Tag: end of the world
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“The End of the World!”: A Historical Perspective
If the apocalypse doesn't come today, don't worry. It isn't the end of the world. 😉 Here are two stories about predictions of the end. Huffington Post: Apocalypse Predictions: 182 Other Days When The World Was Supposed To End And this from Business Insider: 25 Doomsday Predictions, Most Of Which Were Wrong
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Why the fascination with the end of the world?
BBC: Why the fascination with the end of the world? …Whether you refer to it as eschatology (religious theory of the end of the world), millenarianism, end time belief, apocalypticism, or disaster scenario, it is one of humanity's most powerful ideas, and it goes way back. "It is a very ancient pattern in human thought.…