-Removed-There are 'doomsday' regular Christians here, aside from the JWs. Suzianne has predicted the 'end times' will happen in her lifetime. Both her and sonship hope it happens sooner rather than later.
Hoping for an event that will see the annihilation of billions and billions of non-Christian lives - men women and children - has always struck me as profoundly misanthropic and impotent.
I wonder if their superstitious beliefs feed them this or whether they were drawn to the religious beliefs because of pre-existing feelings of misanthropy and impotence. They won't be drawn on that question, despite my repeated efforts to make them think about it.
I anticipate karoly's definition of "sorrows" so we can talk about "solutions" in a way that is in keeping with the spirit of his OP.