Im begining to think im going to see the apocapalpse

[Phlegmak]

With all this global warming ****. It looks like the end is within my lifetime. It seems like every friggen week a new report is issued saying global warming is seriously going to **** us up. Also Bush is a friggen moron for not acting and being a global warming denialist. It is going to happen and if a neo conserve wins again the world will probaly end.

Dude! That's exactly the problem we have with today's Christians! This goddamned fatalistic attitude just sh*ts on anyone who doesn't believe the world is going to end soon. You think the world will end? You now have no reason to take care of the planet. People who don't think the world will end will take care of the world.

 

[Phlegmak]

Everyone forgets the 5th horseman..

Let me guess. You're talking about Kaos.

 

[Catharsis]

He's talking about the milkman.

 

[Abaddon]

Abaddon: The one that left before they became famous?

Bingo


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[Phlegmak]

He's talking about the milkman.

Kaos is the milkman.

 

[nivi]

Kaos is the milkman.

I'm getting a serious case of deja vu here..

 

[Gaius Octavius]

Dude! That's exactly the problem we have with today's Christians! This goddamned fatalistic attitude just sh*ts on anyone who doesn't believe the world is going to end soon. You think the world will end? You now have no reason to take care of the planet. People who don't think the world will end will take care of the world.

Well, that was uncalled for. Granted, there are many fundamentalist types that insist the world is going to end in the next 30 seconds, but it is hardly fair to lump them in with all "gd" Christians. There are more than a few who are in the environmentalist camp today - I remember an ad on TV a while back that said "What kind of car would Jesus drive?" implying he'd pick a low-emissions vehicle.

Christians have been discussing the end of the world for ages; when the persecutions happened, the end was said to be near; when the Goths beat the Romans at Adrianople, the end was near; when Rome fell in 410, the end was again near; on the eve of 1000 AD, it was near; and so on forever and ever...

I think St. Augustine had one of the most enlightened ideas about it: he basically said "don't worry about it." You can't determine when it will happen; all you can do is take care of your life and your society while on this earth, and you can't always determine God's plans from good/bad events that transpire in "the city of man." Didn't mention that Christian view, though, did you?

 

[Leonel]

Manbearpig! I'm Super Cereal!

 

[Irish Caesar]

Certainly not a partisan thread at all. That's evident because the OP doesn't mention any other presidential failures to deal with the possibility of apocalypse by global warming... President Clinton didn't submit the Kyoto Protocol to the Senate, either.

I think St. Augustine had one of the most enlightened ideas about it: he basically said "don't worry about it." You can't determine when it will happen; all you can do is take care of your life and your society while on this earth, and you can't always determine God's plans from good/bad events that transpire in "the city of man." Didn't mention that Christian view, though, did you?

Of course it was enlightened, he basically repeated what Jesus said about it! You never know when the world will end... so live your best life.

 

[El_Machinae]

Climate Change is a serious issue, but it's very survivable. It just won't be pleasant if we're not proactive.

Gaius: what's a "gd" Christian?

 

[Gaius Octavius]

Of course it was enlightened, he basically repeated what Jesus said about it! You never know when the world will end... so live your best life.

You took the words right out of my mouth.

Gaius: what's a "gd" Christian?

I was referring to this statement:

Dude! That's exactly the problem we have with today's Christians! This goddamned fatalistic attitude...

 

[Azale]

I'm more worried about an asteroid collision or Yellowstone erupting, frankly. That whole Islamic terrorism thing is pretty frightening when you picture a Pakistan under radical muslim control holding nuclear weapons.

 

[El_Machinae]

Ah! It means "Goddamned!"

Thanks; I thought I was missing some new acronym.

 

[Stylesjl]

Global Warming will hardly put a dent in the human race, so what if the tempreature rises a few degrees? So what? A few places get flooded, some third world countries agriculture goes under even worse and then humanity moves on

Even nuclear war isn't enough

 

[Irish Caesar]

CubsFan:

What are you doing to help prevent the apocalypse, and what would you recommend the rest of us do?

You took the words right out of my mouth.

And I know where you got them from...

Thanks; I thought I was missing some new acronym.

I had a teacher who said "gd" rather than actually saying rude words. It probably took me most of the year to figure out what he was saying. Anyway, that's what I thought of when I read that, but didn't think it made much sense in the context. I guess it did...

 

[Whomp]

Cubsfan, eh? Well, I'd start worrying when your team wins a World Series... a sure sign of End Times, that would be.

(No, I'm not Cubs bashing... Red Sox fan here, I feel your pain...)

said the White Sox fan

On topic: OK so how does this impact my retirement planning?

 

[Kozmos]

The end is near. As I had predicted the apocalypse will center around the final epic duel of Coke and Pespi.

 

[BasketCase]

Everybody thinks they're going to see the end of the world. Pick any year anywhere in world history, and you can find people, alive in that year, who "knew" the end would come within their lifetime.

We always "know" the end is near--and again and again, century after century, we're always wrong.

Global warming will take decades or centuries to happen, and the effects will be so gradual that people will simply adapt and move around. Just as people living on the California coast have been doing for the last century: giving up their homes and moving as coastal erosion eats the ground out from under their beachfront estates.

 

[El_Machinae]

On topic: OK so how does this impact my retirement planning?

I think it should be wise to assume that the cost-of-living will go up faster than we currently expect. Most people assume a 2% inflation, but I think we should be assuming a higher number.

Little Raven said it well; we have a really easy time feeling special.

 

[Prince_Imrahil]

I think our race in general, and Western civilization in particular is in for a bumpy ride in the next couple of centuries. But I doubt that we'll go extinct or the world will end, or anything.

The human race? Or?
On Western Civ, Bumpy perhaps but I doubt we'll be severely affected in a negative way.