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Post by SilverSergyon13 on Sept 3, 2005 22:29:53 GMT -5
Does anyone ever get the feeling that the world is changing? A feeling that maybe some major changes may take place in a few years, or that they already are taking place?
Ok, let me explain. My dad and I very often have discussions about the earth changing...armageddon (sp?) of a sort. These past few years some strange things have been happening and personally I think the earth may be changing. For the better? I don't know. Most likely for the worse.
There's been so many freak storms lately, so many natural disasters. Never in history have there been as many hurricanes as we have been having in the past few years. We get more and more each year and each year they are worse and worse. Then this year there have been quite a few earth quakes and the year before mt. st. Helen went off. Plus the tsunami. It almost seems unreal to me...like a movie.
What if our planet is really coming to an end? In this recent hurricane in LA coffins and bodies were swept up from their graves. Is that not scary, or what?! If you're watching the news it just seems like everything is a movie down there. The Day After Tomorrow...
So what do you guys think this bad weather means? All this rain, all this heat, all these storms? Plus, if you have animals and gardens you may have noticed that many plants are dying early and that many animals are molting. I've never remembered an animal molting or shedding this early in the year. I've read a bit on it and supposedly it's supposed to be a brutal winter. Last year seemed bad, but this year is supposed to be much worse.
I'm interested to read what you guys all think about this.
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Post by InnocentDarkSassy on Sept 5, 2005 11:10:14 GMT -5
Well if it is coming to an end, it better not end till I fully live out my life!
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Post by jimbo on Sept 5, 2005 12:16:03 GMT -5
First off; I can't say that I won't welcome the end of the world.
Second; Silver, weather dosen't mean anything about the end of the world. All it means is that we are getting some severe storms thanks to the atmosphere we messed up.
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Post by Cy Skywalker on Sept 5, 2005 14:21:02 GMT -5
But there is a....something coming. Something has to. The year 2000s have been rather strange. 1990s, people were waiting for the millennium. Now, it's like a lot of people have lost...life. People go through life but don't see it. Disasters come and go and shake them out of their reveries for a time, except for those who are so callous that they can not feel, even if they want to. I can't say it's the end of the world that's coming, whatever your version of that is, or some great battle (spritiual or physical, i.e. WWIII) or just the extinction of the race from boredom. There are wonderful, wonderful things in our lifetimes, I thought alot about that this week just cause it was so good. But then there is the places, the lives where moods of Gloom come over. The dark is rising.
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Post by SilverSergyon13 on Sept 5, 2005 18:57:35 GMT -5
Something is coming. I don't know, but do you ever get the feeling when looking at the darkened sky of an oncoming storm of just something? Something is there, something is coming. I can't think of the word. Awe? Maybe that's it. A sense of awe. A sense of knowing that there is something bigger than you out there. Something that could destroy the whole world and humans would have no say about it. Nuclear war heads could destroy the whole world, but only in human hands. A simple bomb sitting without a controller won't. Storms, weather, needs no controller. We have no say.
Bad weather alone means nothing, but a record like we've been having definitely says something. Did you ever see The Day After Tomorrow? Imagine severe hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, and floods in places that are not equipped for such things. Humans don't have to ruin the environment to creates these problems, though I do have to say it definitely helps severe climate changes when we pollute. If the past few years the water levels of the oceans have risen and temperatures on the equator have gone up. These things are subtle, but in the long run they could make a place so inhospitable that human life could no longer be supported there. It will turn the equator into a firey dessert and the poles into icy death traps. A simple shift of the Earth's axis could cause such a severe chain of effects and we would have no choice but to attempt to ride it out. There would be no way to stop that.
An end to the world as we know it will come to an end. When exactly is the question. Maybe it already has come to an end with this hurricane Katrina. If gas prices continue to rise like they've been doing our economy will simply collapse. The hurricane has already turned many people down in those areas animal. Imagine something like this hurricane happening in more than one place. I don't think human beings could withstand that.
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Post by jimbo on Sept 6, 2005 12:11:02 GMT -5
Ok, Now you're mixing up a movie with real life.
I have not seen The Day After Tomorrow.
But that is only Fictious disaster movie, not a prophesy, and not real life.
The reason I post here is because I feel that if you always think about the end, the days of your life will be utterly spent and joyless. We should focus on the here and now and not worry about the impending doom that's always coming and will only come when it is time for it to come. If we do that life will take its sweet time coming to an end and our lives will be more joyfu in effect making the world a slightly better place to live.
So enough of this morbid talk of the end, and let us talk of joyfull things, random things, insane things, happy things, and other positive things.
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Post by Cy Skywalker on Sept 6, 2005 15:36:45 GMT -5
I find the end of the world rather amusing, actually...k/j. Really I stand between you two but need to do more thinking/research/prayer. Do you feel, Silver, that there is something you personally are supposed to be doing that is a part of this?
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Post by SilverSergyon13 on Sept 6, 2005 16:54:29 GMT -5
I don't quite understand that question, Cy. Can you explain more?
I'm a wonderer, a wanderer, and a thinker. I wonder about these things because they are thing to wonder about. I wander around in the deepest reaches of the mind for answers that don't yet have questions. I think about things that others may not, perhaps seeing them in a different light, in a different psyche.
You have not seen The Day after Tomorrow. Are you saying a tornado couldn't happen in a place like, say NJ? Are you saying Kansas couldn't flood? Are you saying there could be no such thing as a massive Earthquake in California? These things happen, and they do happen. They happen in real life, our life.
The end is in the future. Do you not think about the future. Not nesseccarily your own, but perhaps the worlds? The future generation's?
I don't worry about the End, nor do I greet the End with welcome. I simply think about it because there must be an end. There will be an end to something. Whether it be the earth or mankind. Physical things don't last forever and forever is a VERY long time.
Thinking about an end to something doesn't ruin life. It shouldn't, not if you do it with respect. I suppose I look at weather's destruction with a sense of awe. It has a power us as humans will not know. An unstoppable power. Even if we find a way to predict the weather with the utmost technology, we can still not control it.
Impending doom...you sound like Zim. Hehe.
We as humans take Earth for granted sometimes. We think we are the most powerful species on Earth, that we have total control. I think sometimes we forget that the Earth is bigger than us. It houses everything we hold dear. It also houses our deadliest fears. All too often we forget that you don't have to be alive to hold power. You simply have to have power.
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Post by Spazzy on Sept 6, 2005 22:12:00 GMT -5
Ah, I think i should get my cousin to read this because, he would be interested in this stuff.. I can understand your point of view Silver.. There are not many people that think like you.. Some of us don't want to go and find answers to those types of questions and there are those that do..
Although, I do not, enjoy thinking about The End or death, I have been thinking about this thread for a few hours now.. Everything is connected someway or another.. Nature to humans to our natural resources.. When people take advantage of these things and they create substances that are harmful to everything.. It is we humans that are making The End come sooner than it should.. With all the pollution and tests that have negative affects.. We forget that everything we do does affect something around us.. It can speed up the process of The End..
I do now realize, how nature is getting stronger.. Forces are building and we don't know what is in store for us now.. Whether, it be a tsunami on the East coast or an earthquake we may never be able to know because, we can't predict the future.. The cost of the tsunami and Hurricane Katrina were lives and also diseases that have been spreading..
I think, that we should stick to what is happening now, and not looking into the future.. You can't really predict what is going to happen or when.. You can make statements or theories but, there is no hard core evidence or proof that says what is going to happen in the future.. We just must be ready for whatever it is..
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Post by jimbo on Sept 7, 2005 9:15:54 GMT -5
I never said that natural disasters don't happen. I'm saying that there's an infinitely large difference between Disaster movies and real life of which you seem to be confusing. Natural disasters do happen, but just because I haven't seen "The Day After Tomorrow" doesn't mean I don't know anything about natural disasters. Life is not a movie, Movies are not life, life is reality, movies are fiction. Some movies are about true stories, but that is the past. Some movies are about historic events, but that too is the past. some movies are educational (a.k.a. March of the penguins) but that is documentation of the ecosystem.
Disaster movies and real natural disasters are two different things. One is fiction, the other is the harsh reality of life.
Am I making myself clear on this?
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Post by Cy Skywalker on Sept 8, 2005 6:32:04 GMT -5
I mean, there must be a reason and you or we or I are notified, in our different ways, of the end of the World! Why would we know, fear, discusss, if there was not a purpose to something as big as this?
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