For what it's worth, I just don't think we can predict when the end of
days are. Yes, God told us there would be signs, but God has a different
concept of time than humans do. The "signs" could last thousands of
years, or happen in rapid succession like gunfire in only a few days or
hours. Basically, whether these are the end times or the end times are
still many thousands of years away, I don't think we will ever truly
know. People have been predicting the end of the world for as long as
there have been people.

We can say that corruption is worse now, that the Earth is changing due
to our environmental factors...but even these things are rather
subjective. There is even contraversy on whether or not global warming
is a real phenomenon. Concerning corruption...I don't believe society is
any more corrupt than it has been in the past. All it takes is a look
through history books and you'll see that human beings haven't really
changed much over the centuries. The only thing that has changed is our
technology, and we never quite know where that will lead us in the
future.

Point being, I just think that when the end comes it will be a surprise,
therefore those of us that do believe in heaven and hell should be
constantly vigilant and prepared, for it will come "like a thief in the
night".

These are quotes from one of my favorite theorists, Antonin Artaud.

"All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's
teeth."

"But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something
unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the
obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the
equinoxes."

"Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a
culture on the fatigue of your bones."

"I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the
obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a
psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to
hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat."

"It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for
me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present."

"No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented
except literally to get out of hell."

"There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in
his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution
to the strangulation that life had prepared for him."

"Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into
my own life."

I absolutely believe in the afterlife 100%.

I have been tempted to draw that conclusion before, but then I take a
look back into history when people must have thought those were the last
days. I look at times like WWII, the Spanish Inquisition, the Black
Plague...people then must have thought it was the end.

Is society really any less moral than it has been in the past? I don't
think our morality really gets worse, it just changes in different ways.

Thanks for all the welcomes! (Yep, I've read Charlotte's Web...Kudos for
recognizing the quote). :)

Oooh...and just in time for breakfast!

Happy Birthday!!!

Work= Tired

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There was a drunk guy on the street once that asked me to marry. He said
God was telling him I was his soulmate. Then he tried to sell me a
magazine.

I'm new here, so I thought I would drop in and...well...just say hi, as
the title of this site suggests. :)