It occurs to me that we could plan for the future, and for our children sure, but we could also engineer our own demise out of a desire for meaning. The Greatest Generation had meaning because they defeated the Nazis. Deep down, we all want to be special. What if some of us so want to be special that we're willing to have the world end, just so we can say, "I was there when it happened?"
What if so many of us think, "If the world ends, then I'll finally get an answer. My life will finally mean something! Jesus will come back and save us all!" If enough people thought that, could they then also think, "Sure, I could try to fix things on my own, but it would be so much cooler to get a bailout from Jesus!"
Is an End Times mentality all it takes to engineer the End Times? "It's all over, so why bother?" Maybe it's not all over, but if we believe that it really is, we ourselves will cause it to happen...
I hope we get our act together, environmentally speaking.
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