End of the world couldn't come soon enough

Neo · 05-03-2005, 01:00 PM

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/pope_prop...VjBHNlYwNtcA--

Canyarion · 05-03-2005, 05:44 PM

The bible says nobody will know/predict when exactly it's gonna happen.

Vampyr · 05-03-2005, 05:48 PM

I hope I'm around to see the world end.

Typhoid · 05-03-2005, 05:51 PM

You would think he would have known of this prophecy, being a man in line to be pope and all, so why would he pick that name, and fulfill the prophecy? If you had the choice to closen the Apocalypse, would you do so?

Happydude · 05-03-2005, 06:08 PM

apocalypse, shmapocalypse...i don't think it's going to happen...but hey, you never know.

GameMaster · 05-03-2005, 09:50 PM

Science says the end of the world comes when the sun expands and swallows our planet or when the universe collapses back in on itself again.

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Read about it in English here:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050502...y_050502170623

Kitana85 · 05-03-2005, 09:59 PM

eh, people have been predicting the end of the world since the begining of the world...
heck, the early Christians hung around waiting for the apocalypse (read the Gospel of Mark for more info). Ah well, if it happens during the next Popes tenure, may it be so, if not...eh

edit: okay, people have been waiting around for the apocolypse..

Canyarion · 05-04-2005, 06:18 AM

BTW did I mention that Armageddon is not the end of the world, but just the end of 'evil'?

Neo · 05-04-2005, 04:17 PM

And therefore the end of choice.

The Germanator · 05-04-2005, 04:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Canyarion

BTW did I mention that Armageddon is not the end of the world, but just the end of 'evil'?

I'm ****ed.

But as Satan says in South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut....

"Without evil there could be no good so it must be good to be evil sometimes."

No truer statement has been made. We wouldn't know what evil was if it didn't exist. Or our perceptions of what is evil would change greatly. If a man contributed only $1 million to charity, he would be evil compared to the man who contributed $5 million.

Canyarion · 05-04-2005, 04:59 PM

As long as there are people who remember the evil, we will appreciate the good, I think.

Don't you want a world of peace?

Typhoid · 05-04-2005, 05:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Canyarion

As long as there are people who remember the evil, we will appreciate the good, I think.

Don't you want a world of peace?

But after say, 2 generations, nobody would remember evil.

The world revolves around evil, and selfish acts. Without them, nobody would be commended anything.

With no evil, it would just be who can do more good than the other person. Like Germy said, The guy who gives 1 million would be seen as evil compared to the guy who gave 5.

MuGen · 05-04-2005, 05:18 PM

In actuality, if there WAS a world of peace, they wouldn't know it as a world of peace. The word peace cannot exist without war.

Would people be asking for a world of peace, if there was no war or hate?

Neo · 05-04-2005, 05:44 PM

Good and evil are ultimately just illusions created by the mind.

"There is nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so." - Hamlet

Neo · 05-04-2005, 05:46 PM

Stuff I posted earlier:

7) Is God all-powerfull and all-good? If he is all-powerful, then he would be able to prevent evil. If he is all-good, then he would want to prevent evil. But are not pain and suffering woven into the very fabric of our life? Why is there pain and suffering?

8) Does God allow evil so we can develop good characteristics? Does he permit pain and suffering so we can become better? Is it owing to poverty that we become charitable, owing to cruelty that we become kind? Does evil build souls? But why are built souls a virtue? Why are the traits of charity and kindness good? Isn't that they help us prevent evil, pain, and suffering? But if there was no evil in the first place, why would we need these traits? Would they still remain virtues?

9) Does God permit evil so we can develop characteristics worthy of entering heaven? But why do we need those characters in heaven? Is there poverty and cruelty in heaven too? If not, why did we suffer to develop these characteristics? What good would they be in heaven?

10) Doesn't evil destroy character more often than building it? Do not abused children themselves abuse children?

11) Must we have pain so we can know joy? Must we suffer in order to know what happiness is?

12) Does pain and suffering come from the misuse of our freedom? If God is all-powerful couldn't he have made us both free and so that we always did good?

13) If a parent gives a child freedom to roam in the street and child gets injured, is it the child or the parent who is guilty?

14) Are we punished for inherited sin? Did Adam and Eve start the whole problem? What would you think of a people that forced its criminals to reproduce so it could then punish their children?