The End of the World

The idea of the "End" has been around since we first discovered time. We thought that nothing could possibly be infinite--human life ends, therefor the entire world as we know it must also come to an end. The discovery of the passage of time did not come without a price--with knowledge comes understanding. We first began to understand the idea of a "beginning" a very long time ago--we started wondering where it all started; when, where and how we were created. With this question comes another: when, where and how will we be destroyed? Nothing lasts forever.

There have been countless "end of the world" theories, from BCE to CE, we have always said that the world will end in the next ten years. Well, those ten years have passed, so it must be happening in this decade. When the world doesn't end, we simply predict the date again. In the past few years there has been an end of world prophecy nearly every month or so--but look! We're still here. For those who depend on sources such as the Bible and other (mostly fictitious) prophets, it is said that the world will end when we least expect it to--that man cannot predict the end of days, because that is a power that only God can hold. If this is true, then we can all be called sinners--those who will not ascend through the Rapture, should it come. If we take into consideration those who believe their theories, then we can disprove them easily on their own grounds--we can prove them wrong by bringing to light their own faults and mistakes.

To conclude, even if the world is going to end, we cannot predict it. We have tried hundreds of times, but it has never worked out. Whether you are determining this by prophets or by hard science, there is no logical way to determine the "end of days". We can only ask ourselves this: why do we want so badly for the world to end? Shouldn't we be exploring the world while we have it? It's an awfully pessimistic spiral that we've thrown ourselves into--perhaps it's about time we found our way out.