By the way, exactly where is it clearly predicted that no country will deploy a nuclear weapon against another country? Can't say I've come across that anywhere else. Only you state that.

Probably not. It's a great example of human arrogance to think there is an all-powerful being watching over everything we do and blessing all of our wishes while others suffer and other animals go extinct.

We have only just enough of an imagination to be dangerous.

There are a few things that can happen:

Its not likely from what we know martians would have any interest in us. If they have developed technologies sophisticated enough to travel across the galaxy and discover us it could assumed they have seen it before and know of plenty of other planets. And also we know the universe is abundant with essential resources and Earth offers those in small amounts compared to other places, not to mention other places absent of a bomb-happy species. And if those aliens are well meaning they are probably going to leave us alone to find our own way just as we are learning to do with indigenous peoples on our own planet.

We could destroy ourselves our of fear of other people and not being willing to do business with others with bombs as powerful as ours. You want to not worry about other nations? Do business with them. Show them how its done and back them with capital. Make their lives better.

We are reaching a point where we are growing at an exponential rate, far more than what nature can provide. We will have to learn to support ourselves in space if we want to survive for the long term. Once the cure for aging is found, we will have to move quickly into space for further expansion. Earth will begin to eventually glow in the darkness of space due to energy consumption, and our presence will no longer be a secret, if it ever was one. So we can only hope my original opinion is correct that more intelligent and advanced life don't care about us being here.

In my humble and ignorant opinion, I don't see any reason why we wont continue to prosper with few bumps in the road here and there, and venture out into space and continue to expand.

Even with the cure of aging, cancer and other things, everyone will eventually die. The galaxy and universe itself will die out, all the lights will go out.

That's not to suggest anything depressing. Life a beautiful thing. Consciousness, art, emotion could be the universe realizing itself, like looking in the mirror and realizing it exists.

OR Jesus returns to Earth and sends all the wicked to hell and the righteous are lifted in to an ever-lasting glory that was always there and always will be. And we exist for eternity in infinite bliss and infinite understanding of all things.

Except we can understand eternity because we have never experienced it and we never will, because eternity will always exist beyond us, beyond our existence and imagination. So the idea of eternity is just more of our arrogance and imagination that we don't have the intelligence to keep up with.

When we start repeating the same ideas over and over again, that shows the limits of our ability to understand. The Earth was thought to be back of a giant turtle floating in the water, that stood on top of an even larger turtle. God was created by what? Another more powerful God? It's the same thing happening. Our universe is part of an even larger universe, that's part of an even larger universe.

Well what does that make us? I look at my cute kitty cat. It's a cat, but when you zoom out and look at it from the perspective of the universe or the a multi-verse, what is it really? No idea. :S How does that cat exist outside of your mind. What is it then?

I can only go to a tenth of a thou' myself.

I'll grant you that people may have been more honest and genuine in times past, and some or many stories check out in whatever records there are, but the inaccuracies, and use of plagiarism in so many parts renders the whole untrue as a coherent believable story re-telling 'fact'. Baby in the basket, flood story, winter solstice death/birth, twelve plus one, all shared by many other older religions.

Using an icon of a torture and death device as an adornment is beyond me.
I'm glad that many do believe in god, or the world would be a much more dangerous place, with morons believing their own immoral ideas instead.

Someone really should do a timeline of major events without the dogma and filler, and put it in the book somewhere easy to look up.
Tying events through time with other archaeological timelines, like Sumeria, Akkad, Mesopotamia, the Harlot was mentioned, etc.

A great architect would have a project planning staging timeline, with many annotations of fact or considered estimate, and final product. Sadly lacking here. It could be used as proof.

A god who only reveals herself to some while allowing others like me to deny her existence without correcting me is indeed a strange god. There is no scientific proof about her existence, hence all the many different religions and denominations within most of them. Some people say it is the same god, just worshipped in different ways, according to culture. Others say their own version is the 'right' one and the others are all wrong.

It's all so confusing, and the god's own appointed keepers of the knowledge can't get their story straight. Everyone has their own version. Many don't even follow their own version of the rules.

If the god of the bible exists then i want nothing to do with him. god is love my *** look allowed to happen to Job his most loyal follower. not to mention the amount of suffering that he committed on egypt. Going so far as ti kill every first born son in the whole land. none of those people had anything to do with pharos decision but their sons were killed just the same. that's a loving god id sure hate to meet any other kind. I cant really see in this day and age that people still believe that magig people in the sky would give two ***** about them if they were to be there anyway . Me im going to live like i only get to do it once.