What do I think about the end of the world.

I believe it is inevitable, the Earth will be literally be destroyed, as the Buddha taught in his "Sermon of the Seven Suns". It is the cycle of life everyone keeps banging on about when people die and then people are conceived or born. Birth, life, death. But the rebirth. Life will cease to exist because by fires and droughts and other heat-related disasters. And then one after another suns will appear and eventually burn up what we know now as the Earth.
That's the Buddhist idea of the end of the world, but it is said to happen over a few hundred thousand years.
But as things end, new things begin, so another world, another planet, probably totally unlike what we know now, will be created and 'life' will begin again.

This doesn't scare me because the base of my beliefs are on rebirth, so being born into new worlds and realms are part of the cycle. Things change, things are created, things 'exist' for a period of time, and then they cease to exist, and then something new exists in it's place. Either a replacement or something completely new. Cycle of life. The ultimate end of the cycle is enlightenment, otherwise this cycle of birth and death will keep going round with you just riding it and experiencing it, however good or bad it is.


Do I think that this is the beginning of the end of the world? Maybe. But then it's all perspective. The beginning of something is still the beginning of the end of something. Eventually. The world is closer to ending than it was yesterday. It is closer to ending than the day it was created.