Thursday, October 8, 2009
Week 6
This movie talks about what sparked off the beginning of the end and how the survivors struggle. This is an epic show, taking references from the many early predictions of the End Times.
There are many predictions made over the millenium about when the world is going to end. The Mayan calendar determined by research scholars speculates that the calendar ends on 13.0.0.0.0 which equates to our date of December 21, 2012. Do you believe in the end of the world?
If you do, its a good time to start preparing for the worst. (Hmmmm, didnt the Bible tell us that when the end is near, we will know it? We will be going up in flames unlike during Noah's time. The 7 years of tribulation have not started, right?)
The Mayans, the ancient Egyptians and even scientists today predicts that there will be something terrible (for us) happening in the year 2012. What we are going to perceive is true will come mainly from our cultural background and interaction with people around us, do you agree with me? From the Communications point of view, the early people had left us documents to communicate with us the future they have predicted. Not so much as a distant future to us though. There are conflicting views towards the issue. This is caused by difference in perception.
Whether or not you believe that the end times will be coming in 2012, Interpersonal Communications is still important. No matter who you are communicating with, I strongly believe that relationships should only grow stronger and not deteriorate. So DO nurture/maintain or even start positive relationships with various groups of people in your lives.
If you are a devil's advocate, you can probably look at this End Time issue from a totally new perspective...Which you can share on my comments page (:
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In my opinion, the "end of the world" in today's context just a theme to be used in the entertainment industry. I think that not many people would actually create a bucket list just because there are predictions made by people who go through life like everyone else. People today are far too busy to take this seriously. I personally think that these predictions could probably be a huge practical joke by our ancestors, just to keep us occupied in some way or another. Besides, it is estimated that our sun still has enough energy to keep itself going for another 5 billion years! Also, asteriods that threathen to wipe out the human race only comes close once every millenia, and they have a really low accuracy rate. Hence there is really nothing much to worry about. After all, we will be better off living life as it is than to start a countdown to death, isn't it so?
ReplyDeleteYou might want to make the link between personal relationships and the end of the world a little clearer. eg. cherish what you have before (and if it will) its gone. The two ideas seem rather disconnected.
ReplyDeleteOn the note of cultural communication, perhaps you might need to validate the statement that the people of the past had indeed left messages for us set in stone. From a skeptical (and largely unsupported) view i find it unlikely that the people of the past would have the idea of leaving messages behind for the grand future a thousand years away. The concept of time was simply...shorter then, since average lifespan was low and concepts of the past were largely vague with mythical qualities, as compared to how we now measure sciences and theories such as evolution by the millions of years passed.
On that note, were our civilization were to collapse (like many ancient ones), leftover signs or graffiti (saying deathcomes89 or something) may be translated and interpreted as prophesies, say, 10,000 years from now.
Hello Darren
ReplyDeleteThank you for your very practical view. Indeed, your point of view is a really good example of a devil's advocate. The world is too busy trying to keep up with our material lifestyle that we do not have time for such a 'joke'.
While it is true that the asteroids in space and the sun's hydrogen supply are facts too distant for us to be concerned about, unless we work in NASA and organisations as such, I do think that such facts are highly informative and interesting.
We do know of many facts which have no use to us in our everyday lives. But do they affect us? Not really. So I will agree with you that we will be better off living live as it is than countdown to our death.
It'll look pretty stupid too, if 21 dec 2012 is just another 'practical joke from our ancestors'.
Hello Dan
ReplyDeletePerhaps the Ice Age was the first End Time? There were beings with intelligience who left behind graffiti and stuff which our ancestors intepreted as the coming of the next End Time.
True though, scholars and scientists may be reading too much into the normal day to day artefacts left behind by people long gone from the face of the earth.
I believe that the end of our time or planet will come one day, but probably not during our life time. Well, to me, this is just another one of those armageddon movies with lots of CGI involved. My prediction for 2012 is that we'll be graduating and I hope there wouldn't be a crisis then. Of course I meant an economic one.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion,End of Time is not a matters of whether it exist but more of went will that day come.Planets and humans are the same,each of them have a life spand and when will the earth stop functioning is unknown as of now as our technological advancement is not there yet.
ReplyDeleteCritics may argued that many had tried to predicted the End of Time and all of them failed as of now.
Acknowleged.However, there are evidences that planets will "die" geologically,thus it is possible for Earth to end.This can be illustrated from the example of The Moon and Mercury which have been geologically "dead" for at least a billion years.
Hello Chris
ReplyDeletePracticalities is the way of life now.
From your post, you definitely potrayed the qualities of a practical man who puts the world's economy and the amount of $ in your wallet above everything else.
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What I believe is that when more and more disasters are happening, the End of time is nearing, as what is stated clearly in the Book of Relevation. To many, people do not believe, mostly to non-Christian believers. Although much is predicted by scientists of the End of time, nothing is definite, it is all but an approximation. Well, of course, when 2012 approaches, people will start to be wary. However, to me, any day could be the End of time. It is quite depressing when everything seems so unpredictable.
ReplyDeleteHello Kangest
ReplyDeleteDo you really want to know when you will die, when everything on earth just dies? Haha. While I agree from the geology point of view that it is possible to planets (eg Earth) to die, I also wish to highlight what Darren has said is true.
Other than the occasional solar flares and myths about asteroids which will collide with earth, there is no reason to believe that Earth will just 'die'.
Hello Charlene
ReplyDeleteThere's been another quake yesterday...
I am a skeptic of 2012. I strongly believe that the 7 years of tribulation have not started and neither do I believe that we are living in the period where we have the mark of the beast imprinted upon us....yet.
If we lead live the way we want to and get the most out of it, we will be happy right?
You make me comment on this after our long talk about it HAHA.
ReplyDeleteOkay.. after our discussion about the end of the world and 2012, I admit I was rather affected and the thought of it couldn't get out of my mind, because this would be something that can't be solved or prevented by worrying or by doing anything. Would I fall like the Christians that the bible talked about, or would I remain strong, and would my loved ones be with me?
But well, I received a message that night and it helped comfort me a great deal; to leave tomorrow's worries to tomorrow and have a good night's sleep.
I realized that in whatever we talked about that night, we completely left out the most important thing in life: LOVE (:
Whether the world is ending or not, slqhs pointed out something important that all the readers of the post ignored.
ReplyDeleteWHERE IS THE LOVE?
I view the End of Time in a totally different manner. As with your linkages toward interpersonal communications, I believe that the End of Time comes when there is no more humanity. People no longer rely on emotions and instead survives as empty vessels. This is largely possible, for people nowadays do not value kinships and family values as strongly as people in the past. There will not be any time to speak of when people don't remember and care about what happens to others, or the world.
ReplyDeleteYL, as long as Chris still has his Prada wallet with him i think he'll be alright ;)
ReplyDeleteAnyway, i think the continuous destruction humnas have on the Earth would sometime cause Earth to take revenge on us. Look at the increasingly frequent extreme weather changes and natural disasters. I think it is Earth's way of warning us to take better care of it. But i agree with Chris that the end of the world will not happen so soon yet. We shall be graduating safely then. :)