Report, edit, etc...Posted by PCFredZ on 2006-02-03 at 21:20:19
Personally I don't believe we're going to die anytime soon. However, I do look into everyday things and pretend they're created with literary elements; in the case of the topic title, ominous foreshadowing.
To start in reverse chronological order, the most recent catastrophe is the sinking of the ferry ship in the Red Sea. 1k people are estimated to be dead.
Then there was a mother who put her child in a trash bag and threw the package out into a lake or something.
Here in the U.S., there were two other recent big news items, the collapse of two mines in West Virginia that resulted in the death of 14 workers.
A while back obviously there was the New Orleans Hurricane / Flood thing.
Now, I've heard all the Apocalypse, Nostradamus, and other series. I myself think everything that happened recently have converged in this narrow timeframe are purely due to chance. But back to the first paragraph, I've personally related these events with literary works that all of us know 100% sure to be fiction: specifically, Harry Potter VI.
In the beginning of the book, Voldemort's army wreaks havoc across the wizarding and normal world without being stopped at all. While the wizards run around in fear, the muggles just see them as any other everday disasters.
In other words, if real life is a fantasy/sci-fi book right now, we're probably all going to die.
To start in reverse chronological order, the most recent catastrophe is the sinking of the ferry ship in the Red Sea. 1k people are estimated to be dead.
Then there was a mother who put her child in a trash bag and threw the package out into a lake or something.
Here in the U.S., there were two other recent big news items, the collapse of two mines in West Virginia that resulted in the death of 14 workers.
A while back obviously there was the New Orleans Hurricane / Flood thing.
Now, I've heard all the Apocalypse, Nostradamus, and other series. I myself think everything that happened recently have converged in this narrow timeframe are purely due to chance. But back to the first paragraph, I've personally related these events with literary works that all of us know 100% sure to be fiction: specifically, Harry Potter VI.
In the beginning of the book, Voldemort's army wreaks havoc across the wizarding and normal world without being stopped at all. While the wizards run around in fear, the muggles just see them as any other everday disasters.
In other words, if real life is a fantasy/sci-fi book right now, we're probably all going to die.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by M_s4 on 2006-02-03 at 23:42:54
This is nothing. If you are saying that these events all happening in like one year is one big coincidence and this is just bad luck in extreme global scales, then that means in normal times it would even be more peaceful than this. The pacifist stage of the world right now is reason to celebrate every year. What about the war in Iraq? Insurgents, war on terror? You think that's bad, but just look at WWII. 55 MILLION deaths. That would be the equivalent of having 3 9/11's DAILY for 6 years.
Yeah, the world's not gonna die anytime soon.
Yeah, the world's not gonna die anytime soon.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by yeow on 2006-02-04 at 01:47:51
WWIII* I don't see the end of the world happening within our generation or one close to ours. I think that by the time everyone owns each other and the whole world or we crash into the sun, or however you think the world is going to end, then we'd be 6 feet under long forgotten about. 
Report, edit, etc...Posted by PCFredZ on 2006-02-04 at 08:56:22
QUOTE(M_s4 @ Feb 3 2006, 11:42 PM)
This is nothing. If you are saying that these events all happening in like one year is one big coincidence and this is just bad luck in extreme global scales, then that means in normal times it would even be more peaceful than this. The pacifist stage of the world right now is reason to celebrate every year. What about the war in Iraq? Insurgents, war on terror? You think that's bad, but just look at WWII. 55 MILLION deaths. That would be the equivalent of having 3 9/11's DAILY for 6 years.
Yeah, the world's not gonna die anytime soon.
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Yeah, the world's not gonna die anytime soon.
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I'm saying the world sucks, I didn't say it didn't suck before.
By the way, the latest on the ferry boat sinking.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Syphon on 2006-02-04 at 13:16:36
I see the apocolypse coming before WWIII. Being hit by a rouge asteroid is just inevetible. And it's been awhile.
How do YOU know Harry Potter VI is pure fiction?
How do YOU know Harry Potter VI is pure fiction?
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Pyro_Maniak14 on 2006-02-04 at 17:28:31
Well theres a lot of possibilities... Nuclear winter/war, global warming, natural disaster etc. I don't think the ferry sinking and the mines are foreshadowing the end of the world however as days go by the weather fluxuates with each increasing degree of heat that enters the earth. I just found it a bit odd with all these recent weather catastrophies that are happening but it could be coincidence...
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Zombie on 2006-02-04 at 18:01:53
Way to keep the morale up for the troops pc =/.
Personally i dont thnik doomsday will ever happen in our time. I mean they said doomsday was going to have like 50 yrs ago and then it was supose to have on 06/06/06 (666) and it hasnt. But meh never know
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Personally i dont thnik doomsday will ever happen in our time. I mean they said doomsday was going to have like 50 yrs ago and then it was supose to have on 06/06/06 (666) and it hasnt. But meh never know
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QUOTE(Zombie @ Feb 4 2006, 06:01 PM)
06/06/06 (666) and it hasnt.
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Merely because our current calendar has an 06/06/06 doesn't make it significant.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Pyro_Maniak14 on 2006-02-04 at 18:46:00
HEY! I said the world would end on 6/6/06 in my "Apocalypse" post! 
Then someone said if that didn't happen it would happen on 7/7/07... I dont know why but then NR ( 
) said it the world would end when the Mayan calander ends... Not sure when... I forgot.
Then someone said if that didn't happen it would happen on 7/7/07... I dont know why but then NR ( ) said it the world would end when the Mayan calander ends... Not sure when... I forgot.Report, edit, etc...Posted by PCFredZ on 2006-02-04 at 18:59:58
QUOTE(Pyro_Maniak14 @ Feb 4 2006, 06:46 PM)
HEY! I said the world would end on 6/6/06 in my "Apocalypse" post! Then someone said if that didn't happen it would happen on 7/7/07... I dont know why but then NR ( ) said it the world would end when the Mayan calander ends... Not sure when... I forgot.
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December 2010.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Pyro_Maniak14 on 2006-02-04 at 19:15:47
Ty... I wouldn't be suprised if NR was right... the Mayans were very intelligent philisophically.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by (DI)Yulla on 2006-02-05 at 09:51:28
Did we see any unexpected or unexplained deaths? I don't think so. So I don't think that there are anything that we have to worry about at all. I mean why should we care about doomsday? It is the "god's wrath" on human beings whenever god gets impacient with human beings... I personally don;t think there are going to be ANY doomsday...
ADDITION:
Im gonna add on a little more in hopes to boost this thread a little more.
If we are going to die, it is not going to be of god's wrath, but of global warming. and global warming isn't even close to our time range yet.
Also, we are going to run out of raw resources on earth. And if we don't develop science to travel between larger distances, we won't be able to live any longer on earth. That is now a bigger problem that we have to face.
ADDITION:
Im gonna add on a little more in hopes to boost this thread a little more.
If we are going to die, it is not going to be of god's wrath, but of global warming. and global warming isn't even close to our time range yet.
Also, we are going to run out of raw resources on earth. And if we don't develop science to travel between larger distances, we won't be able to live any longer on earth. That is now a bigger problem that we have to face.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by PCFredZ on 2006-02-05 at 09:54:44
I don't any of you understood my meaning. I don't believe in all the Doomsday stuff (even though, yeah, I remember the date for the Mayan theory and everything ); I'm just pointing out how these recent events reminded me of Harry Potter VI.
It says so on the inside cover.
); I'm just pointing out how these recent events reminded me of Harry Potter VI.QUOTE(Syphon)
How do YOU know Harry Potter VI is pure fiction?
It says so on the inside cover.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Snipe on 2006-02-05 at 10:51:13
QUOTE(PCFredZ @ Feb 3 2006, 08:20 PM)
Personally I don't believe we're going to die anytime soon. However, I do look into everyday things and pretend they're created with literary elements; in the case of the topic title, ominous foreshadowing.
To start in reverse chronological order, the most recent catastrophe is the sinking of the ferry ship in the Red Sea. 1k people are estimated to be dead.
Then there was a mother who put her child in a trash bag and threw the package out into a lake or something.
Here in the U.S., there were two other recent big news items, the collapse of two mines in West Virginia that resulted in the death of 14 workers.
A while back obviously there was the New Orleans Hurricane / Flood thing.
Now, I've heard all the Apocalypse, Nostradamus, and other series. I myself think everything that happened recently have converged in this narrow timeframe are purely due to chance. But back to the first paragraph, I've personally related these events with literary works that all of us know 100% sure to be fiction: specifically, Harry Potter VI.
In the beginning of the book, Voldemort's army wreaks havoc across the wizarding and normal world without being stopped at all. While the wizards run around in fear, the muggles just see them as any other everday disasters.
In other words, if real life is a fantasy/sci-fi book right now, we're probably all going to die.
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To start in reverse chronological order, the most recent catastrophe is the sinking of the ferry ship in the Red Sea. 1k people are estimated to be dead.
Then there was a mother who put her child in a trash bag and threw the package out into a lake or something.
Here in the U.S., there were two other recent big news items, the collapse of two mines in West Virginia that resulted in the death of 14 workers.
A while back obviously there was the New Orleans Hurricane / Flood thing.
Now, I've heard all the Apocalypse, Nostradamus, and other series. I myself think everything that happened recently have converged in this narrow timeframe are purely due to chance. But back to the first paragraph, I've personally related these events with literary works that all of us know 100% sure to be fiction: specifically, Harry Potter VI.
In the beginning of the book, Voldemort's army wreaks havoc across the wizarding and normal world without being stopped at all. While the wizards run around in fear, the muggles just see them as any other everday disasters.
In other words, if real life is a fantasy/sci-fi book right now, we're probably all going to die.
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Not even close. If something like this were to happen, it would be a world war. only somthing as sivear as WW3 were to occur, than we have problems. The only "doomsday warning" We ever got was in WW2, (i wasn't alive
) I still know what happend though. It has not, and hopfully recreat itself.Report, edit, etc...Posted by Loser_Musician on 2006-02-05 at 13:47:44
Dooms Day predictions are a joke.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Syphon on 2006-02-05 at 15:33:56
QUOTE(Nukee)
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You know, I've always wondered why the Mayans are always so trusted. What have they ever gotten right in the scope of prediction?
Report, edit, etc...Posted by PCFredZ on 2006-02-05 at 20:42:27
QUOTE(Syphon @ Feb 5 2006, 03:33 PM)
QUOTE(Nukee)
[center]12/21/2012[/center]
You know, I've always wondered why the Mayans are always so trusted. What have they ever gotten right in the scope of prediction?
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Googling will give you both 2010 and 2012.
The Mayans didn't say we're all going to die, it only says the current world will end.
But that's because they ran out of permutations for their calendar.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Bringer on 2006-02-06 at 03:32:13
We have bigger things to worry about besides when the world is going to end. Crap who says that the world will even end. Maybe just the extinction of Humans will occur. Anyway I say the Middle East, South America, and Asia are bigger threats right now instead of global warming or Religious crap.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Cloud on 2006-02-06 at 16:05:09
Maybe doomsday happens for the people that die each day.
Because people made it up. its called 'Fiction' novels.
QUOTE(Syphon @ Feb 4 2006, 06:16 PM)
How do YOU know Harry Potter VI is pure fiction?
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Because people made it up. its called 'Fiction' novels.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Demaris on 2006-02-06 at 19:43:56
Doomsday........ What a word.
This is something I think about almost everyday. I look at the world, and wonder:
"How did these idiots even make it this far?"
Doomsday is inevitable, wether man-made or not.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by TheDaddy0420 on 2006-02-16 at 23:43:47
QUOTE(Demaris @ Feb 6 2006, 04:43 PM)
Doomsday........ What a word.
This is something I think about almost everyday. I look at the world, and wonder:
"How did these idiots even make it this far?"
Doomsday is inevitable, wether man-made or not.
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I wouldn't want to live in your world then if you think doomsday is inevitable.