Talk:End of the world

You left off Douglas Adams' "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe?" Blasphemy, I say! Indeed, the world must be ending soon ... 68.53.61.253 00:20, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

I'd recommend that the bit about jewish end of the world stuff be put into jewish eschatology (it's definatly out of place here), and this article be made into a piece that depicts scientifically probably ways for the world to end (similar to the ones that are probably described in martin-ree's book which this article refers to). this could include: SAI (super - AI's), asteroid collision, bio-terrorism, nuclear winter, (there are loads, most of which have some potential scientific merit) etc, etc. Or at least links to the relevent articles.

The article in it's present state just looks rather too random to be any good.

Moriarty

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In medieval Europe, it was widely believed that the world would end one thousand years after the birth of Christ. During the year 999 AD, many people did not grow crops because they thought there was no need, due to the coming armageddon. Many people went hungry in 1,000 AD when the end of the world did not occur. Is this accurate? I thought I remembered reading that it was a historical myth. -- April

Not only it's true, but when in 999 AD the end of the world did not occur, many of those who had predicted it, "admitted" a pretended mistake in their calculations, so they predicted that it would have occurred in 1,000 AD. This time for sure. (!) -- Gianfranco

I think that the entire contents of this article should be merged with Eschatology, and deleted. There are interesting bits included here that are not in Eschatology, but should be. Otherwise, "End of the world" is nothing but a sub-category of Eschatology (not always Utopianism, and not always Millennialism or Christian eschatology, but always eschatology). Does anyone agree? — Mkmcconn

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In medieval Europe, it was widely believed that the world would end one thousand years after the birth of Christ. During the year 999 AD, many people did not grow crops because they thought there was no need, due to the coming armageddon. Many people went hungry in 1,000 AD when the end of the world did not occur.

I doubt these assertions about the years 999 and 1000. I don't think many people could read then, especially among farmers, and it seems likely that most people in Europe did not know what year it was. -- Mike Hardy

The exact degree of panic over the turning of the millennium is apparently a point of some disagreement. The idea, though, that it was significant to cause famine I think can safely be ruled out. I think it would be best to err on the side of caution until a reference can be provided, and am taking out the section accordingly.

Other views

For balance, their ought to be a presentation of other views, such as a Christian POV.--Josiah 15:48, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Hubbert's Peak

I feel that Hubbert's Peak is not relevent in an article on the end of the world. The whole peak oil scenario will cause a change in our society but not the end of it. I have deleted the reference. Alan Liefting 21:06, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Agreed. Perhaps "End of the World as we know it". --Stbalbach 22:14, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Rename article

Renameing this article from "End of the world" to "End of the world (religion)" .. there are now many/multiple articles that discuss end of the world in religious terms, and none that talk about secular conceptions. I have created a new article End of Civilization and will point "End of the World" to it ... if there is disagreement, we can simply point it to the disambiguation page. In truth I think "End of the world (religion)" should be merged with other articles that are more developed. Stbalbach 01:19, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)

or you could rename it to eschatology if you wanted to go the religion route. i think if you were looking for the end of the world, typing that in to get a page with various directions on where to go (from flash movies to song titles to religions) is perfectly acceptable. (oelschlegel, 220004aug06)

Heaven and Hell

I really don't get this stuff about Heaven and Hell not being literal terms but states of being in spirituality both in life and afterlife. What does that mean anyway?

It's the theory that there is no heaven or hell, and that descriptions of such within religious texts are actually describing the individuals own mental/spiritual state as a result of their own guilt or lack therefo, rather than the judgement of some deity. However, the sentence is very POV, in that it labels this theory the "moderate" one, thus taking sides in the anti-religion debate by labeling all judgeing-god religious beliefs "extremist" by inference. Tom S.

this is missing so much

the whole mayan 2012 thing, scientific ways that the world could end, grey goo

http://www.rotten.com/library/religion/apocalypse/

http://ned.ucam.org/~sdh31/misc/destroy.html

Flash Animation

I had added it there before, and I think it's pretty valid. It was quite a popular flash animation, so I figure people might come looking for it here. If you'd like it removed, I'd like to hear some sort of case on this discussion page, instead of just taking it off. Hanzolot 20:10, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Yeah I keep removing it, seems to be my hobby. If you want to add it back, please create a Wikipedia article first. We only list red links if they could be a Wikipedia article, per the MoS. I don't think it could be a wikipedia article. The test is to create one, I may be wrong. -- Stbalbach 21:23, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks a lot, I didn't know that it was a big deal to have red links. I might come back and try making a page later on when I'm more experienced, right now it's not really worth the time/effort. =) Hanzolot 06:24, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Probable Vandalism

This just does not strike me as legit. I'm going to remove it, but here preserve it on the off-chance that it SOMEHOW is true... Or just so the rest of us can quietly laugh at it.

The Theory stating that on March 7, 2007 the spiraling vortex keeping the moon in orbit of the Earth will detach, causing the moon to come falling down to the Earth at a very high velocity. It will strike the Earth at full force causing a massive explosion equivalent to that of 28 million nuclear missles. If the vortex holds strong to do a last second development of a stronger pull, this will not happen, but there is only a .03% chance of that.

--Feerique 02:10, 9 February 2007 (UTC)