The End...

[Camazotz]

There are many different theories of when, how, and why the world will end. What's your theory? Will there be an anti-christ? Or will there be a giant meteor? Will it be in 2012 or maybe even 3982? *Discuss*

As for me, I believe the world will end on December 21, 2012. I've watched so many shows saying that psychics and astonomers like Nostradomous and the ancient Mayans predict it will end on that day. I think the cause will be war and chaos which will cause kill humanity.

PS. Im not asking if you care how and when it will end. I really dont care when the world or humanity will end either, Im curious what people believe.

[Underground_Network]

Read the book Apocalypse 2012 by Lawrence E. Joseph, this an excerpt from the beginning of the book: (the actual numbered reasons are shortened for various reasons)

Guilty of Apocalypse:
The Case Against 2012

1. Ancient Mayan prophecies based on two millennia of meticulous astronomical observations indicate that 12/21/12 will mark the birth of a new age, accompanied as all births are, by blood and agony as well as hope.

2. Since the 1940s, and particularly since 2003, the Sun has behaved more tumultuously than any time since the rapid global warming that accompanied the melting of the last Ice Age 11,000 years ago. Solar physicists concur that solar activity will next peak, at record-setting levels, in 2012.

3. Storms on the Sun are related to storms on the Earth. The great wave of 2005 hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma coincided with one of the stormiest weeks in the recorded history of the Sun.

4. The Earth's magnetic field, our primary defense against harmful solar radiation, has begun to dwindle, with California-sized cracks opening up randomly. A pole shift, in which such protection falls nearly to zero as the North and South magnetic poles reverse position, may well be under way.

5. Russian geophysicists believe that the Solar system has entered an interstellar energy cloud. This cloud is energizing and destabilizing the sun and all the planets' atmospheres. Their predictions for catastrophe resulting from the Earth's encounter with this energy cloud range from 2012 to 2020.

6. Physicists at UC Berkeley, who discovered that the dinosaurs and 70 percent of all other species on Earth were extinguished by the impact of a comet or asteroid 65 million years ago, maintain with 99 percent certainty, that we are now overdue for another such megacatastrophe.

7. The Yellowstone supervolcano, which erupts catastrophically every 600,000 to 700,000 years, is preparing to blow. The most recent eruption of comparable magnitude at Lake Toba, Indonesia, 74,000 years ago, led to the death of more than 90 percent of the world's population at the time.

8. Eastern philosophies, such as the I Ching, The Chinese Book of Changes, and Hindu theology, have been plausibly interpreted as supporting the 2012 end date, as have a range of indigenous belief systems.

9. At least one scholarly interpretation of the Bible predicts that the Earth will be annihilated in 2012. The burgeoning Armageddonist movement of Muslims, Christians, and Jews actively seeks to precipitate the final end-times battle.

10. Have a nice day.

Go to this website and scroll down for more information: http://www.slowmotiondoomsday.com/return.html

Or, read the book: Apocalypse 2012 : A Scientific Investigation Into Civilization's End by Lawrence E. Joseph

[Maverick]

In short, I don't know and I don't care.

[Bobby]

I agree with Anthony. Why worry. We should enjoy life today.

[Patchy]

To be honest I hate the way scientists and whoever makes up these theory's because it causes panic, you know every adult over the age of 35 will remember that they were told nothing about this, because it wasnt known of and yet, it caused no panic etc. I reckon they should warn people but in a way that isnt gonna cause mass panic and depression among some children because they wont live into there 30's or even 20's.

every time I read stuff this I shake because if its not true, thank godness.

I agree with Anthony as well, live life to the full dont live thinking "We're DOOMED!"

[Whisper]

In short, I don't know and I don't care.
Agreed

[Serenity]

Agreed

I fourth.

[Hyper]

I don't really know or care.. Fifth

But I think it will end when we reach a stage of perfection or if our declien continues..

I have no idea or care in the world how will it end..

An ending is an ending

[Underground_Network]

I sixth. I think the world will definitely meet its maker so to speak, but I'm not sure it will happen in our lifetime.. I used to pray the end of the world would come ASAP, but nowadays I've lightened up, and I just take each day as it comes. I'm more focused on the present than the past or future; but if I had to choose between being focused on the past or the future, I would choose to be focused on the past, because if I study the past I can learn from past mistakes, and be more prepared for my future. Until they come up with outstanding evidence that proves that the world is coming to an end within the next 5 days and we need to be evacuated, I will just take each day as it comes and just keep on living my life.

[Hauptmann Kauffman]

I dont know/care either :P Im just going to live my life to its fullest.

[dem.re.cmd.exe]

Well, he didn't ask if you cared! If you don't care, take 5 or 6 minutes to think of a reasonable explanation as to what could cause the apocalypse.

I think human kind will turn on itself (kind of like it already is) and will destroy itself. That or run out of resources.

[Serenity]

That would just be the end of the human race. The Earth has already proven that it can survive just fine, if not better, without us around so that would more be a new beginning for the world overall.

[Underground_Network]

What if Mr. Erf explodes? :eek:

[dem.re.cmd.exe]

That would just be the end of the human race. The Earth has already proven that it can survive just fine, if not better, without us around so that would more be a new beginning for the world overall.

lol whoops, I'm not thinking today. I think.... umm.... it'll go hurtling into the sun after a giant bomb goes off or something... I haven't thought too hard about it.

[Serenity]

What if Mr. Erf explodes? :eek:

Damn.

[dem.re.cmd.exe]

lol Maybe we won't notice and just instantly be turned into ashes and our blood boil to like this cool misty blood vapor. Wow, that'd make for quite the movie...

[thesphinx]

thats nice to think about...

[ThatCanadianGuy]

We could be hit by an asteroid that would completely boil-over the earth's crust turning the clock all the way back to when it was just a ball of magma. Then the magma will cool... then water will start to form... here we go again :D.

By the way, an asteroid big enough to do this recently passed closer to the earth than the Moon. And we didn't even know it had missed us until it was a week farther away!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB3G0rvCIJc&search=end%20world%20armageddon%20ragnarok%20asteroid%20japanese

Take a look...

[Aηdy]

In short, I don't know and I don't care.

x2.

[Mannequin]

I think there is no end and life will eventually continue to reoccur, possibly in a different altered form due to environment changes. I think life with continue to evolutionize and become more tolerant to disaster. We may die, but we have no way of knowing that future life will be non existant or planets will be gone.

[LateForTheSky]

I believe it wont end unless we are wiped out by global warming. Quite literally liquidised. but until then i dont care i am here today and the worlds here today, tomorrow is yet to come so why worry. but other than global warming i dont see any serious threats of global domination nor damnation. We are all one day closer to death anyway so if u think of it that way our world is coming to end, for us anyway. Precious seconds u will miss on ur death bed being wasted. But dont worry about that just make the most of it.

[Underground_Network]

Two words: Ka boom!

Mr. Erfy go boom boom. :D

From either supervolcanic eruptions, nuclear warfare, or a supernatural force! 0.o
There is also the possibility, as numerous scientists have pointed out, that we are headed into an unstable part of our galaxy and that all life on Earth could fade into nonexistence. But yeah, what do scientists know? 0.o

[need_of_help]

I have seen the man who wrote the book about 2012 on montel and what he and others on that show was saying is that the world might not end but it might change which i agree with i don't think the world will end for another hundred years though

[western ninja]

I dont know/care either :P Im just going to live my life to its fullest.

Seconded

[Underground_Network]

^^ That's not the point of this thread.. Even if you're going to live life to its fullest.. How do you think the Earth will end? Even if it doesn't end till 1,000,000,000 years from now.. how will it end? All good things must come to an end? Right? So, if the Earth is to meet its maker so to speak.. how will it occur? :eek:

[*Dissident*]

Here is an interesting concept:

Human evolution is speeding up.

At first, it took millions of years to go from Apes to what we know as humans. It took thousands (hundreds of thousands) of years to go from the hunter gatherer stage we started at to agriculture and raising farm animals, and finally settling into city states, etc. It took thousands (single thousands) of years to develop religion and reading and writing. it took hundreds to develop our governments, as well as tractors and automobiles and all sorts of new things. major advancements happened every 100 or 50 years in the middle ages, decades in the 1500-1900's and in the 1900's every couple of years came new developments in technology and social reform. now, in the 21st century, we have new technology every month, every week. new social action, while not as widespread as before, is becoming ever more avant garde.

Our cycle of evolutionary and revolutionary change is getting compressed. we will eventaully reach a point where the world changes every week, every day, every hour, every minute, second, quarter second, and eventually we will reach an instanteous moment of perfection.

also not that, not only are innovations getting more compressed, the time between these compressions are getting compressed, leading to an interesting exponential equation. I wouldnt be surprised if 2012 was the pinnacle of this theory.

[Underground_Network]

I think that technology will screw us one day. I seriously think there will be a nuclear war, possibly labeled World War 3, that could result in devastating destruction. It will probably be our own fault when the end comes, unless of course it is out of our hands and not our fault in the sense that we didn't do anything to make it occur, and the only things I could think of that are like that are supervolcanoes and certain things in space (i.e. blackholes and the unstable part of the galaxy that's supposed to tear the earth to shreds)

[Glasgow]

I think this is too much of a big deal to simply just not worry about it. This stuff honestly scares the living shit out of me, and although these theorys seem quite out there, they still seem believable. For now we can only wait a few more years and see if NASA or someone along those lines send our a global warning that Planet X is coming into orbit and will wipe out all of humman kind

[JoMan]

I think it'll end on October 23rd 2083.

[The Resurrected One]

I think it'll end on October 23rd 2083.

Nah, it'll end in 5 billion years. :D

Actually, honestly, I did hear that somewhere. I don't remember where though.

[Glasgow]

I think it'll end on October 23rd 2083.

lmao did you just make that up on spot?

[Tatsuya]

So is this mean that I can't have childrens? :P

[Hyper]

I problably said this before, but who the hell cares? Just live your life there is no point in thinking up dates of when the world is going to end.. There are far more important and intelligent things to do in this life.

[0=]

It's pointless, like philosophy. All a philosopher does is spend his or her life pondering the meaning of existence, while not doing anything with their existence other than teaching philosophy.

[japanman]

:eek:no theres nothing acurate anough to say that not even science the world will end and thats all i wunt to hear i dont like to have the comfort of nowing how we die. now we can easly change the world around us and not notice it so if we die on 2012 wut if the ppl who kill us die before then. :rolleyes: u kno wut thats my opinon:cool:

[Sugaree]

In short, I don't know and I don't care.

I agree with Anthony

Agreed

I fourth.

I don't really know or care.. Fifth

I sixth. I mean it was just a prediction. It doesn't mean that it will come true. Ok then let's make a bet. If the world comes to an end on 12/21/12 then you have proven me wrong.

If it won't (And I know it won't :P) then the Myans have been proven wrong.