What would you do if you knew the world was going to end in a matter of days?
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May 12th, 2011
Recently, Harold Camping, a doomsday prophet who makes a cottage industry of calculating the Bible Code for the end of time has been posting billboards warning that May 21st, 2011 will be Judgement Day. When his 1994 prediction didn’t pan out, just as all the other thousands of doomsday prophets have failed, he was undeterred. He recalculated adding in the book of Jeremiah, which he had somehow not taken into account in his incorrect 1994 prophesy.
OK, the bible says in both Matthew and Mark that no man knows that date, not even the angels in Heaven; not even Jesus. It says that only God knows when that date and hour will come. So it’s pretty silly to listen to false prophets who base a doomsday prophesy on the same book that says it can’t be prophesied by any man.
But I have no doubt that human life on Earth will come to an end someday. It may be a nuclear holocaust, or when the Milky Way collides with our neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy. It could come with a massive extrasolar object strike—say an object the size of Mars hitting Earth. And we may have forewarning. What would you do if we did know the date? If NASA announced that the Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a massive object on a collision course with Earth, how would you react? If we all knew that we have 2 weeks left, what would you do with the time? What would be just fine to leave undone?
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I’d buy everything I could at the grocery stores, because I figure people would stop working almost instantly. Then I’d hang out at home with the people I love until the world started heaving and breaking the the atmosphere was sucked out a interstellar speeds and the air was gone and I’d die.
If someone I loved the most happened to be out of town, I would do my damnedest to get to her.
I would most likely try to get into contact with any/everyone who made some sort of impact in my life and tell them that I’m glad I knew them. I’d then spend the rest of the time with my family and maybe try to have fun going to places like Rome, time permitting. I know that I wouldn’t be one of those people who assume that they’ll start committing crimes and whatnot because they can get away with it and the rules wouldn’t matter anymore. I really oppose that thought process.
Blow my savings on spending those last few days with family and best friends in the poshest hotel I could find.
I would settle in with my family to say goodbye. Then if the end looked to be dramatic, I might exit early.
I’d have ice cream for breakfast, a steak wrapped in bacon for dinner, and then do all the sappy stuff.
Get my sweetie, drive to our favorite hangout, meet up with friends and start partying.
I would go skydiving one way or another. I would visit the zoo and find away to be able to get up close and personal with the predator animals. I would bike down the steepest street in the world. Also I would be paranoid as all hell! It can’t be that safe out in the world when everyone thinks there will be no consequences to their action because we’ll all be dead soon.
I have thought about that many times, my friend, but I have yet to come up with any decisive answers. I would probably fret about how to spend the aforesaid time, and then kill myself right before it happened.
Actually, give me a few minutes and I will come up with something better….:)
I wouldn’t believe it, so I wouldn’t do anything different. But then if it really did happen, I’d be all like, ah fiddlesticks.
Also the world is gonna end like, next week? Dude.
@wundayatta, @etignotasanimum, @downtide & @marinelife That would be pretty close to my plan as well. Enjoy what time is left with those that matter to you, and tell those that are now distant but have nattered how much you appreciated being able to know them.
@Adirondackwannabe I hadn’t thought of that, but why not find the upside of what sounds like really bad news. You could gorge yourself on comfort foods that would kill you over time, because there isn’t going to be any “over time”. And on the outside chance NASA’s wrong and the object misses the Earth, how much harm could just 2 weeks of terrible eating habits do?
@Neizvestnaya Party like there’s no tomorrow. On the last day, I’d want to be high enough I’d have a hangover if I survived, but still sober enough to watch it happen.
@rock4ever & @ladymia69 why court death if it’s coming painlessly in 2 weeks anyway. On the outside chance the prediction was wrong, I’d avoid offing myself.
@Symbeline Given how many doomsday prophecies have been absolutely wrong, not believing it might be the sanest reaction of all.
@mattbrowne Great idea. Let’s just hope when that day comes, Ford Prefect is living next door and Zaphod Beeblebrox‘s_gland just happens by with an improbability drive ship capable of taking us clear of Armageddon.
@Aster We;; I’m already doing that JIC. :-)
@ETpro Well, you make it sound so romantic, “courting death”...maybe I will buy it flowers and it won’t decide to off me with the rest of the poor schlubs who will be shuffling off this mortal coil!
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