Appetite for destruction: 2012 and the Apocalypse

[wa3zrm]

It seems like everyone has their own vision of the Apocalypse.
For Christians, The End is synonymous with the Four Horsemen, the Rapture and the Anti-Christ.
Environmentalists, meanwhile, fear climate change, melting polar ice caps and turbulent weather.
For paranoid newshounds, if rogue states like Iran or North Korea don't trigger a nuclear war, then debt-wracked banks will soon lead to total societal collapse.
Then there's Hollywood: aliens, meteors, earthquakes, malfunctioning uteri and Hitchcock's angry birds.
While the Apocalypse-theme has essentially become a pop culture cliché, it remains endlessly fascinating.
Case in point: the Christian-focused "Left Behind" books, which have made authors Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins very rich thanks to sales numbering 65 million and counting.
Likewise, there's the Mayan prediction that 2012 will mark the end of the world.
While the myth entered the public consciousness in the 1970s, today, even the descendants of the Mayans have grown tired of the damned prophecy: Mexico's National Anthropology and History Institute went out of its way this month to say the entire theory was dreamed up by a writer named Frank Waters and his "mishmash of beliefs."

(Excerpt) Read more at edmonton.ctv.ca ...

[EricHill78]

Oops I thought this thread was about Guns N Roses reuniting one day.

[GoVegan]

Oops I thought this thread was about Guns N Roses reuniting one day.

Now that would be cool.

[CoderGuy]

I don't know, have you SEEN Axl lately? Talk about disasters.

[luxaorta]

I don't know, have you SEEN Axl lately? Talk about disasters.

What key his singing in? I am pretty sure he doesn't even know...

[Ainkor]

What key his singing in? I am pretty sure he doesn't even know...

GnR was one of the highlights of my youth. I don't know why I am bothered by this more than I actually should be but seeing a former icon in such a sad state is just sad.

Just thought I would throw this out there.

[luxaorta]

GnR was one of the highlights of my youth. I don't know why I am bothered by this more than I actually should be but seeing a former icon in such a sad state is just sad.

Just thought I would throw this out there.

I blame Nirvana....


But I agree with you, it is sad.

[CoderGuy]

It seems like everyone has their own vision of the Apocalypse.
For Christians, The End is synonymous with the Four Horsemen, the Rapture and the Anti-Christ.
Environmentalists, meanwhile, fear climate change, melting polar ice caps and turbulent weather.
For paranoid newshounds, if rogue states like Iran or North Korea don't trigger a nuclear war, then debt-wracked banks will soon lead to total societal collapse.
Then there's Hollywood: aliens, meteors, earthquakes, malfunctioning uteri and Hitchcock's angry birds.
While the Apocalypse-theme has essentially become a pop culture cliché, it remains endlessly fascinating.
Case in point: the Christian-focused "Left Behind" books, which have made authors Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins very rich thanks to sales numbering 65 million and counting.
Likewise, there's the Mayan prediction that 2012 will mark the end of the world.
While the myth entered the public consciousness in the 1970s, today, even the descendants of the Mayans have grown tired of the damned prophecy: Mexico's National Anthropology and History Institute went out of its way this month to say the entire theory was dreamed up by a writer named Frank Waters and his "mishmash of beliefs."

(Excerpt) Read more at edmonton.ctv.ca ...

Sorry to derail the thread wa3zrm, this is actually a pretty interesting article, thanks.

There is actually a big difference between End of the World and End of the World as we Know it (damn, another rock reference, sorry) lol I am much more fearful of a scenario where we lose all power for 6 months than an apocalypse. At least with an apocalypse, it's over, where if we lost power for 6 months, things would degenerate very quickly. It would probably only take a few weeks for things to start looking like a post apocalypse world. So many critical systems rely on power, and we, as a people, rely on it so much and on communications so much, a few weeks without either would be devastating.

[KCOLLINS18]

While the myth entered the public consciousness in the 1970s, today, even the descendants of the Mayans have grown tired of the damned prophecy: Mexico's National Anthropology and History Institute went out of its way this month to say the entire theory was dreamed up by a writer named Frank Waters and his "mishmash of beliefs."

Kinda like scientology!

[WickedKitchen]

Wow...I'm impressed. This thread got derailed on the first reply. The first thing I thought was GnR too...reading Slash's book now.

Anyhow. I did read the first few (I think six) books of that Left Behind series. I was really into the story until I just started reading more well written books...though they were about a completely different subject. I think about the end of the world as we know it often. (Love the REM reference too Coder)

I'm thinking banking...leading to energy problems...leading to chaos. Hmm. Must get prepared.