A big part of me would want the prophecy to be true.
Just because it will clear up any question of there being some divine power.
( , Tue 18 Dec 2012, 9:35, Share, Reply)
Just because it will clear up any question of there being some divine power.
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No it wouldn't.
It might, conceivably, indicate that there's something utterly different to anything we know already; but it's not at all clear that that'd be the same as divinity. What, in fact, could possibly count as evidence for divinity, to the exclusion of every other possibility? I'm not sure that there would be anything. Divinity, in fact, seems to be one of the worse explainations for any given phenomenon.
Alos, if it really is the end of the world, you won't get an answer to your question, because you'll be dead.
More importantly, it's all nonsense anyway.
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It might, conceivably, indicate that there's something utterly different to anything we know already; but it's not at all clear that that'd be the same as divinity. What, in fact, could possibly count as evidence for divinity, to the exclusion of every other possibility? I'm not sure that there would be anything. Divinity, in fact, seems to be one of the worse explainations for any given phenomenon.
Alos, if it really is the end of the world, you won't get an answer to your question, because you'll be dead.
More importantly, it's all nonsense anyway.
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I'll just have to bundle this one up with the rest of my angst then I think :)
I would get my answer if death wasn't instantaneous(edit: well the moment of death would be instant, I mean its approach and if it is signposted). The big reveal would have to be raining fire and sulphur as opposed to it being like flicking off a light. I can understand that it wouldn't confirm the divine, just that the Mayans were on to something.
I doubt I'd be able to think through that this would be getting towards an answer at the time though. I think I'll watch Melancholia again tonight.
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I would get my answer if death wasn't instantaneous(edit: well the moment of death would be instant, I mean its approach and if it is signposted). The big reveal would have to be raining fire and sulphur as opposed to it being like flicking off a light. I can understand that it wouldn't confirm the divine, just that the Mayans were on to something.
I doubt I'd be able to think through that this would be getting towards an answer at the time though. I think I'll watch Melancholia again tonight.
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