HP Lovecraft believed the West was being destroyed in the '20s.
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Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 11 months ago
Maybe but also factor in that people have been predicting the downfall of the USA since the 1960s.
Mojave@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 11 months ago
Christians have believed the rapture would happen in life time since the crucifixion...
It is basic narcissism.
I am so special that I cannot conceive the world will continue without me, therefore it must end in my lifetime.
Illuminostro@lemmy.world 11 months ago
By those people.
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 11 months ago
We’ll fall right when the rapture happens. So, you know, any day now
Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 11 months ago
I thought the rapture was not the fall but just the beginning of a century or so of torment for those sinners left on earth.
Maybe the rapture has already happened and so few people left that nobody noticed and this is the century of torment...
Spacecraft@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Rapture happened when harambe died, he was the only one to go to heaven.
metaStatic@kbin.social 11 months ago
I hate that this makes absolute sense
PrinceWith999Enemies@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Elon Musk as Andrew Ryan.
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 11 months ago
So beaten to death with a golf club? Oh no…
radroot@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Or maybe even the 1770s
Still, got a funny feeling these days
TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ted Kazinsky made some very good points.
Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
We got awfully close in the 1860’s