Are You Looking Forward To “The End”?

[goodlife]

You see people will tell you of end-of-the-world scenarios, and we have Books, movies, and magazines, ranging from the comic to the scientific, portray an assortment of doomsday catastrophes. They include annihilation by nuclear war, asteroid collision, deadly virus, runaway climate change, or invaders from outer space, what a world we live in.

[naomi24]

Are you?

[sandyRoe]

The end comes to us each individually. Lost in senility perhaps, or struggling for a last breath in some impersonal hospital ward, or a sudden hear attack in the frozen food isle in M&S.
It's not something I'm looking forward to, to be honest.

[sandyRoe]

* aisle not isle ^

[boxtops]

I don't ever think about it - what will be, will be, whether the planet implodes or whether I just die from old age. Looking forward doesn't come into it, I want to make the most of my life while I have it.

[aelmpvw]

thanks sandy ... that cheered me up

[sandyRoe]

It's being so cheerful as keeps me going.
Brendan Behan famously said: I'd rather be dead than think about dying.

[aelmpvw]

:-)

[naomi24]

sandyRoe, He's not talking about your personal demise - ever a 'true Christian', full of love and compassion, he's relishing the prospect of the destruction of all the non-believers - and why not? Such a cheering thought.

[boxtops]

Schadenfreude comes to mind... :-)

[sandyRoe]

I can't see in the OP any mention of winnowing out the non-believers. Does one need to read between the lines?

[naomi24]

One needs to read his posts.

[Tilly2]

When we get to the end, will there be a new beginning and will we have to start all over again?
I don't think I can be bothered.

[missnemesis]

Unless there is extreme pain (emotional as well as physical) why would anyone in their 'right mind' look forward to the end?

I can't see anybody, well nobody I know, actually looking forward to //annihilation by nuclear war, asteroid collision, deadly virus, runaway climate change//

Meeting invaders from outer space might be interesting though :)

[idiosyncrasy]

Personally., I would love to see an end to the poverty, the crime, the violence you see on the earth today. But to look to invaders from outer space? No way. Doomsday? Umm.. that depends on how you view doomsday. If it was a nuclear war then there's no need to worry is it, you won't know anything about it.

[sandyRoe]

Tilly, that could be hell you're describing. A Sisyphusian repetition, never to end.

[horseshoes]

Not looking forward to it; not even thinking about it. I just hope that I'm not alone.

[Tilly2]

That's it, Sandy. It went wrong this time. It might just go wrong next time.

[sandyRoe]

This thread's very gloomy for a Monday morning. Here's something to lighten the mood :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXvJ8UquYoo

[emmie]

have you not noticed it's mostly the Americans who make these films about doomsday, usually the ones we make on those are lines are rubbish, except perhaps old ones... The Americans haven't really got a war to fight, so they come up with these films, it gets the angst out of the system...

[emmie]

usually it involved Will smith saving the world, I am Legend, biggest crock of whatsit since i don't know when.