Further back than that. Centuries if not millenia. It just was a different flavor of apocalypse back then.
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StereoTrespasser@lemmy.world 8 months agoThe good news is that people have been saying this for decades.
key@lemmy.keychat.org 8 months ago
Meowoem@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Yeah I once read a book describing the soon coming end of the world from every century going beck to PraiseGod Barebones the English politician who prophesised the coming end of the world in 1675, they all said the same thing ‘mankinds huberis and sudden turn to immorality has doomed us all’
xePBMg9@lemmynsfw.com 8 months ago
The bad news is that it doesn’t say much about current events.
FaceDeer@kbin.social 8 months ago
The good news is that it gives us a useful heuristic to ignore the uninformed and unsupported moaning of "we're dooooomed" without needing to spend any additional effort. Leaves more time for dealing with meaningful discussion.