Do any of you deal with a complacent husband who thinks you're over the top for being "obsessed" with end times things, or threats to our country?
While no one is perfectly safe, it's pointless to fret about what could happen. Certainly we COULD experience a terrorist attack. Or the sun COULD go Red Giant, and engulf us all. Or a volcano can burst through your floorboards and incinerate you. So you have one of two choices. You move on, trying to take appropriate cautions when needed (By this, I mean don't walk in bad neighborhoods after dark) but otherwise, live your life normally, or turn into a jittering puddle of fear, where everything is a sign of the world coming to an end. Guess which one you chose? Oh...and you do fear it...the fact that you try and paint a pretty face on it that you'll be swept away before it hits is a sign of that.
Who prefers not to talk about scenarios that we can't change?
BINGO! You can't change it, so why worry about it...assuming it happens at all?
I tried bringing up how we should create a plan and maybe prepare for if things get bad, and he doesn't seem to be worried about it.
Because there's no reason to hit the level of fear and paranoia you're getting to.
He would rather focus on the positive, and not get all wrapped up in things we have no control over.
Gee, a person who would rather see the world as a positive place, to enjoy while you're here, as opposed to God's waiting room. What a horrible person... -_-
He is a Christian, but not really in the word or following Christ per se.
Oh? Where did Jesus say forsake your life, and wait for me to come? As I recall he said no one would know the hour...to me that says do as you will...live your lives. When I come, I'll come. Seems to me, YOU'RE the one not following his words.
He says everyone for the last 100 years has been talking about who's going to destroy us and it hasn't happened yet.
Because they HAVE! There are hundreds of thousands of end times prophecies. At a conservative estimate. And every time, the time comes up, nothing happens, and life goes on.
And that people have "always thought they were in the end times".
I'm guessing someone already posted the writing on that stone tablet they dug up, chronicling how it must be the end of times, a long, long time ago?
He thinks I'm turning into a conspiracy theorist, and just so you know, I am the furthest thing from one! The things I'm concerned about are the possibility of Iran attacking our country (emps, nukes, etc), economic collapse, Gog and Magog war, and the rapture.
*Cracks knuckles*
Iran hasn't made a move to America. That said, neither did Iraq, or Afghanistan. So perhaps they should be worried. But truth be told, you should feel right at home with them. They are pretty much exactly the theocracy you fundies fap to. Economic collapse is, admittedly possible. Couldn't have anything to do with a multi-TRILLION dollar war a certain botanically monikered President has been waging... Gog and Magog...sheesh, there have been so many Gogs and Magogs, it's sickening. If you guys could make up your minds on what it IS, I'd listen. And isn't Gog supposed to be a person from Magog? And the Rapture. It's a Bible fanfic. Deal with it.
The same things that very smart prophecy teachers and even our government are aware of.
Uh-huh...
He pointed out that none of our friends sit and talk about these things, as if that's a good measuring stick!
Yes, gee, people not wanting to talk on end about how the world is ending and God knows how many people they know and love will be tormented for eternity, just because they don't believe like you. They must be the weird ones.
I told him that it's only a conspiracy theory until it happens, and that it's not good for us to bury our head in the sand.
And it's not good to run around in a state of semi-panic either.
Also, about the rapture, the way I usually counter that is by pointing out that someone is going to be right.
Stopped clock analogy does not a good argument make.