May 2012
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No need to panic, but Survival Condo's apocalypse... →
Bummer.
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A Year After the Non-Apocalypse: Where Are They... →
It’s always fun to take a little walk down memory lane. Here’s a “where are they now?” story about the people who believed Harold Camping’s prophecies.
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NRA: Switching horses mid-apocalypse →
Fred Clark at Slacktivist begins his close reading of the third book in Tim LaHaye’s Left Behind series with an explanation of why minor differences in interpretation are such a big deal. Hint: It’s about the money.
If you’re interested in the Left Behind series, Slacktivist’s close readings/critiques are don’t-miss reading.
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Paul Range and Gloria Haswell have enough food,... →
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“On that day which the Church has foretold from the beginning, when the Son of...”
– Sigrid Undset, Catherine of Siena, ch. XXIX (via theringofwords)
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Canada To Blame for the Impending Apocalypse. →
elephant-in-a-boa-constrictor:
that’s not an exaggeration.
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Unprecedented Maya Mural Found, Contradicts 2012... →
thecertitudes:
In the last known largely unexcavated Maya megacity, archaeologists have uncovered the only known mural adorning an ancient Maya house, a new study says—and it’s not just any mural.
In addition to a still vibrant scene of a king and his retinue, the walls are rife with calculations that helped ancient scribes track vast amounts of time. Contrary to the idea the Maya predicted the...
Newly Discovered Mayan Calendar Goes "Way Past... →
veryaaron:
Well sheesh…I don’t know about anyone else but I was really starting to look forward to the end of the world. No more bills…no more work…no more laundry or any other pesky responsibilities. My kid will be three soon and that is like, the cutest age to go out in apocalyptic style. Guess we can withdraw those day off request forms, I don’t know if you can get your deposits back on your...
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“In this sense, I wonder if the genre of apocalypse is the most intense because...”
– The End
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WatchFrom a 2005 episode ofThe Daily Show with Jon Stewart: In which the Rapture is done for laughs.
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Is the End of the World imminent....one in seven... →
veryaaron:
“Gottfried also said that people with lower education… were more likely to believe in an apocalypse…..” Most telling quote from this artice
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Feature: The Other American Dream →
fullstopmag:
To regard evil as action, as a mode of behavior, a thing you do rather than a thing-in-itself, is fairly commonplace now. And yet this still does not stop us from wanting to personify the thing, to see its pitchfork and tail, and, for all too many Americans, await its final eradication by way of religious apocalypse. I’m thinking now of what might be called the American Trilogy of...
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Watchpizza-party:
Apocalypse Pizza.
Via @calebandrew.
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“anarchist sub-cultures have been the vanguard of taking full responsibility for...”
– Introduction to the apocalypse (via alwaysabittoofar)
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Apocalypse is (always already) upon us
Apocalypse is all about change, but the change needn’t be instantaneous to be apocalyptic.
I have no idea who this blogger is, but s/he’s said it really, really well:
What do they think a collapse is supposed to look like? It seems people just cannot just cannot get past the “Zombie Apocalypse” theory of collapse. They imagine hordes of disease-ridden folks dressed in...
