Weren't there some people worried about the end of the world with the most recent solar eclipse?
this post was submitted on 01 May 2024
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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.
We might need light for a few other things, too. :)
Like finding the car keys in the first place!
You're right. How are we gonna ever beat Boktai without the sun?
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Jesus. You can't even see a solar eclipse everywhere when it does happen. Travel really does broaden the mind, I suppose.
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well *gestures at everything* isn't it just kind of common knowledge now?
Well I did notice it's been hotter lately
At least I don’t have to clean my windscreen every time I go for a drive!
So hot right now.
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!
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Cause it ended in 2012, remember?
Remember? Before the fucking fever dream reality we entered?
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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.
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Kinda like The Onion, such things are in a tough spot.
Too obvious now.
Clearly this means it's already ended. An you sure you're not in an afterlife right now?
Welcome to hell
Pretty much feels like it.
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It already happened, we are living in the end
The religious groups still do, just less loudly.
Religious fanatics more like it. I remember when some guy in Russia declared himself Jesus and started a cult
That’s because we’re now living it.
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.
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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:
We are living it... You don't predict what is happening already... :)
OP: "No one has predicted the end of the world in a while" Lemmy: "It's the end times, the end times have come!"
Prediction? Bro, we're chronicling
We're big on subscription services now, can't sell subscriptions if the world is going to end.
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
Can you "predict" a storm when it's already raining?
Well the virus was a hoax. (do I need a /s?)
do I need a /s?
Umm, after that shit show, yes lol
Don't underestimate the scale of human stupidity. Most definitely need a /s.
People do all the time. We just stopped promoting them.
I gotchu fam. It'll be next February. Check it.
We're already riding it it I reckon. Should be like a deep breath out, but I think we'll eventually recover.
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.
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:
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
How can you predict what's already here?
I've said it before and I'll say it again.
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.
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I think it’s mostly because we are in a bad state already. Things don’t feel like they’re building up for it to pop, it feels like more like a slow decline.
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!
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ITT: everyone predicts the end of the world
We've realized it's not going to be a sudden apocalypse, but a slow one
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