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Belief That the End of The World is Coming Spawns TikTok Frenzy Called 'RaptureTok': What to Know (www.complex.com)

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[–] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Been waiting for this much lauded second coming slash Armageddon for a while now. Any day now, I'm sure.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The rough beast hasn't slouched towards Bethlehem to be born quite yet. Its hour hasn't come, I guess

If you want an apocalyptic vision, Yeats's Second Coming is far superior to the schizo-rantings and low-effort numerology of John the Divine, just as the Divine Comedy, Paradise Lost and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell are better scriptures than the canonical ones.