Apocalypse

8 Ways We Might Be Causing Our Own Extinction

Fred Guterl | Posted 05.23.2012

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Fred Guterl

Our own success as a species has created new a terrifying risks that didn't exist a few decades ago. By our dominating presence on the planet, we are in danger of upsetting climate systems in ways we don't fully understand.

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How The Super-Rich Plan To Survive The Apocalypse

The Huffington Post | Khadeeja Safdar | Posted 04.11.2012

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Most people have too much on their plates to worry about what will happen when the world ends. But then there are those who have too much money no...

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How Can You Expect Me To Be Funny When The World's Going To End?

Meghan O'Keefe | Posted 04.01.2012

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Meghan O'Keefe

It's time to get serious. Women aren't funny and the world is going to end this year. Given these two indisputable truths, it's time for me to quit comedy and devote my life to preparing for the apocalypse.

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The Indie on Demand Movie Review: 4:44 Last Day on Earth

Dan Persons | Posted 03.30.2012

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Dan Persons

The newest episode of my short radio series The Indie on Demand Movie Review takes a look at 4:44 Last Day on Earth.

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A Doomsday Launchpad in France?

Lisa Baca | Posted 05.29.2012

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Lisa Baca

The doomsday theories are nothing new, but in an unusual twist these specific esoterics believe that the Pic de Bugarach is more than a mountain -- it is a sacred land occupied by aliens as we speak.

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Apocalypse Believers Begin Waiting For Alien Rescuers

Posted 04.11.2012

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UPDATE: In a statement to The Huffington Post, the Ramtha School of Enlightenment said that the French watchdog agency Miviludes mistakenly identifie...

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The Real Hunger Games: Our Insatiable Apocalyptic Appetite

Mathew Gross | Posted 05.26.2012

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Mathew Gross

Rather than being marginal, the apocalypse in 2012 is firmly entrenched in mainstream popular culture. Why? Perhaps because the apocalypse serves as a form of daydreaming escape from a world that looks radically different from just a decade ago.

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WATCH: NASA Scientist Takes On 2012 Doomsday Scenarios

Posted 03.12.2012

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By: Natalie Wolchover Published: 03/09/2012 09:26 AM EST on Lifes Little Mysteries Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have put out a...

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INFOGRAPHIC: The 2012 Apocalypse Bucket List

Posted 03.01.2012

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It's a question asked time and time again: What would you do if this were your last day/week/year on earth? Assuming the Mayans were right about th...

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Armageddon: 1,000,000,000 A.D.

Seth Shostak | Posted 04.29.2012

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Seth Shostak

Is apocalypse merely a fantasy that will never happen? Like self-making beds, or carefree hair? Of course not -- there will be an end to life on Earth.

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Revelation: Who Likes It, And Who Doesn't

Greg Carey | Posted 04.14.2012

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Greg Carey

Revelation reveals what it means to worship God and Christ. It challenges believers to faithful living in the midst of cultural pressure to compromise.

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Revelation In Context: Letters And Symbols

Greg Carey | Posted 03.26.2012

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Greg Carey

No one understands all of Revelation's numbers and symbols. Still, almost all interpreters have come to a common assessment of several keys: the Lamb, the Beast, the Great Prostitute, the Other Beast and the New Jerusalem.

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Sorry, But Bird Flu Bioterrorism Is Much Harder Than It Sounds

Scott Thill | Posted 03.25.2012

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Scott Thill

It may be more of an existential threat than current global pandemics like AIDS or climate change, but it doesn't make it a workable bioweapon.

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2012 and the Spirit of the Age

William Horden | Posted 01.12.2012

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William Horden

Whether the ancient Mayans intended it or not, the end of their calendar coincides with a profound turning point in human civilization.

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12 Exquisitely Easy Resolutions for 2012

Mark Morford | Posted 03.10.2012

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Mark Morford

You want to exercise more, eat better, read more books? Spend more time with your kids, get more sleep? Wonderful. Have at it. Me, I'm going a little esoteric, a little vibrational this fine year of our apocalypse. It just seems appropriate.

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Top 10 Myths About 2012

Mitch Horowitz | Posted 03.05.2012

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Mitch Horowitz

The ancient Mayan people maintained a complex system of calendars, which ended with this year, 2012. This anomaly has caused many to wonder whether the great calendar-makers foresaw an apocalypse in our era. The truth is more complex.

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Is The 2012 Apocalypse Real?

Jason Boyett | Posted 03.04.2012

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Jason Boyett

Now that it's actually 2012, the year in which those fictional events supposedly were to have taken place, you may be wondering: Is the Mayan calendar a real thing? Were we warned? Is 2012 the end of the world?

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Don't Fear the Mayans: It's Not the End of the World As We Know It

Greg Olear | Posted 03.01.2012

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Greg Olear

With the U.S. economy in shambles, the Euro worth about as much as the Lego, a new strain of super-contagious swine flu, the Arab world in upheaval, K...

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2012: Here Comes the Apocalpyse (Again)

Mathew Gross | Posted 03.03.2012

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Mathew Gross

The idea of the apocalypse offers the promise that our chaotic times will eventually prove to have some kind of redemptive meaning -- or that, according to ancient cultures, it was all somehow inevitable, anyhow.

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What Does The Book Of Revelation Really Mean?

Greg Carey | Posted 03.02.2012

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Greg Carey

No academic interpreter of Revelation understands the book as a roadmap for the future. Instead, Revelation originally spoke to the conditions of its own time and place.

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Santa Slips Into Cookie-Induced Diabetic Coma... Thanks Kids

El Guapo | Posted 02.26.2012

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El Guapo

Christmas 2012 is still up in the air, but a North Pole spokesperson confessed that the upcoming apocalypse predicted by the Mayans had already put a damper on next year's plans.

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WATCH: A Different Kind Of 'War On Christmas'

Posted 12.22.2011

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At this point, it's all but inevitably that the Robot Uprising will soon extend to all things we hold sacred, including (but not limited to) the holid...

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2012: Apocalypse Fatigue

Turnstyle | Posted 02.20.2012

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Turnstyle

By:Noah Nelson Photo Credit: Image: NASA/Public Domain Earth: it was fun while it lasted. Today is the beginning of the final countdown. We've g...

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Iron Maiden Reads The Book Of Revelation

Michael Gilmour | Posted 02.14.2012

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Michael Gilmour

Eeven with its carnivalesque reversal of values, heavy metal is a conservative art form. The stress on dark elements in biblical apocalyptic language here contributes to a forceful and emotively charged call for peace.

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Newt Prepared For Outlandish Doomsday Scenario

The New York Times | William J. Broad | Posted 12.12.2011

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Newt Gingrich, the Republican presidential hopeful, wants you to know that as commander in chief he is ready to confront one of the most nightmarish o...

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