World Humanist Day 2024 is on Friday, June 21, 2024: End of the world?

Friday, June 21, 2024 is World Humanist Day 2024. World Humanist Day is a Humanist holiday celebrated annually around the world on the June solstice, which usually falls on June 21st.

World Humanist Day

World Humanist Day is a Humanist holiday celebrated annually around the world on the June solstice, which usually falls on June 21st.

End of the world?

I don't know what "end of the world video" you watched, so I don't know just how to answer your question.

Personally, though, I DON'T think the world is going to end in 2012, even though I'm a very pessimistic person. I think there's good reason from watching the nightly news to think that human beings will keep doing bad, bad things to the planet and to each other for the next 4 years -- and for a long time beyond that.

But we've been doing that for a long time, and although we need to stop, I think you just scare yourself half to death and make yourself powerless to do anything good for anyone if you give in to fears of the world ending - RIGHT AWAY.

Christians in particular have been expecting the world to end "right away," or "very soon," ever since Jesus was crucified around 2,000 years ago. Sometimes we've worried about it less, in other eras (for example, in around the year 1,000 AD, and again in around the year 1260 AD) we've expected the "end times" to arrive any moment.

And SO FAR, anyway - the world hasn't ended. Although terrible wars have come and gone, plagues have swept across the world killing millions of people, and other very bad things have happened.

So I think we've mostly been scaring ourselves with visions of the end. And I think also there have been many times in history when some Christians have WANTED the world to end soon, often because the Christians in question were poor & oppressed by the governments of the day & just looked to God to get it all over with.

A Jewish American historian named Norman Cohn wrote a book in the 1930s, "The Search for the Millennium," on some of the heretical Christian movements that have arisen since around 1000 AD that looked forward to the immediate end of the world. It's a fascinating read. Other historians also have treated the same topic -- looking, for example, at the beliefs of the "flagellantes" that flourished in Europe at around the time of the Bubonic Plague.

And so far, anyway, the "millennialist" Christian sects have been proven wrong.

I'm a radical environmentalist, and personally I think that our Western habits of energy use and environmental destruction cannot continue forever. Nor do I think that Western capitalism can continue forever without doing very terrible things, both to the natural world and to most human beings.

But even at my most pessimistic & most radical, I don't really expect "the end of the world."

I'd add -- supposing it IS going to end in 2012, which I don't think is true. Well, suppose that it WILL end then - what can you, as an individual, do about it?

Nothing, I think. Some of the Christian groups I once belonged to used to advise me, "Well, you can get on your knees and pray that you'll be one of the Saved few who get caught up in the Rapture instead of enduring the rule of the Antichrist."

And I got on my knees and prayed quite hard at one point in my life .. who knows if it worked. But what the Christian "end of the world" people DIDN'T tell me was anything I could do to make life better, and make our society more environmentally friendly, and to make people I loved any safer -- while waiting for "the end" to come.

So as kind of a secular humanist today, I'd like to urge you (a) to give up worrying about this particular fear, partly because I think it's wrong, but also because I think it's not very useful to think about, and (b) to start thinking about things that you can do to help make the society and the world around you nicer, kinder, more compassionate, and more environmentally sustainable.

If you're not a pessimistic Christian, but a pessimistic environmentalist or a pessimistic Muslim, Jew, Buddhist, or Native American, I'd offer you the same advice.

If the world really is fated to end - well, pray that God or whatever will spare you unnecessary suffering. And accept that the end is coming if you need to .. but then realize that you can't predict when and if the end is really coming. And realize that neither can any other human being, which is maybe why "end of the world" prophecies keep being wrong.

And having realized that, see if you can think of some good things to do that will put of the end for a little longer. Some things that will reflect God's love, if that's what you believe in, or that push our society in the direction of greater natural harmony, if that's what you believe in.

Don't just stand there and worry about cosmic events you can't change. If God or Nature or Fate is truly out to get us - well, we'll know that soon enough. Might as well keep busy doing good deeds in the meantime.

What was John Winthrop aiming to create by coming to the New World?

What was John Winthrop aiming to create by coming to the New World?

John Winthrop (1606-1676) was one of those early English Puritans who set sail for the New World. He was a wealthy landowner who provided valuable leadership in the early days of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He served as governor for much of its early history.

Unlike the Pilgrims, Winthrop and the other Puritans who traveled to Massachusetts were not separatists. The Puritan heart back in those former times 400 years ago, as today, was to stay with the system, to work with it, and and change it from within. Rather than trying to flee the corruptions of a wicked world the Puritans had another plan for the English colonies in the New World. They hoped to establish in New England a pure church that would offer a model for the churches in England. This, they believed, would redeem and reform their English society on both continents, and turn things around for the better. In this selection we see below, John Winthrop offers religious and economic arguments in support of moving to New England.

As we weigh the words spoken by this early Puritan leader we can readily perceive that these people were not merely a company of demoralized refugees exiting from the harsh politico-religious realities of Europe. To be sure these were people in deep spiritual agony of soul. But out of this 'angst' would come a new chapter in history. It would be a new manifestation of Israel's 'Church in the Wilderness' (Acts 7:38). And out of that travail a new nation would be born.

The New World would become more than just a Puritan retreat or stronghold. This was an entirely new land. And it was situated an ocean away from their former miseries. Their new congregational church would be the life spring of a new English colonial society. The English colonies in the new World would then provide comfort and many new opportunities for other settlers who were now beginning to arrive. Their new Christian society would also provide a wonderful way station for their fellow Christians, the Pilgrims. And those other fellow travelers, yes even the 'strangers', those godless freethinkers, would be blessed as well. Secular humanists would have more wealth and freedom to please themselves living in a society alongside Biblical Christians than they would in a nation given to state ordained secularism such as France. The Puritans would be blessed in America. Their new nation would become established. And it would grow. Eventually, during the latter half of the 20th Century, it would become the lone superpower . As such it would become the strong voice and long arm of Western Christendom at the end of the age

Will Barack Hussein Obama’s New World Order plans come through? Why or Why not? ?

Will Barack Hussein Obama's New World Order plans come through? Why or Why not? ?

The New World order is well on its way from the day of the first alumnus and of humanists thanking there has been many attempts for a new world order from humanist manifestos, to social evolution and social sciences or or socialism , to communism. and even Hitler tried to bring around a new world order, after all of that the world is still growing towards a new world order much worse then ever before.

Thank God for the second coming of Jesus Christ to put a end to it all were we can have peace on earth,good will towards man.

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