Reply #9: It's ended plenty of times. [View All]

[Occam Bandage]

Whenever people start talking about "the end of the world," they're usually responding to stirrings of societal or cultural change. They see the world as they know it ending, and it's very difficult to distinguish "the world as I know it" from "the world," for obvious reasons.

The world ended in the 400s AD. The world ended around 1000 AD. The world ended around 1500 AD, around 1700 AD, certainly around 1800 AD, around 1850 AD, and ended just about every decade of the 20th century. Given that the ends of the world seem to be accelerating, I would estimate that the world will enter a constant state of ending sometime this century.