End of the World?

[zplsoccer]

Ok the eath can only have about 12 billion people live on it at one time, and at the rate that we are have kids and expanting we will be at the point in less then 50 years?

What do u think will happen after those 50 years

Will we all just die b/c we can live on the earth any more?
Mabye we will have to start killing people?
Will we have to movie to anther planet?

I just want to know what u guys (and girls) think will happen after we hit that max cappacity for the earth?

[ctn|chrisw]

Wel will have to try to live on another planet. or we will build glass cities under the ocean or something

[MetallichicA]

I've wondered that too. I think maybe nature will run its course.... perhaps a mass illness, a plague or something... or maybe we'll end up making laws like China did to limit the number of kids people will have (which actually doesn't work very well). We're not ready to go into space, and I don't think we truly will be for a very long time.

I think that when we come up with all these miracle drugs to make people live longer, we're messing with something we shouldn't. I'm not saying we shouldn't find cures for things, but I think we've started to go that one step too far.

[Magic_Midget]

Like my dad said...children are undesiring and should be shot in the head when born...

No wonder he hates me..

[dlinkwit27]

Originally posted by [Arcane]
Like my dad said...children are undesiring and should be shot in the head when born...

No wonder he hates me..

huh?

[evil_oj]

Originally posted by [Arcane]
Like my dad said...children are undesiring and should be shot in the head when born...

No wonder he hates me..

that's terrible, you should punch him in the eye?

edit: oops none of my business.

[iPlayTheSpoons]

Originally posted by zplsoccer
Ok the eath can only have about 12 billion people live on it at one time, and at the rate that we are have kids and expanting we will be at the point in less then 50 years?

where did you get those numbers?

[Magic_Midget]

anyway...

Usually nature has something planned for all of us...whether be a plague/earthquake/ or war..we'll always have enough room on earth to live on...but the question lies? When will the resources run out?

[zplsoccer]

Originally posted by iPlayTheSpoons
where did you get those numbers?

o, i know it was the Discovery channel a few years back, i dont remember the exact numbers but i know they are close, and i know for sure the estimated time left before the earth could not longer support us was about 50 years

But like said up before i think some plauge will take out a lot of people. and that will by us some time to think of somthing else. I as lest hope so, b/c while i'm sure i problaly dont have more then 60 or 70 years left, that we will have enought resorese to get me though my life, though that could really suck for any children i might have.

[el unico]

i agree with the idea that god will swipe his ever powerful hand and take out a few million people.... but don't worry about it, it's just god taking out the trash, and i don't think it will happen any time soon, hopefully i'll be dead by then and my kids will be the ones suffering, suckas

[zplsoccer]

while i dont think God will be the one to do somthing, something is going to happen, and most likly it will realy suck for all of our kids! But i guess thats just part of life (or possably death in this case).

[el unico]

what's wrong with GOD, he's a nice guy, all you gotsa do is trust the guy and get to know him a little better

[zplsoccer]

i used to be a big beliver in "GOD" but then, i got into high school, learned a few things and it made me think, how could there really be a "GOD", while i'm not going to say that it is imposable, i'm just saying its very unliky, so y should i put time and faith into somthing i'm not sure about.

[J_Bloggs]

I won't get into this god debate, that never goes well.

Umm, maybe I'm wrong, but I think we've so many 'communal' desises that your plauge status should be reached in around ten years, and most of the middle east is starving, so I'd be more worried that your children survive, not if theres enough room for them.

[zplsoccer]

u have a good point, something is going to happen over the next ten to fitty years, to help slow down things, and by us some time, or bye bye.

[el unico]

the only response i have to that is just because GOD is not a physical force in our world doesn't mean he's not one in afterlife. i can explain this better using one of SLAYERS (heavy metal group) album titles "GOD HATES US ALL"...the group was interviewed in an issue of GUITAR WORLD and they were asked why the title "GOD HATES US ALL" and they responded with idiotic stuff like " if there is a GOD then why is there so much suffering in the world and why are there people gettin killed all the time" and other shit like that. and my response to that is if GOD was to exist in the physical form (i'm talking to SLAYER here) you and your buddies wouldn't even be playing heavy metal, shit heavy metal wouldn't even exist if GOD existed physically, you and your heavy metal buddies would be on some field picking berries and watermelons. if GOD existed physically every thing would slow down to a screeching hault cause we sin every fucking day (shit i just sinned right now). GOD would make us all live in wooden houses, ride bicycles, eat fruits and veggies, life as we know it would alter to his will. you, me and a lot of people here wouldn't be looking at internet porn or downloading mp3's cause if you get down to it, it is morally wrong. i know i sound like a JESUS FREAK, but i'm not, i listen to punk, NIRVANA, heavy metal, i even look up to a guy from the band MANU CHAO who doesn't even believe in GOD. what i'm trying to say is that GOD put us here and it is up to us to do what we feel is right. there will be bad people, good people, people that will hurt you, people that will help you, but if you keep the faith, it will all (in my opinion) pay off in the end. thank you and sorry for the long post

[zplsoccer]

ok what i'm see here is that GOD must exist in physical form to be able to do anything really helpfull, or affect us directily, then how does he do all that stuff in the bible, and if he cant do anthing unless phisycaly here how is he a god, and y should i worshop him

(on a side note, how old are u el unico)

[iPlayTheSpoons]

ok, glad to see theres some sort of factual basis to that, though sounds somewhats alarmist to me.

what im confused by is the seemingly common feeling that some sort of disease or other dissaster will come along and weed out the undesirable. what on earth makes you think that? a plague. earth was hardly over populated when the plague attacked europe which wiped out between 1/3 and 1/2 of the popluation in some areas. such a disease would never be effective in our 'modern' world. the sars disease which is attacking some of china, hong kong and other asian countried has killed only 50 some odd people, and massive efforts are being put forth to contain it. hardly a major world concern. the only way people are going to die en mass as you believe is by killing each other.

the fact of the matter is that the earth isnt goin to suddenly turn brown and stop spinning. as conditions grow more dire, world policy may have to change. population control, maybe. are you aware that a large portion of farmers in the united states are paid by the government NOT to grow food, or to only gorw a small portion of what they could? this is done to prevent flodding the market with produce/bread/etc., thus lowering its value and making it impossible for anyone to live as a farmer, and in the long run acutally causing food shortanges because of a lack people willing to work for free and grow food. this food is not exported because most countries cant afford the prices americans place on their own labor. anyway, back to my point. if the world really begins to starve as you propose, it would be up to countries like the U.S. (as terrible as that may sound) to step up and help.

the population in most modern coutries (such as the U.S., western europe, south korea) is relatively stable, not growing at exponential speeds. this means that the 12 billion people you forsee living in 50 years wont be distributed equally, and the natural nature of people would likely kick in. in short, humans are likely to live on. not all of them. and it wont be up to nature to descide, it will be up to the politicians, and in 50 years that puts most of us right around the right age. so, in risk of sounding too "after school special", it may really be up to us.

sorry for the rant, but i felt like it

[zplsoccer]

Good one iPlay, u have a lot to say

(that and it finaly go us back on the convo of this thread)

[el unico]

sorry but i haven't read the bible, i tried once but it was way to freaking boring. so i really can't respond to your recent post, what does he do in the bible anyways? but i will tell you this and this may sound like b.s. but i have asked GOD for a sign that he exists and he has replied many times, again this may sound like total b.s. to you and anyone here reading this but in my heart i belive he responded when i asked for a sign. like i said i'm not a JESUS FREAK so i can't respond to your question on why he is a GOD and why you should worship him. i'm not telling you to worship him, i'm just saying i belive he exists and i belive i will be judged and sent to heaven or hell. i know where your coming from ZPLSOCCER and all i can tell you is to live your life as you see fit and we all will see how everything turns out in the end. i guess it depends on your surroundings also, my mom is very religious and so are a few of my aunts and uncles so that's probably why i believe in GOD so much. all in all, i'm not trying to preach anyone and these are not my intentions (i would preach people but don't have enough knowledge to do so), again all i am saying is i believe in GOD and people are here to make their own desicions in life. also, i'm 19 and catholic(why do you ask?) and what's your age and religion? (zplsoccer)

man all this thinking is making my brain hurt

[zplsoccer]

i'm 17 and Lutheran, the reason i asked ur name is b/c ur age and thus for ur life expreness can play a very big affect in what u belive, and the fact that u do belive in god is good for u and if that brings u secrity, or a felling a wellbeing thats great, i just have not been able to get that from any thing or body yet, so i'm not going to tell ur not to belive in god or sit there and try to disprove him, i'm just stating what i think

so now that this is closed we can go back to the topic end of the world (o thats a happy one lol)

[J_Bloggs]

Iplay, thats a pretty realist veiw, makes a lot of sense.

[binary hero]

planet x will have killed most of us.

[Trigear]

the evil shadow government is exterminating us as we speak. right windude? windude? hello....

[m0e]

I think this is a question we should ask the dinosaurs.

[zplsoccer]

i dont get it m0e? y the dinosaurs?