Doomsday Prophets are Strangely Silent.

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They're not all based on Revelations (although I agree, a lot are, and Revelations when written was deemed imminent), there's also plenty based on pseudoscience: Nibiru cataclysm, Heaven's Gate, even Y2K. Here's a list that's actually pretty fascinating: List of Dates Predicted for the Apocalypse.

Interesting.

People famous for other reasons: Columbus, Luther, Cotton Mather, got into the prophecy business as well.

Actually, the world was relatively stable between WWII and present day.

Yes, there have always been famine, wars, disease, etc. But we have never before been able to terminate all life on the planet. Although with climate change we are doing it excruciatingly slowly.

Jesus was not the only apocalyptic itinerant preacher of first century. He wasn't even the only one who was also crucified. Revelations was necessary in order to continue the new religion.

I will stick to my main point, which is that when things are really going bad, there is not much interest in a doomsayer. It is when things are going well that the doomsayers gain ascendancy. Can't have all those people enjoying life, don't cha know.

"Even if it was just a brief image, it’s still a sign, and it points in the right direction.”
https://www.pressherald.com/2017/03/02/ ... for-25000/

WAKE UP! SEE THE SIGNS!

Jesus on toast


Virgina Mary on a grill cheese sandwich

Civilization will reach it's peak in likely the next 20-30 years, upon which time it will only be downhill thanks to climate change. Rising sea levels alone will force mass migration that will make the current refugee crisis a drop in the bucket in comparison and will overwhelm all western nations causing their societal collapse, the global economy will tank. Add in more frequent and more severe storms, fires and droughts and it may even make society collapse sooner.

You know, all the big impacting storms, drought, rising water, etc, those will happen but they're not what's going to cause the real problems for humanity. The real problem is going to be the Archaebacteria, Eubacteria, and Protista kindgom collapses. Yes, those simple organisms will survive and come back after they've adapted, but there's not telling if those adapted forms will still be edible by the kingdoms above them (Fungi, Plantae, and Animilia). Example: cyano-bacteria (toxic to most oxygen metabolizing organisms, ~99.9% of current species) could take over the niches Eubacteria holds (the bacteria that process food in your gut, also the basic building block of the current food chain). That's the real danger here.

We'll be able to survive storms, rising waters, and drought, but a destabilized food chain is something we won't overcome. There's a reason apex and keystone species don't survive extinction events (as far as our current fossil record indicates) and that's because being built off of other organisms makes them highly un-adaptable. They have to wait until the bottom of the food chain sorts itself out to get a meal, so what do they do in the hundreds of thousands of years to millions of years in between? They starve to death.

I don't think people are that receptive to it, because we've all lived through Y2K and 2012 and it's not really in fashion at the moment. We have more obvious evidence-based disaster scenarios with climate change and the political system and financial crisis and wars, so I think we're busy worrying about those.

I see that many Doomsday prophets have cross-linked their websites, forming a kind of "echo chamber" where they can simply re-post each other's prophesies and stroke each other's egos.

Maybe when we have a new president, things will get back to normal, and the doomsday prophets will literally be back on the street-corners shouting their nonsense through bullhorns once again.