from Riverthalos
There's a good deal of coercion in fear-mongering, which is how much of these apocalyptic religious beliefs come across to me. "Follow me or you'll be left behind" and so on. That and, as you've said, people have a tense relationship with their own mortality.
Yes, I think you are onto something there. And I would take it a step further. People truly believe that they are so important, so valuable, so indispensable, that the end of the world or civilization has to come in their lifetime. It is the ultimate human conceit.
as for CG - You know what you can do with your proffered advice and permissions . I have NEVER needed your permission for anything and never will.
It is a conceit on your part to seduce yourself into thinking such things. You operate under conceited delusions of grandeur and are a legend only in your own mind.
The really sad thing here is that you are so careful not to really say what you believe. It puts you in the position of having to backtrack constantly and go into your routine of asking hundreds of silly questions to avoid attention being put on your own beliefs.