I would like to live untill the end of the world

[IWantGod]

This is not for fear of death. I want to live untill the end of the world so that i could experience the development of humanity. I would like to be around when we move to the stars. I would like to see future scientific developments and also i would like to be present when we make first contact with an alien race. I would like to see the future.

Does anyone else feel like this sometimes?

 

[joeybaggz]

This is not for fear of death. I want to live untill the end of the world so that i could experience the development of humanity. I would like to be around when we move to the stars. I would like to see future scientific developments and also i would like to be present when we make first contact with an alien race. I would like to see the future.

Does anyone else feel like this sometimes?

No. As a matter of fact, I even hate cell phones, not to mention the every changing and confusion of today’s digital world. As to watching the development of humanity, make mine a couple of cold ones in God’s house, sitting next to Jesus, and watching the show.
My $.02.

 

[Reuben_J]

I often thought about it. How far our science advances to, will we be able to find inhibited planet and land there, what would aliens look like, what would end of the world look like?

I also believe that we may not be able to see all these and that the end of the world can happen perhaps within my lifetime. It’s strange thought to imagine all these.

 

[Rob2]

I wouldn’t like to live untill the end of the world , but I would like to live until Americans learn how to spell correctly .

 

[kill051]

I understand the impulse of the OP, but as they say, be careful what you wish for. I am reminded of the Wandering Jew of pious legend, who laughed at Christ on His via dolorosa, and was therefore condemned to remain alive until the Last Judgment. Not a very pleasant prospect, I should imagine.

 

[The_Old_Maid]

I understand the impulse of the OP, but as they say, be careful what you wish for. I am reminded of the Wandering Jew of pious legend, who laughed at Christ on His via dolorosa, and was therefore condemned to remain alive until the Last Judgment. Not a very pleasant prospect, I should imagine.

Agreed. The fundamentalist Left Behind series proposed a MIllennial Kingdom life after Jesus comes back (but before Eternity). Characters who entered that realm alive got to live for another 1,000 years like Methuselah, producing children as able. (Their dead predecessors got to live there in Glorified bodies. No children possible.) A thousand years into the timeline, the end approaches. Characters are still watching TV and talking on the phone. Very little technological progress was made. The reasoning was that if Jesus was on earth, what else mattered.

Setting aside whether you believe in Jesus ruling an earthly government – and most Christ-followers do not believe in it – the novel actually was a very ambitious concept. But I live a quiet life, and even I found their story rather, um, quiet.

 

[kill051]

Agreed. The fundamentalist Left Behind series proposed a MIllennial Kingdom life after Jesus comes back (but before Eternity). Characters who entered that realm alive got to live for another 1,000 years like Methuselah, producing children as able. (Their dead predecessors got to live there in Glorified bodies. No children possible.) A thousand years into the timeline, the end approaches. Characters are still watching TV and talking on the phone. Very little technological progress was made. The reasoning was that if Jesus was on earth, what else mattered.

Setting aside whether you believe in Jesus ruling an earthly government – and most Christ-followers do not believe in it – the novel actually was a very ambitious concept. But I live a quiet life, and even I found their story rather, um, quiet.

Interesting! I have never read any of the Left Behind books, despite repeated urging from my Catholic brethren(!) to do so, so I am only in the most general sense familiar with the plotline.Thanks!

 

[IWantGod]

Very little technological progress was made. The reasoning was that if Jesus was on earth, what else mattered.

God is a creative being. We are made in God’s image. Do you really think we are going to be sitting around? I think we are going to be creative beings expressing God’s love for all eternity.

 

[kill051]

kill051:

Very little technological progress was made. The reasoning was that if Jesus was on earth, what else mattered.

God is a creative being. We are made in God’s image. Do you really think we are going to be sitting around? I think we are going to be creative beings expressing God’s love for all eternity.

Forgive me, but you have misattributed this quote to me. I never wrote this. It was written by another forum member. Please use care when quoting others here. Thanks.

 

[IWantGod]

My apoligees. As for “051” is there any chance of sparing him? lol.

 

[Cruciferi]

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Sure, I’d stay. It’s my duty to observe humanity.

 

[JimG]

Elon Musk wants to build a base on the moon. I would settle for living long enough to see that happen. After NASA and the Apollo program got such a promising start with lunar landings, I honestly figured we would have accomplished that before now.

But people got bored with the moon, lost interest, and NASA lost funding. So maybe the end of the world will intervene before we make much more progress. Can’t really explore even the local galaxy at sub-light speeds anyway. A warp drive or equivalent is needed. But I’d at least like to see another lunar landing or a space elevator. That would please me more than I-phone-12 or 6G.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

The only reason I would want to live until the end of the world would be to see Jesus come back.

I have probably less than zero interest in anything done by Elon Musk and his ilk.

 

[CelticWarlord]

so that i could experience the development of humanity. I would like to be around when we move to the stars. I would like to see future scientific developments and also i would like to be present when we make first contact with an alien race. I would like to see the future.

I don’t believe we’ll be prisoners in heaven. You’ll get to see all of this, but with a much better seat and with a far greater appreciation. You may even get to become someone’s inspiration toward these things. But there’s no reason to feel you’ll miss out on any of it.