can handle? Is the angst of it being slowly torn apart semi-real or another headline for sensationalism and overreaction?

I think the ends been coming since the begining. In that context, they're right. :coffeepap
 
I just realized, we'll never see parts II & III of the hunger games.

That sucks.
 
Everything that has a beginning has an end, Neo.
 
You'll just have to read the books instead. Literary challenge.

I just realized, we'll never see parts II & III of the hunger games.

That sucks.
 
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