Here's a your lack of evidence...

I took this quote from a different thread (titled wwiii) and since it was kinda off topic, and was posted long ago, I wanted to start a new thread on it.

I do think the end is near. Maybe we won't all die, but shit is gonna go down in the next 30 years or so. You don't see any anti-christs walking around? Listen, I'm not religious, I don't read into prophecies but I see where these people are coming from. It all comes back to us fucking up the eco-system. Look at some evidence today....

a) The last two hurricane seasons have been BRUTAL!! This has to do with global warming, many say. A slight change in annual average temperature of our oceans can be catastrophic on their own. Consider a few years ago when a PORTION of he Pacific Ocean was heated up and dubbed El Nino. It caused crazy weather for two years, and also cause a backlash afterward with El Nina. Not only hurricanes, but natural disasters and inclement weather are on a documented rise.

b) Everything gives you cancer. I have heard a statistic that says half of all males today will aquire cancer in their lifetime, as will a third of all females. This seems unrealistic to me personally, but even if the numbers are anywhere close to that, it's a scary thought. The depleted ozone layer, all kinds of pollution, wierd unnatural chemicals....everything is causing us to mutate, to make our cells go haywire. It's unavoidable, things are so messed up with our ecosystem that our bodies can't handle it.

c) There are new diseases all over the place. In the last few years Canada has been struck by West Nile and SARS, two diseases which originated in foreign lands, now brought into a new area which is ill equipped to handle them. These things throw off the balance of nature, and nature WILL correct itself in the harshest way it can. It's inevitable. Nature must be balanced even if it means the complete destruction of life.

d) The massive global political agendas do nothing to help any cause except that of a monetary wealth. This happens at the expense of everything else, cause the bottom line is not life, but profit. I think they'd be quite content to reign supreme over our charred remains, so don't expect capitalism to end any time soon.

e) While I hate religion, I am reminded of the sin of sloth. That's what I see when I look at the mainstream western world. We tear around in our suped-up vehicle, knocking off the exhaust system so it sounds louder, getting 1 mile per gallon, buying fast food wrapped in three layers of paper and plastic, concerned only with our tans and clothing, and what will happen in the next episode of OC, struggling to reach for the remote cause it's too far to walk, barring ourselves in isolation on the internet, and we think there will be no consequences. I am no less guilty than anyone else, except that I can acknowledge it. It's a utopian society we have, really, one that we take for granted, and one we won't take responsibility for. This is what prevents positive change in our world. Laziness and vanity. "They'd have plastic surgery over open-heart sugery, cause you can't see your heart." The majority of us are far too distracted from the real issues of the world, and I know many of my friends would never even consider any one this. "To much thinking and deep thought. That's no fun. I'm gonna go take the Nova for a spin." It's people like this who want to trivialize any impending crisis to fit there 'ignorance is bliss' ideals.

f) Oil. You've heard it before, and it's a complicated issue. But like it or not, the bottom line is that this is the end of the age of oil. This will happen soon. We are slaves to the petroleum age in the western world. It has allowed us to grow to parasitic levels, to rape our land at accelerating speeds, to artificially sustain our over-populated masses, and provide them with cheap food, quick affordable transportation, wonderous technology advances, and luckily a better understanding of ourselves and our world through sophisticated research. It won't last, and the basic skills of survival are lost in our new era.

All I'm saying is open your eyes if you want to see, and don't be surprised when the shit comes knocking at your door.

 

Hey there buddy. The apocolypse has been 1 day away for over 5000 years. People like drama. You know, when my parents were kids, it was the Red Threat... Nuclear Missles are gonna strike.

Then it was Oil. Then it was the economy. Then it was aids. Then it was global warming. Then it was turrurrusts. Now it's oil again. Pretty soon it will be water. Then it will be oxygen. Then it will be plants. Then it will be animals. Then it will be "Pigs in Spaaaaaaaaaaace" and all the muslims will be terrified of outer space. Then it will be something else.

Rest assured, the apocolypse is coming.

 

God still has more souls to harvest, he wont be done anytime soon

 

You're nuts.

I might go into more detail later, but you're worried about some very unimportant things for laymen to be worrying about. The worlds going to be around a long time, and if you're careful, you'll probably live old enough to have your grandkids pretend to be glad to see you.

Global warming is very complex, and to blame a few more intense hurricane seasons on a very misunderstood phenomenon is hasty. Recent global warming might have more to do with reduced smog then more CO2. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/06/science/06bright.html?ex=1123300800&en=13ba4e4629c8ecd6&ei=5070

Global warming might not even be all bad. It'll certainly increase agriculture yields and fishing seasons. I read somewhere that if the growing season was lengthened by a week in Africa that could increase yields as much as 15%

You're less likely to die now of infectous disease then any time in history, you're also less likely to get killed by mongolians then any other time, the most common carcinogens are completly natural and have been effecting people for centuries, the real estate bubble is more of a paced incline now, it's good that we live in a society that doesn't have to worry about imminent death all the time, and we'll never run out of energy.

Chelax, buy a houseboat, and go play in the bright happy sunshine.

 

Very very true.. but it is good to be worried about certain things as we are mere mortals prudence is a good thing.

I just hope we (brits) never get a Hippie jesus freak as PM ...

 

The world isn't any more fucked up now than it's always been. Americans are just spoiled rotten. Most people in western society today were born into an anomalie; the last couple of generations have lived their whole lives in an era of unprecedented saftey, wealth, opportunity, leisure, and access to healthcare.


People are bitching now because, from an historical standpoint, it looks like things might get a little closer to normal in the near future.

 

Yeah, that's what the apocolypse is. When stuff that is cool starts to suck less and you want it more and then everyone has a cheeseburger but you and you are like what the fuck and you hit the guy standing next to you with a brick to take his cheeseburger, and now this guy doesn't have a cheeseburger so he hits someone else, and that one cheeseburger that the whole world is short results in world war 3 because it is a chain of cheeseburger violence. Which is why someone should run to wendy's and get me a Jr.Bacon Cheeseburger.

 

you didn't do any of the homework assignments I gave you did you.

 

You don't have a hamburger? Why is there so much evil in the world.

At least you won't get MAD COW!!!!!!!!!!!

Sure, you may not actually know anyone who's ever heard of someone getting mad cow, But look how big and red it is.

 

I know a few mad cows http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00004T8VL.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

 

I like the cheesburger theory. Reminds me of the other night when I was smashed, and I was trying to incoherently explain the relevance of the cheeseburger to civilization. But I think I was just drunk and hungry......

Never-the-less, all things aside, do you not understand the concept of nature balancing itself? If we cut down too many trees (for example) and then there aren't enough trees to filter our air, then we don't have enough air to breathe, and if we don't have enough air then people will start to die, but then when a bunch more people are dead, we'll suddenly have sufficient air. That's the inevitable balance. It may take a long time, but you can't deny the various warnings given by thousands of legitimate scientists. That tree thing is just an example by the way. Instead of arguing that specific scenario, I'd like to see someone argue the concept of that kind of balance.

 

I understand the whole balance thing. I just don't understand why you think it's a problem.

 

I have the fear that the world is just going to stop rotating one day, and it'll cause everybody and everything to get hurled off the earth into space at blinding speed.

I lose sleep over this.

 

If the world stops rotating won't we be squished by gravity?

 

I imagined we just sort of get propelled into outerspace. I'm sure the people at the other end of the world might find themselves squashed by gravity.

Either way nothing good could come of a sudden stop in Earth rotation.

 

You know how you think I am crazy, because I hear god talking to me. Well, right before the Mad Cow epidemic a few years back, I kept on hearing God go MOOOOEEOOOOEEOOOOO all funny like.. like a cow getting it's udder punched..
it was hilarious.


God.. I bet this makes you think I am sane... hahahah

 

I'm sure we can just ask our evil corporate overlords to help us out.

 

IT's not, unless I forget to do my homework. Which is a problem when I don't even remember what the assignment was... something about ropes?

 

umm..loook around..bush has started ww3..& i dont beleive in the whole end of the world bs or the antichrist.. but after reading that psychos thread http://hipforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=108226
i'm starting to think antiporn might actualy be the antichrist

 

No no, belief in the supernatural is great for getting out of work sundays. It's a good political decision too.