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

[InfiniteSingularity]

yeah, i think so. Speaking as a misanthropic teenager, i think the apocalypse would be amazing. Humans suck. We fight and kill and steal and uugh. We're the most disgusting race there is. Not everyone is horrid, i know, but when you think about it, we've fucked up the planet royally...

Misanthropic teenager hi-five

 

[SoranMBane]

There are plenty of reasons why I play the Fallout games so much, and that's definitely one of them. I still fully realize that that's a completely horrible thing to want and that I'd almost certainly die, but it's hard to not be a little intrigued as to what would happen if human progress suddenly got reset to zero, forcing us to just start over. It's not worth all the human life that would be lost, though.

 

[drthmik]

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

As a fellow Christian I am appalled by that. If you are really serious I think you might be misunderstanding the Christian message.

O_O

Do you even know what the apocalypses is?
no, of course you don't or you wouldn't be frightened of it.
I recommend that you read a bible.

 

[Jodah]

Only if its zombies. If I end up turning, then meh it doesn't really matter at that point does it? If I don't turn, however, I'll be having a bit of fun slaughtering them.

Do you even know what the apocalypses is?
no, of course you don't or you wouldn't be frightened of it.
I recommend that you read a bible.

Edited, nvm not worth starting a war over a possible misinterpretation on my part.

 

[Da Orky Man]

Well, given that I live in a rural area of the UK, it's probably the safest place to be for almost any apocalyptic event. Low population density, so not many zombies. A LONG way away from any valuable area, so no nuclear anything is going to land nearby, including fallout, given the way the winds blow. It's a farming area, so plenty of food, and we have two supermarkets and a gun shop, easily defendable. Oh, and I'm trained in Advanced First Aid.

I don't really hope for one, but hey, I'm in a good place for it. I'd like to try it for a week or so.

 

[Fanfic_warper]

Not really. I like life as it is now. I would not survive. I'm too reliant on society and technology today.

 

[spartan231490]

Not just part. Everything in me wants the apocalypse, assuming it's not nuclear.

 

[Wuvlycuddles]

No way, but for some reason us Humans are fucking strange and have somehow managed to romanticise the frakking end of all things. So part of me kinda does want it to happen.....


Man we're freaking loopy creatures.

 

[Abengoshis]

No, I'm fine with society being functional and not a completely violent mess of death, destruction and ... more death.

 

[go-10]

given the fact that NO ONE knows how it's going to be, different religious beliefs have different versions of it, there might not be any violence or anything at all
it might just be that the sun blows up or we get hit by a gamma ray from a distant galaxy or maybe the planet goes out of orbit for whatever reason I don't think it'll be as awesome as a robopocalypse or zombipocalypse

 

[Mannayz]

Whether it ends in global smiting, uncivil bloodbath and fire, or zombie uprising, I think it would be pretty cool to watch.

 

[targren]

Hell, I'm not ashamed of it. I've long since come to the conclusion that humanity is beyond redemption. That's one 'reboot' I could get behind. Give the cockroaches a go.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Fuck no. Life is pretty good despite all my petty grievences and I don't want demons from the old world or Zombies ruining that for me!

 

[Bloedhoest]

A zombie apocalypse would be fun.

 

[JamesStone]

Yes, a zombie apocalypse. Because then I could hijack a chopper, install a minigun in the chopper, kill the little bastards when there´s only a few, and then BAM! hero of the world.

Why did no-one thought about that in any zombie movies/games?

 

[darkknight9]

If my son dies and I live, I will live only long enough to laugh at other peoples pain and pick off things from my roof. No, I'm not bitter about needing to get four new tires today, why?

 

[go-10]

Ever read Revelations? Heard of Jesus' Second coming? That's supposed to happen sometime around an apocalypse. Biblical scholars have been studying Revelations for centuries and it still eludes them - pretty much all we know is that it uses a ton of symbolism to describe an apocalyptic event where God comes and saves his people. And I don't think it's the same kind of apocalypse depicted in Fallout or The Book of Eli or other such works.

A lot of that symbolism also refers to the fall of the Romans, who persecuted Christians. Oh, this really isn't a topic I can cover very well in a forum post...

Well revelations wasn't written by God now was it? Humans wrote it. So it is essentially worthless as a source of information if you're trying to determine what God is planning.

Also your somewhat off-topic statements didn't answer my question in the slightest, and the question remains:

Why would God in his "infinite wisdom", CHANGE any of his divine plans because some little Christian ask him to? I mean they are DIVINE plans after all, it's pretty safe to assume that there's no stopping or changing them just because some insignificant human wants them to be changed, stopped or altered in any other way.

On topic, I really don't want any of our fictional apocalypses. Why on Earth would I give up the comfort of this world as it is now for a struggle to survive just so I can feel like a "badass"? Especially when the chances are that if the apocalyptic event doesn't kill me, the later disease and murderous lunatics probably will?

Have you ever truly felt "badass"? And I mean in an actual real-life way, not because you managed to kill a "boss" in a videogame. Who knows, perhaps you'd like it enough to find all those comforts of this world to be worthless in comparison to that feeling.

Christians believe that the Bible was inspired by God. So yes, in a sense, it was written by God. From the Christian perspective only, as far as I know.

Praying for God's "Kingdom to come soon" is a Christian saying that he or she anticipates it; it will be a day when God's glory is shown to everyone and when all evil will be gone, etc. No one is asking God to change his plans, just to bring them about as quickly as possible. OK, changing the time that they happen, I guess, but you see what I'm saying. You're asking me to explain things that people have spent centuries studying; it isn't easy to sum up in one measly forum post. If you are interested:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Revelation

And I know I still didn't satisfactorily answer your question. That's because I don't really have a good answer at all. The best I can say is that, as Christians believe it, God does listen to our prayers. He loves us all despite our sins, and does listen.

Finally, as for the feeling of "badassery" - I never have felt it. If the apocalypse - the one(s) depicted in various fictions, not the one(s) depicted in various scriptures - were to happen, no matter how badass I felt I would still have preferred that all of those people not died. I guess I'm a sort of a jerk with a heart of gold or something. I would rather them all have stayed alive. And then I could get back to being a smartass and you could get back to being a misanthrope.

the bible also states god's kingdom won't come until the entire world is Christianized. Might as well never come you'll have an easier time finding the sun in the middle of the night

 

[AngryBritishAce]

I don't want to see everyone I love, everything I worked for and everything the human race has achieved over so many centuries to go up in flames. Plus I don't think anyone could REALLY survive for more than maybe a year, then reserves will simply run dry, even if you don't get killed by scavengers later. If the cause of the apocolypse doesn't kill me, I'd just kill myself. And I'm not even an emo or depressed. Why would I give up the world how it is for one that is destroyed?