#Apocalyptic

Planning for a post-apocalyptic-picnic, currently scheduled in for July 25th, over a month from now, but be aware that I will be keeping an eye on virus stats and potentially

is it weird that i'm like........ kinda tired of how every post-apocalyptic story just kinda decides that humanity for the most part just totally breaks down and people become hyper-violent

Spooky Dr Paul Moffett

Like many people, I've been thinking quite a lot lately about apocalypse and dystopia.Thread. There's an interesting thread on Apocalypse from @elizabethjdias that you might have seen. If you haven't,

I'm going to use a purely hypothetical example to illustrate my point. Let's say an apocalyptic death cult is trying to conquer the Middle East and you're calling Berlin for

David Szymanski

I dunno, I'm considering it... ngl the main draw for me is the promise of exploring apocalyptic appalachia cause that is 100% my jam

It's been interesting to watch people parse through the shock of having 1. a president who is a narcissist and white supremacist, 2. existing in a failed state where basic-ass

The argument that "original" Trumpians (like Steven Bannon) got this crisis right ignores a simpler explanation: The "original" Trumpians are (mostly) catastrophists with a taste for the apocalyptic and thus

Alexandra Chace

specularanomaly

Left-liberals have spent years promising successive apocalypses (trump's election, COVID, etc) & when *inevitably* these turn out to be not-at-all apocalyptic, they've ended up, in the long run, leading people

When I get low spirited about what’s going on in this country, I remember all those condescending Americans who lectured me on the indestructible checks and balances and I just

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can't believe, frankly, that in this epoch of all epochs, people are still doing the whole "we're going to fix the world and build the kingdom of god on earth

ella (wee fruit) 🍓

that new coronavirus michael bay film is abysmal for a slew of reasons (don’t get me started) but also makes me a feral rage demon because it’s trying to pass

Placenta Perm 💁🏿‍♂️

Obviously it's got positive intent but starting to find our 8pm Communal Clapping Ritual lowkey dystopian. A nearby church rang its bells today and it felt apocalyptic like The Purge

Philosophy Tube

I've seen people RTing news about recent demonstrations in the UK without realising it’s QAnon stuff, so here's a quick explantory thread:Like all conspiracy theories the actual "beliefs" are fuzzy

Sometimes people just say things.Why is this wrong? A humble thread lite on eschatology.https://twitter.com/swimmerbr78/status/1316033279833903104 The first clue is a weird combination of the Seven Deadly Sins, a Roman Catholic tool,

Mackenzie Chance Harte

it's just truly baffling to me that with everything going on there is a not insignificant number of people voting who are generally like "but what about my gun ????"

Matthew Federman

matthewfederman

It's interesting that the common wisdom of post-apocalyptic fiction is that human connection is a weakness that will get you killed whereas we evolved towards altruism because it provides benefits