Is the World Coming to an End?

I heard they changed the end of the world date to March 26th 2011 instead of December 2012. I told my husband that was fine with me because then I will never have to say the words " I am 40".

Where are you originally from? In the midwest we always wait for the March/April snow storm.

Yes the world is coming to an end, when, I don't know nor anyone else.

Don't become addicted to fear.
We can only live one day at a time.
Prepare for just in case disasters, it gives you peace of mind to know you have some food, water, and blankets put away for the "just in case".
No one knows what day or time life as we know it will end, no one.
Hope to see everyone I know and love in Heaven some day.

It's weather. It happens. The earth goes through warming and cooling phases and they aren't aimed at us. We just happen to be here.
Pollutants generated by human-built industry may intensify climate changes, but even if we lived pristine lives, the weather would change. Of course, that does not give us a pass on soiling the nest.
Our species is not the pinnacle of evolution. We may someday become extinct if environmental conditions change to a degree that our bodily systems simply can't adapt to. Again, such an occurence would no more be aimed at us than it was aimed at the tyrannosaur or the dodo.
As for the end of the world in terms of the Book of Revelation, I think that John must have been rummaging through the cow pastures on Patmos and got some bad mushrooms.

We have a saying here in Michigan... If you don't like the weather, wait 10 minutes.

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Were you in Ohio two years ago when we got 20 inches of snow? It happened in March! We almost always get two snows AFTER the forsithia blooms, so this is ablsolutly typical and maybe even a little better weather than we usually have!

Just a question for you...if you worry about the end of the world, will that make it any better when it gets here? Try not to worry, just do what you need to do to enjoy life and be ready to go when it is your time...you cannot for see any of it anyway. Kind of like "revenge" the best way to get it, is to live well...

M.

Yes.
It ended last week on Tuesday.
Just think of it as new weather patterns.
If it goes on long enough (years and years), it will just be the new pattern we come to expect.
And then unusually nice weather will throw us all into a tizzy.

Hey Mommy of 2 the world will one day come to an end. But no one knows the day or time not even the angles.We talked about this in church today, I used to worry about this as well, but i have been a save Christian now for 20 years so i don't worry about it as much as i used to. The weather has always been unpreditable, here in California the weather is very unpreditable at times but i think it's normal, the Bible does not really talk about the weather being a sign so don't worry, it's going to happen when it happens and to worry about it you are going to zap the joy out of everyday life worring that it may be the last day. J.

There has always been an end of the world. People in almost every era wonder the same thing because somewhere sometime there is always something happening. We are at the mercy of mother nature and the earth, and always will be, and there will always be changes that are catastrophic in small or large ways. It is scary, and I wonder the same things myself sometimes. You can worry, but it will do no good. If something is going to happen, no one can stop it. If it is the end of the world, we will all be going together, so there's not much anyone can do.

We've been keeping track of the weather for what? 150-200 years. and the world is how many thousands of years old.

My parents predicted the end of the world in their lifetime based on the book of Revelations in the Bible. It seemed at that time the end was near and here we are again, with similar situations.

The end will come when it comes and it does us no good to worry about it. I believe in living life to the best of my ability without fear. Yes, they're predicting earthquakes in the NW. Been doing so all of my adult life. I'm 68. I could've lived in fear all these years but what's the point? I can't change it.

I did put together a survival kit. When I lived on the coast, I carried it in the trunk of my car. I knew the escape routes. But I did not waste time worrying. I have several weeks supply of food and water in my basement now. Yes, I feel a little anxious but I'm not concerned about the end of the world. I'm as prepared as I'm willing to be.

I grew up close to the Hanford Nuclear Plant in the state of Washington. My father worked on that reservation. We had regular drills in school. The community had regular tests of sirens. As a child I was frightened by the whole thing but my parent's didn't worry and helped me to manage my fear. Nothing happened. Which helped me as an adult to feel less fear. Yes, I have some concern but I am not going to let it interfere with my joy in daily life.

the world is going to blow up tomarrow :) if you buy that i have some swamp land in florida for you. not worth worrying about.

Live every day like it is your last, yet always be prepared.

It may be but no one knows so LIVE IT UP like its your last day here on earth!

I live in Illinois and I remember very well Easters with snow, and even one Mother's Day. So I don't worry too much about it. Midwest springs suck.

It is pretty common to have a little stretch of warm weather and then have snow in April throughout most of the areas where there is actual winter weather. I don't think that indicates the end of the world (the world in all likelihood will not "end" until the sun becomes a red giant).

If you are speaking of threats specific to humanity, well, those threats are usually caused by humanity itself and should be preventable if we could just gets our heads out of our butts. : )

The Earth is constantly shifting and changing. This has happened through out history. Our planet has had ice ages, shifting polar caps, species have come and gone. The one constant thing about the Earth is that it is constantly changing. Don't fear it because you can't stop it. I don't think the world is coming to an end anytime soon. Of course, the Earth will die someday. All planets will eventually. The solar system itself is constantly changing and expanding. If we humans don't cause our own extinction, I think we'll be around for a long time. But eventually we will die out too. Eventually an astroid will hit the Earth and wipe us out like the dinosaurs. Or all the methane that is trapped under the oceans will be released and wipe us out. There are SO many different scenarios of what can happen.

You have to try not to think about these things. There is nothing we can do to stop what is going to be. Just try to enjoy your life and your family. We are definitely living during an interesting time.

This happens all of the time... historically there are massive fluctuations in weather and climate around the world every year.

I remember living in southern VA and having shorts and T's on setting up for our sorority formal on a Friday afternoon and waking up to 2" of snow on Sunday. It happens!

I have a friend who reads and watches all the news stations all the time. She was saying that some scientific group in Russia predicted this recent earthquake almost to the day, it was within a week or two of when they said it would happen. They have also said a major earthquake will hit California in a couple of months.

The Earthquake a few years a go changed the rotation of the earth. The earthquake by Japan changed the rotation even more plus it moved Japan closer to the USA by 13". There will be long lasting effects from this current earthquake.

Is the world ending? Maybe. Am I preparing for the end of civilization? No, I am prepared for an emergency by having food storage and supplies in case there are no trucks or ability for products to be transported.

I think that we should live every day to the fullest, to make this planet a better place for everyone, to help someone else to have a lighter burden and an easier life.

I can't watch movies like "The Time Machine", they freak my mind out and they cause me to dwell on the end of the world and how it's just a big cycle that repeats over and over through the ages.

Lol. Sometimes I wonder the same thing... Not only because of the screwy weather, but all the natural disasters and stuff like that that keeps happening. BUT... if that is what is going to happen, knowing beforehand won't make one lick of difference. What will happen will happen, and there is nothing I can do about it. I just put together an 'emergency kit' (backpack with food, water, water purifier, space blanket, matches, etc.) in case a disaster comes my way. I don't bother to stockpile supplies, because if something DID happen I highly doubt I will be staying in my house. (Unless of course it's the zombie apocolypse... in which case a facebook quiz already told me I would only survive for 3 days... who's gonna argue with that logic??? lol.) Other than that, I don't bother stressing over it. lol.

BTW... I lived in Idaho most of my life... where we would sometimes get snow in June after seeing the snow melt by March. I remember one year watching the 4th of July fireworks from inside a snow fort. lol.

I am 100% with Annie R. & anyone else who's answers may have mirrored hers (too many to read them all). Notice how calm she sounded? How self assured? How perfectly serene & just, well, NORMAL with her giving plain, old-fashioned good advice to someone asking a plain, old-fashioned question?

Notice all of the religious answers and how frothy, worked-up & crazed some of them became full of their stories of terror & threats? Sheesh, people!

No. Read some history -anything from weather patterns, natural disasters to wars and all sorts of upheaval -it's always happened and it always will. Because of pollution and climate change, we are witnessing some drastic changes that humans haven't witnessed before since we started writing down what was happening to us, but it's not the end of the world. When I was 17, it snowed 3 inches in middle Georgia the second week of April. The next week it was so hot we were water skiing at Lake Jackson. That was 24 years ago, and the world is still here.

I don't think so, I just think we hear about so much of the rest of the world because of technology now that it just seems like everything's falling apart. I do think we need to take better care of each other and our planet, though, or we'll royally screw things up.

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Yes, it has snowed this late in Ohio before. Notwithstanding such cold weather in Spring, I do think we are destroying our planet and that while the world has always been ending, we are definitely hastening its demise. We do have control over some things and we need to take better care of what we are doing to mother earth.

My opinion is.....a lot of talk can be twisted to hype up people's fear.
You can be prepared to a certain extent, but you can't stop whats going to happen. Even when natural disaster strikes....nothing is certain and even with being prepared things change and your "plan" may not work.
What puts me at ease is....expect the unexpected, and be comfortable with the unkown.

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Well, technically it's always been coming to an end. No, I doubt you need to worry about everything crashing down into Armageddon. Every generation thinks the world is going to end in their lifetime. Imagine how it would have felt during the world wars? The weather is not a surprise. Science has been watching climate change for a long while, and while the cause is not exactly known, the seasonal changes have been anticipated. Besides, if we are all going to go out in a big natural disaster, there isn't much we can do about it. Read back through the weather almanacs, brush up on world history and remind yourself that all these sorts of disasters have been going on for eons.

There's a lot more to be worried about in this world than unusual weather patterns. Everyone should have a healthy supply (at least several weeks worth) of emergency items including food and water. Perhaps a little preparedness will give you a peace of mind.

Hello! I got married on 05' and my wedding shower was the first weekend in April in Cleveland.......and it was a snow storm like no other!!! The power went out as well. It was definately a shower to remember!

Anyways, who knows when the world will end. As long as you are ready spiritually, there is no reason to worry about it because there is nothing anyone can do to stop it from happening. Yes, the thought has crossed my mind as well, but I know that there is no reason that I should be worried about it.

Where is Bellefontaine?? Just curious!!

Take care.

I was born and raised in Ohio and snow in March is NOTHING new ... at all. Heck it has snowed in JUNE before. That is a little more uncommon but still not unheard of. It's Ohio LOL

So to answer your question ... NO the world is not coming to an end. And probably won't for billions of years.

Things will get SO much worse than this before the end of the world.. ever hear of the Tribulation?

Do you KNOW where you will be after the world ends?

If anyone wants to ASSURE your life after death is in HEAVEN, ask me or TB from the post above :)

Born & raised in NE Ohio ~ snow is nothing new in March & April. As a teacher (& lots of my teacher friends) we're waiting for a doozy!

This is really SO typical here. I'm in Cleveland and it's just to be expected. We had a whopper of a storm maybe 6 years back on April 15th! That one was so heavy it took out power for DAYS.

I got married in NM, in 1999, in April, and none of my Ohio family was able to make it, they were all snowed in, so this is nothing new :)

The way I figure it, if the world ends, I will also end, so what will I care?

I have to agree with the others who have said that snow in OH in March isn't particularly unusual. Two years ago, here in NW OH, we had a very hard frost on Memorial Day weekend that sent us scrambling for sheets to use for covering our garden!

As for the current events, I'm not convinced that there are any more or less than normal. The one thing that has changed is our access to news and information, and the quantity of talking heads spewing it at us 24/7. 100-150 years ago, we probably still wouldn't have heard about the events in Japan... News just didn't travel that fast, and when it did arrive, only a few elite had access to it.

I'd suggest taking a break from all/some the "news" for a while. If you try to fill every hour (24/7) with "new" information, things will inevitably get exagerrated and over-reported. Good luck!

The year I moved to Wisconsin from Kansas City, MO was March of 95...we left wearing summer clothes! We got to Wisconsin and they got snow on April 1st...I remember being so upset and wondering if somehow my dad ( a royal prankster) had managed to pull it off somehow, it just had to be a joke in my mind = )

The world may end one day...but why waste precious time worrying about what we cannot control, live life to its fullest, worry never accomplished anything.

well this guy on the news said that he predicts an earthquake in california from march 19-26, yeah i'm scared!! supposedly he predicted the one in japan two months ago. with the moon moving closer and so on..idk, but i can't stop thinking about that. we live near the coast and a tsunami is what i'm more afraid of.

If it does, I know where I'll go!!!

Snow in march in Ohio is weird? We are supposed to get snow today here in ma it was 70 on Friday but that's typical new england spring weather. Growing I've had snow days in April. Mother nature happens and you can't stop it....end of the world....I doubt it but why worry about something you have no controle over.

Please don't use the Left Behind movie to learn about end of the world prophecy. The books aren't bad, but still...The Bible will tell you.

So, on that note, no, the world is not about to end. So many things have to happen before the Rapture will occur; the Bible is very clear on that. And after that, there will be AT LEAST seven years of tribulation, and the Bible doesn't directly say if that will start the moment the Rapture starts. So at any given moment, before the Rapture, there are at LEAST seven years of this world left.

I live in Ohio (have my whole life), and I can't remember a March or even April that we HAVEN'T had snow!! That's how it is here this time of year - from what extreme to the next.

I have been more nervous lately because it seems like there is so much more unrest in the world right now than I can ever remember. But, it is out of our control so we can't spend our lives worried about it. Try to avoid watching the news for awhile. No good can come of all of that sensationalism. Read the paper, or get news on the internet where its more straight news.

I am not worried just yet. I believe its going to be many years before the world ends. I don't even want to think about that.
My friend says that every year at the end of March we get snow but I haven't noticed.

Love the answers below! I would say that snow in March and even April in the midwest isn't anything to get all 'end of the world' about. It happens often enough!

As for all the earthquakes and civil unrest, I would suggest you just pick up a history book and look at some of the craziness that has gone on throughout time! Think about the fall of the Roman Empire and what living through the World Wars must have been like (I don't know how old you are, but I have only learned about these wars in school).

I have the same feeling some times and question life and other things as I know it. I am not a religious person, but even when I was I took the same approach-
No one really knows exactly how we all got here, exactly how we are going to leave here, what happens when we do, so until then, just hug your little ones and your hubby everyday and try your hardest to enjoy yourself. Take one day a week to just be happy with your family!

I don't think snow in March is that unusual. My son was born 9 years ago today, and we got 6 inches of snow that day - my M. almost didn't make it to the hospital in time (she was coming from Toledo)!

i say no worries! :)

sending hugs!
~T.

I don't think the world is ending, things like this have happened all the time in the earth's history. It's just her way of healing herself. Even if it is the end we can't worry about it, we can't do anything about it. Just be thankful for the wonderful life you've lived. But honestly, no I don't think it's the end. Sure I am afraid of earthquakes and tsunamis. I live in South Korea so was lucky to miss the tsunami that was in Japan. The only way we would have had the tsunami would be if the quake was on the west coast of Japan not the East. Just relax, take a deep breath and stay calm. :)

I wonder if the world thought this after the big storm of 1900 that destroyed galveston completely, hmmm. I just think that when the world comes to an end there will be so few people left to even blog about it.

Live each day as a treasure and pray for those in need from disaster. We can come together as a whole and be grateful that we are loved. It is a gift to live. Live it well. We have a long long long long time to go yet............ no worries.