HP Lovecraft believed the West was being destroyed in the '20s.
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Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 7 months ago
Maybe but also factor in that people have been predicting the downfall of the USA since the 1960s.
Mojave@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 7 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 7 months ago
By those people.
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 7 months ago
We’ll fall right when the rapture happens. So, you know, any day now
Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 7 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 7 months ago
Rapture happened when harambe died, he was the only one to go to heaven.
metaStatic@kbin.social 7 months ago
I hate that this makes absolute sense
PrinceWith999Enemies@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Elon Musk as Andrew Ryan.
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 7 months ago
So beaten to death with a golf club? Oh no…
radroot@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Or maybe even the 1770s
Still, got a funny feeling these days
TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Ted Kazinsky made some very good points.
Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
We got awfully close in the 1860’s