Timeline for Is there a term or phrase for the desire for Apocalypse?
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| Jan 25, 2023 at 8:05 | answer | added | SlowlySwift | timeline score: -1 | |
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| Sep 16, 2022 at 13:05 | comment | added | jimiayler | @FumbleFingers Pigs flying sounds pretty apocalyptic to me. | |
| Sep 15, 2022 at 17:58 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @jimiayler: Pigs only need to fly once to make us to dump that idiomatic usage. But I ain't holding my breath! :) | |
| Sep 15, 2022 at 17:55 | comment | added | jimiayler | @FumbleFingers They only need to be right once. | |
| Sep 15, 2022 at 15:55 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | The stereotypical doomsday prophet is a guy walking the streets in a sandwich board claiming The end of the world is nigh. But they're been doing that ever since sandwich boards were invented, and they've never been right yet. | |
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| Feb 15, 2021 at 20:00 | comment | added | jimiayler | @Boaz Hmmmmm!!! Intriguing...I need to think about this some more (and I don't care how long this thread is! :D ), but I wonder if that's the case. Think of Mary Shelley's The Last Man — isn't part of its appeal to readers identification with that last person's "lastness"? That desire doesn't strike me as related to religion in any particular way. | |
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| Feb 15, 2021 at 13:24 | comment | added | Boaz | Deleted my own comments to avoid this thread becoming too long. I just want to point out that it's difficult to take the religious connotation out of a human construct that is based in religion to begin with. | |
| Feb 15, 2021 at 13:18 | answer | added | EleventhDoctor | timeline score: -1 | |
| Feb 15, 2021 at 13:16 | comment | added | jimiayler | @Boaz That's "the religious belief that there will be an apocalypse." Leaving aside the religiosity, I'm looking for a term for the longing for it, not the belief in it. | |
| Feb 15, 2021 at 0:46 | comment | added | jimiayler | Man, leave it to the Germans: I found this episode of a podcast titled: "Sehnsucht nach der Apokalypse," or "longing for the Apocalypse": link . That's it!! Just not in English... :/ | |
| Feb 15, 2021 at 0:34 | comment | added | jimiayler | @Boaz Possibly! I mention Walking Dead, but it could just easily be, say, Will Forte's The Last Man on Earth, &c., &c., &c.: there's this fascination with the Apocalypse that, I think, is unique and nameable. And, to be sure, doomy — just not "doomsayer," though I wouldn't put it past any such aficionado. | |
| Feb 14, 2021 at 22:54 | comment | added | jimiayler | @Boaz Nah, it wouldn't. | |
| Feb 14, 2021 at 22:54 | comment | added | jimiayler | @EdwinAshworth Why "misguided"? Don't some people wishing for the End Times intend to rot in hell? | |
| Feb 14, 2021 at 22:54 | comment | added | jimiayler | @Boaz Well, I'm sure there are a few Walking Dead fans who may be non-denominational, where not outright atheists — and then, there's non-religious me — so, I doubt its "only the religious who speak of this." And I'm asking about desire, not fear, so no "phobias" would apply here. | |
| Feb 14, 2021 at 16:09 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | 'Misguided' springs to mind. Unless one has a firm belief in the coming consummation 'Heaven and Earth in sync' [Johnny Carr] Kingdom of God and is sure one has a place paid for. | |
| Feb 14, 2021 at 13:38 | answer | added | EleventhDoctor | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 13, 2021 at 21:54 | comment | added | Greybeard | As there is only the religious who speak of this a "less religiously-oriented word" is going to be difficult... The other point is that, theologically, all Christians are looking forward to this event, thus only "eschatophobia" is a useful word. | |
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