With everything happening recently... do you wonder?

[DeadMansFist849]

Oh please. How many times have people predicted the end of the world now? Each and every time it's turned out to be a hoax, with some very disappointed-looking survivalists shown on the news, or angry people who were just scammed by various ranting, paranoid people. Maybe this just me but if you're going to worry about the end of the world, I wouldn't trust someone who asks for shedloads of money to tell me that.

[FnimonSni]

I don't think the world is going to an end, just our time on it.

[marharth]

Just a few likely things that could end life as we know it today.

 

1. Running out of oil. If we run out of oil we have mass starvation and complete lack of transportation.

 

2. War with Iran. This could cause a much bigger war then anyone would think.

 

3. World debt. Could kill us all alone, or would cause wars.

 

4. Natural disasters.

[Nintii]

@ Saraane ... Well i just love your sense of humor, simply brilliant :biggrin:

 

Well the only sure things are Death and Taxes ... the rest, well that's something else, global warming is a horrible reality, for instance where I live, tornadoes DO NOT HAPPEN ... EVER .... EVERRRRRRRRRRR !

Yet we had one about a month ago and it killed a couple of people and ripped off roofs, and caused the usual mayhem and chaotic destruction that tornadoes usually leave in their wake.

 

The world is in a state of flux (flow), and what's "fluxing" me at the moment is that I'm paying for the "fastest" internet - or so it says on my bill every month but it's just a mission to log onto the internet period !

They've been upgrading the exchange, so they say for the past 3 months now ... it's just so stinkus horriblus at the moment.

 

Politicly my personal thought is that Europe is going to go into some sort of decline and then they're going to start weeding their garden until the major change that has been on the cards for ages comes around the corner and

sucker punches them all quite suddenly ... change isn't change until it happens in Europe first ... two world wars should make that easier to understand.

 

As strange as the world may seem, it's still a good way from "weird" but that's coming.

 

Ok, the War on Iran thingy ... it's possible but I don't think so ... Iran and Russia are going to become really great bedfellows ... wait and see.

Edited October 19, 2011 by Nintii

[Deleted472477User]

Oh, I don't think it' the 'end times', or even the end of the world. I just think we are headed rapidly for a fall, and a big one at that. A man made catastrophe. Unfortunately, of our own making..... The US will be the first to go under, and when it does, the ripple effect will reverberate around the world. After that, the recovery will begin. It would be nice to think that we would learn a lesson from said fall, but, given our past history, I don't see that is likely either.

 

It just feels worse somehow. Maybe because the media is always there to report on every horrible thing that happens. We didn't have this when I was a kid, so it all seems like we're going insane and butchering each other. It feels like the more overcrowded we get, the less we give a flying eff about each other. Look at the little girl in China who was hit by a truck: people stood around and recorded it on their cellphones. That being their first decision is not normal. And yeah, climate change is a natural part of things, I just feel like we're making it worse or making it happen faster.

 

as for the politicians, I don't recall ever seeing this much "Screw the country, I want to prove my point, so and so sucks!" going on before.

[HeyYou]

Yeah, everything has become so politicized, its unreal. Instead of attempting to work together, to find solutions to the countries problems, it seems like it is more 'in style' to place blame for why we are here in the first place, and that the 'other guy's plan is so much malarky. No one seems to want to actually SOLVE the problem, they just want to act like they have the answers, but, the other party is preventing them from implementing their fixes, so, the country continues to go down the tubes.

 

My major problem with the whole thing is, there really isn't that much difference between the two 'plans'. Cut taxes for those that don't need it, pay for it by cutting programs for the poor, that DO need it. They are doing absolutely NOTHING to solve the root causes, which as I see it are:

 

1. Corporate money has way to much influence on political decision making by:

a. direct corporate donations to political campaigns

b. corporate lobbyists.

c. "corporations are people too", so they can exercise their right of free speech, and spend as much as they want on political advertising.

 

2. Paid Lobbyists. Some of these guys are paid millions of dollars per year, just to hang out in DC, and convince representatives to vote some particular way. Backroom deals are the norm, rather than the exception now.

 

3. Free Trade. The US simply cannot compete on the global market. We have come to expect a pretty good standard of living, and that requires a reasonable wage. We are not chinese, or koreans, that are willing to work for a few bucks a day. (which to THEM, is a lot of money.....) Unless we are willing to accept the standard of living that is prevalent in third world countries, that our corporations are outsourcing jobs to, we are going to continue to have record high unemployment.

 

So, those are the problems, as I see it..... the trouble is, the folks that have the power to make the changes necessary to alter the situation, make a LOT of money from leaving things just as they are. Voting to change things would mean taking money out of their own pockets. Something NONE of them are going to be willing to do. We are stuck. It is a self-perpetuating problem, that only has one final outcome. Economic Collapse.

[HeyYou]

And just as an addendum to my previous post there, and to reinforce my opinion that we are headed for a major economic collapse, due to flat out stupidity in Washington, Obama signed three more Free Trade agreements today. Panama, Columbia, and S. Korea are now new places for corporate america to send american jobs to.

[frakle]

Voted for the bunker by the way, everyone should have their own secret underground bunker stocked with massive amounts of food and water. Seriously though I would like to love in a underground bunker, sounds fun to me.

 

There is a difference between changes in weather and man made disasters though. We can't do much to fix the weather.

 

Also global warming is accepted by most people to be real (even my Aunt who is a hardcore conservative believes in global warming.) The mainstream debate is if its man made or not.

 

it would be difficult to get a good high-speed internet connection underground.

[HeyYou]

Voted for the bunker by the way, everyone should have their own secret underground bunker stocked with massive amounts of food and water. Seriously though I would like to love in a underground bunker, sounds fun to me.

 

There is a difference between changes in weather and man made disasters though. We can't do much to fix the weather.

 

Also global warming is accepted by most people to be real (even my Aunt who is a hardcore conservative believes in global warming.) The mainstream debate is if its man made or not.

 

it would be difficult to get a good high-speed internet connection underground.

 

Cable Modem. :D

[marharth]

By the way, the Mayans never said the world would end in 2012.

 

Their last long count calender ended in 2012. It was probably off by a decade or so as well.

 

The end of a long count calender represents a new age. It would make more sense to guess that something really good would happen in 2012, not that something really bad would happen.