well *gestures at everything* isn’t it just kind of common knowledge now?
No one has predicted the end of the world in a while.
Submitted 6 months ago by Daft_ish@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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kylie_kraft@lemmy.world 6 months ago
theredhood@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Well I did notice it’s been hotter lately
Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
At least I don’t have to clean my windscreen every time I go for a drive!
neo@feddit.de 6 months ago
Guys! Guys! I just figured it out! The last couple years, we’ve been living in a Monthy Python sketch! Now it all makes sense!
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 6 months ago
So hot right now.
MrVilliam@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Get out of the kiln.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s been colder here, check mate atheists!
foggy@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Cause it ended in 2012, remember?
Remember? Before the fucking fever dream reality we entered?
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Resol@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Before the flattening. Ah, what a wonderful time that was.
dandroid@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
If by “a while” you mean 1 month, then sure. There were tons of conspiracy theorists saying that the world was going to end on April 8th due to the solar eclipse.
prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 6 months ago
They were going to fire up the LHC to open a dimension, which can only happen when the moon is casting a shadow 6000 km away. Then aliens… or something.
Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Kinda like The Onion, such things are in a tough spot.
Pulptastic@midwest.social 6 months ago
Too obvious now.
JoMomma@lemm.ee 6 months ago
It already happened, we are living in the end
ohlaph@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The religious groups still do, just less loudly.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Religious fanatics more like it. I remember when some guy in Russia declared himself Jesus and started a cult
fubo@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Clearly this means it’s already ended. An you sure you’re not in an afterlife right now?
Kbobabob@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Welcome to hell
cyborganism@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Pretty much feels like it.
Gingerlegs@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Shit got real fucked up after Harold camping, so I’m not so sure
Bobmighty@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s not a shocking attention grabber anymore. Most people are well aware that the world is in a bad spot. Some idiots still argue about why, but most of us know why. We’re in the end times. It’s not biblical and no great battle will be taking place between good and evil. It’s happening slowly, and increasingly hotter. The end is no longer nigh, it’s here. I used to hope that we’d be better, and put in my part of the work. Now I still try, but I no longer have hope for humanity as a whole.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 6 months ago
So how long until the end is over? If the end is now, when does it seem like the actual end?
kemsat@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That’s because we’re now living it.
1984@lemmy.today 6 months ago
We are living it… You don’t predict what is happening already… :)
Hope@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Do you mean correctly? If not, there have been several predictions this month.
There was a lot of talk relating the eclipse and Israel to the end times, and then last week there was this: A screenshot of a Fox News tweet saying that biblical numerology predicts the end of the world will be April 23rd, 2024. A date that is now a week past.
PhineaZ@feddit.de 6 months ago
OP: “No one has predicted the end of the world in a while” Lemmy: “It’s the end times, the end times have come!”
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Prediction? Bro, we’re chronicling
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I mean we’re kinda already living it.
- climate spiraling out of control
- resurgence of authoritarianism worldwide, including lots of Nazis and racial/religious supremacists (white supremacists, for sure, but for instance, Modi has done some fairly appalling shit in India with pushing Hindu supremacy over the last several years)
- late stage capitalism
- collapsing societal and social contracts
- etc
SynonymousStoat@lemmy.world 6 months ago
We’re big on subscription services now, can’t sell subscriptions if the world is going to end.
Baggie@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
We’re already riding it it I reckon. Should be like a deep breath out, but I think we’ll eventually recover.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Hah, I agree. No need for the nutters to predict it when civilization is dangling its toes off the precipice. You can see it on the horizon. Global instability, wars, anthropogenic climate change. They’re holding their breath like the rest of us.
Mango@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I gotchu fam. It’ll be next February. Check it.
Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world 6 months ago
@remindme@mstdn.social 9 months
remindme@mstdn.social [bot] 6 months ago
@Lifecoach5000 Ok, I will remind you on Saturday Feb 1, 2025 at 9:13 AM PST.
Atomic@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
People do all the time. We just stopped promoting them.
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Can you predict a storm when it’s already raining?
someguy3@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Well the virus was a hoax.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 6 months ago
do I need a /s?
Umm, after that shit show, yes lol
Xantar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Don’t underestimate the scale of human stupidity. Most definitely need a /s.
Hjalamanger@feddit.nu 6 months ago
I don’t really think that the author of this book believes the world will “end” this soon but anyways. This is a post apocalyptic dystopia that sets it’s scene in Moscow 2033: the book metro 2033
spoiler about the metro series
In the later books it kinda seems like that it’s only Russia that has been nuked out of existence so really the world hasn’t ended. But if you just read the first book you would not get to know that
DeadWorld@lemm.ee 6 months ago
How can you predict what’s already here?
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I think it’s mostly because we are in a bad state already. Things don’t feel like they’re building up for to pop, it feels like more like a slow decline.
FunkyMonk@kbin.social 6 months ago
You don't have to when you have the data for the end of the species, we know the rock we are on will still be here just we won't.
DarkMetatron@feddit.de 6 months ago
The human species will not end, we are way to many people for that. Even if 99,9% of people die, the remaining 8 000 000 people are more then enough to allow for stable populations even if those 8 000 000 are spread all over the globe in smaller communities.
fubbernuckin@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That’s assuming society collapses before nuclear war.
therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
There’s no need to
essell@lemmy.world 6 months ago
ITT: everyone predicts the end of the world
GardenVarietyAnxiety@lemmy.world 6 months ago
End Timers on youtube are alive and well, they have all just started saying it’s “imminent.” instead of throwing out predictions.
End Times youtube is one hell of a rabbit hole though. Would recommend!
Hedup@lemm.ee 6 months ago
End Times youtube
link pls?
GardenVarietyAnxiety@lemmy.world 6 months ago
DestroyerOfWorlds@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.
nyahlathotep@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
We’ve realized it’s not going to be a sudden apocalypse, but a slow one
fubbernuckin@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The concentration of thinking the world is gonna end has diffused evenly across the population now.
FullOfBallooons@leminal.space 6 months ago
Weren’t there some people worried about the end of the world with the most recent solar eclipse?
Plopp@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Sounds reasonable. If the sun gets stuck behind the moon there we’d be toast because we need light to see stuff and where we’re driving.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 6 months ago
We might need light for a few other things, too. :)
Resol@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I didn’t see it, so I think I would be fine.
Hedup@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Interestingly, there are actually weren’t any such people. AFAIK
ptz@dubvee.org 6 months ago
www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/…/ar-BB1lBtQ1
There was at least one lady who thought it was the rapture.
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I was in the path of totality. Which was amazing, but there were a LOT of people crowing about “something” happening during/after the Eclipse.
MadBob@feddit.nl 6 months ago
Jesus. You can’t even see a solar eclipse everywhere when it does happen. Travel really does broaden the mind, I suppose.