Program Sponsors:
The student voice of Detroit's High Schools.

So When Will the World Really End?

David Meade, a self-published author, claimed that on Sept. 23, a rogue planet called Nibiru would collide with Earth, destroying it. This conspiracy, called the Nibiru/Planet X Conspiracy, dates back to the 1970s. This planet was supposed to collide with the Earth in 2012 as well as 2003, but both times were debunked by NASA, proving that it wasn’t a real planet.

Rather than an end to this world, Jews believe that after a time of intense turmoil and chaos, the world will be bathed in peace and righteousness until the actual end of time.

Religions have different points of view on the ending world, even those who have stemmed from previous religions and have similar ways of life.

In Islam, signs of the end include The Creature being created by us, The Smoke being given off by us, and the splitting of the moon shortly before the end of the world. The Creature we created, according to the Qur’an, was the computer. The Smoke that factories let out into the world is pollution. After the splitting of the moon, “Earth and all its mountains and valleys and lands will be lifted and crushed with a single blow.”

In the Vedas, the holy literature of Hinduism, “naimittka” (death) concerns all living beings on Earth. Prakrikta, or natural destruction, concerns the universe as a whole. At this time, matter, space, and time itself will cease to exist. The final stage of the End of the World is atayantika, or liberation, which gives moksha (release from all pain and suffering) to the people for whom the visual world (Earth) no longer exists.

According to Buddhism, the end of life on this world and the end of the world itself will not be at the same time. Buddha said that the world will end in six billion years, when seven suns surround the Earth and burn all its life to a crisp. Then, there being no physical places for our individual souls to live, they will be transported to the Phromalok until a new world is created.

Scientists say that the world will end in about 1.2 billion years from now, when the Earth swallowed and burned by our slowly expanding sun.

So, are any actually right? How will the world end? Only time will tell (and a lot of it, it seems).

Comments

Comments powered by Disqus

Please note: All comments are eligible for publication in Detroit Dialogue.

Recent Editions