Davis 9 (Sam Lindsey)

Date:4/17/2018
Author: Sam Lindsey
Assignment: Post #8, Davis Chapter 9

Is the end of the world somehow a beckoning, freeing force? Why does it seem we are always driving towards this end? Nuclear war with Korea, the Singularity, climate change, overpopulation.... Humanity has found a way to cope in the past when dealing with end times (Y2K, Mayan Calendar) why do we always think the world is on the brink of ending? Is there an "end"?

I went and looked up a bunch of articles dealing with the so called "end of the world" and found some interesting stuff. Apparently we are due for another end on April 23rd so everyone be on the lookout! The sites that I found for those predictions were especially disturbing...

Original texts:

However, when the date passed without apocalyptic incident, Meade insisted that people misunderstood his Planet X prophecy.

He then claimed that October 15 would herald seven years of nuclear war and natural disasters, marking "the end of the world as we now know it".

Meade’s latest claims suggest that on April 23 2018 the sun, moon and Jupiter will align in the constellation Virgo, sparking the beginning of the biblical Rapture.

He claims that on this night, the mysterious "death planet" Nibiru will appear in the sky, triggering the onset of World War III, rise of the Antichrist, and seven years of Tribulation.

These bizarre occurrences are all meant to the relate to the biblical book of Revelation 12:1-2, which is supposed to forewarn the end times.

All of this has however been long debunked by scientists studying the stars and planets, particularly at American space agency NASA.

fuss began years ahead of the date in question

“we should all be so lucky as to have another boring New Year’s.”

the end of the long count represents the end of an old cycle and the beginning of a new one

Well, on the 21st of December 2012, the god is going to come down and start a new cycle and the old world is going to die and the new world is going to be reborn—just to make it more poetic.

Old school vision of the biblical apocalyspticists were deeply polarized, split between rapture and plague.

A subliminal rumbling along the fault lines of the real.

Something mutant this way comes.

End times will keep beckoning.

Apocalyptic intimations can be insanely dangerous, but they can also serve as dreamtexts for the zeitgeist.

Here's the response I got after tailoring those articles & Davis's thoughts to answer my posed question above and then running that through the text cutter:

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Here's a couple of sentences that I took away from that and sort of cleaned up a little to make it more comprehendable:

Apocalyptic intimations can be this night, the mysterious night.
End times will keep the old world going.
These bizarre times will be insanely dangerous, but they can be so lucky as to kill the new plague.

The new plague.

A subliminal rumbling long reborn—just to start a new cycle.

So, again, it was really difficult to piece together any logical information from the text scraper, but I did find a few really interesting pieces that I ended up stitching together above. I could see how this would be super useful if you're trying to find common threads or themes between pieces of text... By looking at it through a lenses that all overlap simultaneously we get a real sense of what's going on here. It's really pretty cool!