J's Random Thoughts

2012-12-21 came by and went and several end of the world predicted dates came and go with nothing happening. Are they all fake dates or are there any truth in them?

Lets consider the phase "End of the World". What constitutes to be the end of the world? Definition for end of the world from Oxford Dictionary is "the termination of life on the earth." which I think is not 100% correct. But still better than what most people think. I think the end of the world is the complete annihilation of the planet Earth. Something I don't think will happen for a long time. Most people regard the end of the world as the extinction of the human race which is naive and selfish.

There is proof that we (the planet earth) have survived such catastrophes in the past and I am pretty sure it will survive millions of such catastrophes to come. The earth is too rich is life to die out for a long time.

Suppose today the whole surface of earth get wiped out from a direct hit from an asteroid. After 100-200 year, some life form will spring back and populate earth and in 100,000 years some specie will be typing a blog on the same thing sitting at the same location.

What we should be worrying about is not the end of the world but the end of the human race. Earth can take care of itself on its own. But can we?

In that context anyone predicting the world will end within the the next million years is nothing but a liar or a fake.