With all of the hate

@fmf said
Maybe it's going to be another 2,000 years. Pointing out that Christians have been saying words to the effect of The End Is Nigh for 2,000 years is hardly "scoffing"

You're right of course, it could be another two thousand years, but are you saying you're not inferring, based on why you say, "Christians have been saying words to the effect of The End Is Nigh for 2,000 years", that you're not scoffing, especially since you don't believe a word of it?

But that's ok because you're not the only one that doesn't believe it. Obviously the default position of those that don't believe is scoffing. Everyone does it. Even I scoff at the things people believe that I think are without merit or evidence.

@josephw said
You're right of course, it could be another two thousand years, but are you saying you're not inferring, based on why you say, "Christians have been saying words to the effect of The End Is Nigh for 2,000 years", that you're not scoffing, especially since you don't believe a word of it?

Yes. I am not scoffing. Nor am I inferring that I am not scoffing.

@josephw said
Even I scoff at the things people believe that I think are without merit or evidence.

I have no doubt that Christians have been pointing to what they see as "evidence" that they feel has "merit" that the world has constantly been near its end for the last 2,000 years.

-Removed-

Even you.

@fmf said
I have no doubt that Christians have been pointing to what they see as "evidence" that they feel has "merit" that the world has constantly been near its end for the last 2,000 years.

Because it is.

@fmf said
Yes. I am not scoffing. Nor am I inferring that I am not scoffing.

More like mocking than scoffing.

@josephw said
Because it is.

Far from it. - We are in dark times of course (with all the conflicts going on around the world) but longer term the future looks bright for our species. (Once we are out there in the universe colonising other inhabitable worlds with our developing technology and cyborg brains).

@josephw said
Because it is.

Because it is

Christians have been saying things like "because it" [the world] "is" [ending] for 2,000 years.

@josephw said
More like mocking than scoffing.

If merely pointing out that The End is Nigh has been a Christian refrain for two millennia feels, to you, like "mocking", then that indicates a degree of insecurity about your belief that is warranted.

@fmf said
Because it is

Christians have been saying things like "because it" [the world] "is" [ending] for 2,000 years.

Some day one of them will be right. But he probably won't be around to see his prediction come true.

@moonbus said
Some day one of them will be right. But he probably won't be around to see his prediction come true.

He many of those years did we have the technology to do so, and if they would have do you think it would have been used by now?

@mike69 said
He many of those years did we have the technology to do so, and if they would have do you think it would have been used by now?

We do not possess the technology to end the world. The world will be here long after we are extinct.

@moonbus said
We do not possess the technology to end the world. The world will be here long after we are extinct.

But it could be much different with much less of us?

If man possessed this tech then how many times do you think it would have been used by now, the world??

So have we really came very far as man, our nature, and ability to use things for growth and help for all or through a series over a much shorter time period will we destroy all we know and love?