Doomsday Near-Death Experiences

Doomsday Clock Now 90 Seconds to Midnight

With the official Doomsday Clock now 90 seconds to midnight, the closest it’s ever been, and Western countries hell-bent on avoiding any sort of political solution to Russia and Ukraine…

Do we need to take doomsday near-death experiences predicting nuclear war a bit more seriously? Here’s just one example:

Short version: He died, saw some creepy demon-like things, was taken to Heaven, Jesus told him that WWIII was coming, Washington, DC was going to be nuked, and to hell with divine intervention, God’s going to leave everyone to fry, because…people are being basically…assholes. Warning: Everyone get right with God, because Hell on earth is coming!

Huh. Nice message! /sarc

I confess, I am a bit of a near-death experience junkie. I love hearing the stories and reading various books by people who claim to have seen the other side. I take most of these stories at face value - I actually know three people who’ve had NDEs and I doubt they are lying.

You might have heard of the one highly-public near-death recanting…by a boy whose name is, you can’t make this up…Alex Malarkey…who claimed he originally lied in the book “The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven,” and only said he went to heaven to “get me attention.” Some speculate that he’s actually lying about his recanting, perhaps from pressure from his parents or pastor, but be that as it may…

A near-death story these days isn’t a guarantee of a million-dollar bestseller. People have a variety of reasons why they might prefer to keep their NDE a secret. Ridicule plus scorn from family and friends is one big reason. So it probably takes some guts to spill the NDE beans on a YouTube channel, although less gutsy to do so anonymously via a letter.

An anonymous NDE story won’t make the person who wrote it money (unless the guy reading the NDE letter on the channel writes up his own near-death stories…hmm…) but I’m going to assume here that most near-death experiences being shared are “real.”

Including the doom-and-gloom variety.

I have mixed feelings on these doomsday predictions. I’ve now seen or read numerous NDE stories predicting global disaster, though with varying levels of detail, and sometimes conflicting storylines.

I’ve also heard NDE stories that claim an eternal hell is real, and people are there right now getting their skin burned off:

But I’m skeptical of these horrible stories.

I don’t think God punishes anyone for an eternity. It makes no sense. What is the purpose?

Are the demons just screwing with this guy’s mind, making him believe that people are being tortured forever when they are not? I think this is highly possible.

Note, I am saying I believe that malevolent beings might exist in another dimension and would perhaps get off on torturing people, even just mentally…but they shouldn’t have enough power to keep you in their hell realm forever…make sense?

What about predictions of a nuclear holocaust?

This seems more and more believable to me given the current state of the world, but I’m still not sure what the point of the warning is. I live close enough to Washington, DC to be impacted very negatively should a nuke go off there, but should I move? I can’t do that right now for various reasons. I’m also not getting an intuition to move either.

I’m stuck here, for now.

So did that nuclear NDE prediction really help me? Well, it’s perhaps gotten me more used to the idea that a hellish future awaits us all…but is that ultimately helpful? Perhaps the gloomy prediction helps if we are able to prepare, mentally, physically, and spiritually, but I also hope such terrible doom doesn’t end up becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Maybe the reason we aren’t supposed to see the future is that we would be less likely to change it if we thought we knew what was going to happen in advance.