If you knew a man had another man killed because he wanted that man's wife, would you let him be a preacher at your church? Then why look?

If you're interested in the psychological reasons behind this obsession, many have investigated this phenomenon (some within the Christian community, some outside it). Here's some of the main points that have been learned... It may provide comfort to someone who thinks the world is a bad place. Yes, the world is evil, but God will pull me out of it (the Rapture) It adds importance to our generation.

The time of human beings on earth is the blink of an eye in geologic time, but if this is it, then our current generation has the final say-so in the story of humanity, possibly the only intelligent life in the universe. Vague wording in the Bible means signs that are always in place, can be interpreted to say these are in place right now. Famines, war, earthquakes, people acting immorally - yes, we have all those, so these must be the final days!

General MacArthur's comment proves this last point - the very existence of skeptics seems to fulfill prophecy to him, and indicate that we are in the last days. Never mind the skeptics that existed hundreds or thousands of years ago, their opinions don't count. Only modern skeptics matter because that "proves" that these are the end times.

People may be necessarily inclined to believe that the end times are always within their own lifetimes, because psychologically they cannot come to grips with the idea of the world smoothly sailing on without them after their death. It's also not just Christians. To single out Christians in this way, you might be missing the bigger picture of Doomsaying in society.

This obsession with the end of the world predates Christianity; the first known such prediction was actually in 2800 BC when it was lamented that bribery and corruption were common and children talked back to their parents. Also, other religions such as Islam preach the return of the 12th Imam and some Islamic fundamentalists believe that they need to start more wars in order to accelerate his return. There are also secular concerns - when the nuclear bomb was invented, people were concerned that would be end in the 1950s.

A book called The Population Bomb said the world cannot sustain more than 4.5 billion people and predicted global catastrophe back in the mid-70s as a result. Environmentalists have claimed we have only "10 years left" to stop global warming from destroying the planet, and have been making that claim for about 20 years now. When the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) was brought online a couple of years ago, there were those who referred to it as "The Doomsday Machine" and sued to stop it, for fear that it would create mini-black holes and destroy the planet.

Some have speculated that comets and meteors might be hiding UFOs with aliens who seek to invade (this was said about Comet Hale-Bopp in 1997 and Comet Elenin earlier this month). And of course, who can forget the New Age crowd, who thinks some calamity will strike the Earth on December 21, 2012, based on the timing of the Maya calendar? Doomsaying is nothing but fear-mongering, and profiteering, exposing the more gullible in our society.

It leads to people giving away their possessions, spending all their money, going into debt, and in the worse-case scenario people killing themselves--or their families. It is just as wrong and misguided, no matter what corner of our society it is coming from.

For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.