Do you think the end of the world is coming?

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I think we're in for a period of time when i'm going to buy 6 bucks worth of candy corn. Anybody want some?

One reason it seems like that there are more natural disasters is that through technology, we know what's going on anywhere on this planet right as it happens. People have predicted the end of the world ever since we've been running around, pretty much every generation thought they'd live to the "End Times." The bird flu will likely mutate to where it kills a large number of people, just like what has happened throughout history. If not that disease, something else will come around. There's also the threat of nuclear war although it's not as great as it was during the Cold War. One thing's for sure, cockroaches will definitely outlive humans, especially if we blow everything up. It reminds me of the last scene of the original "Planet of the Apes" when Charlton Heston sees the Statue of Liberty.

it wont end in our lifetime

which is good

I don't expect the world to end in my lifetime, but I wouldn't be surprised if it did. The world at large is becoming more and more inhospitable (simply put, hostile), so it's only a matter of time until it all comes to an unexpected end. The question is how.

Everything in the universe has an end : galaxies , stars , planets ....... and earth won't be an exception ...... even universe that we know has an end.

end is near?? define "near" .

Ive eaten chicken vindaloo, give it a few hours to process through and the end of the world will begin from the crevis of my bowels

I don't think the earth will end but the system of this world needs to end in the end. That would solve a lot of problems that We have here on the Earth.

I've stocked up on a couple of weeks worth of (cheap) tinned food, in case there's a temporary disruption to food distribution during an avian flu pandemic, and given how frequently there's wars, natural disasters, fuel shortages etc, it seems wise to always have a small caché of tinned food. Perhaps it's because of my lack of any significant bodyfat reserves and my high metabolism that I feel sensitive to food-supply problems, or maybe it's just my pack-rat instincts that give me a warm, fuzzy feeling when I've got a big pile of reasonably non-perishable food, but either way, I'd be rather surprised if I got through my entire life without having some reason to be glad of such a caché.

As for the world actually ending, well, this planet has a good 2 billion + years of habitability left until the sun becomes too large and luminous for anything much beyond extremophiles, and hopefully we'll be well on our way to colonising the rest of the local universe by then. Beyond that, who knows? Maybe we'll all freeze in the heat-death of the universe*, be ripped appart by space-time expansion, or burrow our way to a younger universe*.

*Universe here meaning space-time bubble, of which there may be more than one.

I think it would be exciting to witness the world, literally, coming to an end in my lifetime.

When I was a child I was told the world would end in the year 2000, since it didn't happen I'm not buying that story anymore.

Jehovah's Witnesses believed the world would end in 1974 (ironically the year I was born). Bet the Jehovah's Witnesses were left red faced then!

We do not know when the world is going to end. We just have to live life to the full for the time being!

The world will end... now.

I am not all like the world is gonna end now, but the part that worries me is this: The logic that is always used against the world ending is along the lines of "in every age someone thinks the world is going to end, and it hasn't yet." While that is a true statement, it does not bare any indication as to whether the world will end or not (and by end of the world, I mean simply life in the style as we know it.)

I think about places like the east coast of the U.S., if a disease caused an interuption in the food supply there would be instant chaos. The food would be off the store shelves within the first hour that anyone suspected a hint of trouble. Once people started getting a little hungry, violence would spread. I think household pets would be the first to disapear after that, or maybe second if the owners resisted the taking of their pets. There would be no place safe if you were not prepared to protect yourself, there is no police or military force large enough to cover this place if the underlying structure gets interupted. In many places there are no forests to hide in, no land off of which to live. Nothing to do but fight your neighbors to survive.