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Cassandra 2012
___ I’m feeling increasingly bleak about the human future going into 2012. I say this without the least pleasure because I have two small children (one is five, the other is eight). I don’t want anything I point to here … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, apocalypse now, Cassandra, H1N5, Iran, Israel, pessimism, predictions, The Book of Revelation, the end, The Plague
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Michelle Bachmann’s End Times Prayer
Ladies and gentlemen, the likely Republican nominee to be the next President of the United States: . At Salon, Alex Pareene asks a good question: If Michele Bachmann is a true Christian, she should rise bodily to Heaven during … Continue reading
My Predictions for the Human Future
My daughters are four and six, and barring a severe catastrophe (personal or civilizational), my guess is that they’ll have lifespans that might double that of the average person living today. By the time they hit about the age of 50 (around … Continue reading
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Tagged America, apocalypse, life, matt ridley, optimism, robert wright, the antichrist, The Book of Revelation, the environment, the future, the world
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Weight Watchers Meets the Book of Revelation—and Denis Dutton
In the New York Times today, philosopher Denis Dutton meditates on our cultural fondness for the apocalyptic: We wallow in the idea that one day everything might change in, as St. Paul put it, the “twinkling of an eye” — … Continue reading
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Tagged apocalypse, Calvinism, conspiracy theories, guilt, last days, modernism, philosophy, psychology, Revelation, The Book of Revelation, weight watchers
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Book Review of “Spectacles of Empire: Monsters, Martyrs, and the Book of Revelation”
Christopher Frilingos’s Spectacles of Empire: Monsters, Martyrs, and the Book of Revelation (University of Pennsylvania Press 2004) is a great academic text about the Book of Revelation, but it is also a fascinating uncovering of Roman cultural curiosities. The author, for example, … Continue reading
