lets be honest, does part of you want the apocolypse?

[Housebroken Lunatic]

There is nothing contradictory about a Christian praying for the second coming of Christ.

Uh yes there is, because plenty of christians don't solely pray for any second coming of Christ, they pray for... well a shitload of different things.

They pray to win lotteries, they pray that they'll survive lethal disease, they pray for loved ones coming home safe and sound etc. etc.

So my point remains: if every thing happening in existence (i.e every lottery, lethal disease, the events happening to a loved one away from home etc.) is a part of God's divine plan, and maybe this plan actually entails a result that the praying little christians would see as unfavorable (like they lose the lottery or they die of that lethal disease or their loved one gets killed by muggers or perhaps he/she just got struck bi lightning), why would GOD, your creator and master orchestrator CHANGE HIS DIVINE PLANS just because you ask him to?

Wouldn' the truly devout and Christian thing to do be to never pray for anything besides the coming of christ or that everything goes according to God's plan? I mean, who are you to give God any advice on anything? It's you who claim that he's an omnipotent creator, what kind of advice could you possibly offer him in regards to anything?

As usual (with christians beliefs) nothing adds up in any logical sense...

EDIT: Oh! And for the sake of civility, I though I'd just say that I've read the Bible (through and through), this because I am of the opinion that I shouldn't criticize something that I don't know anything about. So there's no need to try to "educate" me with biblequotes. And if you keep it up, I'll show you several other biblequotes that'll really show what an evil piece of litterature it truly is. Quotes I doubt you've even bothered to read.

So if you don't want to read about the ugly truth of your holy book being one that advocates murder, slavery, rape and general douchebag behaviour, then don' push it...

 

[The_ModeRazor]

A massive cataclysm that wipes out the majority of the human race? No. I might be a cynical, apathetic nihilist, but people suffering is bad.

A well-tucked away corner of the Earth where reality just doesn't quite work like it used to, where the ambitious, the desparate and the broken few who know about it's existence wander to get rich or die trying? That's more like it. The dread seeps off the walls, the beasts hound you day and night, and rest is the only escape. Human contact is scarce and treasured, you either band together with the rest to survive or suffer. And the place likes those who endure in the face of undefeatable opposition. Existence is violence, despair and excitement. But the exhilaration itself might just be worth it.

(and here's a pretty promo picture for STALKER, Clear Sky in particular methinks. Just so it's clear what I wuz talking about.)

 

[Housebroken Lunatic]

No. I can honestly say that no part of me wants the apocalypse, not my arms, not my legs, nothing.

Why the fuck with you.

You sure? I've heard some nasty rumours about your spleen walking out at night spreading positive doomsday propaganda and trying to get the superpowers of the world to launch nukes. In fact, your spleen has been a very naughty boy in general. Are you going to defend your spleen?

 

[seanp2500]

great idea for a thread. One of my favorite comics right now Walking Dead exact premise zombie apocalypse and I love it. Now sometimes I get cynical and think. Sure this person is a hot shot now. But what would happen if those green pieces of paper were worthless (anyone check the stock market today...) and we went to some sort of Road warrior way of doing things....What then...I meet some real pricks in my line of work. Spoiled, demanding, inconsiderate pieces of trash. So sometimes I wish for this. But then I read a good book. Or watch a kick ass movie. Or play a great video game. Then I go well maybe this captalist global system isn't so bad after all....

I really don't think we will have a choice either way...seems like these are end times if you ask me...I am only going by mother nature myself...

 

[Alphakirby]

Yes. As long as it's something I can fight,I will try,no I WILL stop the world from being destroyed/controlled/etc.

I even have a plan for what to start with.

 

[Terminate421]

I would have mixed feelings. On one hand, I could make art and smash cars and live where I want. On the other though, everyone is dead and there may not be electricity.

 

[Hitokiri_Gensai]

as long as i get to kill zombies and people trying to steal my supplies!

 

[jFr[e]ak93]

As a Christian, Yes, I pray for it every day.

But, don't forget, as a Christian, you are the only non-screwed person. I agree that the return of Jesus is exciting, but the apocalypse is the question.
Global death. Famine. Comets. Death. Death... destruction.

Millions... Billions would die. It's not as cheery and happy as people make it out to be.

 

[RastaBadger]

Sometimes I kinda wish there would be a big old apocalyptic third world war or something so the few groups of people who survive can build something much greater from the ashes of the old world. Also failing that I would love to be able to travel the wastes being a lone badass with my hat coat and maybe a dog. Though in all likelihood in the event of apocalypse I would die and the last remaining humans would basically be the biggest arseholes who were willing to do arseholey things to survive and they would kill the last few non arseholes and it would end up just being a world full of arseholes.
Some things never change I guess.

 

[ultimateownage]

If I DIDN'T die a slow and painful death, it'd still suck. You'd be lonely and without basic things we have today. It's not all fun and games, y'know.

 

[mrblakemiller]

As a Christian, Yes, I pray for it every day.

Christian? Prayer?

Aren't you the ones claiming that God has some sort of infinitely complex "divine plan" for exactly everything in existence?

If he does, do you really think that he'd CHANGE that divine plan just because you get down on your knees, clasp your hands together and begs him to?

Read Exodus 32. Completely answers your question. If it's TL;DR, just verses 1-14.

 

[funguy2121]

http://www.cracked.com/blog/why-were-obsessed-with-apocalypse/ gotta love cracked

this aritcle explains why post-apocalyptic is a popular genre

essentially, its an egotistical thing, we all want to imagine ourselves as the lone-wanderer badass, or to live in a world without the restraints of society

For some, I'm sure that's true. But both imminent-apocalypse and post-apocalypse fiction are popular for 2 greater reasons: they're popular amongst teens and young adults, for whom the entire world frequently feels like it's falling in around them, and they're popular in general because they deal with the possibility of everything being erased, and aside from the more artistic pockets of society for whom this excites because it opens up new creative possibilities, this entertains people because it deals with, frankly, doom. The end, what leads up to it, what follows it, or possibly all 3. Which is why I'm baffled that John the Bookeater's Revelation novel (check it out some time, I believe it's part of an old anthology translated from a dead language ) has never been made into a feature film (I mean the book itself, not fictionalized accounts of things leading up to it, like the Left Behind series).

No part of me wants all of medicine, art, metaphysics, ethics, science and human progress to be reset by some cataclysm or en masse homicide/genocide.

 

[funguy2121]

As a Christian, Yes, I pray for it every day.

As a follower of Jesus Christ, who accepted a prostitute into his ranks when no one else would and taught that we should turn the other cheek, and inspired figures like Gandhi and Martin Luther King, the latter being murdered for trying to raise a global, unarmed, nonviolent army to fight Western Imperialism, how do you hit your knees praying for more bloodshed, less order, more war crimes, more rape, more mass murder, more meaningless killing?

 

[funguy2121]

I would have mixed feelings. On one hand, I could make art and smash cars and live where I want. On the other though, everyone is dead and there may not be electricity.

And you die within weeks of a godawful wasting disease we all thought long dead that, as it happens, tends to thrive when there's 7 billion corpses lying around.

And no, there wouldn't be electricity. If you were lucky enough to have electricity for a while, it would end pretty quickly without people to keep it flowing. Plus you may end up with Reliant

 

[Knight Captain Kerr]

As much as I love the post-apocalypse and the pre-apocalypse in fiction I don't want it to happen in real life becuase my life would end up worse.

 

[Olorune]

A planetary reset is in order.

 

[Robert Ewing]

An apocalypse would at the most be very interesting. For the first few days or so. Then it will get incredibly tedious, dangerous and the novelty will start to wear thin. Not to mention you won't be alive for much longer.

No, I await human development with a lot more anticipation than the apocalypse.