world population to reach 0 in 500 years, page 1

I once heard somewhere that Edgar Cayce said that souls are numbered and that number is somewhere around nine billion, so if I am recalling correctly, that could be an explanation, however, It's just a thought so don't attack me, I still don't see how we'd go down to zero, a lot of catastrophes could happen, but always someone would survive and replenish the population, we've found ways to before. Unless of course we lose our atmosphere in five hundred years, that would be total annhilation.

Note: I can't find any references for this on the internet, so I may be wrong, but I thought I heard this somewhere, If anybody knows, please post the reference here, thanks.

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This is what wiki had to say:
Because births outnumber deaths, the world's population is expected to reach about 9 billion by the year 2040.

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Here's what the Talmud says:
In Jewish mysticism, the Chamber of Guf (or Guph or even Gup) (Hebrew for "body" or "corpse") also called the Otzar (Hebrew for "treasury") is the Hall of Souls, located in the Seventh Heaven. Every human soul is held to emanate from the Guf. The Talmud teaches that the Messiah will not come until the Guf is emptied of all its souls (Yevamot 62a).

The mystic significance of the Guf is that each person is important and has a unique role which only he, with his unique soul, can fulfill. Even a newborn baby brings the Messiah closer simply by being born.

In keeping with other Jewish legends that envision souls as bird-like, the Guf is sometimes described as a columbarium, or birdhouse. Folklore says sparrows can see the soul's descent and this explains their joyous chirping.

The peculiar idiom of describing the treasury of souls as a "body" may be connected to the mythic tradition of Adam Kadmon, the primordial man. Adam Kadmon, God's "original intention" for humanity, was a supernal being, androgynous and macro-cosmic (co-equal in size with the universe). When this Adam sinned, humanity was demoted to the flesh and blood, bifurcated and mortal creatures we are now. According to Kabbalah, every human soul is just a fragment (or fragments) cycling out of the great "world-soul" of Adam Kadmon. Hence, every human soul comes from the "guf [of Adam Kadmon].

More to readthe talmud

Might 2040 become the new "End of Days" when 2012 doesn't pan out? I think the talmud is where it says the number of souls I just haven't got the energy to look all through it.

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