Growing up, I constantly heard people say the generation I was in was the worst, that things couldn’t get worse. But often they did. This idea that we are currently living in the final stage of life, where the world will eventually end, did not really make sense to me. I don’t think I was ever convinced that an apocalypse would really occur. I believed that an idea of an apocalypse served many purposes: to help those who were in distress by giving them hope, encourage those who are religious to remain steadfast and be in constant repentance, gives the religious a promise of vindication and redemption, and overall helps authorise a message.
The paradox of the apocalypse is that all attempts and beliefs of the apocalypse all try to predict the time of the end of the world. We saw examples of this, not only in our real life current day, but also in the Simpsons episode watched in class. Again and again, end of world predictions have failed to actually take place. What shocks me is the amount of people who truly believe that a particular time or day will fulfil an end time prophecy.
Looking back in history, we have been able to see how there have been prophesies that are fulfilled. So I won’t say the end of the world will never happen. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if it did. Considering so many people are expecting it to happen, makes me more likely to validify the apocalypse. However, that being said, I do not believe we can ever truly know in advance when the world will end. Nor can we say the present time is the worst time. It can probably get worse, and who knows, it might even get better.
Top 10 Failed Apocalyptic Predictions:
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Some of the failed predictions of the end of the world during 2006:
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