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 2 weeks ago by Daft_ish@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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kylie_kraft@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
theredhood@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Well I did notice it’s been hotter lately
Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
At least I don’t have to clean my windscreen every time I go for a drive!
neo@feddit.de 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
So hot right now.
MrVilliam@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Get out of the kiln.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s been colder here, check mate atheists!
foggy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Cause it ended in 2012, remember?
Remember? Before the fucking fever dream reality we entered?
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Resol@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Before the flattening. Ah, what a wonderful time that was.
dandroid@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Kinda like The Onion, such things are in a tough spot.
Pulptastic@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
Too obvious now.
JoMomma@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
It already happened, we are living in the end
ohlaph@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The religious groups still do, just less loudly.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Religious fanatics more like it. I remember when some guy in Russia declared himself Jesus and started a cult
fubo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Clearly this means it’s already ended. An you sure you’re not in an afterlife right now?
Kbobabob@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Welcome to hell
cyborganism@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Pretty much feels like it.
Gingerlegs@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Shit got real fucked up after Harold camping, so I’m not so sure
Bobmighty@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
That’s because we’re now living it.
1984@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
We are living it… You don’t predict what is happening already… :)
Hope@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Prediction? Bro, we’re chronicling
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
We’re big on subscription services now, can’t sell subscriptions if the world is going to end.
Baggie@lemmy.zip 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
I gotchu fam. It’ll be next February. Check it.
Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
@remindme@mstdn.social 9 months
remindme@mstdn.social [bot] 2 weeks ago
@Lifecoach5000 Ok, I will remind you on Saturday Feb 1, 2025 at 9:13 AM PST.
Atomic@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
People do all the time. We just stopped promoting them.
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Can you predict a storm when it’s already raining?
someguy3@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Well the virus was a hoax.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
do I need a /s?
Umm, after that shit show, yes lol
Xantar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Don’t underestimate the scale of human stupidity. Most definitely need a /s.
Hjalamanger@feddit.nu 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
How can you predict what’s already here?
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
That’s assuming society collapses before nuclear war.
therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
There’s no need to
essell@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
ITT: everyone predicts the end of the world
GardenVarietyAnxiety@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
End Times youtube
link pls?
GardenVarietyAnxiety@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
DestroyerOfWorlds@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.
nyahlathotep@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
We’ve realized it’s not going to be a sudden apocalypse, but a slow one
fubbernuckin@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The concentration of thinking the world is gonna end has diffused evenly across the population now.
FullOfBallooons@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
Weren’t there some people worried about the end of the world with the most recent solar eclipse?
Plopp@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
We might need light for a few other things, too. :)
Resol@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I didn’t see it, so I think I would be fine.
Hedup@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Interestingly, there are actually weren’t any such people. AFAIK
ptz@dubvee.org 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Jesus. You can’t even see a solar eclipse everywhere when it does happen. Travel really does broaden the mind, I suppose.