What do you mean by "end of the world"? Total annihilation of universe or "just" Earth? There are theories that Universe won't be expanding indefinitely, but when it reaches its limit it'll shrink back to the state in which it was during the big bang, and then everything will start again.
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Then I think that if it gonna die prematurely it'll be due to something big from space, it would be hard to find something big enough, strolling through our solar system, to smash whole planet to little pieces, but it is possible, but probably something this big will be spotted soon enough to send on it a drilling squad with a nuke ;)
To be totally clear: I don't believe in this 21.12 mumbo jumbo.
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There's probably nothing big enough still loose in our solar system to smash the planet to bits as in totally annihilated. Even the collision that formed our moon wasn't big enough to demolish the Earth completely. Everything else that is big enough is already in a stable orbit. Of course we are talking about the planet itself and not the life on it. There's still a lot of debris floating around that can wipe out life here. The planet would survive though.
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Very much incorrect. Our solar system has an actual Meteor Belt. Any body big enough to impact or affect gravitational influence can knock something out.
Also, I think people underestimate just how much space garbage is out there, as there really is extra-solar debris entering our solar system all the time, and billions of fragments flying around. Our planet gets hit by meteors daily. DAILY. Those meteors are clearly not stabilized. Do you have any idea how large our solar system is? There are billions (conservative estimate) of meteors freely flying around our solar system.
Don't you remember that meteor slamming into Jupiter not that long ago? The size of it, and the impact, would have annihilated earth. One thing is certain, space is chaos. We think stability, because we see it at such a small perspective, and in such slow time. The universe is billions of years old, of one explosion/expansion.
As for the moon, earth and the moon didn't just come to each other fully formed. The formation of both these objects was violent. A collection of debris that came together. Where two gravitation chunks of in the same area started sucking up matter, and based on velocity and other physics i don't personally know, ended up orbiting the earth. Well, thats one theory. Its possible they were the same mass, then shattered (Like a doomsday meteor strike), they then split, and slowly absorbed the remaining matter.
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Also, it doesn't have to be a very large body. A relatively small body traveling at a great enough velocity could be equally devastating.
I believe the Jupiter thing you're referring to was the Levy-Schumacher comet breaking up and crashing into it. (I have no idea if I spelled that right, btw.)
As for the moon, current theory holds that the nascent Earth collided with another, perhaps Mars-sized, planetoid, combining with it. The matter ejected from this collision orbited and eventually coalesced into the moon.
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Earth will actually be inhabitable like 250 million years in the future even without humans being involved so if humans plan to destroy earth in billions of years then i fear they miscalculated.
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I researched it a lot...I don't see the possibility and even if it was to happen in all honesty we as humans had enough time here probably....I mean look at the damage we have done.
So in other words, nah don't think it will happen and don't care if it does, we had a good run.
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I agree, I don't see why people are getting so fussed about it. I mean, if it REALLY IS going to be the end of the world, then what's the point in panicking, or whining, or crying, or whatever? Just accept it, if you've had a good life then be thankful for it, and if you haven't, don't worry, it'll all be over soon!
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I do admit though if I really thought it was the end I would party HARD.
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Well, the whole "end of the world on that specific date" thing is stupid. Sure the world(as we know it at least) will probably end when the greenhouse effect gets strong enough to kill everyone. Or when the next nuclear war starts... or the dozens of other possible reasons humanity will kill itself.
But there is no indication of that happening this or any of the following years.
What I DO worry about in terms of the whole 21 December thing is that a lot of people do in fact believe the world will end then(like they believe in a bunch of other crap). And humans have the annoying habit of being harmful to everyone around them when they feel their lives are threatened. My advise is make sure no-one can get into your house for a few days after that. Don't want any fanatics getting to you. :P
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Im even tired of thinking about it if the world is gonna end or not. Guess some people are going to hype this to get attention, but if they think twice about it they believe on their own that this is just a marketing gag I think..
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Research as in "using common sense"? Or were you thinking of something a bit more involved?
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"not one of the best communities on the Internet"
That's asking for trouble ;)
As to your question. This is oddly relevant
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No, the world won't end. Or does the world end every 31.12.?
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Nah not really. If they did, they would have quit their jobs a year ago and spent all their money, or any number of other otherwise irresponsibly stupid things. But they didn't, so their belief in the world's end is marginal at best.
It's similar to how many religious people fear death, despite their faith's doctrine insistence in a wonderful, eternal afterlife.
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You don't have enough assets overall to sustain yourself for a year? I'm not just talking about money in the bank, but also the combined value of your car, home, and so on. Because you could easily take out loans and sell assets.
If you're an average American or Western European adult, you could easily do this. The only problem is that if the world didn't end, you'd be broke, homeless, and in a massive amount of debt.
Assuming you truly believe the world is ending and you truly believe it, go out with a bang.
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Just wait until North-Korea is able to strike the US. Today they have proven that they maybe could hit the Pacific, but in 10 years?
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Why would NK do that? They've already been able to hit their sworn enemies in South Korea and Japan for decades and they've decided against it.
It's stupid; mutually assured destruction means NK would never survive it, and in all likelihood their opponent would.
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Why would you want to contaminate the south, which you want to conquer? They fear the USA. And the US is inclined to not attack people who have ICBMs.
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I like it. Stupid people kill them selves. We give them Darwin Awards. Life goes on... with less stupid people polluting the planet.
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I feel bad for all the children that have ignorant parents that give up their kids savings accounts and college money to spend on some bullshit items or shelters they may or may not ever use. How can you think so short term if you have children?!
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I will be hanging out with friends with a stiff drink in my hand and listening to this a time or few as well Best Song Ever
I just hope when it really does happen we have some warning so I can do the same for the real end of the world as we know it.
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Mark 13:32
"No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father."
What happened with the Mayans went like this: Mayan is whistling while chiseling runs out of rock "Hey guys, I ran out of rock... Eh, oh well... It's not like anyone is gonna look at this and think 'It's the end of the world!' They'd just be plain stupid..."
The end...
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"Hell" (Psalm 9:17, 7th word, KJ21) ya I quote the Bible!
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It's not bad unless used out of context, I was jokingly using it with hell, but the thing about no one knows the date or time was completely sincere...
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No clue what porn you are talking about... But okay... Whatever pops into your mind stupid little public schooler... HOMESCHOOLED FTW!!!
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Okay... So, a song that a man named Solomon wrote is soft-core porn... I must inform my pastor immediately...
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I think this whole "the end of world" thing is annoying. I swear, there will be more topics about it than... something else I can't think of right now.
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I can say from my own research and experience that the end of the world is real and that is the real date, but it is very misunderstood.
The "end of the world" reffers to the end of a way of thinking and opening a higher consciousness in people who are willing and ready to recieve it, also an end of old patterns of thinking. The world also "ended" in the year 2000 and back then it was also a entering into a higher consciousness for the people who were ready at that time, but we evolve constantly. It is misunderstood because many people are extremists without knowing it. I highly recommend the read of a book called "The power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle, it is a useful read and it helps very much in understanding more of life and nature. The truth was also recognized more than two thousand years ago when Plato said that "The whole Universe is a Single Living Being that embraces all living beings within", but people don't fully understand it's meaning because frankly they don't want to know, they think they are satisfied with their choices, but a huge lack can be observed in their lifes. There are only three ways of living: "In spite of", "Ignorant" and "Wonderful". If you chose to wonder of the beauties of nature, you yourself become wonderful, as in wonder-full. Life is magic already and wonderful, yet people excpect to recieve "godlike powers" from "somewwhere else" because they don't see they already have "godlike abilities". All living beings are life itself, because: Which is life if not that which is living? And life in essence is Consciousness. Consciousness is all in essence.
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One can look at a tree and say in ignorance "just a tree"(as in just a prop, a resource, an object), but one can also look at the same tree with a wonderful perspective and realize that if we don't JUDGE the tree from our own limiting concepts, we realize that we don't know who or what a tree is, in fact if we analyze it, we don't know who we really are. Sure, you know your name, abilities and physical properties, also you know your history, but all those have nothing to do with who you are. The subject is not it's attributes and properties or posessed objects, the subject is pure consciousness. But that's about to change for those who are willing that change, for those who are tired of ignorance. They will soon realize that the tree and the man is the same Living Being in the ultimate essence. A immortal living being that is Life itself. Life is formless, yet it has all the forms; Life is shapeless, yet it has all the shapes; Life is infinite, yet it has all the finite appearances; Life is timeless, yet life has time. Life is colorless, yet has all the colors.
How? Because life is not only its manifestations, yet life manifests. Life is consciousness that manifests choices of life.
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Very sincere and serious talk intended by OP. No trolling or provocating, please. Even though this is definitely not one of the best communities on the Internet I'd still hope to be having a sincere discussion.
Now people start panicking over the 21st of December for no reason and I simply can't stand it how people fail to do their research and seriously believe in one of the many "oh the world is going to end" hypes.
So, who of you, after doing research, still believes in the soon to be "end of the world as we know it"?
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