Predicting the End | Eschatology

The End is Nigh! Or so we're told every few years. Predictions of the end have been around since the beginning, how do they come up with these and why?

Their videos on the possibility of an asteroid impact are more prophetic than Nostradamus ever will be.

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Thanks to Stefan Milo for his prophetic readings.

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"End of the World (Instrumental)" - REM
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This video was sponsored by Cheddar.

[pcandrsn]

It's unfortunate that Knowing Better pulled a Heaven's Gate just when his channel was taking off. I wonder if Cheddar gets some sort of refund? And who is taking care of the ferrets?

[EmperorTigerstar]

Nations/empires that lasted longer than 250 years:
Roman Republic
Roman Empire
E. Roman/Byzantine Empire
Han China
Tang China
Ming China
Qing China
Japan
France
England
Scotland
Spain
Portugal
Ottoman Empire
Austria
Hungary
Poland
Russia
Ancient Egypt
Persian Empire
Sassanid Empire
Ok you get the idea by now.

[nooranik]

Now, I've only been Catholic my whole life, but I remember there being a lot of parables saying you won't know when the second coming will be. The point of those parables wasn't to be a challenge for humans to predict the return of Christ, but rather so you can live your life in a way that it won't matter when Jesus returns, because you have been living a Christlike life.

[osjos]

I think the world will end on Monday because Garfield hates it.

[Archaeopteryx]

"End of the world at eight. News at eleven." - George Carlin

[sketchshake]

Stefan: "yo did you know that empires fall after 10 generations or 200 years?"
Byzantines: *exists for 1000 years*
Ottomans: *exists for 600 years*
Rome: *exists for 400 years*
Stefan: "yup. works every time."

[midievalcat]

The Bible: you cannot predict the end of the world

Random people: Ight imma do it anyway

[antoniac]

I get for a lot of people think this is just "hahaha", but there are people who committed suicide over Campings predictions. One woman murdered her two children then killed herself over his claims. The stuff is dangerous and it saddens me how there are no consequences for these hucksters who prey on weak-minded people.

[MF-R]

"Randy Savage died the day before, stopping the apocalypse."

Sometimes we really do get the hero we need. The Savage one sacrificed himself by wrestling the embodiment of the apocalypse into a mutual death -- I CAN dig it, and because of him; we ALL can continue to dig it.

[theunreadyone]

The world didn’t end?






*WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT*

[jaywilliams]

The world is going to end today
Today: *Nothing Happens*
I meant tomorrow
Tomorrow: *Nothing Happens*
No I meant Tomorrow from Now
Tomorrow from now: *Nothing Happens*
Tomorrow for sure
Tomorrow for sure: *The World Ends*
I told you soo

[CriticalEatsJapan]

“So long, and thanks for 153 fish...”

[interracialsuspect]

“They’re talking about America”

*ahh shit... here we go again*

[redbirdsrising]

Some clarification on the Y2K bug. It wasn't some kind of failed prediction of the end times. There was a real threat. Companies with legacy systems drug programmers out of retirement and most of the vulnerable hardware was replaced. Meaning, despite the hysteria, it was largely fixed before 2000. Though many now look back and laugh that it was over hyped, it was an actual concern that was addressed and fixed.

[Jessie_Helms]

My dad once said about the bogus predictions that even if someone could calculate the end times God would probably shift it specifically cause someone would know, which no one would.

Trying to predict the end is just pointless from a Christian worldview.

[phineas]

A YouTube channel sponsoring a YouTube channel... the day has come folks

[MrTimothy]

I think Jim Morrison sang it best...

"The future's uncertain and the end is always near"

"Roadhouse Blues"

[Roset]

"Planetary Defense Officer" is officially the coolest job title ever

[StefanMilo]

Everytime I speak, you drink. I feel like I'm the crazy uncle giving an absolutely terrible wedding speech.

[louconover]

Y2K was actually a real thing. Some of the more extreme predictions were exaggerated, but there was certainly a possibility of significant disruption in many of the systems that relied on a digital infrastructure. I know this because I was a software engineer, and I and many of my friends were busily at work fixing the systems that were by that time running pretty much everything. Our customers were all demanding Y2K compliance, as were we of our vendors. The whole industry put tremendous effort and resources into fixing the problem, and pretty much succeeded. In the end, Y2K was a non-event, and the reason is that it was recognized in time and averted. The reason for that and for so much of what gets done in our society is that there was money at stake, lots of it. The organizations that were at risk saw that doing nothing would cost them, and the organizations that were in a position to fix the problem saw that they could make a lot of money doing that work. Incidentally, there is a similar problem affecting mostly embedded Unix and Linux systems that are in almost everything, which is that dates past January 19, 2038 can't be represented. Hopefully, as with Y2K, it will get fixed in time. In any case, I'm going to try to avoid being in a self driving car on that day.