• Welcome to Autism Forums, a friendly forum to discuss Aspergers Syndrome, Autism, High Functioning Autism and related conditions.

    Your voice is missing! You will need to register to get access to the following site features:
    • Reply to discussions and create your own threads.
    • Our modern chat room. No add-ons or extensions required, just login and start chatting!
    • Private Member only forums for more serious discussions that you may wish to not have guests or search engines access to.
    • Your very own blog. Write about anything you like on your own individual blog.

    We hope to see you as a part of our community soon! Please also check us out @ https://www.twitter.com/aspiescentral

Surving (Past) New Years

Riley

Well-Known Member
As I've made clear plenty of times, I'm utterly terrified of the world ending. Which is why the upcoming New Years scares me. When I first discovered the existence of the Doomsday Clock, I freaked out. My mom, whom I see as wrong but is more often than not right, assured me there was nothing to fear.

Lots of factors fed into my fear that if the clock ever hits midnight, bad things will happen. My brain even plays the scenario in my head. Something chalked up to overactive imagination.

Can someone on this site give me honest, credible proof that I'm so wrong in my paranoia? That we will have a next year and a year after that and so on?

NOTE: Don't give me an answer in the form of "live life to the fullest" or "trust your gut".
 
I have an aunt who starting in the 70's was always giving my mom a date for the end of the world. Never happened. And if course all the ways the world might end are all pretty quick and most likely you'd never notice. The sun shouldn't super nova anytime soon and the rest of the stuff wouldn't end the world, just most life. Stuff has smashed into the earth before and the planet is still here. Religious folks have tried to predict the end for hundreds of years and been wrong, always disappointed. Sorry there is no way to truly promise you a next year, but so far there has been a next year for millions of years. Of course someday the earth won't exist but no one in the forum will be alive to see that. The solar system is pretty well stable right now. Best I give you. I do hope you find a way to get some relief from your anxiety. I've been there to some degree myself, I think most people have. As I got older it mostly went away and I found new things to worry myself sick over. And then I got me some Prozac and worry a little less intensely. But wow, do I still worry about stuff.
 
I have an aunt who starting in the 70's was always giving my mom a date for the end of the world. Never happened. And if course all the ways the world might end are all pretty quick and most likely you'd never notice. The sun shouldn't super nova anytime soon and the rest of the stuff wouldn't end the world, just most life. Stuff has smashed into the earth before and the planet is still here. Religious folks have tried to predict the end for hundreds of years and been wrong, always disappointed. Sorry there is no way to truly promise you a next year, but so far there has been a next year for millions of years. Of course someday the earth won't exist but no one in the forum will be alive to see that. The solar system is pretty well stable right now. Best I give you. I do hope you find a way to get some relief from your anxiety. I've been there to some degree myself, I think most people have. As I got older it mostly went away and I found new things to worry myself sick over. And then I got me some Prozac and worry a little less intensely. But wow, do I still worry about stuff.

Thanks. I guess.

I just wanna know if Mom's right or wrong. I'm also worrying that, if that Clock hits midnight, I'll never escape the fact. People will talk about it. It'll be everywhere.
 
Supposing it is the end of the world,why worry about something you have no control over?
 
Supposing it is the end of the world,why worry about something you have no control over?

Because I want to live a long, happy life. I want to make up for every bad thing I've done so I go to Heaven with everyone I love. In short: I'm not ready to die. And living with the thought my happiness could soon come crashing down is no picnic.

That a good enough reason?
 
Thanks. I guess.

I just wanna know if Mom's right or wrong. I'm also worrying that, if that Clock hits midnight, I'll never escape the fact. People will talk about it. It'll be everywhere.
Believe your mom, she's most likely right. You said she is most of the time.
 
Yeah. I only had my doubts after A) The Slug/Snail Incident and B) My half-brother had to tell mom supervolcanoes are dangerous.
 
I remember New Year's Eve year 2000, the year people thought all the computers would crash come midnight, because they would think 1999 would become 1900...

That year for New Year's I was a small camp with friends, a little off the grid, midnight came and went, nothing seemed to happen (how would we have known), nothing did happen, and the world kept going...

Does that help any?
 
Because I want to live a long, happy life. I want to make up for every bad thing I've done so I go to Heaven with everyone I love. In short: I'm not ready to die. And living with the thought my happiness could soon come crashing down is no picnic.

That a good enough reason?
No,because life is full of unknowns.
I was declared clinically dead two times from an accident and I'm still here.
This doomsday clock,can you prove it even exists,or is it fictional?
To dwell on an unknown will get you nowhere.
 
The DC is a real thing. One my mom says I shouldn't freak out over; That it's been around forever.

Also: Cool!
 
I doubt anything will happen;
Outside of the year 2000 which has already been mentioned, you had a religious man conning people into believe that the would would end on June 6th 2011 at 6:00pm (all the 6's) which turned out to be fake and said religious man never returned any of the goods/money that was 'donated' to him.

Then there was the famous "World will end on December 21st 2012" belief from doomsayers because of the Mayan Calendar ending (New Age Believers thought that a mountain would open and alien spacecraft would fly out and help humanity 'ascend'). Neither of those things happened - with doomsayers later claiming that they'd misinterpreted the calendar and it was actually a date in 2015, which also came and went without a hitch.

There were people claiming the world would end when the Large Hadron Collider got switched on; it got switched on and we're all still here, so no problem there.

People claimed back in the 2000's that the Supervolcano under Yellowstone was due to erupt - it hasn't, and scientists who've been studying it for years have stated that if it did at some point in the foreseeable future then such an eruption would be small/moderate in size (think Mount St. Helen's size at biggest).

(I'm sure there are other examples, but its about 4:00am here and I'm going back to bed).
So far, the only thing that is likely to end the world is 5 billion years in the future when the sun finally goes supernova - by which point you'll have lived your life and won't be around on Earth to worry about it anyway.
Point I'm trying to make is, focus on what you love today and don't pay attention to those who constantly make 'end of the world' claims.
Worrying about it is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum, it saps you of your energy and makes you more likely to become ill, and while you spend your time worrying about what may be you're missing out on the nice things that are happening around you.


"Yesterday is history, Tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift - that is why it's called the Present".
 
Because I want to live a long, happy life. I want to make up for every bad thing I've done so I go to Heaven with everyone I love. In short: I'm not ready to die. And living with the thought my happiness could soon come crashing down is no picnic.

That a good enough reason?

You and all of us are going to live forever in some form (or thats what I have felt inside me since I was born)... You may not feel that way and I totally understand if you don't. However, I get what you are saying. I too want to live a long fulfilling LIFE but I want to do that preparing for what might ever wait for me in my next existence.

Maybe this will help... Maybe not... Don't worry about an end we could never stop anyway... Just worry about living the best we can today, tomorrow, the next day, and let the universe take care of what we cant take care of...

The world ending is a really big deal... It would have consequences that would reverberate all across the galaxy. I don't think it has and "end" so much as a restart which has already happened a few times before. I think that restart depends on mass consciousness and situations out of our control. US not feeding into the negativity of that situation can only help our position within the chaos. We are the creators of our fate, science has basically now proven that on many levels. I believe if we dwell on doom and gloom we will become a part of that in some way, so I just try and distance myself from it and know things will always work out for the better good and to keep balance in a universal construct. : )

I hope this helps. If not I apologize.
 
I remember New Year's Eve year 2000, the year people thought all the computers would crash come midnight, because they would think 1999 would become 1900...

That year for New Year's I was a small camp with friends, a little off the grid, midnight came and went, nothing seemed to happen (how would we have known), nothing did happen, and the world kept going...

Does that help any?

I remember gas stations selling out of gas and people making mad runs for groceries. My dad and some friend bought all these Y2K supplies that all rotted away over the years... I just never worried with it. I never felt scared or threatened by all the mass insanity I was watching.
 
I just don't want to hear about it on any other platform. I get panicked easily if people talk about it.
 
2A896B9C-C932-4CA3-B815-14426385D69B.jpeg

Check this historic timeline of humans, as well as of the species that preceded us. What is the passage of one year to another in the grand scheme of time? Practically nothing, it’s insignificant. It’s like celebrating the appearance of a new second. Look for how long the other species before our own lived on Earth. We, as a species, have a lot of thousands or even millions of years ahead to exist.

There’s also people who make a timeline of the future. The end of the world is just one in millions of possibilities, check some of the others here: Future Timeline | Technology | Singularity | 2020 | 2050 | 2100 | 2150 | 2200 | 21st century | 22nd century | 23rd century | Humanity | Predictions | Events

But we will never know for sure what will happen in the future, and we have to learn to live with the uncertainty.

In the other hand, we have the ability to believe in whatever we want. I believe that if this world comes to an end, it will continue living somewhere else in the universe. I also believe that our souls are eternal.

My beliefs give me peace of mine. If you want peace of mind, I suggest that you find out in what you believe.
 
What is a new year anyway? It's a human created calendar to start with and the Chinese new year for instance falls at a different time. If I had to make a time for a new year I'd probably start it during the Winter or Summer solstice. Also even when using the traditionally most used calendar and new year, January 1st 2018 starts at varying times in different countries. What's more a year is roughly 365.24219 days long (usually rounded to 365.25) and that's why we have leap years to occasionally correct the calendar that is otherwise based on a 365 day year, this further throws out the precise accuracy of the actual new year even based on the traditional calendar. My point is since the new year is only human created there can be no natural link to any apocalyptic scenarios and the millennium bug scenario was virtually a scam, please see my reply below for more on that one.


I remember New Year's Eve year 2000, the year people thought all the computers would crash come midnight, because they would think 1999 would become 1900...

That year for New Year's I was a small camp with friends, a little off the grid, midnight came and went, nothing seemed to happen (how would we have known), nothing did happen, and the world kept going...

Does that help any?
Yep and I worked in computer technical support back then for a large Metropolitan Council in the UK. Just after the new year 2000 I remember the management putting everyone on first line technical support expecting an influx of issues regarding the millennium, but it didn't happen and it was actually a very quiet day without a single millennium bug issue reported. Over the period of about a week at the start of January 2000 with the usual few hundred faults reported, only 1 was actually related to a 2 digit date issue, I can't remember the precise details and I didn't happen to be the person who dealt with it, but I do remember that it was only very minor.

It was a huge scam, loads of people made masses of money installing and selling millennium bug "fixes" because of all the false fear that had been generated, including from governments. Most "fixes" weren't really necessarily, even without the "fix" the most virtually anyone really experienced was a minor annoyance if anything at all. There were some programming changes that needed to be made to a small number of systems, but even with a 2 digit year most still interpreted 00 correctly as the year 2000, the problem would more often occur when changing from the 2 digit year 29 to 30 because 29 would be correctly interpreted as 2029 while 30 would be 1930 (yes, new year 2029/2030 could potentially cause a lot more issues than 2000, but by then virtually everything should have 4 digit years anyway). I already strongly suspected that there wouldn't be any major issues despite so many people living in fear of the year 2000 coming since the mid 1990s, but it put my mind at rest even more once some countries had already reached the year 2000 trouble free quite a few hours before the UK where I live.
 
Last edited:
Because I want to live a long, happy life. I want to make up for every bad thing I've done so I go to Heaven with everyone I love. In short: I'm not ready to die. And living with the thought my happiness could soon come crashing down is no picnic.

That a good enough reason?

Well, you may very well live a long life, but it isn't likely to be a happy one as long as you worry like that. Chill out. Why worry about things that you can not control? Just take it easy and be happy. You will see the wisdom in this mindset when you are old.
 
Well, you may very well live a long life, but it isn't likely to be a happy one as long as you worry like that. Chill out. Why worry about things that you can not control? Just take it easy and be happy. You will see the wisdom in this mindset when you are old.
I have virtually stopped watching the news for a similar reason, how much good news is there compared to bad? Bad news usually has a much greater impact and therefore gets more viewers which usually means more money, there was never as many viewers watching the news and reading newspapers during and just after 9/11 for instance, I bet many news channels and also newspapers actually secretly loved it. That's why you could describe many news journalists as merchants of chaos.
 
Last edited:
@Riley ,
If the world were going to end, why would it end on an arbitrarily-determined January 1st? And midnight where you live isn't midnight everywhere. Why would it end on your midnight...?

But the fact remains that one day your life will end, and that is something worthy of consideration.
 
Last edited:

New Threads

Top Bottom