# We may truly be experiencing the end times. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 18, 2010, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-may-truly-be-experiencing-the-end-times/529461 "2010-02-18T13:28:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-may-truly-be-experiencing-the-end-times/529461/41 "2010-02-18T21:07:20Z")
[Will there be a mighty wind?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hJQ18S6aag&feature=related) CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![legalsnugs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@legalsnugs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/legalsnugs)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-may-truly-be-experiencing-the-end-times/529461/42 "2010-02-18T21:19:10Z")
> [@Grey](#): > > It’s not the end times, now stop gibbering under the blankets. Is that what you young people are calling it nowadays? Gibbering? Huh. ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-may-truly-be-experiencing-the-end-times/529461/43 "2010-02-18T21:29:07Z")
> [@Clu-Me-In](#): > > …or, they may know something you don’t know:dubious: Nope - they’re idiots. ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-may-truly-be-experiencing-the-end-times/529461/44 "2010-02-18T21:30:26Z")
> [@legalsnugs](#): > > Is that what you young people are calling it nowadays? Gibbering? > > Huh. You’re thinking of galumphing with a hard f. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-may-truly-be-experiencing-the-end-times/529461/45 "2010-02-18T21:37:16Z")
The Bubonic Plague and Spanish Flu seem like much more resounding indications than heavy snow and an earthquake… and the world managed to survive those. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Dave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/46a35a/32.png) [@Great\_Dave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Dave)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-may-truly-be-experiencing-the-end-times/529461/46 "2010-02-18T21:48:15Z")
What’s white and oozes from the heavens? The Second Coming of Jesus. ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-may-truly-be-experiencing-the-end-times/529461/47 "2010-02-18T23:05:18Z")
Here’s what I always want to ask people who say that we may be in the “End Times”: ever heard of World War II? You know, death and destruction and suffering in every corner of the globe for several years, capped off with detonation of the most destructive weapon then known to man (twice)? If you think now is the End Times, what the hell would you have thought then? And you would have been wrong then, so why the hell do you think you are right now? ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-may-truly-be-experiencing-the-end-times/529461/48 "2010-02-18T23:25:14Z")
I’m holding the position that the end is not nigh. If it doesn’t happen I shall continue to gloat. If it DOES happen, well, enjoy your hollow little victory. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-may-truly-be-experiencing-the-end-times/529461/49 "2010-02-18T23:28:35Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > The bible is bullshit and lies. If you choose to believe them, that is up to you. > > The only “end time” that will occur is when our sun finally expands and consumes our planet, and that’s not gonna happen any time in the near future. > [@Clu-Me-In](#): > > …and you know this how? Because I have a brain and I use it. There are two basic facts here: 1. Religion is a lie from start to finish, nothing more than a massive con game. 2. The sun is a star. At the end of its life cycle, it will expand and engulf the Earth. We’ll probably have died off long before then, but that event will absolutely be the end of game whistle. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-may-truly-be-experiencing-the-end-times/529461/50 "2010-02-18T23:47:04Z")
> [@Clu-Me-In](#): > > All the turmoil with the weather, climate change, Tsunamis, Earthquakes, un-ending wars, new wars starting, Conspiracy theorists and end times believers may just be right. > > We could truly be experiencing those things talked about in the Bible.😕 In that case, remember Matthew 19:24: “And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.” Best that you send me your money, for, as said in 1 Timothy 6:10 “… the love of money is the root of all evil”. (however, you may want to keep Matthew 4:6 in mind, as it demonstrates that the devil can quote scripture :D) ---
**Author:** ![tacoloco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tacoloco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tacoloco)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-may-truly-be-experiencing-the-end-times/529461/51 "2010-02-18T23:50:31Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > how that works out in the Final Conflict I don’t know. **It’s the Final Countdown…** ---
**Author:** ![Rack-a-Bones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rack-a-Bones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rack-a-Bones)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-may-truly-be-experiencing-the-end-times/529461/52 "2010-02-18T23:54:59Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Whether Jesus is coming back tomorrow, or a thousand years from now, I am not doing anything different either way. > > Regards, > Shodan If he came back tomorrow and went on tour I’d buy a ticket. Bet the dude has some interesting things to say. > [@susan\_foster](#): > > And I will link to my favorite new T-shirt (which I will be buying very soon) - [Zombies Hate Fast Food](http://www.snorgtees.com/zombieshatefastfood-p-969.html?osCsid=858bebbda12d1f2681c11de258e960ba) Based on this thread you should also buy [this shirt.](http://www.snorgtees.com/brb-p-840.html) And where do they get those snorg girls? Rawr indeed. ---
**Author:** ![dragoncat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6a8cbe/32.png) [@dragoncat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dragoncat)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-may-truly-be-experiencing-the-end-times/529461/53 "2010-02-19T00:00:10Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > I will say there are two reasons to think we may be near the End Times- the restoration of Israel and the globalization of everything. Um, **Friar Ted** , the modern state of Israel has existed for more than 50 years. Globalization in some form has existed since the time of the ancient Greeks. They, too, might have considered the phenomenon “the globalization of everything.” > **[Israel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel)** > > Israel,\[a\] officially the State of Israel,\[b\] is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. It borders Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan to the east, and Egypt to the southwest. Israel occupies the Palestinian territories of the West Bank in the east and the Gaza Strip in the southwest, as well as the Syrian Golan Heights in the northeast. Israel's western coast lies on the Mediterranean Sea, its southern tip reaching the Red Sea, and the east includes the Earth'... > **[Globalization](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalization)** > > Globalization is the process of increasing interdependence and integration among the economies, markets, societies, and cultures of different countries worldwide. This is made possible by the reduction of barriers to international trade, the liberalization of capital movements, the development of transportation, and the advancement of information and communication technologies. The term globalization first appeared in the early 20th century (supplanting an earlier French term mondialisation). ... You’ll have to do better than that. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-may-truly-be-experiencing-the-end-times/529461/54 "2010-02-19T03:09:06Z")
It’s when the Temple gets restored that you have to really watch out. According to most of the endtimes scenarios that I’m familar with, Jesus can’t come back until the Temple is restored. As long as that mosque is up there on that hill, everyboy’s safe. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-may-truly-be-experiencing-the-end-times/529461/55 "2010-02-19T04:10:05Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > It’s when the Temple gets restored that you have to really watch out. According to most of the endtimes scenarios that I’m familar with, Jesus can’t come back until the Temple is restored. As long as that mosque is up there on that hill, everyboy’s safe. Keep in mind that they are still working on breeding a flawless [red heifer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Heifer), and [forcing the second coming](http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/apocalypse/readings/forcing.html). ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-may-truly-be-experiencing-the-end-times/529461/56 "2010-02-19T05:17:03Z")
> [@Clu-Me-In](#): > > All the turmoil with the weather, climate change, Tsunamis, Earthquakes, un-ending wars, new wars starting, The popularity of the _Twilight_ series… ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-may-truly-be-experiencing-the-end-times/529461/57 "2010-02-19T12:46:33Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > Keep in mind that they are still working on breeding a flawless [red heifer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Heifer), and [forcing the second coming](http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/apocalypse/readings/forcing.html). Wow. I had no idea someone was actually doing that. Hmm… ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-may-truly-be-experiencing-the-end-times/529461/58 "2010-02-19T13:24:40Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Honestly, I sometimes think that believing in the end times is just a tactic people use to avoid responsibility for their part in the future. World going to end? Then I don’t have to clean up my garbage, fight injustice, or pay my bills. Just in case anyone gets offended on the behalf of all Christians over this, let me just say that I know a few people who have explicitly stated that they think recycling, conservation, judicious use of non-renewables, etc are all pointless (or worse, are evil distractions), because we’re living in the end times. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-may-truly-be-experiencing-the-end-times/529461/59 "2010-02-19T13:25:54Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Sounds like Jesus is in the Mafia. If you get an [Ichtys](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichthys) wrapped in a page from the Book of Revelation you’re taking a dirt nap pretty soon. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-may-truly-be-experiencing-the-end-times/529461/60 "2010-02-19T14:10:56Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Just in case anyone gets offended on the behalf of all Christians over this, let me just say that I know a few people who have explicitly stated that they think recycling, conservation, judicious use of non-renewables, etc are all pointless (or worse, are evil distractions), because we’re living in the end times. Recycling is evil because we should be sequestering carbon to keep it out of the atmosphere. Laziness drives global climate change, lets harness laziness to fight it! 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-may-truly-be-experiencing-the-end-times/529461.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-may-truly-be-experiencing-the-end-times/529461.md?page=4)