Poopie Pants
Mr. Cunt
Gods and Heros
21 January 2002
When is the End of the World?
The end of the world has indeed in no doubt been a concept that has grasped the minds of both ancient and modern civilizations. Both new and old civilizations are actually very different from each other. While technology is getting better, the old ancient religious
views slowly diminish. Although the two are very different, the both have the same destructive result.
The majority of ancient belif in the end of the world comes deeply from their religon. In essence, they believed
that their god(s) would destroy them by a natural disaster such as a flood because of their sins. An example of this is that the ancient Romans believed
that Zues will flood the world hoping the cleanse earth of all sin. Because Mount Olympus was up so high in the sky, a flood was the natural disaster of choice because it will keep the gods safe. Other religons too believed
in a mass flood in the hope to clense of sin. One of the most famous is the Catholic tale of Noah and the Ark. Here, God floods the earth for forty
days and forty
nights while it was Noah's responsibility to put two of each animal in the ark, hoping to start a new world when the flood was over; much similar to what the ancient Romans believed
. No matter what the ancient religon, they really believed
deeply in their religon in some sort of natural diaster.
In today's
modern world, as technology grew, more different medthods grew out from the two dimensional
religious
view. To expand on this idea, during the space race in the ?60s, scientist have learned the devastati ...