These are the most recent diaries filed under this tag: |
New climate change studies suggest that scientists and governments may have underestimated the threat posed to human civilization because of risks posed by “amplifying climatic feedback loops.” According to a study published by One Earth, “an...
by Alan Singer
on Wed Apr 26, 2023 at 12:33 PM PDT
with 14 Recommends
|
The Doomsday Clock, created 76 years ago by atomic scientists to warn against a human-made apocalypse, has moved to 90 seconds to midnight. I was not yet 1 year old when the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists initiated the clock in 1947 at seven minutes...
by Meteor Blades
on Tue Jan 24, 2023 at 08:35 AM PST
with 87 Recommends
|
My girlfriend and I have been having a discussion about the idea of apocalypse. She is a Native American. I am the descendant of Russian Jews. Both of our cultures have in some ways been lost due to separate genocides. Genocides that are apocalypses....
by kumarplocher
on Fri Jan 20, 2023 at 02:43 PM PST
with 11 Recommends
|
So Slate has this article about why so many right wing Christians believe we are living in the "end times." It's a pretty good article; Molly Olmstead does a decent job of outlining the various nuances of eschatological thought amongst the...
by the one who knows
on Thu Oct 06, 2022 at 10:10 PM PDT
with 98 Recommends
|
When we look at our current dysfunctional politics, we tend to focus on the GOP’s mad lust for power at any cost. As such, we often see the GOP courting of fundamentalists and conservative Catholics as strategic planning on the GOP’s part to get more...
by Dan K
on Sun Jul 03, 2022 at 09:53 AM PDT
with 43 Recommends
|
The Four Horsemen appear on the news every day: war, disease, famine, environmental catastrophe. Gee, who could have seen this coming? Whoever wrote the Book of Revelation two thousand years ago, for one. None of these things are exactly new in human...
by AliceT4
on Sun Mar 20, 2022 at 09:12 AM PDT
with 28 Recommends
|
What does it take to hire a thug to kill someone on your own side? What kind of mindset has so little regard for human life that it all becomes one big game of checkers? Thug mindset. But this is not about Putin, but a much closer and more dangerous...
by gonzoliberal
on Sat Jan 15, 2022 at 11:11 AM PST
with 10 Recommends
|
Just a little update from purgatory. My little rural hospital is now officially in crisis. Inpatient census is 120% of capacity with gasping coughing COVID patients packed into every available nook and cranny. All surgical procedures were put on hold...
by Ralphdog
on Fri Dec 03, 2021 at 07:34 AM PST
with 626 Recommends
|
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. My Extreme World And (Un)Welcome to It By Tom Engelhardt Admittedly, I hadn’t been there for 46 years, but old friends of mine...
by TomDispatch
on Thu Aug 12, 2021 at 07:44 AM PDT
with 5 Recommends
|
My parents’ hometown was among the places recently flooded in Germany. My mom and I reached out to my relatives there and fortunately they’re OK. It’s still weird seeing a familiar place from ...
by jck
on Wed Jul 21, 2021 at 05:30 PM PDT
with 29 Recommends
|
“The battle against extinction can only be a collective endeavor.” Sophie Pinkham “The Collective body” THE NATION 4/13/2020 Way back, in the midst of the Vietnam War, Watergate, energy shortages, pollution, and cities in riot, my friends and I would...
by Gregg Matson
on Fri Apr 16, 2021 at 08:18 AM PDT
with 9 Recommends
|
Watchtower Revisited (B. Cole, B. Dylan, B. Shakespeare) {three voices, male and female with a narrator} “Nobody knows the way outta here!” Cried the Juggler to the Thief; “We’re cornered by a cold collusion In which there’s no belief: Business* men,...
by nailbender
on Wed Dec 09, 2020 at 07:56 AM PST
with 11 Recommends
|
Via Pacific Standard: INSIDE THE MINDS OF HARDCORE TRUMP SUPPORTERS New research finds the president's earliest and strongest followers embody a particularly belligerent strain of authoritarian thinking. Note that this report by Tom Jacobs is...
by xaxnar
on Thu Sep 17, 2020 at 09:26 AM PDT
with 18 Recommends
|
In these troubled, interesting, complicated times it is easy to forget sometimes about what matters most in the world- preventing a nuclear doomsday scenario. After all, if there were to be a nuclear war none of the other issues we find so important...
by xil
on Sun Aug 02, 2020 at 02:37 AM PDT
with 8 Recommends
|
For me, Mother's Day has always been a day on, not a day off. It has been a day to mark passages in my children's' lives and in my own journey learning to be a mother. A day to contemplate things I might have done right and to reflect upon my many...
by EBuechner
on Sun May 10, 2020 at 12:31 PM PDT
with 2 Recommends
|
Sitting here in New York City, Manhattan, we’re acutely aware of our island vulnerability to being cut off from basic supplies shipped in from the mainland. When social distancing first got serious in the City, supermarket shelves emptied. I wasn’t...
by citixen
on Fri Apr 03, 2020 at 11:34 PM PDT
with 14 Recommends
|
From a New York Times interview which I’ll never forget; the author recounts meeting with Hillary just a couple of weeks before the ill-fated election. After a few minutes, another press aide,
by Colorado Blue
on Sun Mar 29, 2020 at 10:25 AM PDT
with 266 Recommends
|
Bur first, Sarah Palin in a pink bear suit sings sir mix a lot baby got back……. AND now, without further adieu...the memes…. Hope you enjoyed now add your own or comment lets lighten up and have a little fun. Don’t forget to bleach your eyes, because I...
by sillyputty2000
on Wed Mar 18, 2020 at 02:30 AM PDT
with 30 Recommends
|
Others have speculated on this question, and I have previously posted a diary in which I argued that evangelicals support Trump because his support for Israel may trigger the apocalypse. But I want to propose a different angle of interpretation:...
by Dan K
on Fri Feb 21, 2020 at 11:42 AM PST
with 31 Recommends
|
I want to get some feedback on a topic I’m researching for my book on religion: the degree to which some Christian fundamentalists may be actively working to trigger the apocalypse. I’m not going to get into the weeds here (keep your sighs of relief to...
by Dan K
on Sun Feb 16, 2020 at 10:20 AM PST
with 8 Recommends
|