A Brief History of the End of the World

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Mr. Beat goes through a brief history of people predicting the end of the world and then being completely wrong about it.

Uh ok, so this is, like, the description of the video so keep reading. Produced by Matt Beat. Filmed by Matt Beat and Shannon Beat. Additional images used under fair use guidelines or found in the public domain. Music by Dyalla, Density & Time, Kwon, Joe Bagale, NoMBe, and Corbyn Kites.

Sources/further reading:
Pocket Guide to the Apocalypse: The Official Field Manual for the End of the World by Jason Boyett
A History of the End of the World: How the Most Controversial Book in the Bible Changed the Course of Western Civilization by Jonathan Kirsch

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According to one poll, nearly four out of ten American adults believe that we are currently living in the end times. According to another poll, 83% of people living in Afghanistan said the end times would happen in their lifetime. According to yet another poll, 10% of people around the world think the world is probably going to end THIS YEAR. Oh wait, that was a poll taken in 2012. Well, I guess the world DIDN’T end in 2012, after all. Oh hey…yeah…remember that? Back in 2012 when a lot of people were freaking out about the world ending? There was even a movie that got in on the fun. A really crappy movie. Anyway, the 2012 phenomenon was when a bunch of people thought either world-ending or world-transforming events would happen on or around December 21, 2012, the end-date of a 5,126-year-long cycle described in an ancient Maya calendar. Yeah, that date came and went and the end of the world did not, in fact, happen.

But humans have been saying the end of the world is near. I should clarify, that the end of the end of the world is near FOR HUMANS for at least a couple thousand years.

Here in the United States, it’s often certain Christians are the ones who won’t stop talking about the End Times, often paired with the return of Jesus Christ. But it’s not just Christianity that has been all about apocalypticism, or the belief that the end of the world could happen any day. No, no no no no. Other religions have got in on the fun, too.

Here’s a brief history of the End of the World.

[NealBlanchard-dbtz]

It ends when I fall asleep and starts when I wake up

[DanielKolbin]

_the end of the world_
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[AncientAmericas]

Making my obligatory appearance to say that as far as we know, no Maya actually predicted that the world would end in 2112. The myth comes from the fact that the current creation was made after 13 baktuns (~394.25 years per Baktun) passed in the old creation but there's no indication that that was a rule or a pattern.

[UsefulCharts]

I was hoping for an Armstrongite to show up and I wasn't disappointed. Fun fact: Ronnie Weiland was originally in the same cult that I grew up in. Long before his prediction, Armstrong himself wrote a book about the end of the world called "1975 in Prophecy". The world did not end in 1975 but instead I was born 😊

[Uncertain-defc]

According to Last-Thursdayism, The world started last Thursday and it will end next Thursday

[siondafydd]

Why did you not mention the biggest cults in the world that predicted the end times, Jehovah Witnesses thought 1914 (not a bad guess though), and the Seventh Day Adventist who said 1843-1844 which led to an event literally called the Great Disappointment

[monkeeee]

The world is ending soon…




Give me $100 and I’ll tell you when

[xixingpooh]

As a Christian, it annoys me when people claim to know when the end of the world will be. The Bible itself says only God knows when the world will end, and that is by design. We are not meant to obsess or even overly focus on the end of the world, that misses so much of the point.

[ChrisTheFreedomEnjoyer]

"But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, but only the Father." (Matthew 24:36)

[silverspoons]

The world will end either when we nuke ourselves, destroy ourselves through global warming, or space decides to send a curveball at us like another asteroid or the sun going red giant.

[The_Penguin_]

You forgot to mention the fact that many Christians actually look forward to the end of the world and find it exciting. I know people who are like this and I honestly don't understand how anyone could possibly be excited about losing everything because the world ended.

[webexpertcharlie]

Alex Jones has made a career out of this.

[GojiMet]

I was into aliens, religion, and the paranormal as a kid. The whole 2012 stuff was strong in my mind, and part of me was very curious as to what would happen. In 2010, an acquintance invited me and my mom on a group trip to Rhode Island to see a mysterious tower (the Newport Tower). The guy in "charge" was some Shaman from like Mexico or Colombia, and he and his family told the rest of us the Tower was actually built by the Mayans, and that in 2012, the sun would the Mayans would come out of hiding from underneath the ground.

We toured the tower from the outside, and then the Tower's caretaker (for lack of a term that my mind can't retrieve right now) came and took us inside the little museum annex. Nobody really knew exactly who built the tower, but Caretaker guy gave his hypothesis: It was actually some hidden math joke by some navigators and the town's founder, or something along those lines. Super overly complicated, seemed like he was looking too much into and getting an answer that wasn't there, and probably just as wayyy more plausible than Shaman guy's 2012 Mayans.

Now, as we exited and walked to the car, the Shaman guy said Caretaker guy was nice and he was completely wrong. And that we missed a secret Mayan symbol inside the Tower. So now my brain goes "Well, why does Shaman man just stop and actually show us the symbol?"
And that's when I realized that Shaman guy was probably, errrr, wrong about the whole thing.

And that realization completely changed my mind, because after that trip, I basically stopped reading all my ghost and UFO books, and actually became more skeptical about all that stuff, including religion (organized and unorganized), spirituality, Bigfoot, etc, the whole enchilada. Because up to that point, I really hadn't questioned things. I just accepted ideas, even if contradictory, and tried to somehow reconcile ideas.

That's been the biggest wake-up call in my life, and while I lost my childhood innocence that day, I'm glad I got that experience.

[sandalf]

Matthew 24:35-36 ESV
[35] Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. [36] “But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.

[waxeightoneeight]

Never noticed how swoll Mr. Beat was until he held up that sign lol

[jljordan]

I’m sorry I had to work, did I miss anything?

[EnderGrad]

This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My old friend, the end

[kamikaze]

What? No Y2K? It was supposed a lot of fun at midnight. The main problem being which midnight leading into the new year, because time zones.

[Iamrightyouarewrong]

"The individual world ends with the individual, ...or a comet"
- T.Rex 65 BCE

[moosemoomintoog]

You know what every person who predicted the end of the world has in common? They were all wrong.