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Electrode

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Originally posted by: idNut
Why 2053, electrode?
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I remember reading somewhere that the Psalms in the bible are predictions for each year starting with 1901. There are 153 psalms. You do the math.

Edit: I just dug out a bible and checked, and there are in fact 150 psalms. That puts the end of the world at 2050.
 
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glugglug

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Originally posted by: Electrode
2 specific predictions I can think of right now:
Mayan calendar: 2012
Bible: 2053
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The recent bible-based predictions that I've heard of say Armaggedon begins in 2007 or 2008. If Bush gets re-elected I'd expect it to be sooner than that.

C/Unix time on a 32-bit system rolls over on Jan. 19, 2038. Most military systems are still using it, and will likely be then also. (They're not exactly early adopters, NASA buys old 8086 processors for crazy prices on E-bay since they aren't manufactured any more and the ones on the space shuttle are nearing their MTBF).

 
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HappyPuppy

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Humans, in their physical form, ceased to exist 1428 years ago. The life you experience is, now, only ethereal. We are "people" or "beings" only in the sense that we can cogitate and communicate. These functions do not require a physical body, but only the continuing exchange or electrical impulses. We are "God" because we span all time and space. Life, death, pain, happiness and all other expectations of existance are only in our imagination. We will "live" forever in our collective conciousness spreading our phlegm throughout the universe. When just one of our collective "persons" sneezes, the entire God collective spews mucous on all that we imagine exists. Since nothing exists except within us and we don't exist, then the question of when the end will come has been answered.
 
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TNTrulez

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Originally posted by: HappyPuppy
Humans, in their physical form, ceased to exist 1428 years ago. The life you experience is, now, only ethereal. We are "people" or "beings" only in the sense that we can cogitate and communicate. These functions do not require a physical body, but only the continuing exchange or electrical impulses. We are "God" because we span all time and space. Life, death, pain, happiness and all other expectations of existance are only in our imagination. We will "live" forever in our collective conciousness spreading our phlegm throughout the universe. When just one of our collective "persons" sneezes, the entire God collective spews mucous on all that we imagine exists. Since nothing exists except within us and we don't exist, then the question of when the end will come has been answered.
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WTF are you babbling about?
 
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TheBoyBlunder

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Originally posted by: HappyPuppy
Humans, in their physical form, ceased to exist 1428 years ago. The life you experience is, now, only ethereal. We are "people" or "beings" only in the sense that we can cogitate and communicate. These functions do not require a physical body, but only the continuing exchange or electrical impulses. We are "God" because we span all time and space. Life, death, pain, happiness and all other expectations of existance are only in our imagination. We will "live" forever in our collective conciousness spreading our phlegm throughout the universe. When just one of our collective "persons" sneezes, the entire God collective spews mucous on all that we imagine exists. Since nothing exists except within us and we don't exist, then the question of when the end will come has been answered.
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Thanks HappyPuppy, I needed to be confused.
 
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XMan

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Originally posted by: HappyPuppy
Humans, in their physical form, ceased to exist 1428 years ago. The life you experience is, now, only ethereal. We are "people" or "beings" only in the sense that we can cogitate and communicate. These functions do not require a physical body, but only the continuing exchange or electrical impulses. We are "God" because we span all time and space. Life, death, pain, happiness and all other expectations of existance are only in our imagination. We will "live" forever in our collective conciousness spreading our phlegm throughout the universe. When just one of our collective "persons" sneezes, the entire God collective spews mucous on all that we imagine exists. Since nothing exists except within us and we don't exist, then the question of when the end will come has been answered.
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You've been taking hits off of Moonbeam's hookah again, haven't you?
 
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Sid59

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Originally posted by: her209
The Hindus believe that the world is destroyed and recreated cyclically.
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like Zion? hehe


As long as there are mineable resources, humans will live.
 
sandorski

sandorski

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Originally posted by: Electrode
Originally posted by: idNut
Why 2053, electrode?
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I remember reading somewhere that the Psalms in the bible are predictions for each year starting with 1901. There are 153 psalms. You do the math.

Edit: I just dug out a bible and checked, and there are in fact 150 psalms. That puts the end of the world at 2050.
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Well, many have come up with multiple dates based on what they claim is the "Bible". The Bible itself claims that no one knows the time or hour, so who is one to believe, the Bible that claims that no one knows or someone who says the Bible says X?
 
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compudog

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Just stop and think of how long the dinosaurs walked the Earth. Millions of years. We haven't even scratched the surface of that time frame and have done more to mess it up. I give it another 100 years before we make it uninhabitable.
 
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SoylentGreen

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Originally posted by: HappyPuppy
Humans, in their physical form, ceased to exist 1428 years ago. The life you experience is, now, only ethereal. We are "people" or "beings" only in the sense that we can cogitate and communicate. These functions do not require a physical body, but only the continuing exchange or electrical impulses. We are "God" because we span all time and space. Life, death, pain, happiness and all other expectations of existance are only in our imagination. We will "live" forever in our collective conciousness spreading our phlegm throughout the universe. When just one of our collective "persons" sneezes, the entire God collective spews mucous on all that we imagine exists. Since nothing exists except within us and we don't exist, then the question of when the end will come has been answered.
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explain

 
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Parrotheader

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Over 100 years.

I guess it could happen, but I have a hard time envisioning an all-out nuclear exchange of thousands of warheads leading to a nuclear winter on the level we worried about during the height of the Cold War. For one thing, nearly all of the countries with those capabilities realize know what that level of force would mean and are hesistant to use them. And even if you don't believe or agree with that, at some point within the next 20 years or so we probably will have an effective missile defense system whether it's declared official policy or not. The advances in technology seem to make that inevitable as well as the proliferation of nuclear weapons and missile systems to smaller countries. And as for biological warfare or natural viruses, there's almost ALWAYS going to some people that are resistant to even the most deadly diseases - even if it's a miniscule fraction of the population of less than 1%. Likewise, there will be people isolated by geography who will not be exposed to those diseases. And that doesn't even take into account any major medical breakthroughs during that time. I think the biggest threat would be an event from outside our planet.
 
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