The End of the World
Paul in Cannon Beach
4,703 Posts
Lately for some reason my wife and I have been watching documentaries about the end of the world. Its interesting to note that so many "prophets of doom" throughout the centuries have identified the turn of the milennium as the beginning of "The End".
Edgar Cayce, Nostradamus, St.Malachy, the Garabandal appiritions, Biblical prophecy, and so on... All point to a cataclysmic end of the world as we know it. Some point specifically to the period between 1999 and 2010.
Did you know that Switzerland has built an underground facility capable of housing 20,000 people in the event of a nuclear holocaust?
When your day to day life is filled with mortgage payments, soccer practices, and grocery shopping its tough to wrap your brain around such speculative theories. But all of the information and even some of the current events around the world does make one stop and ponder...
So here is an informal survey. How many of you believe its highly possible that the world will end in the next 10 years, 20 years, etc? How many of you think this is total hogwash and life will continue on as it has for thousands of years of recorded history? How many of you don't care less?
Edgar Cayce, Nostradamus, St.Malachy, the Garabandal appiritions, Biblical prophecy, and so on... All point to a cataclysmic end of the world as we know it. Some point specifically to the period between 1999 and 2010.
Did you know that Switzerland has built an underground facility capable of housing 20,000 people in the event of a nuclear holocaust?
When your day to day life is filled with mortgage payments, soccer practices, and grocery shopping its tough to wrap your brain around such speculative theories. But all of the information and even some of the current events around the world does make one stop and ponder...
So here is an informal survey. How many of you believe its highly possible that the world will end in the next 10 years, 20 years, etc? How many of you think this is total hogwash and life will continue on as it has for thousands of years of recorded history? How many of you don't care less?
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Chari
[email]calter@iopener.net[/email]
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Now for an observation: I think it will happen whenever He wants it to happen. People were beating their chests and gnashing their teeth about the world coming to an end in 999 and in 1999 - maybe they will be in 2999. The Second Coming has kept us waiting for almost 2000 years and even something in the scriptures say that no man will know the time.
So put me down in the camp of don't care when because there's nothing I could do about it anyway.
For me, I am curious by nature and always trying to figure out things.
Maybe I am just looking for a way out of all this paperwork on my desk...
On the lighter side, the sooner the better, I'm getting tired or paying my bills! And with the plethora of HR laws, I'm getting tired of trying to make sense of it all and keeping everybody straight.(:|
Paul, have you read the Left Behind series? It's pretty good, even if I don't necessarily agree with it. You might find a little comfort there. x:-)
What really facinates me are the natural catastrophes that have happened in the past and surely will happen again, like ice ages, a comet hitting the Earth, or a volcanic eruption in Yellowstone Park that makes Mount St. Helens look like a firecracker. They might not happen for hundreds of thousands or millions of years, or maybe a lot sooner. It's really awesome in the truest sense of the word.
James Sokolowski
HRhero.com
Can I quote you on that, James? Is "hooey" a technical term? x;-)
Seriously, I find I must agree with you, generally. But there is this nagging little voice in the back of my head...
Not so sure that Nostradamus, the Bible Code, et al, got it right (especially after viewing stuff re both on The Discovery Channel) but if Ted Turner says it, it must be true, right? x:-)
Today, I received frantic phone calls from our hotel in Newport, Oregon. A couple of earthquakes, one registering 4.9, the other registering 2-point-something made our people concerned and knocked out some computer systems in the local area.
Guess all we can really hope for in the final analysis is that if the world does end that at least our Emergency Action Plan is correct and all the employees are propertly trained.
Sorry, is that too flippant? x;-)
Not to be confused with HOOAH! of course.x:D
I try to be in the "I don't care" camp. Because it usually makes me depressed it I think about it too much.
There is a difference between living in fear and just being aware of what's around you. I'll be surprised if anything monumental happens in Boston this summer....hopefully, all major events will go off without incident...Olympics included.
Birds and snakes, an aeroplane,
And Lenny Bruce is not afraid.
Eye of a hurricane, Listen to yourself churn,
World serves its own needs,
Dummy serve your own needs.
Feed it off an aux, speak, grunt, no, strength,
The Ladder start to clatter witha fear
Fight down, height.
Wire in a fire representing seven games,
And a government for hire at a combat site;
Left of west and coming in a hurry with the furies
Breathing down you neck.
Team by team reporters, bafffled, trumped, tethered, cropped.
Look at that low playing.
Fine, Then.
Uh-oh. Overflow population, common food,
But it'll do to save yourself, serve yourself.
World serves its own needs,
Listen to your heart bleed,
Dummy with a rapture and the revered and the right, right.
You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright light,
Feeling pretty psyched.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.
Six o'clock-- T.V. hour
Don't get caught in foreign towers.
Slash and burn, return.
Listen to yourself churn.
Lock it in, uniforming, book burning, blood letting.
Every motive escalate.
Automotive incinerate.
Light a candle, light a motive.
Step down, step down.
Watch your heel crush, crushed, uh-oh,
This means no fear cavalier, renegade steer clear!
A tournament, a tournament, a tournament of lies!
Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives, and I decline!
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.
The other night I dreamt of knives,
Continental drift divide,
Mountains sit in a line.
LEONARD BERNSTEIN,
Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs.
Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, BOOM!
You symbiotice, patriotic, slam, bug, net, right?
Right.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel
fine...fine...
#1 thing a consultant shouldn't say: "I could tell you the answer right now, but we're committed to a three month project..." #-o
Next you will be asking us if we think that we will go to heaven or hell. OOOOOPS! Didn't mean to give you any ideas.
Anyone ever hear of St. Malachy. In 1149 he accurately predicted the next 110 popes. After our current pope, there are only 2 more. Strange, huh?
Or the Garabandal visions? Four little girls in 1961 began having visions of an Angel, Michael, and then the Holy Mother. The visions went on for weeks and were thoroughly documented, photographed, and tested.
One of the little girls (who is now grown) holds a secret date when a special miracle will take place in a grove of pines near Garabandal. She will tell the world of the miracle 8 days before it happens. She also warns of a terrible chastening that God will bring on the world to make then aware of their sins.
I am not Catholic by the way. Its just interesting stuff.
James Sokolowski
HRhero.com
[url]http://www.medjugorje.org/medpage.htm[/url]
[url]http://www.garabandal.org/story.shtml[/url]
At least I hope I can access it over the weekend yet. I've got to get my fill before going cold-turkey.
As for the rest of you, what would need to happen for the world to come to an end? Will our planet blow up? The universe will shut down? Life on earth will just stop? I don't see any of it happening.