Originally posted by fiftyfifty
Number 7 - Gerneral anamosity - People all over the world are so hostile to eachother, where is the compassion, where is the humanity? It should be natural to 'love thy neighbour' and to help others. People seem so intent on having their own lves the way THEY want it, that they disregard every other being on the planet. If we are to survive this mess of a planet, we need to work togehter regardless of race, religion, gender, social background or otherwise.

I agree with a lot of what you said... Number 7 is easy:

Man wasn't meant to live like this..... in this type of civilization. What happens if you put a bunch of hamsters (or mice or rats or any other territorial critter) into a box that is too small for it's population...... hmmm.... wanna know what they do? They kill each other off until there is only a few left.

There is more than enough room around the world to distribute the population of the planet. I read somewhere that there was so much usable land (not desert - i.e. non-usable land) that everyone could have multiple square miles of land as their own.

But the NWO wants us all cramped up in compact cities so that we all end up hating each other and killing each other off like rats in a box.

It's simple really.

-Euclid

Originally posted by LightinDarkness
I am a Christian, and I do not understand Christianity's obsession with the end of the world. People having been proclaiming the end is near since about 10 years after Jesus died. People quote prophesy which makes statements that have always described the world (as someone has pointed out). The world has always been consumed with wars, riots, famine, disease, and people hating each other.

It's called "apocalyptic joy".
And to me, it's perfectly understandable.
You listed the reasons for it yourself: was, riots, disease... not to mention personal losses and tragedies.
On the other hand, there is the promise of a new beginning, a new - far, FAR better - world where there is no more death, disease, suffering.

How could people NOT look forward to the "second coming" in eager anticipation?

That is what they're waiting for: the oncoming "new world", God's kingdom - not the "end of the world" as such.

BTW, I am a Christian too, and I've never noticed any Christians around me even talking about the "end of the world" (as an imminent event, that is), let alone "obsessing" by it . (The again, many people ARE obsessing over it - and many from among those are surely from a Christian background, so in that sense you may be right.)



[edit on 20-12-2007 by Vanitas]

Originally posted by laiguana
I don't know what you all may have been reading...I realize there's a lot of new-age propaganda regarding 2012 out there; take heed that it will not be a period of enlightenment....it will be the beginning.... of the final cycle against humanity, a true blessing. So don't think it will just happen that day, it is something that is in progress now and will be more evident then.

There's no evidence of what you're suggesting. You might as well be a street corner philosopher holding a sign saying "Fire will reign down on you in 2012."