baleeber
gullible skeptic
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- Jul 13, 2008
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I'm 46 years old. I remember back in the early 90s, I met a number of different people who, like me, had independently become convinced that the world would end in 1997.
Yet, here we all are.
I've seen a LOT of end-of-the-world predictions over the years. In fact, I'd say in any given year, there's at least one major prediction of an apocalypse, and sometimes we have a few!
I had a friend in university who told me that their dad was constantly making predictions that the world would end, and then he would get actually depressed when the date would come and go.
I think there are psychological reasons that we do this.
I often like to think that the "end of the world" is kind of like the DEATH card in tarot. In tarot, the "death" card almost never means actual "death", but rather "change", because sometimes change can be like "death". When ideas, or hopes or dreams end, it's like the end of the world ... but it's just change and we move on.
Even "death" is just a doorway.
And so I think the world is constantly ending, and constantly being reborn, and what we're feeling in these predictions is not an actual global destruction, but just the movement of forces and variables in the world.
Yet, here we all are.
I've seen a LOT of end-of-the-world predictions over the years. In fact, I'd say in any given year, there's at least one major prediction of an apocalypse, and sometimes we have a few!
I had a friend in university who told me that their dad was constantly making predictions that the world would end, and then he would get actually depressed when the date would come and go.
I think there are psychological reasons that we do this.
I often like to think that the "end of the world" is kind of like the DEATH card in tarot. In tarot, the "death" card almost never means actual "death", but rather "change", because sometimes change can be like "death". When ideas, or hopes or dreams end, it's like the end of the world ... but it's just change and we move on.
Even "death" is just a doorway.
And so I think the world is constantly ending, and constantly being reborn, and what we're feeling in these predictions is not an actual global destruction, but just the movement of forces and variables in the world.
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