Why Do People Believe in The Apocalypse?

Because they are unintelligent, and have nothing better to think about.
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Maybe some people secretly want to be last ones(generation).

All things come to an end; human lives, planets, etc. I suppose it's a logical progression to note that our species too will join the other 99% of things on this planet that have went extinct.

That being said, the 'grand reveal' type of shit is just that, shit. It's far more likely that we'll eventually just slip away into the vaults of time. Didn't anyone ever watch Life After People? Yeah, like that.

Have a nice day.

As people have put their words so much better than I can explain mine I will say this. There is birth, life, and death. An individual organism has a timeline of life. This life however long or short, will come to an end. The same applies for species, the Roman civilization was once the greatest in the world, same with the Persian Empire, but they both began that natural aftermath of life, death. Species of animals have evolved themselves and have quickly as a whole afterwards. But to be specific not all dinosaurs died out, some involved into repitilians, and birds. So if we are to survive as human race, we have to evolve into to something entirely different. My two cents, if that sounds like gibberish keep in mind I just woke up.

Do I believe in the end of the world? Yes. After all, if war doesn't destroy our world, then the sun going will be the end of this world. Also if not that then the moving black-holes may just end our world, anything honestly could just destroy our world. However, does that mean the human race will be destroyed? Hopefully not, by then we will have evolved and gotten to the point where we're truly space-faring and able to colonize many other worlds to keep our race in existence. Where people see and end, I'll look for a beginning.

See a lot of people saying that they "believe in the apocalypse". The "apocalypse" is a religious notion that the world will end at a predestined date decided by some higher power. It is not the same as thinking that the world will eventually end (that is, all life on earth will end and the earth itself will one day be destroyed), seeing how that is an unavoidable fact which is not predestined or decided by anyone, but is more likely a random event of bad luck (like the sun blowing up or us getting hit by an asteroid or w/e).

Im christian so i do blelieve the world will end(dont hate),i think that most societies believe in the apocalypse because humans as a species love the idea of cleansing a rotting world and moving on to a utopia.

Possibly because everything that has a beginning has an end.

>> Why Do People Believe in The Apocalypse?

Because their stupid!?

Well, there are reasons why people claim the end of the world is near.

1. They want attention from people
2. They study so much on it. (People who predict apocalypse in later 100 years)
3. The need to save mankind
4. Profit

I'm hoping the last one wouldn't surpass the rest, but then again, it already had.

Because working 9-5 in a cubicle surrounded by retards in a non-air conditioned room can put the thought of suicide in ones mind. However, most people don't have the balls to commit, so they choose to believe(hope) the apocalypse will be right around the corner. /myopinion

I believe we can be friends.

Because some people don't have faith....... so that's why they believe in others stupidity.

Well, as for the apocalypse, there a ton of theories about it. Like all those doomsday theories that were supposedly going to be the end but they never happened. I guess we've all just been taught to believe that nothing lasts forever, like the Earth. Think about it though, would it really matter if Earth just vanished? Not at all. The universe would go on as it always has. There's no need for us. We have no meaning to exist. You have to make one. Anyway, I think that the world will end, but I believe in the Terminator theory. Yeah man.

Why do people feel they have to or can predict the end of the world? Easy. Control. They want to feel like they are in control of their lives and their own destinies.

It may seem weird to think that people who predict it was wanting control because if they were right then we're all dead and such. But most people like that are either down on their luck and just wanting something in their life they can control, as in knowing things are going to end and feeling special for knowing it is going to end, or they are preying on those people.

People who genuinely believe they can predict it, are mostly doing it because they want to feel like they are special for doing so, as in they have some great ability that other people do not have and that it gives them control because they have "knowledge" you are not privy to.

All in all, it's mostly just about some form of control.

When I hear this question, the first thing that comes to mind is "How did the word apocalypse even come about?" Ok, you can say it came from a Latin root word, but you can't really describe the thoughts that were going through the creators mind when he came up with that word...and of course you can say that a calendar was made to show when the world was going to end, but you still have no hard proof as to how or why people believe in this. This topic can't be really solved because of the fact that the one who talked about the apocalypse didn't describe it well enough. And of course that word only means the end of the world on a certain day but even then you can't be so sure that everything will fall into place. If there is always an opposite to everything than even if the world were to end you could not conclude that everything on the earth would just die out. The earth started as a molten hot rock anyways. As someone said before in this forum that every beginning has and end, and if you were to switch it up a little it says every ending has a beginning. We may not even notice that our world died. We may not even notice if we died. The apocalypse is an indescribable phenomenon only seen through the eyes of video game designers or movie directors. The thing about it is that many people have different views on it and it's never actually solved. As a closing statement I would like to say that I have no actual clue as to why people believe in the apocalypse.

Because, like, do you really expect me to be able to comprehend science?

Science sez we, as a galaxy, are actually floating through a shooting gallery of horrific cosmic events that at any point may come tearing through our spiral, burning planets and detonating suns and more or less ending all life in the galaxy.

Like NeoStriker said a few pages back, I know an apocalypse is going to happen. The question simply remains, When?

I try not to think about it, since there's pretty much nothing I can do to stop a Nova/Hypervelocity Star/Gamma Ray Burster/Really anything flying around out there.

But if the universe is constantly expanding, aren't we moving away from everything else? So every moment we are safer than before. Yay!

Not exactly correct.

The universe is expanding, true, but it occurs at a very slow rate. According to Nasa, the estimated rate of expansion is somewhere between 50 and 100 kilometers per second per megaparsec, with the more recent experiments yielding values between 66 and 82 (KMS/MPS), or about 237,600 to 295,200 kph.

At a local scale, this seems to be quite fast, but remember that the rock we're on shoots through space at an average of 67,108 mph, or about 108,000 kph, and our sun rockets along at about 559,324 mph, or about 900,145 kph.

And these values aren't even that fast, compared to some of the stuff out there.

Assuming the universe is functionally unlimited and populated by galactic spirals, at any point in time we run a rather terrifying risk of smacking into...something. Meteorites, Asteroids, rogue Planetoids or Black holes, Nova or Supernova waves, and gods know what else is relaxing in the depths of space, waiting for something to fly into it at hypervelocity.

Like I said, I have no doubt an apocalypse will occur, at some point. Hell, assuming NOTHING else, our sun will go Red Giant and consume the inner planets in about 5 billion years.

If nothing else.