2012: The end of the world. Section 3: War, Terrorism and Global Trends. Section 3: War, Terrorism and Global Trends The public sees the next 40 years as a time of violent conflict, both globally and in the United States.
Fully 58% see another world war as definite or probable over the next 40 years. Nearly as many (53%) expect the United States to face a terrorist attack with nuclear weapons. Signs of the Times - Independent Unbiased Alternative News for Sun, 24 Feb 2013. Is the U.S. Republic ending? 8 striking parallels between the Fall of Rome and the U.S.
Lawrence Lessig's Republic Lost documents the corrosive effect of money on our political process.
Lessig persuasively makes the case that we are witnessing the loss of our republican form of government, as politicians increasingly represent those who fund their campaigns, rather than our citizens. This week’s cover is awesomely designed—and. Tyler Wells Lynch: The Strange Gods of Fearful Americans: FDR, Obama, and the Gullible Allure of The Onion.
Trying times bring out the worst in men.
It's easy to look at contemporary vitriol (birtherism, calls for secession, warnings of "1,000 years of darkness," incessant playing of the Nazi card, Glenn Beck's piss stunt) and chalk it up to unusual cultural and economic circumstances. More alarming is the credulity displayed by many people in believing that things are worse than they really are, that America is plummeting into the abyss, and that Canada will soon become a refugee camp for fleeing patriots.
But, for good or for ill, this predilection for sensationalist fearmongering is more a trademark of the American character than it is a generational allergy. End Times Leader Claims to be Working with Members of Congress to Reverse God's Judgment on America. Messianic Rabbi Jonathan Cahn has become a superstar among televangelists and conservative commentators like Glenn Beck and Joseph Farah thanks to his book, The Harbinger.
According to Cahn, the country’s presidents from George Washington to Barack Obama are part of a biblical prophecy about America’s rise and fall. Walid Shoebat: The debate over the Antichrist. By The Right Scoop This is an article written by Walid Shoebat back in 2009 that defends his views – that Islam is the end times beast – against challengers who continually assert the more modern Western view of European model.
The article is based on three challenges that he makes to prove that his view isn’t a radical view, but is supported by traditional views on Bible prophecy as well as scripture itself. I found it to be a great read and thought I’d share it with you. Meet The Doomsday Boom's Rising Star. American Apocalypse. In his 1702 opus Magnalia Christi Americana, the prominent Puritan Cotton Mather related a story about Francis Higginson, the first minister to serve the citizens of Salem, Massachusetts.
Before Higginson sailed to New England in 1629, Mather wrote, he preached one last sermon to his old congregation in Leicester. The Lord, it seemed, was preparing a punishment for England. A war was coming, and Leicester in particular was going to suffer. Digital apocalypse: living through the death of virtual worlds. 7inShare Jump To Close.
The End: A journey through America's doomsday obsession. 8inShare Jump To Close The Mayan Long Count calendar, used during the classic period of Maya civilization (200 - 909 AD), covers a span of about 5,200 years. The first day of the next cycle, when the whole thing resets, is December 21, 2012. This should probably be an obscure piece of trivia — at least outside of anthropology departments — but it isn't. Anthony Horowitz's top 10 apocalypse books. Dystopia.
Apocalypse. Death and destruction. There are two problems when you set out to write a book in this vein. Many people have asked me this year, “What is the Rapture”? Here’s what I tell them. « Joel C. Rosenberg's Blog. The Bible describes a remarkable event that will take place during the last days.
This biblical event is the sudden “catching away” of the followers of Jesus Christ, something Bible scholars call the Rapture. It is this amazing event that captured the imagination of millions around the world when Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins wrote their biblically based Left Behind series of novels, selling more than 65 million copies in the process. Sandy Hook Shooting Thrusts ‘Preppers’ Into Spotlight. Not much is known about the gunman Adam Lanza or his mother -- the first victim -- Nancy Lanza, whose guns he used to carry out his attack on Sandy Hook Elementary School.
But reports that Nancy Lanza was a prepper are turning attention towards a nascent movement that has been rapidly entering the popular culture. Her sister, Marsha Lanza, was the first one to mention that Nancy Lanza had an interest in survivalist culture. "Last time we visited with her in person we talked about prepping and you know, are you ready for what can happen down the line when the economy collapses," Marsha Lanza told a local reporter.
Forget the apocalypse: 6 real threats - Technology & science - Science - LiveScience. Misguided interpretations of the ancient Maya calendar have led to rumors of the world ending on Friday. Some doomsayers believe a rogue planet will crash into Earth, or that a solar storm will spell total destruction. Others think the planets and the sun will align to cause cataclysmic tidal effects, or that the North and South poles will suddenly and catastrophically trade places. These scenarios have been exhaustively debunked by scientists. In fact, NASA has already issued a press release dated Dec. 22 and titled "Why the World Didn't End Yesterday. " The U.S. Revelation Resources — Resources for the academic study of the Book of Revelation. Utopia - a Dream Which Can be Realized. Utopia is an ideal world - “a kingdom of God” manifested in this three-dimensional world.
Utopia is a world where each individual lives his best by practicing the Truth – the laws that govern the whole Universe. It begins with a state of mind where regardless of environment or circumstance we can find peace and happiness and then manifested as a true heaven on earth.
Church Of The End Times: Alleged Cult Leaders Arrested In Massachusetts. Uxbridge, MA – Two brothers who are suspected of leading a cult were charged with resisting arrest and disturbing the peace charges. Pastor David Stanley and his brother Dennis operate The Church Of The End Times out of the same building that houses their driveway paving business. The non-traditional religious structure is the least unusual aspect of the alleged details associated with the Massachusetts church. Both area residents and family members have accused the Stanley brothers of engaging in cultish behavior with a religious fervor twist. Brainwashing concerns have been voiced along with complaints about other rituals which are considered to out-of-place with a mainstream Christian church.
Society, Volume 16, Number 6. The Zeitgeist Movement. Brave New World - by Michelle Goldberg. Over the last two weeks, Zeitgeist: Moving Forward, the third in a series of apocalyptic cult documentaries, has been screening around the world, translated by devotees of the so-called Zeitgeist movement into more than 30 languages. There were engagements in Buenos Aires and Athens, Sarajevo and Tel Aviv, Mumbai and Tokyo, among hundreds of other cities. In the United States, it showed at indie movie houses, underground bookstores, public libraries, and universities from coast to coast, including a five-day run at New York’s Tribeca Cinemas. About 30 people turned out for a Wednesday evening showing in Manhattan. Zeitgeist: Moving Forward is silly enough that at times I suspected it was all a put-on, a sly satire about new-age techno-utopianism instead of an example of it.
What is the Zeitgeist Movement and Who is Peter Joseph? Waiting for doomsday: Our apocalypse obsession likely to last past 21/12/12. Apocalypse Wow. What does the harlot church look like? Please don’t mistake this as an attempt to specify who could be personified as the harlot church. Its not. Rather, its to open your spiritual sensitivities up to what the harlot church is, does and says.
London’s Apocalypse Then & Now by Martin Filler. Frieze Art Fair an exhibition at Regent’s Park, London, October 13–16, 2011 Pavilion of Art and Design London an exhibition at Berkeley Square, London, October 12–16, 2011. Modernism, Christianity and Apocalypse. Event Date: 18-20 July 2012 Hotel Solstrand Solstrandveien 200, Postboks 54, 5201 Os, Norway. Apocalypse not (?) 5 Pop Culture Apocalypse Scenarios and How They Might Happen. Pick Your Apocalypse. Waiting for the Apocalypse: From the Romantics to Romney by Malise Ruthven. Grave Implications: Professors Prove Zombies Good For Your Brain. Gentle Critique of ‘Apocalypse Not: Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Worry About End Times’
PANK Magazine / Post Apocalypse. Apocalypse Not: Here's Why You Shouldn't Worry About End Times. 30 post-apocalyptic visions of the 21st Century. Taking charge of the apocalypse: On serendipity, walruses and last men.
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