Wednesday, April 14, 2010

The end of the world?

  

 Ok, to be honest, I have no idea why I wrote this. I was bored (like always) and didn't know what to write (again). So (as usual) I decided to browse around the internet, looking for something to watch, play, read, etc. you get the point, right? I end up watching the movie 2012 and decided "hey, why I don't I blog about the end of the world?" So yeah, u guessed it, I am going to write about some things that people don't really talk about concerning the end of the world other than the Apocalypse. Fun to read, right? So let's start with a theory called the Big Crunch.
    Never heard of it? This is theory apparently is a consequence from the Big Bang theory.According to this theory, the universe will one day stop expanding. Then, as gravity pulls on the matter, the universe will begin to contract, falling inward until it has collapsed back into a super-hot, super-dense singularity. If the theory holds true, the universe is like a giant soufflé. It starts out small, then expands as it heats up. Eventually, however, the soufflé cools and begins to collapse. Weird, but kind of making some sense.
    There was also a book called Eschatology, written by Pope Benedict XVI, at the time when he was Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. It is the study of the eschaton, the times of the end, or 'last things' and is a part of theology and philosophy concerned with what are believed to be the final events in history, or the ultimate destiny of humanity, commonly referred to as the end of the world. The Oxford English Dictionary defines it as "concerned with ‘the four last things: death, judgement, heaven, and hell’" (phrase from Book of revelation). While in mysticism, the phrase refers to the end of ordinary reality and reunion with the Divine, in many traditional religions, it is taught as an actual future event prophesied in sacred texts or folklore. Overall, eschatology may include related topics such as the Messiah or Messianic Age.
    This is one where people do know, but not its name:Ragnarök. In Norse mythology, it is the "final destiny of the gods", a series of major events, including a great battle foretold to ultimately result in the death of a number of major figures. These include occurrences of various natural disasters, and the subsequent submersion of the world in water. Afterward, the world resurfaces anew and fertile, the surviving gods meet, and the world is repopulated by two human survivors. Ragnarök is an important event in the Norse canon, and has been the subject of scholarly discourse and theory.
With so many ideas of the end of the world, people who uses that topic can vary but link in some way with the existing ones. In scientific terms, the earth could be shifting, while in religious terms, the God is angry and wants the people to repent while uses the natural disasters to punish them such as earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, etc. What do you think? Will the world end in 2012?

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