Predicting the End | Eschatology

[@3p1cand3rs0n]

It's unfortunate that Knowing Better pulled a Heaven's Gate just when his channel was taking off. I wonder if Cheddar gets some sort of refund? And who is taking care of the ferrets?

[@susanfrombflo8368]

Is this comment in jest?

[@kallmannkallmann]

The ferret did drink the coolaid in the end tho.

[@TheSkizz89]

Flavor-aid

[@jamiequinn5553]

No, he's dead, Susan.

[@Ugly_German_Truths]

Nah, the Matrix will just reboot him for the next video upload ;-)

[@EmperorTigerstar]

Nations/empires that lasted longer than 250 years: Roman Republic Roman Empire E. Roman/Byzantine Empire Han China Tang China Ming China Qing China Japan France England Scotland Spain Portugal Ottoman Empire Austria Hungary Poland Russia Ancient Egypt Persian Empire Sassanid Empire Ok you get the idea by now.

[@aleksandarnikolovski9518]

EmperorTigerstar Most people don't know basic history so it's easy for them to spread shitty theories like that. Also you make great videos too, keep up the good work :)

[@siramielthefirst7536]

EmperorTigerstar And the US will soon join them, in about 8-10ish years.

[@GungaGingster1215]

The Luxembourg Empire is the most powerful

[@zaanga7340]

[ Content deleted ] no Liechtenstein colonial empire get it right

[@christiannewaye7306]

EmperorTigerstar ethiopia/Axum*

[@nooranik21]

Now, I've only been Catholic my whole life, but I remember there being a lot of parables saying you won't know when the second coming will be. The point of those parables wasn't to be a challenge for humans to predict the return of Christ, but rather so you can live your life in a way that it won't matter when Jesus returns, because you have been living a Christlike life.

[@ramongonzales1007]

The ten Maidens with the Oil lamps come to mind

[@MrThewildrider]

The problem lies in the sense that many of them see everything as a goal and they wanna be able to either make sure their ducks are in a row or that they 'save' as many people as they can. They inherently want to either make sure their door step is clean(so to speak) and that they can be taken easily, or that they've done enough to ensure their own rapture.

[@eddietozzi5682]

nooranik21 I like that perspective.

[@nooranik21]

@@paddybeme and with your spirit.

[@AD-hw3nk]

nooranik21 yup that’s correct

[@osjos2822]

I think the world will end on Monday because Garfield hates it.

[@yanivproselkov4555]

L A S A G A

[@jimmym3352]

Not sure why a cat hates Mondays. He doesn't work. So why would he hate Mondays? This has always bothered me.

[@interracialsuspect5300]

Jimmy M He’s trans-species and is taking on human characteristics. Stop bothering him, he is trying his best!

[@bruhmomentmaker4979]

I'm sorry jon

[@AdrianMartinez-ek4kl]

@@jimmym3352 He gets bad luck on Monday.

[@sketchshake9233]

Stefan: "yo did you know that empires fall after 10 generations or 200 years?" Byzantines: *exists for 1000 years* Ottomans: *exists for 600 years* Rome: *exists for 400 years* Stefan: "yup. works every time."

[@acidjunkies]

Technically Byzantines = Romans.

[@jaywilliams9294]

Its a round up of all of the empires then they average them out but the comment was still funny

[@lapisleafuli1817]

@Samuel Pomfret a minor nation that held immense influence even until the end.

[@gears7734]

They just have very long generations.

[@lapisleafuli1817]

@Ugandan Knuckles At this point China may have outclassed the word empire. There are only 3 certainties in life death,taxes and China.

[@Archaeopteryx128]

"End of the world at eight. News at eleven." - George Carlin

[@lorannharris9034]

I miss George.

[@adamfrisk956]

Oh man, I read it in his voice

[@panzeroftruth7500]

Where did he say this? I’m not doubting I just wanna find the clip/show where he said it!

[@OffendingTheOffendable]

George was the funniest comedian in history

[@OffendingTheOffendable]

@@lorannharris9034 I was lucky enough to see him live once

[@antoniac1234]

I get for a lot of people think this is just "hahaha", but there are people who committed suicide over Campings predictions. One woman murdered her two children then killed herself over his claims. The stuff is dangerous and it saddens me how there are no consequences for these hucksters who prey on weak-minded people.

[@AvrahamYairStern]

Sh✡️t, she killed her children

[@1lol2lol76]

Well, it is cruel but most of us are just idiots who believe whatever stupid thing we are told

[@johnkeefer8760]

It often can be even sadder. Many of those who are targeted by these hucksters are those who are really desperate in life (like with cancer etc). This is a lot like the Televangelists who pimp out Christianity to steal the old/desperate’s money

[@eagenthorror]

these so called "televangelists" who exploit desperate christians seem to me like they are the devil that which they are trying to cast away. they should be held accountable for their actions.

[@moscanaveia]

That unnamed woman would still be dead so no justice could possibly be served. What about the morons who signed over their worldly possessions? That's something that at least can be remedied before it is too late.

[@jaywilliams9294]

The world is going to end today Today: *Nothing Happens* I meant tomorrow Tomorrow: *Nothing Happens* No I meant Tomorrow from Now Tomorrow from now: *Nothing Happens* Tomorrow for sure Tomorrow for sure: *The World Ends* I told you soo

[@JinwooYoon1217]

Tomorrow for sure: *Nothing Happens* I'll get to it eventually. Eventually: *Nothing Happens* ...uhhhhh

[@Ugly_German_Truths]

+Jay Williams... yeah, that's what they do with "jesus is coming back every minute now" for 2000 years or so.

[@tombkings6279]

Is this a Jojo Reference

[@Delgen1951]

then one day it millions of people vanish and million of graves are opened. then what?

[@TheTariqibnziyad]

Guarionex Batista shut up kid...adults are speaking

[@interracialsuspect5300]

“They’re talking about America” *ahh shit... here we go again*

[@matthiasnagorski8411]

All you had to do was follow the damn train of thought, CJ!

[@theunreadyone]

The world didn’t end? *WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT*

[@nolanboles8492]

I was more surprised to hear that Randy Savage is dead.

[@williambrewer]

It did.

[@EclecticianG]

Sure it did. You are now in the matrix on a spaceship. 😂😂😂😂

[@midievalcat7770]

The Bible: you cannot predict the end of the world Random people: Ight imma do it anyway

[@robiking011]

I find it strange that the Bible says that we can not predict the future. Because the Bible is full of people who predicted the future. There was the Isaiah the prophet, Daniel the prophet and John the revelator.

[@themanbehindthebruhmoment502]

@@robiking011 I think it just reffers to the average person, not just every single human, especially since those people that predicted the future were prophets (at least accordong to the Bible)

[@NIHIL_EGO]

@DIV1NITAL Still waiting.

[@NIHIL_EGO]

@DIV1NITAL See you in 2022 then.

[@justiniand6a788]

@@robiking011 , they didn't predict the future, rather it was revealed to them.

[@redbirdsrising]

Some clarification on the Y2K bug. It wasn't some kind of failed prediction of the end times. There was a real threat. Companies with legacy systems drug programmers out of retirement and most of the vulnerable hardware was replaced. Meaning, despite the hysteria, it was largely fixed before 2000. Though many now look back and laugh that it was over hyped, it was an actual concern that was addressed and fixed.

[@dinamosflams]

Every gamer who got to 2billion of anything in a game knows this fear

[@purplegill10]

Thank you for this comment. People don't realize the billions of dollars and millions of manhours spent by programmers and computer scientists all working in tandem to prevent disaster from happening. Plus, not only that, in some places there WERE disasters like a few hospitals whose record keeping systems completely corrupted because they couldn't handle the rollover and as a result thousands of records were lost or had to be reintegrated into their electronic systems which, if you've ever had to work in manual recordkeeping, _sucks_ to deal with.

[@cronchcrunch]

@@dinamosflams Yeah I still don't know why they use 32 bit integers for values that could potentially exceed that 2.1 billion number. Looking at you Grand Theft Auto V/Online.

[@utah133]

I was in charge of an old computer that controlled a steel plant in 2000. We solved the problem by setting the computer's clock back a couple of years, which didn't matter to anyone.

[@eldrago19]

I wonder if there will be the same level of societal awareness about the end of 32 bit Unix time in 2038?

[@MF-R]

"Randy Savage died the day before, stopping the apocalypse." Sometimes we really do get the hero we need. The Savage one sacrificed himself by wrestling the embodiment of the apocalypse into a mutual death -- I CAN dig it, and because of him; we ALL can continue to dig it.

[@CriticalEatsJapan]

“So long, and thanks for 153 fish...”

[@MAR-wo4mc]

Is that an a perfect circle reference?

[@Zanzopan]

@@MAR-wo4mc Likely a Hitchhiker's reference, as APC did the same for that song.

[@allanrichardson1468]

Yes, that’s a Hitchhiker’s Guide reference, merged with the Bible verse quoted in the video.

[@GermDGator]

Critical Eats Japan I honestly thought that around 35 percent of Americans believed that we are in the end times. After knowing that almost half of Americans believe that, it just makes me think, “I live in the same country as these people?”

[@allanrichardson1468]

Jonathan Gallardo Not all of those Americans believe in the religious kind of “end times.” Some of us are simply pessimistic about our collective ability to avoid CAUSING those “end times” due to our own collective stupidity, a good part of that stupidity being the number of people who DO believe in religious “end times.”

[@Jessie_Helms]

My dad once said about the bogus predictions that even if someone could calculate the end times God would probably shift it specifically cause someone would know, which no one would. Trying to predict the end is just pointless from a Christian worldview.

[@qualitycroissant8527]

Keep saying the world is going to end tomorrow so it will never end

[@superbeltman6197]

@@qualitycroissant8527 The world: *ends today*

[@sfm199]

Remember kids, praise your lord and savior Macho Man before bed each night. Macho bless

[@acidjunkies]

Oh yeah! ***snap***

[@bottomsjohn88]

Macho Bless Brother

[@CooperAATE]

Oh, yeah!

[@Ronbosa]

May the cream always rise to the top brother. Amacho.

[@MogofWar]

Heaven claimed a righteous soul that day and we were spared God's wrath... For the time being.

[@TheGrinningViking]

It's not Ragnarok yet, not until Heimdall sounds the warning and I eat the moon 🌒

[@SvenDzahov]

Ragnarok? Jeg tror du savnet filmen, Thor forhindret det allerede😂

[@kenziemckeever1605]

I remember a story one of my history teachers back in high school told about how he was scared as a kid about The Rapture. He also heard that verse about how no one could know the hour of The Rapture, and thus used a little bit of reverse psychology and would declare, "JESUS IS COMING TODAY!" in order to essentially prevent the apocalypse. We should all thank him dearly.

[@kaitlyn__L]

A lifetime of selfless service

[@phineas7423]

A KZbin channel sponsoring a KZbin channel... the day has come folks

[@redtrevorkellerman9821]

despacito

[@GameyRaccoon]

Cheddar is a souless corporation

[@FelipeBudinich]

The end is near

[@jwil4286]

What day?

[@eulamae1905]

Thank you for not ridiculing Christianity as so many do. Most Christians do not believe the ones who predict the end of the world, etc. for the very reason you mentioned....the Bible says no one knows. We just try to live daily according to the precepts taught by Jesus and love even those who don't. The Bible does say we should live as though His return is imminent and let as many as will listen know about Him. Perhaps that is where the 49% believe they are living in the last days. Thank you for your videos.

[@ireneuszpyc6684]

it doesn't matter that the Bible says this or that; what matters is: how most followers feel/believe/interpret; religions work in a similar way to politics: 51% majority makes the rules; facts & science don't matter too: only the 51% majority's opinions do

[@gaylordpantamime]

If you believe in God you are stupid end of story

[@satellitebreakfast]

@@gaylordpantamime Hey, Shroom berry, did you know the current leader of the Latter-Day Saints Church is a world renowned heart surgeon, and one of the first people to use an artificial heart pump during surgery? Oh, but he believes in a God, so his medical degree is now void I guess.

[@bbbabrock]

Shroom Berry That's a bit of a stretch. Religion is a perniciouse meme that manages to infect even smart people. They aren't neccessarily stupid, just most probably wrong on that one point.

[@maxonmendel5757]

Shroom Berry it’s probably not good to write off a majority of the world’s population. I guess most people are stupid, but I wouldn’t necessarily correlate that with a belief in God. We can break that down, btw, into religion, spirituality, and superstition. I’ve met plenty of each. Superstitious people certainly seem stupid, especially in the age of the internet, but if they’re elderly try to cut them some slack and consider the world they lived in when all of the information wasn’t so available. With religious people, I guess you have those who follow religion blindly and then the people who study and have a religious lifestyle. I’m gonna focus on the latter for a second.. people who have a religious lifestyle seem to tend to have their lives together, if my observations count for anything. Belief in a higher power lends itself to a belief in a universal morality and that’s good. Also being educated in religion, whether it’s Christianity or Buddhism or whatever else, is the opposite of being stupid. Finally we have spiritual people. This might be old black women who pray for people (think War Room). Or it could be people who think they’re religious because they learned a lot in Sunday school but they aren’t actually educated in much when it comes to theology or world religion. Those people tend to be a little less smart. My point is, we have people who have doctorates in theology and ministry. Writing them off as stupid, end of story, is a little unfair when those people could probably talk circles around you. Unless of course, you don’t mind being considered stupid along with them.

[@the_socompsp]

PLOT TWIST: the constant predicting of the end of the world prevents the end of the world!

[@TheGamblingisgood]

I love the idea that God is like a bad TV writer, reading everyone’s plot-twist predictions on Twitter and spitefully pulling last minute rewrites.

[@dinamosflams]

It's basicly the opposite of scream "long live the queen!" Thus the queen will never die and the end will never come

[@monochromicornthetuna4256]

@@dinamosflams Damn. She's dead now💀

[@dinamosflams]

@@monochromicornthetuna4256 F

[@CarsSimplified]

At the time 13:59 this video shall end.

[@potatoman7407]

NOSTRODAMUS PREDICTED IT!!!! *cultist dancing and shouting*

[@AndrewVasirov]

When I pressed the timestamp, the video ended, revealing recommended videos thumbnails, yet the time at the bottom was the same as before clicking this timestamp. (like 12:38 / 13:58) Really weird, honestly. EDIT: I found the reason why, it is a bug. Click on a higher timestamp than the actual video and the video won't be able to show you exactly the time you're at so it keeps the previous one, but since it is after the time the video ends, it shows like it actually ended.

[@choppergamer]

it looped back

[@andrewhoward6946]

Clearly this was predicted in the bible, as Psalm 59:13 (starting with the seventh word but stopping before 13) says "That they may be no more" referring to the video ending of course. "But that's 59:13 not 13:59" you might say, obviously forgetting that time went backwards in the BC era, and thus extrapolated time codes should have the minutes and seconds reversed.

[@TehJosh]

@@andrewhoward6946 is: Nostradamus 2: Electric Predictaroo

[@louconover767]

Y2K was actually a real thing. Some of the more extreme predictions were exaggerated, but there was certainly a possibility of significant disruption in many of the systems that relied on a digital infrastructure. I know this because I was a software engineer, and I and many of my friends were busily at work fixing the systems that were by that time running pretty much everything. Our customers were all demanding Y2K compliance, as were we of our vendors. The whole industry put tremendous effort and resources into fixing the problem, and pretty much succeeded. In the end, Y2K was a non-event, and the reason is that it was recognized in time and averted. The reason for that and for so much of what gets done in our society is that there was money at stake, lots of it. The organizations that were at risk saw that doing nothing would cost them, and the organizations that were in a position to fix the problem saw that they could make a lot of money doing that work. Incidentally, there is a similar problem affecting mostly embedded Unix and Linux systems that are in almost everything, which is that dates past January 19, 2038 can't be represented. Hopefully, as with Y2K, it will get fixed in time. In any case, I'm going to try to avoid being in a self driving car on that day.

[@Nassifeh]

It was never going to be an apocalypse, just a very disruptive and dangerous event after which some people would be fine. But here we are, 4 years later, and I'm watching this going... apparently if you don't convince people something IS the literal apocalypse, they will refuse to endure any cost or slight inconvenience to deal with it? So, um, not feeling super optimistic about 2038 anymore....

[@shaunbarrie2263]

To be fair you should probably avoid being in a self driving car on ANY day.

[@kloa4219]

A underrated point about Y2K along with many potential disasters is that is was one of the many crisis averted by human research, planning, preparation, and cooperation, not by human fatalism and selfishness by hiding in bunkers and stocking up with ammunition like the majority of these "end times" groups.

[@jimmym3352]

I predict one day the world will end... When the sun envelops the Earth.

[@BERSERK263]

Or just gets to close

[@godzilla964]

That won't be a one day event. It'll take 5 billion years.

[@Hairysteed]

Will happen way before that: in 600 million years the sun's increasing luminosity will render photosynthesis impossible Still a long period... 600 million years *_ago_* was when multicellular life first appeared on Earth

[@aviz8590]

@@Hairysteed world will still technically exist

[@sahilhossian2449]

I predict one millennium the universe will end

[@thomasturner6980]

The end is near The end of 2018

[@vladtepes2667]

I will order a pizza before the end

[@grimtheghastly8878]

Best rendition of the Mona Lisa I've ever seen.

[@sandmart275]

And I haven't really done anything yet...

[@Roao_yutubin]

Oh shit, I haven't done anything worthwhile

[@dragomiryankov2461]

Winter is coming for the northern hemisphere

[@JBeestonian]

Oh man. I've never caught a Knowing Better video this early. Looks like fun.

[@XXRolando2008]

+

[@The_UmbrellaMan]

I was in fourth grade in 2012, I remember thinking that the end of the world craze was the dumbest thing I'd ever heard

[@StefanMilo]

Everytime I speak, you drink. I feel like I'm the crazy uncle giving an absolutely terrible wedding speech.

[@sandrapereira8310]

But what if the haters dab back?

[@KhAnubis]

Thought that voice sounded familiar...

[@Ugly_German_Truths]

Wait... he is not ventroloqui-ating? I thought that was why he sipped, to show "look, no moving lips" :D

[@StefanMilo]

@@KhAnubis I'm like dog poo, everywhere.

[@Shaun.Stephens]

+Stefan Milo Yet you still don't have this channel listed as one of your favourites or even as related to yours....

[@jordylont1879]

It took me 4 minutes and 50 seconds to figure out what the sipping of the drink meant. Clever. And then he explains it at 9:28. Damnit!

[@darthutah6649]

I just started the video, now it finally dawned on me.

[@thatfighterguy5846]

Jordy Lont I had a vauge understanding of the reference almost immediately.

[@wolferux]

5 minutes and 27 seconds, i should have known better... and earlier.

[@wolf1066]

I got it immediately - the benefit of being an old fart with an interest in doomsday cults (which I take to encompass all denominations of Christianity). When he grimaced taking a sip I was thinking "Man, he really doesn't like that Kool-Aid."

[@Thrna_1]

To drink the kool aid.

[@user-sf4fy8bq1h]

“When nothing happened on March 21, they just added seven months-because, you know, Seven.” 😂😭😂

[@Amateur0Visionary]

Your name is quite lovely :)

[@MrTimothy1967]

I think Jim Morrison sang it best... "The future's uncertain and the end is always near" "Roadhouse Blues"

[@NotHPotter]

I think on some level people look forward to the end of the world as an out to justify procrastination and bad behavior. What's the point of improvement and planning for the future when it will all be for naught, right? Despair being another form of denial, it's easier to consider progress pointless in the face of the (allegedly) inevitable, so instead people keep faffing about rather than addressing real problems.

[@bbbabrock]

Michael Wade I have a close relative who believes it a sin to be overly concerned w long term environmental problems, since it shows a lack of sufficient faith in Jesus that he will return soon enuf to straighten everything out. So appaerently it's a sin not to further global warming.

[@NotHPotter]

You should ask them how that squares with being given dominion of the earth and animals, and whether not taking care of something God entrusted humanity is a sin. Also, feel free to mention the parable of the talents, and how Jesus reacted to people who squandered gifts. I mean, if they're worth engaging with. I know people like that can be pretty draining.

[@rachel_sj]

I came here to say this. I’ve also heard that the End of the World is being ushered in by our “tolerance” of gay marriage and other pitiful excuses. I guess it’s just too hard to adhere to the teachings of Christ and love everyone as themselves.

[@d007ization]

Well, that, and in the cases of populists like Molly and Camping it's "The BIG ESTABLISHMENT, that we've been complaining about THE WHULE TIME, is negligent of what we, the smart enlightened know. Buy my stuff."

[@OutSideTheBoxFormat]

The Climate Change cult keeps telling me the world will end every 5 to 10 years. The glaciers were supposed to melt starting in the early 1900's. Womens rights were suppose to end when Kavanaugh became a supreme court justice.

[@Doctor_Birds]

How to make sure the rapture doesnt happen in your lifetime: every day predict that the world will end that day. Checkmate god.

[@dude7266]

You win

[@randyg22152]

Matthew Harmison but if you predict the end of the world all of the time, then no one believes you anyway, since you cried “wolf” too often, so the rapture will still surprise everyone anyway (as no one is looking for it that day, because they think that you are a quack prophet). Your move -God

[@thedarknessthatcomesbefore4279]

@@randyg22152 they are all quack prophets, the rapture is never going to happen, it's all made up don't you know?

[@themanbehindthebruhmoment502]

@@thedarknessthatcomesbefore4279 Guess the "-God" part flew over your head.

[@thedarknessthatcomesbefore4279]

@@themanbehindthebruhmoment502 👌😂

[@andrescorrea125]

the great disappointment .... that phone charger you bought at the gas station

[@GloryofLlama]

Andres Correa argh..... that dang 10’ charger from the giant truck stop in Iowa... sigh.

[@jordanforest2058]

Lol

[@agungpriambodo1674]

What about getting straight F s when your family get straight A s

[@gv1lle]

Ok, I am a Seventh-day Adventist, and even I gotta admit that THAT is hilarious

[@joshuapenner2164]

Interesting how when people predict the ends times, it is never beyond their life-span. Funny how that works.

[@ingrid44556]

Joshua Penner Jehovah Witnesses do and when it fails to happen as predicted they just completely ignore thru mental gymnastics

[@robiking011]

People of every generation think that they're special.

[@javierrivera9824]

Issac Newton was probably the only one that predicted after his life in a long way

[@defaultusername1145]

@@ingrid44556 I would say they ignore it is because there dead

[@Servo_M]

Thank you for debunking everyone's end time predictions. It is annoying when the Bible says something loud and clear but everyone takes it out of Context. God bless you and everyone here, Amen. And don't drink the Kool aid.

[@averagejoe6031]

One of the many ways of how crazy evangelicals don’t really represent most Christians as a whole

[@LarsPallesen]

I think you missed the point, buddy.

[@Servo_M]

@@LarsPallesen No I got the point of the video, I just wanted to point out the hypocrisy in some so called "Christians". As a Christian myself, I believe we must read the Bible in context, and kindly take it to others. With that said, I suppose I should fix my first comment now. The point I'm trying to make is, people won't turn to Jesus if they think of his people as a bunch of hypocrites who don't read their own book.

[@LarsPallesen]

@@Servo_M Or people won't 'turn to Jesus' because he died nearly 2000 years ago and they don't hold superstitious beliefs about a second coming.

[@highviewbarbell]

​@@LarsPallesen yeah, but, that's super lame. So anyway Christ was clear that no man can know the day or the hour, and thus our best bet is to just always live a good life, worship and do good works

[@dawnarnett]

I grew up with my entire family being Jehovah's Witnesses. I'm glad someone else did research to connect the Seventh Day Adventist. Since I've become an adult I've done a lot of research on the connections between Seventh Day and the witnesses.

[@imppro]

When you're feeling as though life is unfair, always remember, Macho Man died so you could live.

[@lordtrigon1733]

Well Hulk Hogan is a modern day Judas. 🤔

[@Shnugs]

I was raised SDA. It’s so crazy looking back on what I used to just believed without question.

[@geoffshaffer]

Great video as always! I'm officially saying "drink the Flavor-aid" from now on.

[@taylorsghtfgygg3211]

Dont go drinking the koolade on that "flavorade" stuff. Marie Antoinette never said the ""cake ' line, either- no-one cares.

[@chocotheminute907]

Surely you meant flavour my good sir. *casually sips tea*

[@geoffshaffer]

@@chocotheminute907 LOL! Yes, indeed. Thank you for your good humour.

[@antoniabenson5165]

I feel like this video needs an update for 2020. I mean, we basically went through multiple "apocalyptic" events. Also, it might be good to see a deep dive into evangelical eschatology and rapture theology; since it has such a massive influence on US Politics. I mean, some evangelicals are convinced that the rapture will happen any day now, and have been even more deeply convinced by the pandemic, wildfires, hurricanes, protests, and US election. Of course, there are probably a lot of discrepancies between them, but that is why a deep dive would be so interesting.

[@charischannah]

Some friends and I were joking about our "apocalypse bingo" cards in 2020. We had a surge in the population of looper moths here in southern BC in 2020--they were all over the place, plastered all over buildings and trees. It was wild. I got a checkmark for plague of insects on my bingo card for that.

[@helenr4300]

Of course that is a modern mindset. Covid was very serious, but 1918 flu was much bigger impact as medical options were so much less. Then go back further - The Madrid Earthquake in 1811 (felt in the US) was a moment of wondering that the end was near. And then there is centuries earlier when various waves of the Black Death/Plague crossed Europe, totally changing feudal society by the loss of labour and the power to the survivors to move to better paying options. So plenty of stronger reasons in previous generations than in current times to believe the end is nigh. (Note that this is merely eurocentric, I am sure that there are plenty of issues in other parts of the world, but they may also have totally different views of the world, history and whether any 'end of' event is due)

[@Roset595]

"Planetary Defense Officer" is officially the coolest job title ever

[@manewland1]

It's "Revelation" (singular). Also, the Rapture is fairly recent idea and restricted to North America; it got its start from Scottish Protestants back in the nineteenth century.

[@helenr4300]

Darby started the Rapture as a premillennialist early 1800s but not Scottish - An Englishman who preached in Ireland and came back to England to effectively found the Plymouth Brethren. His greatest success in promoting his ideas was in US although the version carried forward was not quite the same as his original. It didn't take hold in UK, but some of the mid 20th century US descendant ideas have come back across the pond in certain parts of the church (mostly those who model themselves on non denominational evangelical US churches)

[@maksimkrotov5587]

My Teacher used to have this theory of "2 cycles". One of which is 25-ish years, and the other is 117-ish. Those numbers were pulled out of his backside, because he somehow made a connection between the Russian revolution and the dissolution of Dutch East India. This Stefan guy got nothing on my former teacher. None of the Numerologists do either.

[@LeandroLopez-qd2pt]

That Stefan guy got nothing on nothing

[@maksimkrotov5587]

Nothing. Nothing is NULL. Numerology-wise, Null = 0. 0 is the number signifying Death. There are exactly two o's in your Username. o = 0. The Year 2020 has 2 2's and 2 0's. Which means we will all die in 2020. Is this how they make this up?

[@pauljones3017]

Just throw in some Bible verse and you're good to go.

[@maksimkrotov5587]

Exodus 20:20 Moses said to the people, "Do not be afraid. God has come to test you, so that the fear of God will be with you to keep you from sinning." 2020. Big Test. We all die.

[@maksimkrotov5587]

@@alexalbuquerquerodriguesal108 Now I have to live with the thought that I somehow made 2020 what it is...Scary times

[@kulrigalestout]

The first time I came across "The End", was when I was a kid playing Quake II while my dad had Nova on in the background. It was an episode about asteroids, and after detailing how it ended the dinosaurs they went into conjecture about how a similar event for us was long overdue. But hey, here comes Apophis! It's named after a death god, too! It's probably gonna kill us all! Naturally, I was scared. So I just tucked my head further into the game, and went back to driving an alien species into extinction for what they did to Earth in my magical land of pixels and shotguns. And then Y2K was on the horizon. I remember an article where Will Smith was interviewed about what he thought would happen, and the only part I remember was that he called it "the year 2G". Anyway, it was a HUGE deal. Computers were supposed to crash, sending us all the way back to the Dark Age and we would devolve into a feudal confederation of warlords. Jesus was supposed to come back and Rapture the faithful into Heaven before purging the Earth. To be fair, if computers as a whole crashed nowadays there would be mass panic, and if Jesus did Rapture the faithful then I guess God remembered that he wouldn't kill everyone again so left the rest of us alone. And then 2012 was the next big thing, because a long dead civilization didn't happen to have a calendar that, when modified to fit our calendar, didn't extend into 2013. I'm not sure what was supposed to happen other than an ambiguous "end", but some TV specials on the matter posited that it could be a spiritual awakening for Man. Yes, Man. It was a different time, kids. And then in 2016, an old guy with a spray tan and a habit of vomiting his thoughts on Twitter was elected president. He was supposed to nuke North Korea, Iran, and Russia, and they were supposed to nuke us back, and then we were all supposed to nuke everybody. In 2020, that old guy with a spray tan is going to be reelected, only this time he'll round up all the people of color and deny them toothbrushes. And in 2029, Apophis is supposed to thwack us again. At this point, I'm just gonna take The End in stride. I'm not going to worry about it, I'm not going to try and predict it, I'm not going to listen to anyone who does. It'll get here when it does, and I fully believe I'll be dead before it happens anyway.

[@TimberedHarborHero]

ha it’s funny because that old guy with sprayed on tan lost the 2020 election and got his twitter account permanently banned ha lol loser

[@BR0K3NARCH3TYP3]

1:30 there's no such thing as the "book of revelations". It's the Book of Revelation, as in it's actual title: A Revelation to John.

[@oceanmachine1906]

"The Apocalypse Of St John"

[@aw8079]

Keep it in church pal.

[@chipskylark5500]

Yeah well that name is much more stupid mate

[@MissInformer]

i remember when everyone thought the world was going to end on my birthday in 2012. the day before my family ate a whole birthday cake and felt like we were going to die.

[@ravinravi554]

Lol I remember watching ice age 4 with my classmates. I kinda felt guilty for ditching my parents because I wasn't sure if the prediction was real or not (I was still a kid, so don't blame me).

[@figeon]

Hey! We have the same birthday! I turned 13 on that day.

[@huge7800]

On that day Gangnam style reached two billion views.

[@MissInformer]

@@figeon same!

[@bigburd875]

I had to stay up all night with my parents because I was so scared (I was 12 and have mild autism)

[@maryamabdi7241]

I am a big fan of you from Iran. I really appreciated your clip about 13 reason why which used to be my favorite series. The third season was even worse than the second one :) You make me feel like I am knowing stuff around better. God bless you. Keep up the good work sir :)

[@1Dropboys]

Don't drink the kool-aid! I love your channel sir. Keep it up!

[@PatrickAllenNL]

Oh right that was the drink joke?

[@joeandrew8752]

Oh, that makes sense then. Feels like a coincidence lol

[@agungpriambodo1674]

Kool Aid is just sugar water he'll get fat again

[@crazykaspmovies]

49%, what the hell man. Every time a sentence contains "X% of americans believe Y" I lose a little part of my fragile faith in humanity.

[@CptCPT-dl9lh]

Ckasp What percent of your humanity?

[@strategossable1366]

you lose a little part of your fragile faith in 4.3% of humanity? USA /=/ the world

[@garyermann]

When it comes to those really bone headed questions, I always wonder if just the mere act of asking the question is biasing the response. How many of those 49% are actually going about their day thinking about the fact they are in the biblical end times? How many are just saying "yes" simply because they are asked the question in a way that makes it seem like us being in the end times is a viable answer? Obviously it's pretty much impossible to know since the only practical way to know if someone believes something is to ask them My thought is that if 49% of people are ridiculous enough to believe that we're actually in the biblical end times, at least a significant portion of those are unthinking enough to answer "yes" simply because they are asked the question, not because it's what they actually believe.

[@crazykaspmovies]

True enough, the data isn't exactly representative of the global population. But I'd argue that it's at least indicative of a worrying trend of people believing entirely silly things. And with these thoughts in their head, they make decisions that have long lasting effects on the real world. That's hardly ideal

[@strategossable1366]

+ckasp yes and no. In regards to these trends it is almost always the US that is an outlier. For example, believing in a flat earth or denying man-made climate change or thinking that the world is going to end soon are all beliefs that are more commonly held amongst Americans than amongst most other developed nations. In Europe, for example, believing in any of those things would mark someone out as a crazy conspiracy theorist, but in America, it is almost normalised.

[@mizuchithedragon2757]

I thought the great disappointment happened on June 21st, my birthday.

[@kitrana]

while planes probably wouldn't have crashed because radar doesn't care what year it is Y2K was a big deal in alot of ways. it is just that the seriousness of the issue and the amount of hype it got is entirely undercut by just how much work went into making sure it didn't become a problem. the success of IT personel world wide in fixing this issue is what turned Y2K into a joke.

[@MrThewildrider]

IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT AND I FEEL FIIIIIIINE

[@nic6597]

😂 Was searching for that

[@lukko6117]

"Which would put the end right about now" Its starting to look like the end every day further into 2021

[@TheMrblessed]

Well...

[@TheDavidlloydjones]

Actually, Jesus comes again every five or ten years, whenever He's not busy on the other planets in His portfolio. Most of the time He just looks around and then goes on to His next assignment. Now and then He'll toss in a plague or an Elvis just to perk things up a bit, but that's about it. So far....

[@Urielthalas]

why was "or an Elvis" the funniest part to me?

[@ravenlord4]

Joke's on you! I'm watching your End of the World video from my Y2K bunker.

[@oranjethefox8725]

Well, 7 years after his death in 2013...

[@SpiralingUniverses]

**uh oh**

[@astrobot4017]

"Anyone not wearing 2 million sunblock is gonna have a really bad day!"

[@metoo3342]

Player 1 How's the knee?

[@Reflox1]

This Miller guy seems interesting, you should definitely make a video on that

[@Elite7555]

Wow. When I googled "The Great Disappointment" I wasn't expecting to literally find exactly that.

[@ayu-fq4xm]

Watching from Turkey! I would say that we love you from here but I'm literally the only human in Turkey that watches you... Btw I love your videos!

[@sugaredwards6207]

Ayu Respawn Not True! I know a guy!

[@talos_the_automaton2329]

Watching in Turkey as well!

[@cimachu]

It's so unsettling how you get a disporportionately high number of my favorite youtubers to do voices or reading in your videos, even the ones I think of as somewhat obscure...

[@amirmirzaei3940]

I kinda liked the old school intros where you would do those things in real life, maybe do one of those every like 5 or 6 videos?

[@alexanderf8451]

The Y2K bug really was quite serious. The only reason nothing happened is because years were spent checking which systems would have errors and fixing them. Even with all the work minor issues were still found in fairly important systems like hospitals and government offices. For instance several children in South Korea were issued birth certificates from 1900 in early January 2000.

[@midwesternerer]

it’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine

[@frankripley3419]

Thank God for Macho Man dying for all of our sins.

[@jearmeymorgan8297]

Don't give God the thanks that the macho man deserves dear brother..

[@JonathonIsTheMan]

He wasn't the hero we deserved, but he was the hero we needed.

[@JonathonIsTheMan]

After all.... He was the Cream of the Crop.

[@jordanforest2058]

Lol

[@davidguerrero1636]

Terence McKenna started the 2012 Mayan calendar meme back in the 90's.

[@neestovekin8251]

Yea, he's a legend

[@troyevitt2437]

And Art Bell unintentionally fed into Heaven's Gate's bullshit.

[@johnalanelson]

I grew up as a fundamentalist baptist and we took the Bible's word for it when it said nobody could know when the end will come. As one preacher put it "we've been in the last days for 2000 years!"

[@ScowlieMeerkat]

It really, really bugs me when people lump the concern over Y2K computer problems in with superstitions and made-up predictions. Like how do you even mention that in the same breath as the absurd 2012 crap? A LOT of people put in a LOT of work in the years and months leading up to the year 2000 upgrading, protecting, and replacing systems that could have indeed mishandled the date due to shoddy coding, and such mishandling could have indeed had unpredictable effects. It wasn't silly and it wasn't baseless.

[@Gonzalo_105]

Yes. But the "worlds gona end" was silly and baseless

[@brasspick]

...and if i remember correctly, there was still some monor glitches in some outdated systems. Thanks to the diligence of the technicians Y2K could've been much worse.

[@laxjoh]

The average layman who believed in Y2K was NOT someone concerned over computer problems. It was mostly superstitious people.

[@quickscopeoneeighty9158]

My computer told me it was 00. How can that be right? I guess it's the end of time.

[@Hideyoshi1991]

Its a computer m8 going from 1999 to 2000 is not that complicated the Y2K thing was just a misunderstanding of some of the simplest things computers do

[@Quiro26]

Good use of the REM music

[@Katherine_The_Okay]

Any video that starts with REM gets a thumbs up from me

[@thatguy1917]

Quiro that was not R.E.M. It was a completely original composition that in no way resembles any previously published work. Like Ricky Rouse or Ronald Ruck and for the record this rant was in no way copped from the Simpsons.

[@Kuji_RaWWR]

its febuary 2023 and we are still here hello people in the future, hope yiu are doing well

[@koalasandwich567]

I loved the homage to It's the End of the World as We Know it by REM during the open titles

[@joeevans5770]

This feels like a prequel video to his religion videos

[@SolarFlareAmerica]

I love that you also felt disappointed by the last jedi.

[@mellakat80]

I'm a Christian and I'm so tired of hearing Christians around me saying we're living in "the last days."

[@isaackangas6921]

I hear you, but also technically we live in the end times biblically. After Jesus's resurrection the church age is last days/end times

[@LarsPallesen]

According to Christians we've been living in "the last days" for the past 2000 years and counting. Even Paul the apostle thought he was living in "the last days".

[@k.c1126]

@@LarsPallesen Just remember that if we take the Bible seriously, we've only lived through 2 of God's days..... It would be nifty if people would use their energy to life as Christ wanted us to instead of trying to second guess God .... but .... [shrugs]

[@danthebookhunter]

Except for the brief period of the English Civil War and Commonwealth (1649-1660) the British Empire has lasted since 1066, about 950 years.

[@DaleGribble0111]

We’ve been living in “The Last Days” now for hundreds, maybe even thousands of years now. Every generation of people thought theirs would be the last 😂👍.

[@iae8793]

man, instead of having the Christan end of the world, lets get the norse one. that way it's easy to get ready. just watch for the Fimbulvetr (3 consecutive years of winter), and get your weapon of choice ready.

[@awfullygenericname6783]

That’s a very scientific sign of the end of the world. That’s because ash sent by an asteroid collision or nuclear winter would block the sun out and most plant life would die. I’d recommend not getting your weapons ready, but build a bunker with a vertical farm near the ocean, build some sort of saltwater filtration system so you can filter saltwater for you, your friends and your plants. It might help to build a thorium reactor and hoard thorium (safely) to last a thousand years or more. You only need to go out for fertilizer.

[@Zamolxes77]

@@awfullygenericname6783 And by fertilizer I mean the dead bodies of your enemies, slain by your weapon of choice!!!

[@daca8395]

Wait, can the living take part in Ragnarok? If Odin (for slavs, Perun leads the last battle) calls, I wanna go!

[@ignemuton5500]

Got an end times church ad on this video, amazing.

[@МаркПоддубный-ц5ж]

This is one of the best or even the best education channel in the world!!!

[@egaliseur8430]

wait, The Unification Church is still a thing! A friend of mine grew up Moonie.

[@Riurelia]

10:55 Yes I do remember. I was about nine years old or so and I actually believed that. I remember waking up the next day thinking "Well, we're still here so maybe my mom is right, the world isn't going to end today".

[@SPELTMUSIC]

comparing waco and sandy hook in terms of how prevalent the conspiracy theories around them are is even more tragic when you realize that alex jones was behind both conspiracy theories. reporting on waco was where alex jones got a huge boost in popularity.

[@reflectedcrosssite2848]

6:32 Man I remember being a JW and stopping video exactly at that moment cause I didn't want to hear anything negative. Glad I'm out now I do have to point out 2 mistakes: They are old earth creationists Their first failed prediction was in 1914, not 1941

[@ParasaurolophusEwan]

Yay! That R.E.M song is one of my favorites!

[@TheChurchofAmericanGreatness]

You may already know this, but 153 fish is possibly the author's wink to Archimedes, who made 153/265 the "measure of the fish". Writers did that regularly. For instance in the passage about five loaves and two fish, the Greek word for loaves appears five times, while the word fish appears twice. Little gimmicky wordplay of several sorts is irritatingly common throughout those particular works of literature.

[@cvwoller]

I really feel uncomfortable finding this in my recommendations right now

[@Amateur0Visionary]

Don't worry, we made it through 2020 just fine! Let's not talk about 2021 though...

[@gravecode]

It sounds like some people can't wrap their head around the fact the humanity will continue living long after their deaths

[@HelderGriff]

Narcissism?

[@50043211]

I love it how these people simply ignore ancient Egypt which was already 2.5k years old when Caesar and Cleopatra had adult fun and then of course China. They are going since the first Punic War but hey, details, right!

[@Chef_PC]

That Darth Vader cameo.

[@yellowrose0910]

Revelations warns against trying to determine the date of The End. It also warns against Bibliomancy. These "Christians" don't even read their Bible!

[@wanderingontheway]

I was involved extensively in preparing for y2k. It was a crisis averted, not a fair crisis. In the late 90s there were indeed many systems that couldn't handle dates after 99.

[@coloradobrad6779]

2:30 and 2:42 KB drinking the poisoned kool aid and know he hates how movies are dumbed down explaining each scene. He drops the subtlety for us to piece together. Thanks, KB!

[@undead_corsair]

"Planetary Defense Officer" wins the contest for coolest job title.

[@lapisdragon1237]

They get the 20 generation stuff from Peter Turchin(author of Secular Cycles)who was talking about societal collapses and not the collapse of empires.

[@andybsmith]

I can guarantee that if someone says the "end" is going to be on a particular date, it will definitely not be on that date.

[@controlledsingularity8084]

Can never dismiss the slim chance of nuclear armageddon on any particular day :)

[@Nuvizzle]

It's not that surprising that every generation (of religious people) wants to be the last generation. After all, for them it's essentially the best thing that could happen. No matter how faithful you are, you're going to die without ever really knowing if your beliefs are real. Armageddon would be comforting because you would have your faith confirmed before going into your eternal bliss or whatever and fuck the sinners they can just burn.

[@metoo3342]

Sly Goat My sister said if she went to heaven she wouldnt care if I was burning in hell.

[@eroszakos9042]

@me too ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@metoo3342]

Soren Kaosz thanks

[@jeffii9890]

Not every and not all. What's not surprising is some immature know-it-all on the internet speaking in absolutes.

[@twotonedrebel1891]

@@caiawlodarski5339 Besides that sarcasm, they're one of the most hypocritical and selfish people that adamantly refuse to admit they are. Bad people go to hell, yet Satan, the embodiment of evil, tortures them for the acts he supported. Is he prison warden or a fucking tyrant? Good people go to heaven, and become perfect zombies because they can't commit sin anymore. Meanwhile, their loved ones are screaming in eternal agony. That'd make any sympathetic human to try to reach out. But, they can't out of fear that God would change his mind. Oh yeah, this religion literally worships death. The most fun subject to preach about. Pretty sad.

[@spoon_er]

I got an ad how about how the 'End is Near' xd

[@timothymclean]

I feel that it's worth noting that the Gospels imply that the end times would be coming soon. I'm pretty sure it's in the Gospels where Jesus says that some of his original disciples will still be alive for his Second Coming. But hey, the kinds of people who calculate the End Times based on random Bible verses are already ignoring good swathes of their holy book to do so, what's the context provided by a few verses?

[@djKeu]

Apparantly that's the reason they waited that long to get about on writing the scriptures. He was supposed to return while the original disciples were still around and thus they didn't see the need for any scriptures until years after his death. Assuming he actually existed in the first place.

[@AureliusLaurentius1099]

Well if you look up another interpretation, you could say the 'end times' Christ was refering to was the end of Israel as a nation which is 70 A.D and some of his disciples were still alive when that happen so yea.

[@oceanmachine1906]

Yes, the Gospels do depict an impending view of the time being nigh

[@TwentyPaphonies]

Let’s be real. The world actually ended in 2012 and we’ve all been living in purgatory ever since.

[@pauliusiv6169]

it sometimes sure feels like that's the case

[@daca8395]

Or this is some ironic version of hell?