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[+] 36 points 7 months ago (27 children)
  • [–] 25 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    They've been saying it pretty much since about 30 seconds after Christ died, and I'm sure they're all just a reskinning of even older apocalypse myths.

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago (9 children)

    "You will know not the day nor the hour," says this instruction manual to life they keep referencing when questioned about their weird behavior.

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  • [+] 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (7 children)
  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    What's worse are the rich, out-of-touch fucks who should know better, are so narcissistic and so afraid of death. What they fear about it, is that the world will continue on without them. They'd rather the world end when they end. As far as they're concerned:

    • The world as we know it did not exist prior to their being born into it.
    • The world was made for them and their descendants to enjoy. All others are expendable tokens to spend as they please.
    • If they are mortal, then the world should not continue to exist after their deaths.
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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Oh, like Peter Thiel and his little plasma addiction and preoccupation with the antichrist ? Like that dude didn't make his deal with the devil. He has as much chance as going to heaven as a camel walking through the eye of a needle. No wonder he is trying to live forever.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Metaphysics notwithstanding, he's narcissistic to the point of believing that he's "one order of magnitude above human". The rest of us? We're the first stage on the rocket. He not only wants to live forever, he wants to live above we mere mortals, free of all our petty needs and desires. This world is his playground, his toy; created for him and other billionaires like him. And if he and they can't have it, then, they've ultimately decided nobody can.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Dumbasses. Everyone knows the spell for kickstarting the Apocalypse is found in the Book of Vile Darkness, not Exalted Deeds.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    They been saying it a lot longer than that. The 7th Day Adventists, who own all the hospitals in my area, are a Mormon splinter group who followed a guy who had calculated the exact date of the end of the Earth, and that was way back in the late 19th century. He kept re-calculating and moving the date.

    End of the world predictors have been around far longer than that.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    They're a Millerite splinter not Mormon when the Millerites imploded after multiple failed predictions it created several new religions, the biggest two being being Jehovah's witnesses and Seventh day advenentists. They came out of the same religious spring as the Mormons and Christian scientists for example but are more or less unrelated outside of being nominally Christian. There used to be more groups from that era but most of them were Christian socialists and were more or less all killed off by the 1950s.

    Sorry about the pedantry but my kin have been fueding with the fucken Seventh Day Adventists since they moved into what is now Loma Linda California back in the early 1900s.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    There was big end-of-the-world hysteria when the year 1000 was coming up. And dozens of dates after that.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago* (4 children)

    But they've never been this close to the nuclear football.

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  • [+] 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)