Do you Believe End of World is Near?
What kind of People believe the End of world is Near?
Why do people believe the end of the world is near?
Why would someone commit suicide in order to avoid the end of
the world?
Why would someone give all of his money to charity only to
discover that the world wont end now?
People who believe in religions , like me, have a reason to
believe that the world will end one day, apparently because their religious
scriptures tell them so but why would some people all of a sudden claim that
the world will end on a certain date or time?
Every now and then some people start to claim that the world
will end on a certain date then attract a large number of supporters who start
doing all kind of extreme behavior just because of believing that end is near.
Yesterday i came across a site that said that the world is
going to end in 8 days. The site was a commercial one and it was Selling
survival kits, rations and all kinds of goods that a person might need when the
world ends!
The first question that came to my mind was, what on earth is
the site owner going to do with the money if the world was really going to end
according to his beliefs?
Why do people believe in superstitions about the end of the
world
This site i was just talking about and other sites sold
products worth millions of dollars. Some people are capitalizing on the fears
of others and that's why its important to find out why do some people strongly
believe in such superstitions.
1) To be
among the chosen or in other words to feel superior: The
desire to feel superior to others is more strong among some humans than others.
Whens some people fail to feel superior in a direct way by playing with the
normal rules they start to seek twisted methods to feel superior to others.
When a person believes that the world will end on a certain day he instantly
feels superior to all of those who are uninformed.
2) Because
they eagerly want it to end: Some people believe that they are
losers, failures and unlucky fellows. For those people the end of the world can
be a very good thing since it will put an end to all the rules that classified
them as losers or failures. In other words, some people believe in the end of
the world just because they need to believe that it will end soon.
3) The
conspiracy theory makes them feel important: Usually when a person
claims that the end is near he also claims that the government knows it all.
This kind of conspiracy theory makes the person feel worthy and very important
because after all if the whole world is conspiring against him then he must be
a very important person. In other words, many of those who believe in such
superstitions only want to feel worthy. People who fail to feel worthy in the usual ways might start to seek
unusual ways to feel superior such as claiming that they were abducted by
aliens (they were chosen among the whole world).
4) To feel
in control: People believe in
superstitions Because that one of the strong forces that motivate people to
believe in superstitions the is lack of control over their own lives. By
believing that the end of the world will happen on a certain date a person can
become much more in control of his fate
Why
superstitions will never end
What do you think will happen when a person who believed that
the world will end on a certain date finds out that it didn't end? Will he give
up on superstitions?
No he wont simply because he has a psychological need that
forces him to believe in them. In other words that person will shortly fall
prey to another superstition and will start believing in it as well.
Don't wonder how people manage to forget about a prophecy
that didn't happen and to believe in another one that quick. people twist the facts to support their beliefs i said that people discard the
data that goes against their beliefs even if it was real and keep the data that
supports them even if they weren't sure of it.
Superstitions will always be there because some people need
to believe in them.
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