I think many of us are feeling like we are falling to pieces in both the singular and collective sense. — Joshua Jones
the end of the world as we know it” — Joshua Jones
this wasn't intended to be a thread convincing people it was the end of the world. People come to a fire because they want heat, light and company - not to be convinced that they are cold, in the dark and lonely. — Joshua Jones
I am inspired by many thinkers who found themselves really tormented by the Fall of their Empires - Augustine, Boethius, Milton, DeLillo - there are countless others. And taking their thoughts as “dead trees of life” that we can chop into firewood - practical, applied insights - for heat and light in these times. — Joshua Jones
Now that Winter, as long predicted, has arrived... — Joshua Jones
Now that we seem to have quite definitely arrived at “the end of the world as we know it”, engines stopped, steam wafting through the air, conductors absent, and doors open, I’m not feeling fine. — Joshua Jones
One civilisation's winter is another's summer. — Banno
I am looking for people who are specifically feeling the need for “end-time philosophies” - schools of thought that you feel are especially valuable when external meaning-making and systems, and their many discoveries, fail. — Joshua Jones
My son tells me this sense of living through the collapse of civilization is pretty common among twentysomethings.
There was also an episode of RadioLab about the curious rise of nihilism in popular culture — Srap Tasmaner
What writers have you found that have kept you going, and you believe might help others? — Joshua Jones
Perhaps you'll remember you had this chance to talk it out when the death tolls rise and rise, but then again, probably not. — Joshua Jones
As someone who claims to be educated and a counsellor no less, you seem to have a penchant for emotive and passive aggressive language. Could it be that as a counsellor your work is overshadowed by your own anxieties? All this talk of burning books and burning people, Joshua - just how helpful do you think this might be? — Tom Storm
I have no new tales to tell, just a desire to see the darkness for what it is, and some companions to share in the light. — Joshua Jones
Tell me why I'm wrong. Show me your viewpoint why I should feel like society is collapsing, or that winter is coming. Challenge me, and we shall discuss your assumptions and see if they hold up when detailed. — Philosophim
well done apocalypse (as opposed to a half-assed piece of rubbish) raises this unpleasant question: If our light of the world could be so easily extinguished, what earthly good were we in the first place? A lot less than we like to think. — Bitter Crank
To preface, it appears that these comments might be filled with pseudo-intellectuals that are want of confidence - seeing that many fail to engage with the question, and resort to condescension. It is a shame, and we may take pity on them. — Sean Staton
On the Beach (1957) by Nevill Shute — Bitter Crank
Don't be clouded by the apocalyptic visions of Christianity, That is but one vision, which lacks the unrestrained positivity inherent in other traditions. — Hanover
I am inspired by many thinkers who found themselves really tormented by the Fall of their Empires — Joshua Jones
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