The end will come in about 4,000,000,000 years when our Sun vaporizes the Earth as it expanse into a red giant. Long before the oceans would have boiled off and just about all life would have been distinguished with maybe a few extermephiles hanging on in the crust. The only after life for humanity is in the stars for man may be granted immortality but it will be by his own hand not through supernatural salvation.

Does it really matter?

So we have a Fundamentalist Christian who believes that everything in the Bible actually happened.
Your belief is not my belief, but I believe there is a God whoever she is and how black she is.

The end of the world.

Why do people worry about it, as long as it is in 100 years or greater, we will be all dead (or frozen) by then anyway.

Out of the countless generations past and future i would be surprised if our generation won the russion roulette and were greeted by the apocolypse, but obviuosly the writer had nothing to do and thought he would put this out there. If you wrote instead about paint drying, this is perhaps at least a learning experience somwehat for the reader.

If we spent more time being productive as a people and less time on things such as religous interpretation & trivia, I bet we would have a far more fruitful life, and actually leave something behind more than ideaology for our children.

“Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away before all these things take place” (Matthew 24:34); “Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away till all has taken place” (Luke 21:32). “All these things” are a description and prediction of the end of the world.

Oops!! We're still waiting... could it be that JC was wrong? That the Bible is wrong? That it's all superstitious rubbish?

Over to the believers for a set of explanatory rationalisations. Please try to make them original.

some disjointed thoughts:

"We may abandon the notion that the improvement of the world is all down to us."

man, how fatalistic can you get?

well im not going to.

and if this is 'movement' is transforming the world.....then.. i dont know how to tell you this. but ah, .................are you sure its working? guess it must be, things have never been better right.

i wonder if there is any correlation between those quoted passages and what the insurgents in iraq are being told? "the nations of the world will end, in particular the one that happens to be occupying your country at the time".

how funny would it be if the minister for health, as a devout christian, shared sells's views on medicine? probably not that funny come to think of it.

reminds me of bill hicks:
"is anyone else here concerned that the man who has his finger on the little red button, believes that the rapture will take place in his life time? please lord, tell me to push the button, your servant is ready lord, just give me the word".