Every religion/cult/screaming guy wearing posterboard has an end-of-the-world scenario. What’s the best one?
When I was a freshly graduated paramedic I responded to a attempted mass suicide of a cult.(Around 15 people)
They thought the apocalypse would be coming… By inciting, well, basically an orgy,with all sexual inhibitions falling and humans sinning beyond belief. While some of their fears were at least somewhat relatable (like fathers laying their hand on their daughters) most of it was batshit crazy. They believed they need to kill themself before that happens so they would still get into heaven.
…they fucked that up,massively,as well. None died.
Jesus Christ. Can you tell us more?
How did they fuck up dying?
Can you say where/what they called themselves?
What was the most batshit crazy part of it?
Basically they underdosed so hard that even 14 year old drug addict does take more - and very likely their stuff didn’t partially work at all, as they put it in tea. So… Most of them did only feel very good/bad/nauseated, some got unconscious.
The crazy part was me coming into that room seeing them and VERY MUCH reconsidering my life choices. I graduated a few weeks backs, just got pissed and spat on the call before and now that. And then panicing a bit and calling dispatch to "send me everything ". Which they did and ended up…a bit much… Like…very much too much.
Can’t remember the name and can’t tell either,sorry. That is a long time ago,20 years+ some.
Vacuum Decay bubble sweeping over our solar system. That sould be straight tits. Its like the “Irish Goodbye” of reality itself. Just poof! And ya outta heeeeeeere!
Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman is a great contender for an end of the world scenario.
Tl;dr: aliens set loose a super intelligent AI on the planet as the gameshow host to the elimination of nigh all life on Earth, as part of a running Survivor-esque intergalactic production.
A virus that makes 9/10 of humanity infertile.
Solar-Punk apocalypse. All plastic gone. All oil gone.
Infinity war style, snap of the fingers and its all over
Guy had amazing lines
Personally I’m a big fan of the Hadron Collider accidentally creating a black hole.
I don’t want to be turned to interstellar spaghetti thank you very much
Dual-vector foil from the Three Body Problem series. Everything just gets lethally downgraded from three-dimensional to two-dimensional.
The one from the end of Bugonia seemed pretty good
spoilers, man
I’m honestly super down for the Rapture. All the Christians getting beamed up to infini-church while the rest of us finally get to live without them
God’s gonna feel like such an asshole when those left on Earth don’t descend into chaos
that would only “confirm” they were right all along and then the rest of us (or many at least) would immediately jump on the bandwagon in hopes for a repeat
Honestly I wish they were right. I’d give anything to see those fuckers squirm in front of st peter
Would be funnier seeing them lose their mind why they arent going to heaven but a “GAY TRANS HEATHEN!!AA!1” is
Fuck that. I’ll have no truck with a god that allows children to die of slow agonizing cancer.
Plus mosquitoes.
It ain’t the religion, it’s the people.
You’ve never met a smug dogmatic till you’ve met a Buddhist smug dogmatic.
I personally think the key to that door is psychedelics.
The Mayan one in 2012 was pretty good, I really enjoyed it. It ended with the masterpiece that is Gangnam Style.
Our schools lunch guy fell so hard into this to the point he quit in the days before the date to stand outside the school all day with a sign warning us of whats to come. Great guy with a good heart but wow did those pastors on that radio station have a grip on him.
I remember further back to the big one in 2000. I had a coworker who was convinced it was the end times and had been massively hoarding food for it. He had even been buying stuff like fruit trees, planting them in his backyard along with building a huge garden.
Friends of his had told us he had built a bunker for his family. He got really weird (or weirder) toward the end of that year and started inviting certain close coworkers, who were still talking to him, to hold up with him and his family.
Oddly enough it was only guys with young wives or girlfriends , and they were specifically invited to join. No one went but we all joked he was trying to start a cult.
The guy soon after got fired and I never heard from him again. Am sure he is still around somewhere.
I distinctly remember Gangnam style being earlier in the year (they played it at my freshman orientation), wasn’t the “prediction” for December?
Hella fun at parties btw
Yes you’re right. But it was connected with the December date. It was the first youtube video to achieve 1 billion views on or around Dec 12, when the apocalypse was prophesied.
I dunno, I feel like it fell off with the entire Harambe act.
Ragnarök is quite cool, first there is huge battle between giants, gods and mortals. Then at the end when mostly all noteworthy characters are dead, surtur burns the whole mess down and sun turns black, stars fall and everything falls into boiling sea. And after all that world is reborn and there will be no more evil.
there is a song I really like about this one
Actually a few songs.
Also Loki by Amon Amarth talks about the end times.
There are “Twilight of the Gods” by at least Helloween, Blind Guardian, and Therion.
Global basilisk hack. Everyone staring at a screen has a fatal seizure and tips over. Uncontacted tribes in the Amazon basin inherit the Earth.
This implies that the earth is ours. That’s such a christian worldview.
And those guys on the island who murder anyone who comes close to them
Not religious, but my favorite is the Gamma Ray Burst.
Totally invisible until it hits and BOOM, everything is dead.
I don’t think a GRBurst is painless. Humans would still suffer greatly, from radiation poisoning symptoms. Infections, internal bleeding, etc. It would take days…
I don’t think a Gamma Ray Burst would vaporize everything… But I may be wrong.
Same result, but false vaccum decay.
