Is the End approaching?

[Gambit]

Yes, the end is approaching. The very fact that there will be an end, suggests as much. The end for us could come soon; however, based on current expected models it isn't going to. I don't know why, but for some reason this thread reminds me of the following video:

[FallentoReason]

Show us Historical Jesus, or it isn't going to happen.

[Faith No More]

Yes! The end of religion is coming near! Scream in Victory! We must celebrate!

EDIT: After rereading the OP, there has been a misunderstanding...

[Taqiyya Mockingbird]

Which end? The end comes every day. Just check your local obits for the proof.

[LastPoet]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRwwUZLV-IE

sorry, couldn't resist.

[Brian37]

I really do hate the meme in our species history that a natural mundane cycle such as death or seasons changing are the product of a cosmic battle of invisible super heros vs super villains. It would be laughable if people didn't take this shit seriously and base politics on it.

This idea at every turn, while it won't go away, because our species has always produced irrational beliefs, must be fought, at a minimum to keep our species from self destructing needlessly. Time will take us, as individuals and even as a collective species. I just don't want our end to come by our own hand because of some stupid ancient superstition.

[Mister Agenda]

The odds are with us. If we can avoid human extinction for another century, our continuation won't depend on earth's survival. There's no way to know how long we'll last as a species, but there's a good chance that our descendants or creations (whatever they may be) will be around in a million years if we make it through the next hundred with our civilization relatively intact.

[Brian37]

Nature will take us all as individuals and extinction no matter how long we last, there will be an end no matter what. I am just not stupid like a theist in thinking it is some magical event controlled by non existent super heros. Our finite existence frightens them, but what should really frighten them is their doomsday comic book, not nature.

Now here is where the politically correct atheists and theists falsely pipe in as me being "militant" for merely stating the obvious that even long before I was born, some already had a clue as to the nature of reality,

"If horses had gods their gods would look like horses" Xenophanes .

It makes much more sense to me to accept the obvious in that gods are merely a psychological anthropomorphic crutch humans have invented since the early cave gods, to volcano gods, to polytheism to modern monotheism. Gods are merely human narcissism falsely believed to be fact. They are mere products of our imagination. To falsely state that as hateful is as absurd as insisting the sun rotates around the earth when we damned well are way past the fact that that lie has long since been buried.

It was understandable that these myths existed when our species didn't know any better. But we do now, so lets put away our mental placebo toys and grow up.

[Minimalist]

Is the show coming to end as predicted 2000 years ago?

Um, your absurd godboy's "prediction" was that it would be soon after his death. Idiot xtians have expected it every generation since. One would expect that some of the brighter ones would catch on after a while but "brighter ones" seems seems incompatible with "xtians."


This is the Ted-Turner-Is-The-Anti-Christ-theory in action. This guy sets up a 24 hour real time news outlet so religious fools can hear about natural disasters as they happen and YOU think there are more of them. Try to get it through your jesus-addled brain that 200 years ago ( less than a tick of the clock in geological terms) the West would not have heard about the Japanese, Pakistan or Indonesian earthquakes/tsunamis for six months and even then, since the fasted means of transportation was a ship under sail, it is doubtful that there would have been any sense of the scope of the disaster.

[Welsh cake]

No. Wait another few billion years.

The sun would have boiled away our oceans in a billion years time thanks to stellar evolution.

Sucks to have Sol as our Sun, but its the only star we got I'm afraid.