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Now, seriously...my imagination can be pretty off-the-wall.  I see it in the form of an asteroid though.  Too many Armageddon-type movies lately :-/
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I agree.  My opinion, I think it will be an asteroid, the govt will know about it & not say a word to the public.  

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I agree.  My opinion, I think it will be an asteroid, the govt will know about it & not say a word to the public.  
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There was actually an article on CNN about that :)  They figured that if we're all going to die anyway, might as well be ignorant = blissful death :D

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Jesse Jackson is elected president ;D
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Congrats, you topped them all. ;D

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This little piece of your statement reminded me of the movie "WaterWorld".  ;D

AIDS didn't kill us off in America and it isn't completely killing off the African Continent, so, epidemics are out in my opinion.

I'd thought about this before and came up with these:

1) World War III

2) Large Meteor Impact which will either break-up/blow-up the planet upon impact or destroy a great percentage of it and continually destroy the remainder with atmospheric changes that kill off the remaining lifeforms and render the planet unlivable, as Goreripper described earlier.

The scary thing is, in the end, we're probably closer to a WWIII than we are to a natural catastrophe.  :-/

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Well...I guess I can't really give my opinion since it is religious in nature. The end of life as we know it, as to my beliefs, has been fortold.
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Please do!
As I understand, this is foretold in the revelations of John.  This book contains (IMO) very abstract ideas, supposedly revealed to John in a dream.
Do you believe these are actually literal signs, 7 headed beasts, lambs, etc?
If not, what do you think they represent?
I think they could very easily be related to current events, astronomical events, etc. (I seem to remeber a Kirk Douglas film where the beast with seven heads was an industrial plant)

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Please do!
As I understand, this is foretold in the revelations of John.  This book contains (IMO) very abstract ideas, supposedly revealed to John in a dream.
Do you believe these are actually literal signs, 7 headed beasts, lambs, etc?
If not, what do you think they represent?
I think they could very easily be related to current events, astronomical events, etc. (I seem to remeber a Kirk Douglas film where the beast with seven heads was an industrial plant)
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Good questions, Tao. The whole symbolism thing and interpretations make for a very interesting discussion.

You reminded me of the movie "The Seventh Sign" with Demi Moore. The seven signs of the Apocalypse began to take place and she ended-up giving the world a second chance.

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IMO, the world (as we know it) will end in a nuclear confrontation.  It's human nature to destroy ourselves.  We've come close before, and I think it will finally happen before humans learn to live together peacfully.
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I hope to be halfway to the next galaxy by then ;D  Or at least a couple light years away ;)  Gotta get that darned spaceship fixed!

I am reminded of Christopher Walken in "Blast From the Past", who locked his family into a bomb shelter for 30 years and raised his Brendan Fraser of a son in a 60s time warp ;D  

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This is a story that I read a long time ago. I have always loved it.
http://www.concentric.net/~Wkiernan/text/Thurber/Thurber.html#Flower01

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I enjoyed reading that very much.

It's should be an "eye-opener". It should be.

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I enjoyed reading that very much.

It's should be an "eye-opener". It should be.
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I find it interesting that it was written during WWII and the meaning still holds very true today. I guess it shows that humans really haven't learned too much from the past-which is a shame.



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This is a story that I read a long time ago. I have always loved it.
http://www.concentric.net/~Wkiernan/text/Thurber/Thurber.html#Flower01Cat
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Thank you so much for sharing that!  I really enjoyed it.  :)

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This is a story that I read a long time ago. I have always loved it.
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I remember reading that in high school.  What a great satirical look at human nature and how history seems to repeat itself.

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From a scientific viewpoint, time is endless. Even after the end of the universe when atomic decay is complete and there's nothing left but a void, time will continue. It simply won't have any meaning anymore.End Quote

Is time constant? What about time stopping at the speed of light, or more important to us, time slowing as the speed of an object increases relative to a referance point. They put an atomic clock on a space shuttle and discovered they had less time than we did because they moved at a faster speed. Perhaps time is more like a color than a mass, something which only we percieve and can not measure as accuretly. Persision can be a blindfold.

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:D :D 8) 8)ThAat was expressed in "Devoted to You"by the Everly Brothers:darlling you can count onme,til the sun dries up the sea--collision course withthe sun,caused by a comet????Cheers! ;D 8) :D
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Is time constant? What about time stopping at the speed of light, or more important to us, time slowing as the speed of an object increases relative to a referance point. They put an atomic clock on a space shuttle and discovered they had less time than we did because they moved at a faster speed. Perhaps time is more like a color than a mass, something which only we percieve and can not measure as accuretly. Persision can be a blindfold.
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Time is constant. It ticks by at one second per second whether you are standing still or moving at the speed of light; our perception of the passage of time (and hence of our own passage through it) is what is relative.

I'm not sure about the atomic clock on the shuttle thing. Can you provide a link to it? Atomic clocks are as precise as it comes when recording time, but even so the time "loss" would have been barely measureable. The shuttle would have had to have been going very, very fast indeed for any loss of time to be even noticeable; escape velocity isn't that fast.

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Well not quite. Conditions on the earth will be unlivable about a billion years before that.

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We shouldn't really argue the point due to the fact that these are all opinions.

No one has the absolute knowledge, the certainty of how the end of time will come, if ever.

It's interesting to speculate, though.   :)

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I'm surprised there's been no mention of global warming thus far.
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Myth.  Hogwash.  Quackery.  Old-wives' tales.

...at least until the sun goes nova ;)

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I'm surprised there's been no mention of global warming thus far.
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See my post on page 1 of the thread.  Polar Ice caps melting and temp changes, etc.  

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A little bit of history:
There was this guy named William Miller who stated that the world was going to end. Miller never gave a date himself but one of his followers gave a date for him-Oct. 21, 1844. Prior to that time, people began to see "the signs." There was a comet that passed through during that time, one person reported that the Moon appeared to be blood red, the Sun had rings aound it, etc. Many of his followers gave away all their earthly possessions and on Oct. 21st, they all climbed trees and roof tops so the ascend into Heaven will be shorter. Well, I think we all know what happened. Absolutely nothing. What happened to his followers? They formed the Seventh Day Adventist Church. How do I know all this? I did my undergraduate honor's thesis on it.



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I might have already said this before but the bible was written by probably more than 60 authors over  a very long period of time, and has been interpreted in so many ways....usually as to fit someone else's convenience. Unfortunately. And as a Progressive Christian, I am more certain of the questions than the answers....I am sometimes unsure if the "rapture" will happen, or if it already has....there are many theories and interpretations of the signs.

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(It's time I had some time alone)
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lol..If you typed this from memory, you've spent far too much time alone  ;D

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FLASH - LATE BREAKING NEWS - Scientist report world to end at 10 pm - Details at 11 ;)
This is for real ( ;D)
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Hey Don Carlos

That was a big hoax !  It's way past your D-Day and still some of you guys are posting !  ;D