Is the end of the world nigh?

Too many things have happened recently where this question has to be asked. A few weeks ago I was actually saying this to people.

After the devastation that had just happened in Japan. A town just completely wiped out by a tsunami. About 10,000 people missing at least, all presumed dead. It came from out of nowhere. The buildings were turned to rubble and were being washed away like nothing. Like is was the deck of a ship. There have been too many natural disasters recently-as well as people constantly fighting each other. It does make you wonder.

In recent times, prior to the tsunami in Japan, there was the cyclone, floods and bush fires in Australia, the earthquake in Haiti, the heatwave in Russia, the floods and mudslides in Brazil, the Sichuan earthquake in China and the earthquake that happened in Pakistan.

All these have happened within the last 2 years.

Along with all these, all the recent rioting that has happened in Egypt, Lebanon and Yemen as well as other places too, the Tunisian revolution included . People are just fighting each other over crazy reasons. Instead of helping the less fortunate, people choose to waste their time and energy fighting. Unfortunately this has always been the case, not just now. But still-people could choose to change. I read somewhere that if everyone who worked in the world gave 10% of their monthly wage to charity then it could wipe out world hunger. Just 10%. It makes it sound so easy to do. Will people ever do it?? Of course they won't.

A lot of people are also saying that it could be the end of the world soon. A lot of people are turning to prayer in the hope that something will happen. So if there is a God-why is he/she letting all this bad stuff happen??

I read an amazing comic book/graphic novel called Fallen Angel. I won't go into the full story of it (I recommend that you should read it from the beginning for yourself), but there was one bit I read which was about God and it said that God wants to die. That humanity was intended to be Gods' crowning achievement and that He was prepared to move on after it's creation. But constant prayers from people on Earth prevent him from being able to do this as they keep on hounding him. So throughout time God keeps on sending natural disasters to Earth in the hope that the people will stop believing in Him and then He can pass.-I bet nobody that hasn't read this comic would have had this take on God. Depending on what you believe-it is either blasphemous or it makes a lot of sense.

I don't know if there is a God or there isn't. I don't know if the end of the world is coming soon or not. What I do know is that to a lot of people, tragedies such like the tsunami in Japan won't matter. People will still go on fighting wars, killing people, logging onto facebook to talk to their "friends" and carry on living their lives with their pathetic priorities when there are less fortunate people out there who are in desperate need of help.