Even the ancient Greeks used to complain that society was devolving. They talked about earlier generations being gold and now they've devolved to iron.
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Christian apocalyptic belief has been poisoning right wing politics in the US for ages now. Things like relations with Israel have been heavily warped by it.
Pretty much from the very beginning.
As genx, we all thought we would die like war games, but i don't remember anyone calling it end times.
*laughs in evangelical upbringing
No kidding.
I remember dad making me read some book proving the end time we're here because Saddam was Nebuchadnezzar reborn (the proof was their silhouettes looking similar). So much "whore of Babylon" stuff.
He recently sent me a YouTube video of a guy talking about the valley of Jehoshaphat and Trump heralding the end times.
It never ends.
I grew up with all of these idiotic Nostradamus shows and books that claimed he was foretelling the end of the world in our times. Of course his predictions were so vaguely worded you could slap them anywhere in history.
The book of Revelations is a feast for people who love to interpret symbolism.
I grew up in a cult, so my whole life.
Can we hear more about this?
Does that affect how you feel when people refer to now as the end days?
I feel equal parts pity and exasperation that they're ignoring critical crises like global climate change to focus on superstitious nonsense.
My entire life. I grew up attending Christian schools where we were taught that we're living in the end times.
I don't recall anyone ever saying that, unless it was to make a joke.
I envy your lack of this particular childhood trauma.
I like to pull this list up whenever someone starts talking about how the signs are clear that the end is near: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events
People have been saying this shit in the 500s and before
The only time I've had someone tell me we're living through the end times was during the whole 2012 thing, but they said it as a joke.
On the other hand, I've always had a feeling, even before I was a teenager and started becoming aware of the world outside my little bubble, that humanity won't be around by 2100. I very much hope I'm wrong.
I donβt think normal people said it in the mid-to-late 90βs. Like, the Soviet Union was (seemingly) finishing splintering and there was war and strife but there was a sense the world could manage it through diplomacy. The MontrΓ©al Protocol was already showing success. Most new technology still seemed promising instead of dystopian.
Iβm not saying anyone was right or that weβre actually in the end times. Most of history involves muddling through crises. But it felt like global strife was at a low point and we could actually achieve global consensus on important issues.
Since I got my first taste of the Hittites battle formations. 0/10, would not do again.
I was born in 1984 so 40 years.
I was also born in β84; the 90βs were pretty rad though for a kid so the doom and gloom didnβt really start until around 9/11 for me.
Hey, me too!
Since I learned of the existence of Jehovah's Witnesses, nearly 40 years ago.
Since the beginning.
At least since the 90's.
People have been saying it as long as we've had language.
I just learned today that the magnetic poles are gonna swap in the 2040s, so that's my guess.
They're not swapping by 2040. Geomagnetic poles take an obscenely long time to swap; we're talkin' hundreds of thousands of years. What's gonna happen by 2040 is that Earth's geomagnetic "North" will line up with "true North".