Feel help: does anyone ever feel that something huge is about to happen to earth? - Help.com

yeah, there’s a lot of religious people that think obama’s the antichrist and armegeddon is on the way…

no, what do you think is going to happen?

I do. I’m not usually particularly paranoid but we can’t go on the way we are and since people don’t like to listen to common sence the change will probably come with a bit of a jolt. Can’t say when though. I’m not talking about morals or religion but we cannot indeffinatly sustain the civilisation we have made, it’s just whether it happens during our lifetime or a bit later on.

I don’t know, theres a lot of talk of global warming and continents shrinking and stuff, maybe humans will adapt, and maybe we won’t. I think we need to do something now to plan for the future though and we need to take better care of our world and rescourses. Look what happened to new orleans because no one had a plan in place in case the worst happened.

“yeah, there’s a lot of religious people that think obama’s the antichrist and armegeddon is on the way…”

-do you personally believe this?
on the side of religion every known religion has some mythical end time predictions. oddly enough they all have similarities to each other. Yet that has little to do with the fact that the polar bears are going extinct and the weather pattern is ever changing. Which is also prevalent.

what about conscious or mental evolution does anyone believe in that?

I think I’m about to get completly vaporised in an atomic blast… and the only thing I regret is not using up the petrol I bought this morning (seriously)

I think it’s going to be bigger than just adapting. Our civilisation wasn’t the first and like all the others before it it will fall some day. When it does the change will be cataclysmic since very few humans have nescessary skills to survive. A simple example is money, there are no longer sufficient metals to cover banknotes - they are no longer backed by anything and even more money exists only in theory on a computer. The promissary notes we use are backed by our civilisation - effectivly by the promise that people will pretend that they are more than pieces of paper. If say communications & electrical power failed for just a week over a large area (e.g. Western Europe) then money, jobs, & just about every commodity you could think of would become worthless. Our whole system is built on money, you can’t do anything without it. Take money out of the equation and pull the communications and infrastructure and you would have utter chaos. Sure it would level out after a few generations and a new social structure would arise but the time of change would not be pleasent.

Whether it’s the Earth or ourselves, this civilisation will not be eternal. If the change happened tomorrow (excluding the spontaneous explosion of the worlds nuclear arsenal) then I think we would adapt. I would bet on the survival of mankind as a species, but wouldn’t like to give an estimate of an individuals chance of survival. Our society is just too fragile, I’m guilty as well. If I needed any survival tips I’d go online so if the apocalypse comes now I’m screwed. We have just become too large. My clothing was made in India, my food was grown in Scotland, England,Spain and France. I cooked it on an English cooker with an American patent using what could well have been French electricity etc. etc.
If you take just one element away from the way we live now then the whole thing will collapse.
No oil = no transport = no food/drink/medicine
No electricity = no communications = no food/drink/medicene
Just about the only thing I can do for myself in a ’survival situation’ is build a very leaky shelter. We’re just too dependant on each other.
To acctually answer the question it will go the way it always does in nature. We will adapt or we will die and I think many will whenever the time comes.

Anyone seen ‘The Day After Tomorrow’? Today I read that several sections of the arctic have lost or had break off upwards of 90 miles of ice-shelf in the last MONTH…something which in the movie caused devastating climate changes in a very short time. Now, I don’t know how quickly the impact of that much ice flowing into warmer seas as it drifts will have on real weather…but just this past month the southern US, where I live, has been hit already by two powerful hurricane-tropical depressions…and another is moving in now, and yet two or three more are swirling around out there. Gustav alone is still so strong it’s still twirling on up towards Illinois and Michigan! You tell me, is something wrong or not?

Things are changing certainly. Is somthing wrong though? Metorologists/geologists/climatologists are still divided as to whether this is a problem induced by people or whether it is just a natural cycle in the Earth’s temperature. As for what it will do? The BBC Met. office usually has trouble predicting the weather more than ten minutes in advance never mind projecting the long-term effects of a never before documented cataclysmic climate event. Another good example of the difficulties inherant in predicting what the earth will do is that there were red faces all around this year when it turned out that far from global warming, the global temperature was acctually dropping.
I agree EDrive, sorry I should have been more clear. I meant western civilisation and by ‘we’ I meant people like us who can afford a computer and net access. Not everyone but the majority. We live by the ’system’.

yeah. i’m looking forward to it.

oooh someone watch an inconvenient truth…

*watched ;)

something huge happens everyday we just don’t always see it.