Will you burn at the 2nd Coming?

[_AmyJo]

I think there are some posters here who are deep down afraid or either burning at the 2nd coming or waiting in spirit prison for the Millennium to end.

There may be some who really believe that way. But truthfully, there are just as many who don't. Or just plain don't care.

To each their own. Let the dead bury its dead, and the living go on living.

I don't worry about the world coming to an end. I don't believe in that stuff anymore other than we have the ability to annihilate ourselves as a planet.

Carpe Diem. Life is for the living.

The end will take care of itself.

God will provide all things in its time. People have believed the world is coming to an end for as long as there's been a planet and civilization.

If God really wanted to end things he would've already. Life on planet Earth is far too interesting and evolving to end it. It will continue on just like it has for eons of time. Someday we may be prehistoric, but it does say in scripture that heavens and earths will fade away and there will be new ones to take their place. All one has to do is look up at the cosmos to see that truism staring back at us.

[_Chap]

I know what I know what I know.

Perhaps you do, perhaps not; but for the rest of us my questions can be summed up rather briefly as

How can we know that you know?

And if you can't give us an answer to that, how are your posts more meaningful to the rest of us than the wind in the trees?

[_grindael]

Religion is so arbitrary.

[_AmyJo]

I know what I know what I know.

Perhaps you do, perhaps not; but for the rest of us my questions can be summed up rather briefly as

How can we know that you know?

And if you can't give us an answer to that, how are your posts more meaningful to the rest of us than the wind in the trees?

The question is whether you'll burn at the second coming.

I answered to the best of my ability.

You don't have to know that I know or whatever.

You'll find out when you die and cross over. That's how you'll know.

Just don't be in a hurry to get there, kay? On the other hand, one never knows in advance the timing of these things. So it's never to soon to pre-plan.

[Guest]

Chap happens to be a very polite and courteous individual (as most Brits I have known are wont to be).

I consider your statement to be silly, bordering on the offensive. You have no physical evidence whatsoever for your imaginary scenario. Your long narrative signifies about as much in the real world as my question upthread about Gnarfling the Garthok.

While you certainly have the right to express such nonsense here, I have the right to call it out for what it is.

Since we are discussing beliefs here, I no more need to prove my beliefs than you need to prove yours.

And that is the whole point, I can prove my beliefs. My beliefs are based on science and reproducible physical evidence. Anyone who questions my beliefs can check the evidence for themselves.

If you can't politely discuss what you believe and respect the right of others to have different beliefs from yours, then kindly refrain yourself from topics such as are you going to burn at the 2nd coming.

Obviously it is a rhetorical question, looking for theological differences, not solid scientific evidence.

In other words, if I don't agree with your unsupportable nonsense, I should refrain from participation in the discussions. Sound about right?

But what I believe is real to me. And whether you believe it or not won't make any difference to me one way or the other.

The same can be said for the unfounded beliefs of the Islamic fundamentalists I mentioned upthread. You and they are choosing to live lives of religious make believe.

[_honorentheos]

Yes, if there is such an event I will burn. But I'm not losing any sleep over it.

More or less this. If the sentence is a mad lib, and was originally written:

"Will you (fill in a word that describes what will happen to an unbeliever in a deity associated with an apocalyptic event) at the (insert apocalyptic event associated with the same deity)?"

...then sure. If the apocalyptic event occurs I suppose I'll be one of the unbelievers.

[_Chap]

I know what I know what I know.

Perhaps you do, perhaps not; but for the rest of us my questions can be summed up rather briefly as

How can we know that you know?

And if you can't give us an answer to that, how are your posts more meaningful to the rest of us than the wind in the trees?

The question is whether you'll burn at the second coming.

I answered to the best of my ability.

So you did, so you did.

[_Brackite]

Yes or no?

Yes, since I am now living in the Arizona desert during the age of Global Warming. The summers are going to get very hot here.

[_Quasimodo]

Since we have been waiting for the second coming for nearly two thousand years now (they have been saying it's just around the corner for that long), I'm guessing (at my age) that I will be long gone before that happens.

Do we burn post-mortem?

[_DrW]

I know what I know what I know.

Perhaps you do, perhaps not; but for the rest of us my questions can be summed up rather briefly as

How can we know that you know?

And if you can't give us an answer to that, how are your posts more meaningful to the rest of us than the wind in the trees?

The question is whether you'll burn at the second coming.

I answered to the best of my ability.

So you did, so you did.

Well played, sir.