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Post by drystyx on Apr 10, 2018 3:10:54 GMT
I just realized that this being 2018, that on November 11, 2018 A.D. we will celebrate the end of what was once the "war to end all wars".
Surely, there were some people in that day who actually believed it was the last war ever. It was, after all, the war to end all wars.
Makes one wonder what people thought in different eras. During the industrial revolution, some magnates probably thought they reached the peak of civilization. Some people of the early church thought the last days of Earth were approaching. Quite likely, most residents of cities like Vesuvius thought the world was ending when a volcano erupted over them.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2018 17:26:21 GMT
Some people think the world is close to ending today. JC will be back any minute now!
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Post by Marv on Apr 11, 2018 2:26:21 GMT
Some people think the world is close to ending today. JC will be back any minute now! John Cena!!!! BabadaBaaaa BabadaBaaa!!!!
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Post by theoncomingstorm on Apr 11, 2018 3:52:26 GMT
Some people think the world is close to ending today. JC will be back any minute now! Give him time. He's been dead less than 15 years.
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Apr 11, 2018 8:11:36 GMT
I can think of two events that happened in WWI which may have been significant to the countdown that is still going on today. One is the Miracle of the Sun in Portugal. The other is General Allenby driving the Turks out of Palestine. Both of these happened in 1917. By 1918 the war was winding down and the Central Powers were losing.
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Post by FilmFlaneur on Apr 11, 2018 9:09:16 GMT
I just realized that this being 2018, that on November 11, 2018 A.D. we will celebrate the end of what was once the "war to end all wars". Surely, there were some people in that day who actually believed it was the last war ever. It was, after all, the war to end all wars. Makes one wonder what people thought in different eras. During the industrial revolution, some magnates probably thought they reached the peak of civilization. Some people of the early church thought the last days of Earth were approaching. Quite likely, most residents of cities like Vesuvius thought the world was ending when a volcano erupted over them. On a related note I have often wondered whether, if the allies had lost WW1, it would necessarily have been a bad thing. Perhaps the non-occurrence of WW2 - since it stemmed (ina large part) from perceived grievances over onerous reparations - would have been one result for a start. Now that nearly all the survivors of the first conflict are dead and the anniversaries are almost behind us, perhaps some revisionist thinking will be inevitable.
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Post by FilmFlaneur on Apr 11, 2018 9:17:13 GMT
I can think of two events that happened in WWI which may have been significant to the countdown that is still going on today. One is the Miracle of the Sun in Portugal... The same event that was not witnessed by those not predisposed to believe elsewhere at the time? According to critics, the eyewitness testimony was actually a collection of inconsistent and contradictory accounts. Science writer Benjamin Radford maintains that "the sun did not really dance in the sky. We know this because, of course, everyone on Earth is under the same sun, and if the closest dying star to us suddenly began doing celestial gymnastics a few billion other people would surely have reported it".
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Apr 11, 2018 9:27:33 GMT
I can think of two events that happened in WWI which may have been significant to the countdown that is still going on today. One is the Miracle of the Sun in Portugal... The same event that was not witnessed by those not predisposed to believe elsewhere at the time? According to critics, the eyewitness testimony was actually a collection of inconsistent and contradictory accounts. Science writer Benjamin Radford maintains that "the sun did not really dance in the sky. We know this because, of course, everyone on Earth is under the same sun, and if the closest dying star to us suddenly began doing celestial gymnastics a few billion other people would surely have reported it". I'm not getting into that. Still collating. Something happened there, like something happened in New Mexico thirty years later. What happened is not clear, but something happened.
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Post by FilmFlaneur on Apr 11, 2018 9:29:39 GMT
The same event that was not witnessed by those not predisposed to believe elsewhere at the time? According to critics, the eyewitness testimony was actually a collection of inconsistent and contradictory accounts. Science writer Benjamin Radford maintains that "the sun did not really dance in the sky. We know this because, of course, everyone on Earth is under the same sun, and if the closest dying star to us suddenly began doing celestial gymnastics a few billion other people would surely have reported it". I'm not getting into that. Still collating. Something happened there, like something happened in New Mexico thirty years later. What happened is not clear, but something happened. What most likely happened was that, expecting to see a miracle, people stared intently into the sun for too long and responded to crowd pressure to imagine and report something.
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Apr 11, 2018 9:31:54 GMT
I'm not getting into that. Still collating. Something happened there, like something happened in New Mexico thirty years later. What happened is not clear, but something happened. What most likely happened was that, expecting to see a miracle, people stared intently into the sun for too long. Possibly, but not necessarily.
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Post by FilmFlaneur on Apr 11, 2018 9:33:18 GMT
What most likely happened was that, expecting to see a miracle, people stared intently into the sun for too long. Possibly, but not necessarily. Indeed, which is why I said 'most likely'.
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Post by koskiewicz on Apr 11, 2018 15:54:04 GMT
...if and when the Yellowstone Caldera erupts, you can kiss your ass goodbye...
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