How much time do we really have left and should I really be worried about the future or is doom enevitable????
99161
Please tell me what this has to do with Valentine's Day. You posted the question under that topic, and I don't see the relationship between a holiday and the end of the world.
741271
I heard this argument before.  People were saying the Year 2000 was the end.\n\nI will ring your doorbell and run away!!!
642475
Sylvia Brown says a lot of people are on their last life, meaning the world is coming to an end soon.   Just kidding.\n\n(2012 keep your fingers crossed)
545821
All life is supposed to end soon.  What is happening right now is in preparation for that.  There is a new planet somewhere in our galaxy that is much more stable than our own planet, and this is where Heaven will be.\n\nYou see, not everyone can be allowed to go there.  There are many sick and twisted people in the world, and even more people with messed up genetics and all sorts of deformities.  It's sad, but in order to preserve the integrity of life in the Universe only the strongest, purest souls can be allowed to go to the new Heaven.\n\nWhat is happening to our planet and solar system is that the conditions that are optimal for supporting life are no longer present, and the Gods had to find a new planet with energy fields suitable for their souls.  Soon our solar system will collapse, and we'll be swept into the cosmic wind some time around 2012.  Until then, our planet will get hotter and our weather more extreme.\n\nIt will suck very much, and I'm pretty sure our souls will survive for a short time after our bodies have passed away.  But our souls, mangled by all the heavy metals and pollutants we drank and ate and breathed everyday, will not know how to escape Earth or it's not-very-suitable-for-souls environment.  Eventually, they will get toasted.\n\nThere are definitely some people working behind the scenes here on Earth that know about all this.  There will either be people who start breaking out their Bibles and start trying to say the Muslims are the Antichrist.  They will try to keep all the people of Earth separated, and try to keep them from thinking about the real scientific stuff that is happening to their planet.  And then there may be the group who is really trying to save Earth, because they know what's going on and they know they're not going to Heaven.
600664
By then most people will agree that mankind will not be around. That is not the pessimists but now the optimists too. The question is how will this eventual demise arise? That will determine what the state of of the Earth will be in 1000 years. If the 'War on Terror' ends in nuclear holocaust then the Earth will be a barren land much similar to Mars is today. If global warming catches up with us then we will be in the middle of another Ice Age.\nThe alternative is that we humans, against all odds, do survive. In that case we will be living in a civilisation that is either as close to total anarchy as we can get without destroying ourselves or we will be in totalitarian state of control. Either way the future was stolen from our hands a long long time ago.
926322
Easy one for me, most of it is over and done with.\n\nDon't worry, adulthood comes in plenty good time, no hurry.\n\nBetter to build up a lot of good memories than start to worry about the future that much, unless you are one of those soulless individuals fixated on money.
986970
*Shrug* Depends on your beliefs. Do you believe in God and an Apococlypse? Do you believe that the current state of affairs in the world is so f^#$ed up that we'll either blow ourselves to pieces, die of disease, over-population, crop failure, or poisoned water before our grandchildren are born? \n\nThe answer is we don't really know. It depends on how wise we become in the next few generations, and whether we (meaning, humanity) can get our enviormental pollution, war-mongering, and population growth under control. Hypothetically speaking our planet won't be destroyed until the sun becomes a red giant in approximately 4.5 to 5 billion years. So humanity, if it never developed space travel, could last that long. But unless major changes are made in the coming fifty to one hundred and fifty years, we may well be facing yet another mass extinction of life on earth (this wouldn't be the first major extinction...).
1106562
I didn't go to any of your links.  I chose to believe that we are in the end times simply because of Bible prophecy and the Book of Revelation.   God has come close to the hour of closing this chapter on earth.  No one knows the exact hour or day, but I believe it is sooner rather than later.
582008
Damn- I just erased my entire answer. So short version: Mayans say 2012, End of Days is 2010, Nostradamus says 3000 something. Planet isn't going anywhere unless someone (*cough cough* Bush) does something really stupid. Society can't last the way it is "somethings gotta give" All this crap that is happening is just the planets way of trying to get our attention. If pop. continues to grow, some kind of natural pop. control will break out (aka. Avian Flu, Smallpox) or more likely one will be released as a bio. weapon.  I swear my first answer was better.
296236
I think no. Indefinitely has an end, just not sure when, and forever keeps going, with no end.
460201
TOO EARLY QUESTION..\n94 MORE YEARS LEFT..
721631
Definitely the future, sometime when war, crime and famine are no longer an issue.  And skycars, yeah, we gots to have skycars :-) they are long overdue!!!
1068685
My dear child,this planet has been here for a very long time,it is true that billions of years ago the known universe was a shooting gallery but for life to have survived on this planet it had to and did calm down,the truth of the matter in any thing science Say's or the surgeon general of the day is an op pinion of eather one man or a few,that happen to have your ear at the time,all things have settled into a daily(or millennium) routine but that doesn't sell papers,man is no god and man even if he thinks so can not even in math predict the future events.there are universal safe guards in place,live,love and forget that which can not be substantiated.enjoy life be a good personthis is all I ask.
845853
yeah this world gets old and we dont know yet...it could be ten or twenty years or more....Hang in there
411723
Yes and the time is growing near....not by our timezone, but near nevertheless.  The 2nd Coming of Jesus will be Judgement Day and He will judge us then and there.  No time to make amends at that time....so it is always good to be ready now as we don't know when He will return.  He will return after this World of ours continues on the destructive course we are on and totally destroys itself.  The Bible and all of the Prophets have predicted exactly what is happening in our world right now.  Starting with immorality, the present Government situation with Bush as our leader, the Middle East, more and more natural disasters (Hurricanes, Tsunamis, deadly mudslides, etc.)  I wish the world would wake up and see what we are doing to ourselves.  I fear for the people who are in charge of the countries and where their destiny lies!
486455
You'll know the future when it becomes the present.  Contemplating the universe gives a headache anyways, so just wait and see what happens.
930864
Im guessing that youre joking....\n\nBut the problem is, too many people share that sentiment. What if youre wrong? Do you really want to leave a legacy to your children that consists of a uninhabitable planet?? \n\nYou people have been predicting the end of the world for 2000 years. Youve been wrong so far. What if you continue to be wrong for another 2000 years??