What to do when the end of the world seems so imminent?

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it would need to be extremely organized and people should ignore their differences (specially when it comes to political ideologies)
You'd be surprised at how many people across the political board hold contempt for big businesses. I once ran into someone on the far-right who was one step away from participating in an armed uprising. Who did he blame for the downfall of society? Big corporations, and a corrupt government that let them have their way in fucking over the American people (this is, of course, specific to America).
The problem isn't that people would have to set aside their differences, but that they'd have to see that they have the same goals and enemies. Because politics are so often approached with a "with us or against us" mentality, and because it's corporations who are controlling online discourse at the end of the day, it takes much more effort from the people to see things through.
 
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If you wanna make it through the "end times" all you've really gotta do is have extra food, water, a way to purify water, a safe place away from the city, and a way to defend yourself. If you do that you'll outlast almost everyone. Everything I'm gonna say is largely the same as what other people have said. A commune is ideal, but those end sooner or later. All you really need is a little group of family/friends. Stick with the people you love and you'll be golden. Ironically the worst and most stressful times bring people together. Just take up a new skill every once in a while and stick together. Know how to hunt and dress. All that jazz. I know it's bland and been said a million times, but it's true. Just a little bit of effort will put you miles ahead of everyone else.

Don't live in fear, just be aware that something bad can happen.
 

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A commune is ideal, but those end sooner or later.
I'm honestly not sure if I believe in the whole "communes never last" idea. I think it comes more from popular culture where interpersonal conflict is put into a zombie apocalypse story to give the plot more tension, rather than any sort of historical truth. Keep in mind that, in our earliest days as a species, we existed for thousands of years in small communities that could be likened to communes. We like to think, thanks to what pop culture has shown us, that communes end through infighting or being in conflict with neighbors, but I honestly believe that hard times are what brings the best out of people. As a social species, we don't like seeing other people suffer and would like to do what we can to prosper. It's not until our societies get too big where we start to dehumanize each other for the sake of keeping our identities intact.
 
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It's always falling apart. You only have your 20 years of life and history books to compare to. Actually we live in a period defined as "great peace", since never has there been so few wars and bloodshed on the world as compared to now.

~100 years ago people our age were drafted to die in trenches somewhere in france or belgium, places you couldn't even pronounce. So at least you have this going for you, namely sitting on your arse and contemplate contemporary social politics as opposed to dying in a war, laying in a trench filled with shit, piss and the blood of your camaraderie.

You are scared of what the future might hold, but I'd rather be scared if everything would stay the same. Stagnation is death. Be excited of things yet to come. It will be over soon anyway, your current life in this body that is.
 

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I know these thoughts are probably temporary, but lately I've thinking a lot about how the world is changing so fast and everything is "falling apart", but despite this I still "have to live a normal life". There is an increasing number of natural disasters and international conflicts seem more likely as each day passes, there are only a few countries who actually care about the enviromental crisis and most of them (including mine) simply do nothing about it. Corporations were never so strong as they are now and everything serves their economic interests, our lives seem meaningless in comparison to their power and I don't think there's a way to change a thing about it.
All of this gets me really scared of what the future holds for us, I've had thoughts of giving up my studies and simply enjoy life at it's fullest until the final days, but I am also concerned of this "ending" not actually being close and losing many years of my life "doing nothing".

At the end, I'll keep on living my usual life, but those thoughts will always be there. I really do hope humanity is not doomed, after all, even with all the bad people out there, I have a bit of faith that everything will work out in the end.

Be safe y'all, and don't give up because of our situation, we haven't lived all these years for nothing.
Well assuming we are talking about some "world ending event" as a Christian I think if push comes to shove and you find yourself subjected to some inordinate degree of suffering or hardship, and the world in the throws of some great crisis, hell, even if you yourself are in the throws of some great personal crisis. I think you ought to endure it until the end with faith in divine providence. Be stubborn and uncompromising in your morals and beliefs, and work diligently to remedy the crisis or problem in any capacity you can or to at least strive to make it more bearable for those around you, even if doing so costs you your life or any other personal cost. You can't control what happens around you but you can control your thoughts towards it and your reaction to it. I believe very well that evil is real, that demons exist and that satan exists. We live in a sinful broken world, where bad things happen, and all that could be reasonably asked of you is that you endure it the best you are able to and have faith that everything will be alright in the end, simple as.
 
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When I lived in the US it felt like the world was ending, but now that I live in a functional society it feels like the US is close to ending and not the rest of the world. I'm not going to bother to get into the politics of it, but no the world is absolutely not ending. Life in my country is mostly normal, and it's only when I hop onto the English web that I remember things aren't so peachy in America.

Advice: move to a better country.
 
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i used2think abt this stuff alot and it wud evvn leik keep me awake @@nite and stuffz as a kid but i think the key izz2just let go
therez nothing 2 miss if u havnt lost anything ....
alternatively, instead of worrying abt the world, u can focus only on ur soul instead ;;; wut stayz outside will not permeate the barrier ..
besidez, if the werld izz ending soon .. i wud rather celebrate than look on it as sum bad thing ;;; think of all the plants and animal lyfe that will grow without humans .. think of how we owe the earth so much and continue 2just take it 4 granted ... if the world does end, itz been a long tyme coming
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All of this gets me really scared of what the future holds for us, I've had thoughts of giving up my studies and simply enjoy life at it's fullest until the final days, but I am also concerned of this "ending" not actually being close and losing many years of my life "doing nothing".
There's a less binary way of viewing this which is what I do with regard to work - I don't take it seriously. My career means absolutely nothing to me now I've got enough money coming in to live comfortably and do whatever I want, I don't care about society goals, just here to have a good time. I put in enough effort at work to maintain my position, but I've no interest in excelling at climbing a ladder or anything like that.

w/r/t studies though, those actually help you become more capable as a person so I wouldn't bun those off. But, whenever you enter into the grind of ~participating~ in an ~economy~, don't take it seriously. Say yes to shit more often than you say no. Enjoy yourself. Then, if it ends, it won't have been a pointless waste.
 
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I know these thoughts are probably temporary, but lately I've thinking a lot about how the world is changing so fast and everything is "falling apart", but despite this I still "have to live a normal life". There is an increasing number of natural disasters and international conflicts seem more likely as each day passes, there are only a few countries who actually care about the enviromental crisis and most of them (including mine) simply do nothing about it. Corporations were never so strong as they are now and everything serves their economic interests, our lives seem meaningless in comparison to their power and I don't think there's a way to change a thing about it.

All of this gets me really scared of what the future holds for us, I've had thoughts of giving up my studies and simply enjoy life at it's fullest until the final days, but I am also concerned of this "ending" not actually being close and losing many years of my life "doing nothing".

At the end, I'll keep on living my usual life, but those thoughts will always be there. I really do hope humanity is not doomed, after all, even with all the bad people out there, I have a bit of faith that everything will work out in the end.

Be safe y'all, and don't give up because of our situation, we haven't lived all these years for nothing.
In my tradition, its an established principle to work hard and build even if the end is in sight. It was reported that the prophet Muhammad said "If the Final Hour comes while you have a shoot of a plant in your hands and it is possible to plant it before the Hour comes, you should plant it."

The wisdom here applies universally. Just because you think its over, or things are falling apart around you doesn't mean you should just give up and stop putting your best foot forward. If it really is the end, and all the effort you put in comes to nothing, then at the very least your actions will count towards your good deeds after dying. If its not the end, then you contributed to the future of humanity, and still get points for it in the afterlife. The only thing that comes out of a defeatist attitude is the certainty of failure. If you never plant the tree in the first place, there's a 0% chance that it will grow.

I'm not saying this to suggest that things are better than they are. They very well might be worse than what you describe. Its your lot in life to be living through these times just as it was the lot of others to live in better or worse times before you. Don't worry about how things are going or could have been, worry about fulfilling your purpose in being alive now to make things better than when you arrived.
 
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I'm not saying this to suggest that things are better than they are. They very well might be worse than what you describe. Its your lot in life to be living through these times just as it was the lot of others to live in better or worse times before you. Don't worry about how things are going or could have been, worry about fulfilling your purpose in being alive now to make things better than when you arrived.

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name of song (and tune is nice too) - dont make others suffer
 
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It was reported that the prophet Muhammad said "If the Final Hour comes while you have a shoot of a plant in your hands and it is possible to plant it before the Hour comes, you should plant it."
i dont rlly agree with a lot of the quran but damn this izz a rlly good quote
 
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In my tradition, its an established principle to work hard and build even if the end is in sight. It was reported that the prophet Muhammad said "If the Final Hour comes while you have a shoot of a plant in your hands and it is possible to plant it before the Hour comes, you should plant it."
I won't lie, I do love it when established religions happen to intertwine with my own personal philosophy; it feels nice, like I figured it out on my own.
 
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I also feel in line with the idea, do whatever and then if the end comes see what's to do there.

I sometimes thinks that a person de-motivated by the eschaton, is probably a person that thinks that there is nothing any more to discover, that there is nothing left to enjoy. Still I feel there are a lot. It's an adventure and it keeps going, the best "video" game I ever played.
 
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None of the climate alarmists can really provide you a definite end to the world and even if they could would you really want to live your days in debauchery waiting for the end? An end is a new beginning and an end to our sick world. We can't continue to pillage the environment without repercussions and already we are seeing those repercussions in microplastics.

Protip: No alarmist individual or organization can provide you with a reliable end date because none such exists. It wont just break one day but it'll be a gradual decline in standards of living until people are finally fed up enough to do something about it, or they just off everyone who isn't "them." Maybe a mix. Who knows. Its a surprise.

I wouldn't get too worked up over the end because in the end that road only leads to madness and wasted opportunity. Enjoy the world we have, because its not permanent, and you surely will get to see the new world and even help to shape it. Very few humans are both lucky enough and unfortunate to be those of us alive for the transition to a new world.
 
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None of the climate alarmists can really provide you a definite end to the world and even if they could would you really want to live your days in debauchery waiting for the end? An end is a new beginning and an end to our sick world. We can't continue to pillage the environment without repercussions and already we are seeing those repercussions in microplastics.

Protip: No alarmist individual or organization can provide you with a reliable end date because none such exists. It wont just break one day but it'll be a gradual decline in standards of living until people are finally fed up enough to do something about it, or they just off everyone who isn't "them." Maybe a mix. Who knows. Its a surprise.

I wouldn't get too worked up over the end because in the end that road only leads to madness and wasted opportunity. Enjoy the world we have, because its not permanent, and you surely will get to see the new world and even help to shape it. Very few humans are both lucky enough and unfortunate to be those of us alive for the transition to a new world.
No like we can do anything. How can one thing end up fucking up whole damn world, when we can't unfuck it in the same way!
Instead of grinding, those who can, could provide us with some gizmos!
But yeah, I am the one naïve! Be-cau-se yachts can but farmers can't! Same type of naïve!!!
 
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By remembering it seems so imminent, but probably isn't. Pay attention to it seems. Appearances aren't always real.

The media loves to feed us with fear and outrage porn and crush our spirits as to make us more addicted to our devices (escapism) and thus more docile, more willing to accept whatever inhumanity they impose on us (while, of course, the upper caste will live business as usual or even get richer), but if you take a moment to disconnect from all of these news, all of these things you're "supposed" to care about otherwise you're ignorant or selfish, and you just look around you, or even better, you go to the countryside and look around, you'll realize the world isn't ending anytime soon.

Cities aren't reality. The media isn't reality either and gets a lot of money out of scaring or enraging gullible people, shaping their worldview to make them more fearful and less likely to trust their neighbours and potential friends, and thus less likely to regroup and overthrow the established order. It's just that now they have found a good way to do so, which will pacify most of the population: a drug which isn't even physical and that everyone has at home.

The world isn't ending. It's just fear porn they feed you. Live your life as normally as you can and disconnect from all this scaremongering. Focus on what you can control and what's closest to you rather than things you can't and will never have control over.
 
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