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Eschatology thread. An enumeration of the ways the world will end. If we know the beginning and we know the end then we know our place in the world. Eschatology frames humanity, and it gives a meaning to death, which means it gives a meaning to life
A shared anticipation of the end gives us something to look forward to. On some level, no one wants to be the middle child. If the end is imminent, then we are very special, the last people, the transitional generation into a phase shift for the world as we know it
Marxism: the workers rise up, overthrowing their oppressors, distributing wealth to the people, ending all privation. We are all united in love for our fellow man and we live happily ever after in post scarcity society.
Hellcommunism: the same as Marxism, above, except itâs what actually happens if Marxism succeeds: the workers fail and everyone dies, bringing us finally to the only true equality that was ever possible, death. Thatâll show you, Dad!
Environmental collapse: we will hit a Malthusian limit or the accumulation of our pollution-generating industry will terraform the earth, making it inhospitable to human life. Used by vegans, neoliberals, and 
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Technological singularity: a self-bootstrapping intelligent computer will become so smart and powerful that it renders all existing human modalities obsolete. Used by */acc and lesswrong
Ethnic nationalism: basically the novel soumission by houellebecq actually happens
Nuclear Apocalpyse: The favorite of the sort of people who follow every geopolitical play by play and form detailed opinions about the intrigues of various world leaders. Used by: boomers.
Coming/return of the messiah: God will come to the earth in glory, he will resurrect the dead and render judgement upon us. After that there will be a paradisiacal messianic age. Used by Judaism and Christianity
Buddhism: seven suns apocalypse? End of the world doesnât seem to be that important to Buddhists
Hinduism: the world is partitioned by cyclical recurring ages called yugas. Over the course of the four yugas the world degrades from moral purity to total decay. At the end, the world restarts, and the cycles repeat
Social justice/feminism: everyone gets woke and stops judging people based on sexuality and race. Fat women are hot now, no one wants those skinny bitches and all straight white men are gay or dead, all positions of power held by black or latinx lesbians
Post-millennialist: the glorious future after the apocalypse is already here, we just donât realize it. Used by some Christian sects and also neolibs.
Various acts of nature: Carrington solar flare, meteor impact, supervolcano, etc. It's hard to organize a belief system around these but the IFL Science types get into it.
Lovecraft: the great old ones arise from their eternal sleepless sleep and drive us mad and devour us
Nrx: cathedral collapses under its own contradictions, the world is fragmented into a series of small city states where people use exit instead of voice to optimize sovereignty
