Y2.1K - the end of the world?

Hobbes · 07-12-2000 02:45PM #1

heh heh, Castor what's with the locking of the thread?

Kind of funny though how people attach to numbers though. I mean I have heard absolutly NO end of the world predictions for 2001.

In your face Castor Troy.

Bard · 07-12-2000 02:57PM

Yeah... WTF Castor? That was a bit over-kill, dude...

TwoShedsJackson · 07-12-2000 03:10PM

i have a pain in my ar$e with ****in milleniums and whatever else - I promise I (probably) won't lock this one.

Amp's waiting for cable!!

This anonymous clan of slack-jawed troglodytes has cost me the election, and yet if I were to have them killed, I would be the one to go to jail. That's democracy for you.

Panda · 08-12-2000 07:26PM

I know what u mean Castor.
This whole millenium mallarkey is utter BS. Why cant ye all understand that time is only a human conception and of little importance to "God" in any of its forms.
Just think about it, if "God" wants to end the world, then do ye actually think that we'll have a chance to figure out whats going on?

Methinks, NOT BLOODY LIKELY.

[This message has been edited by Kento-Shiro (edited 08-12-2000).]

Cake Fiend · 10-12-2000 09:47PM

Well at least there'll be no more about the millennium ending this year in the new year

Now where are those extra 'Happy New Millennium' cards I had left over last year...

Also: "I have heard absolutly NO end of the world predictions for 2001" - I'd take that as a bad sign

Manach · 10-12-2000 10:29PM

Try reading Stephen Jay Gould's - "Questioning the Millennium" for a chirpy look at the the Apocalyspe really soon prophecies

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Blitzkrieger · 11-12-2000 04:28PM

Originally posted by Kento-Shiro:
Just think about it, if "God" wants to end the world, then do ye actually think that we'll have a chance to figure out whats going on?

That's the Xmas spirit!

nutter

Canaboid · 11-12-2000 05:21PM

Hang on, who's this God bloke and who said he's in charge ?
Help, I'm being repressed.

Panda · 12-12-2000 01:51PM

Originally posted by Canaboid:
Hang on, who's this God bloke and who said he's in charge ?
Help, I'm being repressed.

Err, everybody really.....
Except the Atheists maybe.

Chubby · 12-12-2000 02:42PM

Originally posted by Kento-Shiro:
Err, everybody really.....
Except the Atheists maybe.

I know what u mean kento.
This whole god mallarkey is utter BS. Why cant ye all understand that god is only a human conception and of little importance to humans in any of its forms.

Canaboid · 12-12-2000 02:47PM

Pfff, organised superstition.

Bard · 12-12-2000 06:59PM

Originally posted by Kento-Shiro:
Err, everybody really.....
Except the Atheists maybe.

... and countless other religions, including the Pagans... oh, - and the Chinese, who constitute about a fifth of the worlds population.

Nobody, really...

Cake Fiend · 13-12-2000 03:09AM

Well, the train of thought looks like it's getting derailed, so I might as well intercept it before the next station...

I'm agnostic, but I can understand why people might believe in a supreme being watching over them etc. Having a belief that in the end, everything will work out and be OK helps people through life. A lot of people prefer thinking that life has meaning and purpose, rather than think that the reason we are here is that we just are, and when we die we just plain cease to conciously exist.

Maybe the atheists and agnostics know the answer to the big universal question:
Why?
Because.

Panda · 14-12-2000 03:07PM

Originally posted by Sico:
Maybe the atheists and agnostics know the answer to the big universal question:
Why?
Because.

Gotcha.........
(Don a North London accent for the following)
If Sico posted a witty response to my educated guess on how thigs really are, then i'd say, OI SICO NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, IF I WANT TO MAKE PRESUMPTIOUS GUESSES ON RELIGION THEN I BLOODY WELL WILL!!!
Ahem.

PS:Pagans, shmagans.

Panda · 16-12-2000 12:17AM

Originally posted by Chubby:
This whole god mallarkey is utter BS. Why cant ye all understand that god is only a human conception and of little importance to humans in any of its forms.

I agree with u actually.

Blitzkrieger · 16-12-2000 12:30AM

Personally I think apathy is the next big thing.

[Kramer impression]You don't believe in God![/Kramer impression]
[Seinfeld impression]ehh *shrug*[/Seinfeld impression]

You get the idea - or maybe you don't care enough to work it out.

Sorry mom, sorry god.

Baz_ · 24-12-2000 10:16PM

Originally posted by Sico:
Maybe the atheists and agnostics know the answer to the big universal question:
Why?
Because.

I believe the answer is 42. and should the post not be Y2.001K or Y2.0.0.1K??

Manach · 25-12-2000 01:56AM

Hey no fair, bashing religion on the sly.
Still, Happy Christmas for we all believe in Santa.

[IAR]Nevermind · 31-12-2000 08:20PM

lol

Paladin · 01-01-2001 01:56PM

No mushroom clouds or nuffin. Im a bit dissappointed.
All this 'razz-ma-tazz' for nothing.

amp · 03-01-2001 11:10PM

Well seeing as most predictions pointed to the nice round 2000 number, there didn't seem to be a world left to end.

Seen in a sports shop in the Rathmines Swan Centre today:
"Y2K+1 SALE!"

Accurate but very surreal

Lunacy Abounds! Play GLminesweeper!

Paladin · 04-01-2001 12:30AM

Yea. They sell those things now?

neuro-praxis · 06-01-2001 06:52PM

it drives me crazy when people claim that having faith is simply a crutch to help you out in your pathetic little life that you just can't seem to manage all by yourself. grrr. people who talk this nonsense and dare to call God nonsense are being purely controversial for the sake of it. apathy is so passe. it is the sign of a person who is too drugged by society to form their own opinions. just because the traditional irish mass is boring, just because the irish clergy have let us down - does not mean that yo were not created by God. anyone who wants facts - actual historical facts - about Jesus Christ (God) can talk to me. did you all know that there is less evidence that Caesar existed than there is that Jesus did? and yet nobody questions the fact that Caesar was around. ask provocative questions. yes, question everything. but don't decide before you ask. just cos Gods people on earth let us down doesn't mean God does. and just cos lots of people all believe one thing does not make it the right thing to believe. do a bloody bit of research and then talk to me about it all being bull****. i'll bet you all know less about christianity that you do about all this pseudo-spirituality crap that is going around which delivers nothing.

Do your limbs ever get tingly, eh? eh?

TwoShedsJackson · 06-01-2001 07:00PM

Here we go again. Neuro-Praxis, I take precisely the attitude you mention, I think religion is a method for helping people cope with life.

However, if people want to do that, that's their choice and I will respect that. How strange then that you, as a Christian, cannot accept other people's points of view.

As for having what one might call a rational or scientific approach to the question being a sign of 'apathy' or 'a mind so drugged by society that they can't form their own opinions' I would contend that slavishly beleieving in God would point to precisely the same problem.

just cos lots of people all believe one thing does not make it the right thing to believe

Quite so. Try to apply this statement to your side of the argument as well as that of the other.

Oh wait I forgot the Church sees itself as infallible doesn't it? With absolutely no basis of course.

neuro-praxis · 06-01-2001 08:11PM

ahem, castor.

why do you fight me? i don't care what you believe. and you misunderstood me too. i do NOT believe that people use it for a crutch when they have genuine faith. try rereading my last post. sorry, em, what church is it that you talked of as thinking itself infallible? would it be the catholic church by any chance? and what exactly makes you think i am a catholic? i am actually against organised religion and attend an open doors church for all denominations. i spend my life being told by people like you that i "slavishly" believe, but tell me this - which is easier in this society - to be an 18 year old who believes nothing or admit to loving Jesus Christ?? think about it. have you ever made a stand on an issue you felt passionately about in your life? have you ever strived towards anything? have you ever tried to better yourself? have you ever experienced joy? or love? because you sound to me as though i make you mad because i believe. what makes me mad is that people write you off if you have faith. can you even define faith? do you know me? do you believe i was brought up this way? has anything ever changed you? open YOUR flippin mind, man. i don't care what you'd like to believe. i would just prefer if people questioned things instead of writing them off. it reeks of ignorance. i am open to everything. i could tell you about most religions because i have researched them. i know that the most important things to me are to serve God and take care of the people around me. i don't think there is anything closed minded about it. is having faith closed minded? because that seems to be what you are implying. read some literature by CS Lewis.

Do your limbs ever get tingly, eh? eh?

TwoShedsJackson · 06-01-2001 08:19PM

At what point did I imply having faith was closed minded? Please tell me. I said that if others have faith that is their business and I respect that - I do not beleive in God.

Is it too much to ask for a Christian to accept that without telling me I'm wrong? One thing I certainly have noticed about Christians is if you try to debate with them they just get incoherent and indignant that anyone could think differently.

I have taken stands on issues, tried to better myself, and felt joy and love - what makes you think I haven't? You don't know me so I find remarks like that presumptous in the extreme.

Also try using capitalisation and paragraphs in your posts - makes you look a little less incoherent.

neuro-praxis · 06-01-2001 09:38PM

no need for the *****y comments castor. don't you see that i was simply responding to what i am told day after day about being wrong?? day after day, man. i am sorry if a lack of capitalisation irritates you. you sunk below the belt, so i am not going to continue this discussion. you didn't refer to any issues i brought up, except to feign emotional injury at my questions. don't you even realise what i was saying? surely if you have felt these things then you can at least understand faith. i wasn't accusing you of being a robot. just defending christianity (not christians) as is my right, as is yours to believe in nothing.

Do your limbs ever get tingly, eh? eh?

neuro-praxis · 06-01-2001 09:40PM

the blanked out word was b1tchy by the way

TwoShedsJackson · 06-01-2001 09:55PM

Originally posted by neuro-praxis:
you didn't refer to any issues i brought up, except to feign emotional injury at my questions. don't you even realise what i was saying? surely if you have felt these things then you can at least understand faith.

I understand faith in God, I don't share that faith, I thought I made that reasonably clear in my previous posts. As for emotional injury, what the hell are you talking about?

Cake Fiend · 06-01-2001 10:03PM

Insert .02 euros here...

Originally posted by neuro-praxis:
...are being purely controversial for the sake of it

No, I genuinely don't believe in God. I'm not into that drama queen sh1t.

...a person who is too drugged by society to form their own opinions

This could be applied a whole lot more easily to your kind.

did you all know that there is less evidence that Caesar existed than there is that Jesus did?

I don't care for what other people say/think/hear, I won't go with a concept on blind faith - I prefer to witness this 'evidence' first hand. And until I see what I consider undeniable proof that a supreme deity exists, I won't believe it.

neuro-praxis · 06-01-2001 11:11PM

you guys just can't help yourselves when it comes to fighting with me. fight on. argue on. if you don't share faith then you can't judge somebody who has faith. i used to be somebody without faith, so yes, i think i can understand where you come from. so unless you would like to discuss and not dismiss, i am uninterested any longer. it's like hitting a brick wall. this kind of beating aimlessly back and forth with no actual argument except dissimilar experience is pointless and achieves nothing. i would like to know, though, who exactly has drugged me, since i abhorr organised religion?? maybe you all can explain to me how i became a Christian? i am sure it would be fascinating, since you all seem so knowledgeable on the subject of faith, whether it be Christian or otherwise.

Y2.1K - the end of the world?

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