What's the Obsession With....?
What's the Obsession With....?
Basic Stuff Magazine
#004 "...the end of the world?"
36 minutes Posted Mar 28, 2020 at 6:43 am.
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Given the current state of things, we felt it was a good time to explore humanity's obsession with The End. Doomsday prophecies span across countless religions, and (at times) intersects with science. For millennia, we've been coming up with inventive ways our civilizations and societies might cease to exist. So what is it that drives us to predict (and sometimes prepare for) the end of the world? And is there some kind of comfort in the simplicity of a post-apocalyptic world? And, more importantly, was Jesus a zombie? We set out to answer this, and other questions.