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The day the world didn't end
When the world refuses to conform to the desires of the believer, one ancient and widespread gambit is to insist that the world that makes this refusal will shortly be replaced, with or without apocalyptic fireworks, by a world in which the cherished belief system will work as advertised and in which everyone who currently disagrees with that syste
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People have always been good at imagining the end of the world, which is much easier to picture than the strange sidelong paths of change in a world without end.
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the apocalypse is always easier to imagine than the strange circuitous routes to what actually comes next.
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
In the annals of eschatology, we are living in a golden age. The end of the world is on everyone’s mind.