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The end is nigh! Nigh I tell you! Anonymous 05/30/15 (Sat) 23:20:59 c88014 No.8256

How do you deal with those that are convinced the end of the world is near?

I have a well-off relative who spent on a whole bookshelf of Christian books on the end times. She gathered the family on Thanksgiving to tell us China is in the bible, and the current wars in the Middle East are signs that the final Armagedon will soon happen in Israel. It's not enough for her to be special because she is a true Christian who will dwell in heaven. In her mind she lives as one of the last humans of all time.

Some of these people buy canned food, water, or guns. Others stockpile gold like the Jehova Witness. They can't plan for a peaceful life because their mentality is stuck in survival mode.

I've also heard pastors saying they believed we lived at the end, and the local pastor offered bible studies on Revelation every Wednesday for nearly six months, which gave my Grandmother nutty ideas. (I should have gone along for laughs.) The devout pupils of "armagedonology" dwell at 8chan too.

https://8ch.net/christ/res/2058.html

Anonymous 05/30/15 (Sat) 23:49:58 5268be No.8258

>How do you deal with those that are convinced the end of the world is near?

Don't talk to them, they are crazy.

What makes me sad is that I see great people sadly falling into this religion junk shit, very sad.

Anonymous 05/31/15 (Sun) 00:42:02 55c2db No.8265

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>Christfags don't know a broken clock is right twice a day.

Anonymous 05/31/15 (Sun) 01:41:11 2edc71 No.8266

For the longest god damned time I've feared that shit.

When I was a kid, I was scared to death of Y2K. From 2003 I was afraid of 2012 coming. After 2012, I had enough with this garbage, and transitioning from agnostic to atheist only made me realize even more how stupid half this shit was, and that I was freaking out about a stupid calendar ending.

Anonymous 05/31/15 (Sun) 02:31:35 c88014 No.8269

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>>8266

My paranoid dad stashed a few months of canned food for Y2K just to be safe, like they do in Alaska. I got sick and tired of eating canned beef stew and chicken noodle soup that year.

Anonymous 05/31/15 (Sun) 02:40:03 1b4514 No.8270

If you're talking to a christian.

>"But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

Simple as that. If they believe the scripture is infallible then I don't see how they could think they possibly know better.

One thing I remember reading is that over 50% of christians in the USA believe that they're living in the end times. I'm going to guess most generations of christians before them thought the same.

A bit scary, but most of them don't act on it.

Anonymous 05/31/15 (Sun) 05:40:06 09a59e No.8272

>>8269

Why the hell would your dad have you eat away at the reserves? Shouldn't you only be eating the canned stuff AFTER the world has ended?

Anonymous 05/31/15 (Sun) 07:12:09 cec2ac No.8273

>>8272

I assume probably to eat the food that's soon to expire and buy fresh canned food.

Waste not, want not, anon.

Anonymous 05/31/15 (Sun) 07:49:48 38b078 No.8274

I've always been surprised how central the role is of the End Times. I believe that both Christianity and Islam started as End Times cults (there's a particularly interesting book on this by Stephen Shoemaker called Death of a Prophet) and when the End Times didn't come, were converted into life philosophies, with the End Times beliefs pushed forward in time

I also don't think there has been any idea that has been more nihilistic and at the same time more influencial than the End Times. From the Book of Daniel in Judaism all the way up to the idea of a violent revolution in Marxism, just about every mass philosophy seems to be influenced by this idea of 'let's destroy everything, then utopia will suddenly arise'. Pretty scary if you ask me

Anonymous 05/31/15 (Sun) 08:13:11 5672c5 No.8275

>>8256

>How do you deal with those that are convinced the end of the world is near?

You can't but maybe you could ask a local priest(or whatever) to talk to them. Some people listen to authority figures. Of course you have to check first if he has the same wacky believes.

Anonymous 06/02/15 (Tue) 18:49:31 c88014 No.8386

>>8258

>don't talk to them. They're crazy.

It just occured to me that the reason I sometimes think /christian/ is 1/3rd trolls is because I avoid crazy people in real life which creates a bias. When the hardliners congregate on the internet at places like /christian/ where they advocate white power theocracies, you initially doubt that so many personalities a exist in real life, and think they must be trolling.

Anonymous 06/03/15 (Wed) 10:11:12 55c2db No.8400

>>8386

That actually makes sense.

Anonymous 06/04/15 (Thu) 05:32:20 f74b12 No.8415

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>>8256

>How do you deal with those that are convinced the end of the world is near?

Laugh at them? And if they have a specific date for when shit is supposed to go down be sure to talk to them the day after and be as smug as possible.

>>8274

Are you familiar with Ragnarok from Norse mythology? It's probably the creepiest part of any religion I've ever seen. It's basically a huge battle in which not only is all of humanity wiped out and everything more or less destroyed, but all of the major gods are supposed to die. And the gods know this is going to happen, they even know exactly how it's going to happen and how each one of them will die but there's nothing they can do to stop it. In the end there's sort of a return to the status quo with a new generation of gods and a new sun and moon (the old ones having been devoured wolves), but the way the story is told it's more like a relaxing scene at the end of a horror movie than anything. At least in Christian mythology the end of the world happens for a good reason as part of a greater plan, Ragnarok is just fucked up and creates a sense of dread that hangs over everything.

Anonymous 11/14/15 (Sat) 02:13:22 804381 No.12542

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>>8415

Ragnarok is so pointless, and it invalidates everything that ever happened. My understanding is that even in Buddhism when the universe is destroyed and recreated, at least the souls are reincarnated and a few can sometimes remember a little of what happened in the old universe.

Anonymous 11/14/15 (Sat) 02:34:33 32d718 No.12544

>>8256

I found a way to get them to shut the fuck up.

Use the Bible. There's a prophecy that the Nile River will dry up and Egypt will be abandoned for forty years.

Point that out to them, and remind them that the Bible is never wrong and all the prophecies have to be fulfilled before Jesus can come back.