Belief That the End of The World is Coming Spawns TikTok Frenzy Called 'RaptureTok': What to Know

People so often have thought the rapture was coming and ... it doesn't. How often can people be fooled? Why are they so gullible ... oh yeah, religion.

To be entirely fair, we are like 2 cubic meters of carbon dioxide away from total ecological collapse. Made-made climate change is now beyond any threshold where we previously had reasonable expectations of being able to prevent it. The oceans will rise, climate catastrophes will increase, and the world will become more hostile.
It kind of feels like were frogs in a boiling pot, and we're living though the apocalypse now. But the wifi still works, so scroll on and don't think about it too much.
- Yeah I mean things are definitely going to shit but these people whole heartedly believe that they’re going to float into the sky naked and have to make sure there’s a Democrat assigned to take care of their pets after they’re gone
- Made-made climate change is now beyond any threshold where we previously had reasonable expectations of being able to prevent it.
  Something we could have led the world in averting like we did with ozone-depleting chemicals, if it wasn't for all the christians who believed there is no such thing as a future, that everything is just some kind of prophecy unfolding and nothing is even "real" and just a big test of some kind of from God.
  The Christian mandate for pillaging the earth of all its resources because Genesis can be translated that we have dominance over all other life as well as the death-cult attitudes of the modern followers have directly led to some of our worst outcomes and if anyone survives the next millennium, the religious people of today will be seen as the world's most horrendous mass-murderers.
- So that makes you think you'll go to heaven in a couple of days?
Also generations.
Old folk like me have lived through several end of the world predictions ..... I really don't care any more.
But new young generations haven't so they are more likely to believe them ... like I did the first few times it happened.
(and if you're wondering when I first believed those predictions, they were mostly before my tenth birthday when several predictions said either Jesus was coming back or nuclear war was about to happen ... all things I believed because adults said so)
..... a funny thought experiment is to think that the world did end 20, 30 or 40 years ago and this is all the afterlife .... we just don't know it.
People so often have thought the rapture was coming and ... it doesn't.
You sure about that? We've had innocent people disappeared off the streets in droves, sent to the land of "The Savior" (El Salvador).
Are we sure that the Rapture isn't happening right now, and none of us are in it?
- Guess it would make sense for the christian god to continue on his bullshit and send even more people to eternal torment.

"No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father." So, if someone claims to know the day, well, that's one day where it definitely will not happen!

We just need someone to declare every day that the rapture will happen. Then it won't happen during their lifetime. After the person dies, appoint someone else as rapture declarer. Voila, no more rapture.
- A good application for AI. No need to worry about missed days or unexpected ends to lifetime.
The arrogant shits think they can force God's hand. If there was a God, he'd blast them with a bolt of lightning, or at least some kind of plague.

what’s telling I suppose is that I fucking hope the end is near. i’m exhausted, depressed, sad, and generally realizing at 46 I am watching “peers” and family retire at 62, 64, 67, or 72 an then die a year later. While capitalism just eats up all it can of these people.

“I got people waiting for me” is what I say when I mention I don’t care if I wake up tomorrow; yet I’m certain there is some sort of Orpheus and Eurydice level trickery too.

So we just wait and watch the world burn.

If fewer people thought like this, and we came together to fight what's happening, then it wouldn't be this way. But everybody just wants to sit around and be sad about it instead of actually trying to make a difference.
And I get it- it's overwhelming, and it's a lot easier to say "I told you so," than it is to say "We fought hard and won."
- But everybody just wants to sit around and be sad about it instead of actually trying to make a difference.
  This makes me a little indignant to read because it shows me that you understand absolutely nothing about declining mental health and how much of an impact it can have on people, their well-being, and their ability to do … things.
  If fewer people had your mentality, maybe the sad, depressed, and chronically stressed out people suffering from very real trauma could get the help they so desperately deserve.
  Life pro tip: when someone says they are tired, they don’t mean they’re sleepy or lazy. It means they are beaten down so hard that their only sane course of action is to simply stay down, lest they get beaten more.
- sure. just remember: nothing I wrote indicates I don’t also try to make a difference where I can. ;)
- No, not everyone. And sometimes things are built up to keep enough people down and tired to prevent making a difference. One can have fought and won a few battles but still be losing the war, and be entitled to say "I've been telling you so". Never generalize - many labeled "doomers" are simply people who have been trying to change the world, and the world is simply too big and they've seen too much.
While I sympathize with you for feeling exhausted and depressed, it's frankly rather selfish of you to go from that to "and therefore everyone should die." There are people who are doing okay and there are people who are exhausted and depressed but who still want to make a go of it. Don't wish for the world to end because they're still using it.
or you could do something
- i dodo stuff. been a first responder for 20 years. help with my community in ways i can. heck I’ve even served on unelected boards/commissions too.
  it’s possible to also be exhausted.
- not mutually exclusive
- Dude's not even stealing from his boss and crooked corporations to get ahead.
- such as
I think this is why so many people are pulled into this kind of thinking. I can't say I don't sympathise. I do believe that a better world is possible, but it feels increasingly unlikely that I'll get to see it.
I do what I can to push for things to improve, through political organising and supporting my community in whatever way I can, but it's hard not to become morally burnt out when I know that I'm doing only a fraction of what I theoretically could be due to constantly struggling to keep my head above water. That's how the capitalist engine continues to chug onwards as it does.
Here's the part where I wish I could say something reassuring, but I can't. I'm far younger than you are, so I know that if I'm feeling exhausted, then it would be trite and foolish to think I could make you feel hopeful about your future when I don't even know if I have hope for myself. In lieu of hope, please accept this offer of solidarity. It doesn't do much to change the suckish reality we find ourselves in, but nonetheless, it feels important to highlight that you're not alone in feeling this way. For what it's worth, I'm glad you're still with us, and I hope that you find some solace, in this life or the next.
- thank you.
Despite challenges coming up, our world is broadly in the best state it's ever been in. We are objectively at an all-time high in lifespans, quality of life and reduced war and violence.
You really, really need to turn off the news and social media (like this site) more and spend more time in your moments. I am speaking as one of your peers here. You are gonna regret spending too much time despairing over things you can't change when you could find small joys in the miraculous world we have around us. You have likely been disheartened growing up in the same world I did thinking that we would have a future with food replicators and starships. That's a hard one to let go of, I know, but there is still magic and wonder we can experience in our daily lives.
Yah you're gonna die, we all will.
So make the most of your short time and go plant a garden, take a hike, raise a puppy, learn a new language, travel to places where people don't actually dwell on the sorrows and learn from them.
No, I'm not giving you platitudes here, I am promising you, you will regret spending too much time in sorrow. The world will feel most wondrous and magical when you know your time is short, and you WILL wonder why you didn't work harder to stretch that time out.
- it really took a turn when i was 32. i held my wife as she died of cancer then had to tell the kids. yep the world sucks and i do what i can to help my community. but at the end of the day .. I just got lots of healing to do for sure. thanks for your kind words. :)
- Weren't things better in early 2019 than they are now?
Thank you. My mom is 70 and still working and I can't even tell her not to because at 43 I can barely support myself. I HOPE the fucking rapture happens
I am watching “peers” and family retire at 62, 64, 67, or 72 an then die a year later
That happens, usually when people retire because they can't go on anymore. The other group that it happens to are the ones whose job is their whole identity. When they quit, they lose the will to live.
Then there are people like me. I retired at 55, did a lot of travel and volunteer projects, then went back to work four years later because I found an interesting job with good working conditions. Now I'm 70 and will probably work another year. I didn't quit the first time because I was unable to continue, I had other reasons, and I'm fully able to keep on keepin' on now too. I don't have any expensive vices and don't buy into consumerism, so I'll be able to retire late next year with a higher disposible income than I have now from working. I still have things I'd like to do that'll be easier if I'm not holding down a job (e.g., going on month-long bike rides). Nobody knows how much time they have left, but I'm fit and healthy and enjoy life, so chances are reasonable that I'll get quite a few more years with decent quality of life. And if not, no use fretting over what you can't control.

In case anyone is interested this service exists After the rapture pet care. For a small fee ($10) a group of atheists will check on your pets should you be raptured.

I used to have a sticker on my beater car that read "In case of rapture, can I have your car?"
Not that I'd really want a fuckin' SUV or pickup. Those are what all those bastards seem to drive.

What if the rapture DID actually happen. But it turns out the only person who qualified was some baker from a village in Greece so no one noticed...

That would be beautiful ❤️

What to know

It's tiktok bullshit. I already know everything I need to know.

There's nothing on TikTok that anyone needs, besides sponsors and influencers trying to make a buck.

Straight up, these motherfuckers need to be sequestered in isolation cells that double as trash compactors (à la Star Wars: A New Hope) and dispose of them if the date comes and goes without rapture. Christians need to start holding their prophets to a higher standard. In theory, there should be no worry, as there's no real danger due to the prophet in question having ascended and vacated the room before its scheduled compaction cycle, right?

Why the heck did they compact their garbage if they just eject it into space anyway?
- Garbage in the Star Wars universe probably wasn't explicitly outlined in the same way that trash remediation is IRL. The general idea with compacting trash it that you maintain the size of the container, but cram as much garbage into that volume of space as possible (cramming crap farther into trash can to make a little more room on top), thus reducing the number of times you have to deal with a trash container vs. amount disposed of.

I love the people selling their cars. Why are you selling your car? In what twisted logic does it make any sense? You think Jesus is worried about your cash holdings? Does heaven have an entry fee?

It's proof how much of it is performative and attention-seeking, if they actually believed in anything they would be giving their belongings away, not selling the car they intended to sell anyway.
- It's a bit redundant to call them foolish for selling their cars, when they're already bigger fools for believing in the rapture, which was Victorian fundie fanfic.
Kind of the opposite.