It seems like a lot of bad things are going on in the world. I would like to know if you think that the world is going to end anytime soon near the end of the century. Like we will all be destroyed and then there are a few human survivors. Will it ever be like that?
Well, maybe the world won't be destroyed, but there must be a terrible disaster and a lot of people will die . Then everything gonna changed and we'll live in a new world...
Oh yes, the world is totally going to end. Just like they've been saying for thousands of years.
Honestly, just to end civilization as we know it would take the destructive force of thousands of Japanese earthquakes all over the world. Bar a massive stray asteroid impact (rather rare as it is, and now we are looking for them) or nuclear war, I don't think it is going to happen. Unless soon is a couple of billion years for you, then the sun will swallow us up.
Soon... no.
At some point... yes.
where is that end of the world flash video with all the nukes and stuff when you need it.
Certainly not what you meant, but this might do (the one at the end).
You know, I really hate the phase "end civilization as we know it". It's not because of any specificity with the people who use it.
It's because the phrase is SO [CENSORED] AMBIGUOUS! Because civilization as we know it could end if we suddenly had a giant computer singularity in 3 minutes, that decided that the only way for it to survive was to micromanage human's lives.
Or random dudes&dudettes J through P all get locked in cryostasis or some other wierd top-secret "does not officially exist" government project, and then they get warmed up seven hundred years from now, only to find civilization as they knew it has "ended", because it now is radically different to what they knew, despite being in cryo-sleep or hibernation or whatever for seven hundred years.
Incidentally, the second situation is somewhat of a plotline to some movie I remember glimpsing the first five or ten minutes of.
But yeah, the term has no implicitly negative or positive connotations, and it wouldn't take much to end civilization as we know it. I mean, really, if we were to facilitate a rapid (less than six months), total switch to nuclear power generation, then civilization as we knew it would end, because it would no longer be dependant on a primarily oil and coal based power economy.
I was using it as because there are not any better alternatives. "End of the World" or "End of humanity" both imply everyone dies, while end of civilization would allow for a much more plausible situation where say 90% of humanity is wiped out and the remainder are not able to immediately rebuild itself. I don't think the OP is specifically talking about the first two.
Perhaps simply "End of Civilization" would be better?
Or the concept of the end of an age.
It's quite possible for an age to end without any massive catastrophe. Fall of the Soviet Union for example.
True, but an age can end due to a massive catastrophe such as the age of dinosaurs
Yes, ending soon
But I watched all the stargate SG-1, I think there's other planets we can live on ! There's other world out there, they just don't tell us. We don't have to worry, everything is planed ! Unless the Goa'uld mess up with us before ! So worry about them, not about the the end of the earth !
Oh and there's the Wraith too on Stagate Atlantis ! But we would have to travel very far for that !
I don't think we have to worry about the replicators anyway ! By the time they succeed to escape from their prison planet (where time was slow down for those who did not follow) the little gray will have found a solution to destroy them !
World NO
World as we know it and are used to YES
Someone is always predicting the end of the world, probably have been since the first humans sat around a camp fire. Sometimes in a localized area it really happens. Destruction of the Minoan Empire from the eruption of the volcanic caldera Thera.
The universe is a dangerous place. If anything does get us en masse it will probably be something that nobody is expecting until the moment it arrives.
I hope it does end, that way I'll get to re-roll my character as another class. Wait, what are we talking about?
I hereby declare that Annatar11 has won the thread.
It's theeeeeee ennnd offff the woorrrrrrld as-we-KNOW-it.....
Annnnddd IIIIIII feeeeeeeel fiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnneeeeeeeeeee!
I want a re-roll too ! I think I botched the first time on the strenght and agility stat ! Can I reroll intelligence too in the hope of having a higher score? Maybe I could take some flaws in order to boost my stats too ! I don't know if I can, I already have a lot of flaws though... Maybe I can take bad writing in order to boost intelligence? I could use some hyperness if a flaw it is ! Maybe I will take trouble sleeping too ! And lycanthropy ! I would kill some poeple and risk to be killed but I can boost agility and strenght. Oh and here, a list of minor flaws that won't affect me too much but will greately inscrease my stats at the cost of some of my favorite organs...
Yes, definitely, I want a reroll too !
Hey guys , if the world is going to end , we'll die. I'm afraid of death ... Aren't you afraid of it?
No.
Damn right I am afraid of death. But i would be afraid to be a survivor too. has anyone ever watched jo rogans stand up? In one video he talks about where the pyramids and other wonders of the world came from. Its pretty funny. If you smoke some pot it will likely make sense too! haha http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIubSGIRPbM
The real question is what happens after its ended?
Not much point in being afraid of the inevitable is there? No disrespect (I don't actually know how old you are) but it seems to me that the younger generation is often at the head of such statements seeing as they've grown up in a world of buttons and functions. (ie. UNDO, UNSEND EMAIL (thanks GOOGLE! ) or features like AUTOSAVE, CHECKPOINTS (in games) etc. etc. ) Today with the power of Facebook's "like" button one can ostensibly help people in africa or japan etc. Technology often (in my opinion) has the nasty side-effect of causing people to lose focus of our real life (the living and breathing part of life). The part of life that is born, grows until it dies. If that were how I had grown up I might also be afraid of death. As it is, I grew up working/playing in the garden whose only technology (planting, growing, harvest/dying) clearly imprints even to the young mind that there is a natural life-death cycle which needs to be embraced.
My children are no different, I'm sure if I asked any one of them (and the oldest has already moved out on his own) they would all say "yes" they're afraid. I guess I should have had them do more gardening instead of website building as chores eh? hehe
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