The trouble with death cults is that they require an end time. They must constantly feed their adherents a constant diet of fear and impending horror. The sun is going to get too cold or is it too hot; aliens are coming (quick cut off your nuts), Jesus is coming on the next cloud, sun storms will wipe out our satellites and revert us to the dark age; global warming, global cooling, y2k, etc., oh eeek :roll:
It has been my observation that this notion plagues every fibre of North American culture. Always there is a new threat being peddled. It must be sold as horrendous and earth shattering if it is to compete with the horrific apocalypse the king of death cults (Christianity) has dreamed up or it's inevitable replacement Islam.
The question I ask is who benefits?
I have been watching this quite closely now and always, with every doom and gloom apocalypse someone has dreamt up, there is someone who benefits.
I would say this notion is so invasive in our culture that it is almost required. We have to have a threat, some global crisis or impending catastrophe, for our political and economic system to function. This requirement is so engrained that if we don't have one we manufacture it.
In short, religious or not, it seems to me most North Americans buy into this BS because we are a death cult culture.
It is very telling how angry people become when you dismiss their latest theory on how we're all going to die (typically in very nasty ways); if you tell them to just relax and not to worry. People don't like that. They'll argue that everything is wrong, that we are going to die. Why would they do that? I don't think they really believe it. Certainly few people act on it.
So here is my question: Why do we need an apocalypse? How does it make you feel better and why do you defend it?
Could it be that as a culture founded by death cultists that we really require doomsday for meaning and purpose as they obviously do?
Is meaning in life only found in fighting the latest global threat or preparing the soul for the return of a decidedly nasty sky god?
It has been my observation that this notion plagues every fibre of North American culture. Always there is a new threat being peddled. It must be sold as horrendous and earth shattering if it is to compete with the horrific apocalypse the king of death cults (Christianity) has dreamed up or it's inevitable replacement Islam.
The question I ask is who benefits?
I have been watching this quite closely now and always, with every doom and gloom apocalypse someone has dreamt up, there is someone who benefits.
I would say this notion is so invasive in our culture that it is almost required. We have to have a threat, some global crisis or impending catastrophe, for our political and economic system to function. This requirement is so engrained that if we don't have one we manufacture it.
In short, religious or not, it seems to me most North Americans buy into this BS because we are a death cult culture.
It is very telling how angry people become when you dismiss their latest theory on how we're all going to die (typically in very nasty ways); if you tell them to just relax and not to worry. People don't like that. They'll argue that everything is wrong, that we are going to die. Why would they do that? I don't think they really believe it. Certainly few people act on it.
So here is my question: Why do we need an apocalypse? How does it make you feel better and why do you defend it?
Could it be that as a culture founded by death cultists that we really require doomsday for meaning and purpose as they obviously do?
Is meaning in life only found in fighting the latest global threat or preparing the soul for the return of a decidedly nasty sky god?
