On the fear of doomsday please.
By mookhor
@mookhor (304)
India
September 11, 2008 2:30am CST
SINCE my childhood I have been hearing that days of our beautiful planet and all the creatures within it are numbered. I have witnessed men and women, terror-struck on receipt of the information, sometimes behave like any lunatics. Experiments with which our physicists,the best of the sons of this earth, are engaged at present are made related to such infliction. I am at a loss. I am at a loss not being afraid of any impending danger as I am sure no loss is to be shared by anyone of us still inhaling oxygen and exhaling carbon-di-oxide under the blue sky. Rather an inexpressible joy has occupied my mind as I have learnt that any means may be discovered to neutralize the radioactive wastes that stand as the formidable enemy of the life on the earth because I have no answer to me what we shall do to do away with such venoms of everything.
Still I have been disturbed with the same question that may be presented in the following way:
Why do we fear for such predictions of destruction of everything and why have we been terrorized by such predictions?
I have some consideration that I like to submit humbly. We, on this earth and in the given environment, do not feel secured for one and many grounds. And we have been living in a state of order more and more terrorized days after days. I do not actually know what are the real circumstances in different parts of human habitation in our world save those information of which we do get of and on and those information are generally about feuds and battles and battles and wars and blasting and devastation and persecution on humanity and plundering and begging and such other things that discourage us and disappoint us.In India nothing seems to be proper and one is not assured of any thing -- may that be services in the hospitals or timings of the railway trains or treatment of the teachers and the authorities in the educational institutes and such many. Hence in this state we are prompted or ready even to believe the drinking of milk by the clay-made Ganesha and such other things which oppose the law of nature simply.
Yes, if we are given our daily bread and forced to work ot to render services for some purpose before that and if we know what is proper health and proper education and due employment are, we shall definitely reciprocate in a different manner when attacked by such phobia and finally phobia only.
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4 responses
@leofajohnson (141)
• United States
13 Sep 08
Hi mookhor,
Unlike alot of Christians, I do not believe the world will end. The Book of Revelations tells us that the world will be purified. Are there dark and horrible days to come? Sure are. We have seen nothing yet, we can't imagine the horrors that are coming. But ther is hope and peace in Jesus Christ, the only answer. With Him, there is nothing to fear. He said fear not, He will be with us. So I ask you to take time and learn about Jesus. He is our only hope. God bless, Leofa
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@cbreeze (1205)
• United States
16 Sep 08
I have to agree with you leofa. I believe that this world will be purified, transformed or we will be on a "new earth". But I don't fear it, because if what the Bible says is true then it must happen. I have friends and relatives that send messages like "don't vote for this person, he is the anti-christ or he is ushering in the New World Order". I pretty much tell them to get off my phone. If it happens, it is suppose to happen.
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@James72 (26790)
• Australia
11 Sep 08
Throughout history we have been hearing predictions of cataclysmic events and doomsday prophecies. Yet all dates put forward have come and gone and we continue to be blissfully ignorant of any actions we may take that are ultimately bringing us closer and closer to something REALLY happening. Tomorrow never comes right? We don't really think deep enough about what it may be like for our Great Grandchildren and beyond because it is not real enough for us today.
We just function and live and do what comes naturally to us and that is survive! The only time people tend to truly act is when a circumstance is blindingly relevant to them or effects them personally. There is also the mentality that someone else is taking care of things as well. Another mindset is that a single person cannot make a difference.
India is a glaring example of a massive gap between opulence and misery and this gap will continue to widen long into the future. It is human nature to live in hypocrisy and to consider oneself humanitarian or caring yet in reality do very little at all for anyone but ourselves and those closest to us. This will rpobably never change unfortunately. And no, we do NOT feel secure at all so the immediate instinct is to protect our own as I have just outlined.
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@Transformed (1259)
• United States
21 Sep 08
I wouldn't put much stock into doomsday because you don't know when it will come or exactly what it will entail. I know different religions have slightly different ideas, but you may die before doomsday even occurs, so keep living life.
@thebeaddoodler (4262)
• Lubbock, Texas
13 Sep 08
I too had been plagued with the fear of "the end of the world" for many years. I'm Christian, living in the United States. Our circumstances are not the same as your by any means, but still the terror of God's wrath is preached in many Churches.
I once asked my pastor to interpret a certain scripture concerning the end times. His reply quieted my fears and I've never had that terror since. He said, this is not a literal statement and we don't really know what is to come. The only thing we can do is live every day in service of our maker and do our best to do His will. Only in so doing does the "end" loose it's terror.
