may 21: end of the world?
#31 Posted 14 May 2011 - 11:54 AM
This post has been edited by GothicBunny: 14 May 2011 - 11:55 AM
#32 Posted 14 May 2011 - 01:17 PM
Canada doesn't seem to care.
Bit off topic (Conservative in Europe are more environmentally aware compare of USA and Canada).
Now back to topic.
So if people overpopulated their countries they shouldn't do it to other countries.
Because they will never learn they will fuckup the environment and more..
Is just like man's idea to trash their planet and then wanna colonize other planet, if they cannot take care of Earth and then colonizing another planet they will do the same mistake, over, over and over again.
Now for people believing in the end of the world religiously is not ok.
If the inventor / one who founded that religion say the world will end in May 21st 2011 is their opinion / opinion of the inventor of the religion.
People believing in the world will end by religions are slaves who follows what some silly book written by someone who died a long time ago.
People believing in the 21st may or Dec 21 2012 believe in other people's opinion, especially people they have never met who died over 2000 years ago.
Ok let do a revision but for recent days. Let say I am some self-declared messiah and I say the world will end in 12,12,12 (Dec 12 2012).
People probably wont believe it because we live in a modern society and have technology and better ways to gather evidence. Probably they would believe it if I was born 2000 years ago and probably even write a bible or a book about me saying I was special, I was the son of god and had great powers.
But if I do that today I will be seen as a nutjob which would be right thing to say.
If Jesus would be born 50 years ago and does the same stuff he did 2000 years ago we will see him as a basketcase or a nutjob probably will be locked down in an asylum.
Those type of religions have severely damaged society, caused wars, slavery, suffering and destruction.
Those religions especially god are based on someone else telling you what to do, people follows orders from something lacking in evidence for its presence.
Like abrahamic religions oppose people jacking off because is a sin. Is based on the person who founded this religion opposed it so they are slave and not jacking off because they are affraid they will be punished by something that doesn't exist... A lie. Is wrong in their religion but ok in society as long is not done in public.
I'm strongly for freedom as long is not abused.
To me believing god is just like believing in Zeus, Santa Claus, Odin etc.
Is ok to be religious as long is not taken seriously and endangers the believer's life or other's lives.
In reality I don't believe in this mumbo jumbo and I am not a messiah or someone trying to form a cult so no worry.
#33 Posted 14 May 2011 - 03:28 PM
GothicBunny, on 14 May 2011 - 11:54 AM, said:
Fixed.
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#34 Posted 14 May 2011 - 03:46 PM
#35 Posted 14 May 2011 - 04:36 PM
Mr.Flibble, on 14 May 2011 - 05:43 AM, said:
I did not know that they axed the single child policy. I knew they were feeling the pressure of population shrinkage and the fact that men out numbered women way too much for a sustainable population.
China's one-child policy is still in effect. While male preference is an increasing problem, the government has banned fetal sex determination to try to combat it.
#36 Posted 14 May 2011 - 06:02 PM
Showed a drop by ~6 millions. Dunno if that drop was cause by some of their people immigrating to other countries.
2000 census 1,273,111,290
2003 census 1,286,975,468
2006 census 1,315,844,000
2009 census 1,345,751,000
2010 census 1,339,724,852
#37 Posted 14 May 2011 - 07:46 PM
GothicBunny, on 14 May 2011 - 11:54 AM, said:
Frankly, any "Christian" who claims they know when the world will end, or can predict the time of any other event from Revelation, isn't actually a Christian.
Jesus said nobody will know when it's going to happen. So there.
#38 Posted 14 May 2011 - 08:07 PM
#40 Posted 14 May 2011 - 08:53 PM
Actually...Mr. T was in a movie about the Rapture et al. It was worth the amount of time to watch it. I mean, it is freaking Mr. T...as a Christian Fundamentalist in a post Rapture world. And he is pretty much just like BA in the A-Team. even says "fool" but I wish he had said "I pity the fool." But you can't always get what you want.
I mean like this:
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#41 Posted 15 May 2011 - 01:56 AM
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#42 Posted 15 May 2011 - 10:48 AM
Some people are just saying that kind of stories again and again,more than a century now.
An end might come one day,but we can't know when this will happen.
Nobody knows.
Expect if someone with 500 nukes has decided the time he will blow them all up.
Only he would know.
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#43 Posted 15 May 2011 - 05:36 PM
#44 Posted 16 May 2011 - 12:43 PM
Alithinos, on 15 May 2011 - 10:48 AM, said:
Some people are just saying that kind of stories again and again,more than a century now.
An end might come one day,but we can't know when this will happen.
Nobody knows.
Expect if someone with 500 nukes has decided the time he will blow them all up.
Only he would know.
That wouldn't be the end of the world though, maybe a temporary pause to mankind's progress.
#45 Posted 16 May 2011 - 11:34 PM
Mr.Flibble, on 14 May 2011 - 08:53 PM, said:
Too much effort... would Raptor Jesus be good enough?
#47 Posted 17 May 2011 - 05:10 AM
wayskobfssae, on 16 May 2011 - 11:34 PM, said:
Raptor Jesus is old. I suppose I can't blame you for being lazy...it isn't exactly exciting.
#48 Posted 17 May 2011 - 06:07 AM
VinsaneOne, on 17 May 2011 - 12:22 AM, said:
If the current scientific knowledge is correct this should take a long, LONG time.
PS: I forgot to say, REALLY long time. heh
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#49 Posted 17 May 2011 - 07:48 AM
LkMax, on 17 May 2011 - 06:07 AM, said:
~4 billion years
#50 Posted 17 May 2011 - 12:16 PM
I myself don't believe in God, but that doesn't mean that I don't believe that the Bible has some good points to it.
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#51 Posted 19 May 2011 - 01:22 AM
What about people on Indian Reservations who firmly hold their traditions and beliefs? You're (dooms dayers) going to tell me that these people are
hell bound heathens, despite about 500 years of oppression and marginalization since that pendejo Columbus?
Look at this
These fools spent all that money on a slick tour bus with a hot paint job, while they could've been truly helping people.
Instead, there they are; surrounded by the comforts of an on-the-road vacation home .
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#52 Posted 19 May 2011 - 05:31 AM
oakman, on 19 May 2011 - 01:22 AM, said:
What about people on Indian Reservations who firmly hold their traditions and beliefs? You're (dooms dayers) going to tell me that these people are
hell bound heathens, despite about 500 years of oppression and marginalization since that pendejo Columbus?
I fail to see the connection you're trying to make.
If you're a Christian, of course you believe that Indians are hellbound.
The validity of this end of the world argument has got nothing to do with that.
#53 Posted 19 May 2011 - 07:44 AM
#54 Posted 19 May 2011 - 07:47 PM
Spirrwell, on 17 May 2011 - 12:16 PM, said:
I myself don't believe in God, but that doesn't mean that I don't believe that the Bible has some good points to it.
Not Christian here either, but it still irks me like mad when people who claim to be, don't actually seem to know what their own deity has said about a certain subject... especially after researching it to death like the current incarnation of doomsayers have.
#55 Posted 19 May 2011 - 07:59 PM
wayskobfssae, on 19 May 2011 - 07:47 PM, said:
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Yeah, I come from family that's Christian, I can't stand my father or my mother, they're always ranting about God and the end times, as if I haven't heard billions of times before. What pisses me off even more, is that my parents understand that the date can't be predicted, but they predict that the day after May 21st, everyone will be mocking them, and God will make some bad things happen.
It baffles me how delusional people can be without it being a defined illness. One of the other things that annoys me, is that people will continue to talk about God and all this crap, and I'm forced to listen to it. One day I swear to God, (excuse the phrase ) I'm going to rage out screaming at the top of my lungs: "GET IT THROUGH YOUR THICK SKULLS, YOU BELIEVE IN GOD, I DON'T, NOW SHUT THE FU*K UP!"
I don't mean to insult anyone who does believe this stuff, but I hate religion of any kind when it's being preached to my face any chance someone gets.
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#56 Posted 20 May 2011 - 05:32 AM
Spirrwell, on 19 May 2011 - 07:59 PM, said:
I don't mean to insult anyone who does believe this stuff,
Why not? People who believe this stuff are absolutely stupid and it should be said to their face. They intimidate their children and others who're easily susceptible to this nonsense and many of them do so in order to make money.
#57 Posted 20 May 2011 - 05:44 AM
Mikko_Sandt, on 20 May 2011 - 05:32 AM, said:
Good grief you are abrasive!
#58 Posted 20 May 2011 - 05:50 AM
trencheel303, on 20 May 2011 - 05:44 AM, said:
You obviously haven't got any actual arguments left in the bag, which is why you come up with these lame ad hominem attacks.
#59 Posted 20 May 2011 - 05:54 AM
Thanks and goodbye.
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#60 Posted 20 May 2011 - 06:04 AM
trencheel303, on 20 May 2011 - 05:54 AM, said:
You serious? You wouldn't call a person who believes that the end of the world comes tomorrow stupid?
Tell me, for what kind of cases does the word exist in your opinion?