InfidelRiot
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Is the probability of the end occurring this year any more realistic than it would have been in August of 2011 or at the turn of the century?
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Mother nature and 90% of the world's species are doing/will do fine. It is us that need to worry about our place in the world if we don't act more responsibly.lets hope it arrives before we completely destroy ourselves and our environments. have you ever wondered, if 'mother nature' really did exist as a goddess, why she isnt doing something about the environmental damage that is occuring?
I am actually writing a novel based on the very problem of not only the environment but.....
Okay, I am not fond of sharing this information, but I will.
The novel is religiously based. It takes place in a fictional town not far from where I grew up and it is a Christian community that has an academy where the majority of students are sent for the rehabilitation program. The main premise for the first novel, there are most likely going to be at least four, is that a serial killer terrorizes the town under the guise of being led by God. There are also supernatural events taking place in the town. It is later discovered that the Christian God does not exist and that the Goddess is reclaiming Earth. She displays her power by completely destroying an entire city on Earth and telling the people that they have one hundred years to change their ways or she will destroy them all.
Mother nature and 90% of the world's species are doing/will do fine. It is us that need to worry about our place in the world if we don't act more responsibly.
To answer the OP, it is highly unlikely the world will end for several billion years yet. The fate of humanity however is less certain.
Never heard of the Jim Jones Saga.
Yes, I do believe in the Goddess. I have no resentment toward previous churches I attended. I am merely an anti-theist when it comes to the Judeo-Christian God.
Is the probability of the end occurring this year any more realistic than it would have been in August of 2011 or at the turn of the century?
I'm sorry, but this just isn't true. Species are dying off at a rate of about 50,000~ a year. This number is growing, and the growth is accelerating. We're well into a mass extinction period. Humanity is going the way of the dodo, it's true, and we're going to take 50 to 95% of the other species with us. The most worrisome thing is the state of the oceans. We're inflicting a terrible punishment on its balance, and it's acidifying at an alarming rate.
Every single ecosystem is in decline. Nothing is doing just fine, although some species are temporarily advantaged by conditions and filling niches left behind by others, it will be a cancerous growth for them that eventually implodes.
I'm sorry, but this just isn't true. Species aredying off at a rate of about 50,000~ a year. This number is growing, and the growth is accelerating. We're well into a mass extinction period. Humanity is going the way of the dodo, it's true, and we're going to take 50 to 95% of the other species with us. The most worrisome thing is the state of the oceans. We're inflicting a terrible punishment on its balance, and it's acidifying at an alarming rate.
Every single ecosystem is in decline. Nothing is doing just fine, although some species are temporarily advantaged by conditions and filling niches left behind by others, it will be a cancerous growth for them that eventually implodes.
New species are also being discovered each day.
Cancer grows too. And then the host dies. What's your point?The human population grows by 212,970 people a day, how are we going the way of the Dodo?
Change has always been the way on the earth.
Could you cite your sources for this information?
To clarify what I said before. The thread is about how close the end of the world is. I was simply making the point that the Earth is likely to survive well beyond the extinction of our particular race.I'm sorry, but this just isn't true. Species are dying off at a rate of about 50,000~ a year. This number is growing, and the growth is accelerating. We're well into a mass extinction period. Humanity is going the way of the dodo, it's true, and we're going to take 50 to 95% of the other species with us. The most worrisome thing is the state of the oceans. We're inflicting a terrible punishment on its balance, and it's acidifying at an alarming rate.
No it isn't; which your next point proves...Every single ecosystem is in decline.
This is the way the history of evolution has worked; one species filling a niche left by another.although some species are temporarily advantaged by conditions and filling niches left behind by others, it will be a cancerous growth for them that eventually implodes.
No it isn't; which your next point proves...
This is the way the history of evolution has worked; one species filling a niche left by another.
I don't want to get into a slagging match particularly since I suspect on the main issues of global environmental change and responsibility we would probably be in agreement.Sorry again, but that's very ignorant. The explosive growth of a few species is not at all an indication of the health of ecosystems, in fact, the other way around. It's astonishing to me that you even said that.
Case in point: algal blooms & eutrophication. Artificial conditions, ie runoff, advantaging a few species of algae, choking everything else out. Is that ecosystem health to you?
These species that thrive in these conditions - their growth is cancerous, and deleterious to everything else, which is why their growth will eventually implode.
Truly, every single ecosystem is in decline, and there's not a credible biologist or ecologist in the world who will say otherwise.
They're in decline, period. Sorry. It's my business to know this. Every single ecosystem is experiencing the effects of a global imbalance.However you should stop making sweeping assertions. There are local eco-systems in my country which are in fact doing very well.
There are some that are now thriving which were once in decline, because environmentalists have managed those systems intelligently. (If we deny this, we may as well give up hope that intelligent management of the environment can be in any way productive).
And just as an aside, disagreement does not equal ignorance.