What will happen when something happens? (large post!)

do you want to die RIGHT NOW? your immediate reaction is enough to pinpoint the reason you value a system designed to fail. nobody will ever know thier own significance, the human mind is incapable of seeing truths completely. this is our biggest flaw. this is why you value life pursuing knowlage. we aren't capable of surpassing the things that improve us. vitality is to necessity, the purpose of maintenance is not vitality, and so necessity is a variable undefined, as it shall always be. however, people create a fake placeholder for the undefined. we do not change truth, we will be unsatisfied with anything we turn into necessity. if we can elliminate the need to define it, the world will be engulfed with wisdom.

I think about stuff like this all the time. To me it is more bothersome than it is intriguing. It bothers me because I don't like to think of us as insignificant. I think it's when we view individual people as insignificant that we should be worried. It's like when you're driving to work and some guy cuts you off on the highway and it pisses you off and you don't care anymore that it is a human driving in front of you. You are so mad that for a moment you feel like you wouldn't care is something bad happened to him. Road rage is just an example. I think we start thinking of ourselves and other people with more significance then we are much more likely to have a longer future in front of us. Also, I don't like the idea of the world getting uglier and ending soon. I don't think it's fair to our children. If we love someone, shouldn't we want them to enjoy long and happy lives? The people in my life may not mean anything to someone who has never met them, but they mean something to me and I mean something to someone else and so on and so on. I don't want the world to end soon. I hope and pray that we can start to understand just how important we all are and that the smart ones of us (scientists and such) start doing what they can to come up with new ways to protect our planet and treat it better than we have been.

I think it's obvious that humanity will kill themselves... There are plenty of reasons: GMO's, religion, war, Greed, pumping lots of co2 into the air, while cutting down the trees that absorb it, poverty, stupid people who are oblivious to everything, etc. I think the end of the world is not only inevitable, but obvious and you'd have to be crazy to think we'll be OK. I think all we can do now is place bets on how long it'll take. I say 40-60 years.

Personally, I have given some though to this as well. My opinion; however, is not to worry about it. It's okay to think about it, but the truth is we, humans will never know for certain what the future holds. To worry is almost like wasting time. Plus, try not to have such a negative outlook on it. I saw that you called yourself insignificant, but really, what makes or who decides if a person is significant.. ? And lastly, if it does occur, than it simply occurs. It sounds crazy to say that, but like I said, the future cannot be controlled.

My personal outlook is if that day were to come, the only thing that would matter to me is if I lived a life worth while. Did I accomplish to be the person I was meant to be? Obviously, I can get deeper into this, but my point is were all going to die eventually. Why should we worry if it's going to be tomorrow, next week, a month, or a year?

Wow, very profound. I often think this way too.

Interesting. I, personally, believe we will see our eventual downfall begin withing the next 10-20 years. Oil is running out, and without this our agriculture industry will fail. Without Oil we could only grow enough food for 2.5 billion people, and then there is the issue of moving that food to people who need it after growing it, without cars.

But hey, we dug our own graves when we decided to base our lives around a finite resource.