Surely these are the end times...
When the turn of the milennium came, the end times, the years of tribulations, surely began. And with the advent of the rfid chips, the mark of the beast became apparent all over. Obama is of course another obvious sign, or maybe Putin is.
Thing is, has there been any period that was not clearly at least the beginning of the end times? Has Armageddon ever not been lurking around the corner?
Back in the day it was a clear omen of the coming Fimbulwinter every time you had frost in september two years running. The apocalypse was generally assumed to be scheduled for year 1000, year 1066 and year 1666 (possibly the most well deserved of the lot), as well as it was clear that the end of days was coming in the early thirteen hundreds.
Various other doomsdays have been predicted throughout the centuries since, and among many there seems to be a consistant belief that the world, or maybe just the world as we know it, will barely survive their generation, and certainly not last much beyond their childrens generation.
Then of course there are the oddballs, counting among them me, who subscribe to the upwards climb of technological determinism, and some rationals who don't buy into either extreme, but still...
Is doomsday such an alluring thought?
Thing is, has there been any period that was not clearly at least the beginning of the end times? Has Armageddon ever not been lurking around the corner?
Back in the day it was a clear omen of the coming Fimbulwinter every time you had frost in september two years running. The apocalypse was generally assumed to be scheduled for year 1000, year 1066 and year 1666 (possibly the most well deserved of the lot), as well as it was clear that the end of days was coming in the early thirteen hundreds.
Various other doomsdays have been predicted throughout the centuries since, and among many there seems to be a consistant belief that the world, or maybe just the world as we know it, will barely survive their generation, and certainly not last much beyond their childrens generation.
Then of course there are the oddballs, counting among them me, who subscribe to the upwards climb of technological determinism, and some rationals who don't buy into either extreme, but still...
Is doomsday such an alluring thought?