[VotsUtegems]

But how can it be? We will all be dead by 2012....another example of people wrapping up the complexities of life in nice little pre-packaged fables.

Humankind cannot bear very much reality. ~T.S. Eliot


Americans are largely optimistic about the future, according to the poll from the Pew Research Center For The People and The Press/Smithsonian Magazine.

By mid century, 71 per cent believe cancer will be cured, 66 per cent say artificial limbs will work better than real ones and 81 per cent believe computers will be able to converse like humans.

But Americans are also braced for a major energy crisis and a warming planet, according to the survey. More than half, or 58 per cent, fear another world war in the next 40 years and 53 per cent expect a terrorist attack against the United States using a nuclear weapon.

The poll also shows a sharp dip in overall optimism from 1999, when 81 per cent said they were optimistic about life for themselves and their families. The current poll found just 64 per cent were.

Sixty-one percent said they were optimistic about the future of the United States, compared to 70 percent in 1999. And 56 percent predicted the US economy would be stronger in 40 years, compared to 64 percent of those polled in 1999.

The results were compiled from telephone and online interviews with 1,546 adults in April. The margin of error is plus or minus 3 percentage points, according to Pew.

Jesus will return by 2050, say 40pc of Americans - Telegraph

[Lenkapuppia]

My 1000th "contribution" to the board.

[Podosinovik]

But how can it be? We will all be dead by 2012....another example of people wrapping up the complexities of life in nice little pre-packaged fables.

Humankind cannot bear very much reality. ~T.S. Eliot

not with the current trend in immigration laws! Jesus will never cross the border again!

[tinetttstation]

not with the current trend in immigration laws! Jesus will never cross the border again!

I thought that some nutjobs, like Helen Thomas, thought that Jews SHOULD come to America...

[Imampaictjg]

I thought that some on the left, like Helen Thomas, thought that Jews SHOULD come to America...

Is there anything you can't make partisan?

[unmalryAlalry]

Is there anything you can't make partisan?

The line referring to the "current trend in immigration laws" is a clear reference to the activities of those on the right, but you seemed to have missed that...

But I'll grant you that I actually used the term "left", so I'll correct it.

is that better?

[Gaxiciverfere]

Is there anything you can't make partisan?

I don't think that delicious and cooling ice cream cakes from Carvel can be made partisan. If they can, I don't want to live in that world.

[SkatrySkith]

I don't think that delicious and cooling ice cream cakes from Carvel can be made partisan. If they can, I don't want to live in that world.

Ice cream cakes. Typical of you junk-food worshiping liberals who are destroying America.


How was that? Did I make it partisan?

[masteryxisman]

• 41 per cent say Jesus Christ will return within the next 40 years while 46 per cent say this will definitely or probably not happen. Only a 5 point spread between complete stupidity and (relative) intelligence. How can you have a democracy when such a huge chunk of the population is composed of absolute morons?

[gagagaridze]

Ice cream cakes. Typical of you junk-food worshiping liberals who are destroying America.


How was that? Did I make it partisan?

I thought we were the nanny staters that tried to get rid of junk food?

I'm so damn confused...

[jokilewqs]

[Gaiaakgyyyg]

"Jesus?"
"Yeah, it's me... Jesus! I got the stuff!"
"Jesus' not here!"

__Jason

[erepsysoulptnw]

[Xlkl9SFd]

Only a 5 point spread between complete stupidity and (relative) intelligence. How can you have a democracy when such a huge chunk of the population is composed of absolute morons?

And that 5 point spread isn't even taking into account the people who say he "probably" isn't coming back in 40 years.

"Well sure, the second coming is happening, but most likely it will be AT LEAST another 75-100 years, 40 is just reeeeediculous."

[OWDavid]

Only a 5 point spread between complete stupidity and (relative) intelligence. How can you have a democracy when such a huge chunk of the population is composed of absolute morons?

It's why we were set up as a Republic and the Senate was appointed rather than elected.

The basic problem is well-explained by math and science:



Mos people are of "average" intelligence. Half are smarter than average, which is good. The down side is that half of the population are dumber than average, which is very bad, as it means that roughly half the population range from thinking the President was born in Kenya down to being able to count all the way to "Potato".

[womberte]

I have a high IQ and I believe in the second coming of Christ. What does that make me?

Some people on here really need to venture beyond the notion that there is no overlap in the pools of people of intelligence and people of religion.

For all of you atheist elitists, when you walk past a church letting out on a Sunday morning/afternoon, do you judge the intelligence of all those people too? Just curious.

[clubcughSheet]

I have a high IQ and I believe in the second coming of Christ. What does that make me?

Deluded.

Some people on here really need to venture beyond the notion that there is no overlap in the pools of people of intelligence and people of religion.

There might have been before science and skepticism provided a compelling (and empirically derived) explanation for the universe, but right now we're in the middle stages of centuries-long shakeout between people who are intelligent and informed, and thus secular, and people who either one of those or neither, clinging to barbaric superstitions.

For all of you atheist elitists, when you walk past a church letting out on a Sunday morning/afternoon, do you judge the intelligence of all those people too? Just curious.

Yes.

[papadopul]

I have a high IQ and I believe in the second coming of Christ.

What's your reasoning? What makes you think its a possibility, much less believe it will happen?

~just curious

[GalasaKoll]

For me, it's a matter of faith. It's the humbleness required to understand that there are things we don't know and that there are greater things at work.

I respect that Thunda was honest but if I am considered to be deluded by the opposing view point, there really is no point in my involvement in this thread.....a bit like the mental patient attempting to have a debate of equals with the psychiatrist.

[casinobonuswer]

Is there anything you can't make partisan?

Jesus is hastening his visit because of the Antichrist Obama HCR!!! ~drool