When will it be safe?
Jan 10, 2009 Uncategorized
Will dooms day predictions end? Ever?
How about this, we set a time in the future, and if nothing has happened by then, we’ll all kindly agree that all the doomsday prophesies are bunk. How about 2100. I think that by then any year 2000 prophesy will be safely behind us.
I won’t deny that self destruction of humanity at our own hands is possible. We often play with things that are beyond our ability to control: nuclear fission, chemicals, biological agents and genetics. Any one of which could do us in at any time.
At the same time, being agnostic means that I admit that I don’t understand the true nature of the world. Some angry god or another could, however unlikely, end the merry-go-round. The end times, the second coming, judgment day. Every religion worth it’s salt has a dooms day event scheduled.
But I’m getting a bit tired of people using the “imminent Apocalypse” as a reason to act irresponsibly in the present. “Why worry about global warming? Jesus is coming and then it won’t matter.”
When will people stop being convinced that the end of the world by divine prophesy is going to happen in their lifetime? What a selfish idea. Why are you so fucking special? People have been thinking “it’ll happen in my lifetime” for more than 2000 years.
So can we kindly agree? 2100? No divine end by then and we stop talking about it? Do we have a deal everyone? 2100? They we call it quits and focus on what really matters?