Japan - never thought I'd say this...

**meredithah** · 03-11-2011, 03:39 PM

Maybe it's my age or world events or both, but I'm beginning to think the End is actually near. Am I officially off my rocker?

**imagine** · 03-11-2011, 04:17 PM

Just curious as to why?

**Nishu** · 03-11-2011, 04:27 PM

Do you ever read the drudge report? I love that site. Everyday it's like the world is ending and there's so many things to freak out about. I read it because it makes me feel like I'm one of those end of the world movies. Anyway, after a couple years of my daily drudge, I think I'm desensitized.

**Ramona** · 03-11-2011, 04:45 PM

Originally Posted by meredithah

Maybe it's my age or world events or both, but I'm beginning to think the End is actually near. Am I officially off my rocker?

I don't think you're off your rocker, just sensitive to world events. In this day of instant communication, watching a video of the tsunami hit Japan is enough to make anyone think of the end of the world.

**Contrary Housewife** · 03-11-2011, 04:47 PM

I just try to remember that this planet is older than mankind and almost a living thing unto itself. The earth has cycles of weather, environmental change, and geological movement that we barely understand and certainly don't control. While it's in our nature to find patterns and seek meaning, I think it's just normal natural Life in the Universe type activity.

They don't call the rim of the Pacific the Ring of Fire for nothing.

**HappyMama** · 03-11-2011, 05:03 PM

Originally Posted by Nishu

Do you ever read the drudge report? I love that site. Everyday it's like the world is ending and there's so many things to freak out about. I read it because it makes me feel like I'm one of those end of the world movies. Anyway, after a couple years of my daily drudge, I think I'm desensitized.

Hehe yes gotta love Drudge report

**StartingOver** · 03-11-2011, 05:27 PM

The Bible is very clear that nobody will know when the world will end. Jesus said in Matthew 25: 13, "Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man comes."

In Matthew 24:44 he says, "Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as you think not the Son of man comes."

I don't worry about this stuff. You will drive yourself crazy with all the doom and gloom.

**Imarachne** · 03-11-2011, 05:42 PM

In the past we only heard about something like this but now we see it in action and it comes home to us what a terrible thing a tsunami is.

**madjen** · 03-11-2011, 06:31 PM

IMO, the news just does a grand job at reporting these types of disasters now days.

**Daisygirl** · 03-11-2011, 07:37 PM

I don't think your crazy. I know the Bible says we don't know when, but it certainly predicts many signs that point towards the end. With the upheaval in the Middle East, the natural disasters coming one ofter the other and the major world economic issues, I can certainly see some of those signs coming to life.

There seems to be earthquake after earthquake lately. I don't remember every hearing of so many devastating quakes in such a short time span before.

**cmoy** · 03-11-2011, 08:10 PM

You're not crazy, and I agree with Daisygirl.......

"Crazy" is what you will read in Timothy, Chapter 3. This has become what we as a society have become today. Take a look at the uncaring and smug faces you see each day.
"Desensitized" scares me even more. This is what "evil" wants, and what "it" has as the master plan. The "increase in information" prophesied in the bible has helped us to care about others less each day as we are bombarded with horrors.

We are commanded, as Christians, to watch for the signs. And, yes, God is the "One" that knows when this earth will finally be at its end. We are blessed to watch these signs through the "increase of information", and know that another prophecy has been fulfilled.

Google "fulfilled prophecies" to see how far along we are.

blessings...

carol

**PinkTulip** · 03-11-2011, 08:13 PM

I said that to DH today and he said imagine living during WW2 or even WW1 if we had all the media we have today then...we probably would have thought the end was very near.

**Swoosie** · 03-11-2011, 08:17 PM

Natural disasters happen, just as they always have. I think a lot of people are reading too much into the 2012 theory and looking at everything as a sign of the end.

**cmoy** · 03-11-2011, 08:40 PM

Pinktulip.........I do agree with your DH to a point...

the bible tells us that there would be an increase in information, and that there would always be scoffers...(not saying this about DH, but I have experienced this for years with all ages of relatives...)

The point is that we now do have all of this information at our fingertips...internet, cable, radio, facebook, twitter, etc. So, how will WW3 play out as we watch all that is going on? I'm going to guess that the horror will be greater as we watch our heroic "Guards" defend all that is dear to us.

And, at this point, I would truly appreciate any and all that have experienced the view that "The end has been happening forever"...

carol