Eschatology, from Greek eschatos, last, concerns expectations of the end of the present age,[7] and apocalyptic eschatology is the application of the apocalyptic world-view to the end of the world, when God will bring judgment to the world and save his followers.[8] An apocalypse will often contain much eschatological material, but need not: the baptism of Jesus in Matthew's gospel, for example, can be considered apocalyptic in that the heavens open for the presence of a divine mediator (the dove representing the spirit of God) and a voice communicates supernatural information, but there is no eschatological element.[9]
Scholars have identified examples of the genre ranging from the mid-2nd century BC to the 2nd century AD,[10] and examples are to be found in Persian and Greco-Roman literature as well as Jewish and Christian.[11] The sole clear case in the Jewish Bible (Old Testament) is chapters 7-12 of the Book of Daniel, but there are many examples from non-canonical Jewish works;[12] the Book of Revelation is the only apocalypse in the New Testament, but passages reflecting the genre are to be found in the gospels and in nearly all the genuine Pauline epistles.[13]
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"Apocalypse" has come to be used popularly as a synonym for catastrophe, but the Greek word apoklypsis, from which it is derived, means a revelation.[13] It has been defined by John J Collins as "a genre of revelatory literature with a narrative framework, in which a revelation is mediated by an otherworldly being to a human recipient, disclosing a transcendent reality which is both temporal, in that it envisages eschatological salvation, and spatial, insofar as it involves another, supernatural world."[14] Collins later refined his definition by adding that apocalypse "is intended to interpret present, earthly circumstances in light of the supernatural world and of the future, and to influence both the understanding and the behaviour of the audience by means of divine authority."[14]
The genre of Jewish and Christian apocalypse flourished c.250 BC-250 AD, but its antecedents can be traced back much further, in the Jewish prophetic and wisdom traditions (e.g., Ezekiel 1-3 and Zechariah 1-6), and in the mythologies of the Ancient Near East, which have left a legacy of symbology (e.g., the sea as a symbol of chaos in Daniel 7 and Revelation 13:1).[15] Zoroastrian dualism may also have played a role.[10] The reasons for its rise are obscure, but there seems to be a connection to times of crisis, such as the 2nd century BC persecution of the Jews reflected in Daniel's final vision, or the destruction of the Temple in 70 AD reflected in 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch.[16]
The Doomsday Clock is ticking down and emotions run high as you and your team of DIVISION agents struggle to find the Keys before the villainous Harbingers unlock the Doors of Power and bring about the apocalypse.
Whatever we call it, knowing there is an apocalypse (or multiple) we can also hope for a better post-apocalyptic world. adatole is correct that so many good things happened this year to temper the bad. There will always be ups and downs, and I feel 2020 has been a year of lower lows than normal for most. This leaves room for higher highs though, so let's have hope for our post-apocalyptic times to be to have less lows and more highs.
But everything I've come up with that includes "apocalypse" in its name (so far) isn't describing the end of the world. It's describing getting on with life after a life-altering event. Even a post-dystopian environment still has the Earth present. So these graphics/memes, while cute or mentally stimulating, truly aren't appropriate uses of the word. In all cases, the world still exists. It's just different.
Did we ever consider the A, so rather than Apocalypse, could the plural be two-pocalypse or somepocalypse. Regardless, like Atypical is the opposite of typical maybe apocalypse is the opposite of just pocalypse. Although it isn't true, how cool would it be if it was. We could say 2021 the Pocalypse year.
We overuse the word, since a true apocalypse is world-ending. It's common to use the word for dramatic effect, but we really ought to use smaller words, focused on a more individual or personal scale. For example:
We are living in apocalyptic times, yes, so may apocalypse be a friend in time. Despite time. May this space be a balm, yes, but the opening of a new and un-countried wound. May our gathering, itself, be apocalyptic.
In an English of Western journalism, I do not know how to name the apocalypse in my chest, witnessing Palestinian youth climb the entrance of the Israeli consulate in Boston at our Nakba day protest, holding an image of our Al Quds and waving our flag in pride. That would require both a language of returning, and a returning to language.
"Tradition is not the preservation or development of a body of knowledge or cultic practices but the continuity of faith in and hope of the final apocalypse when all that remains is love--so argues David Hart in this brilliant book, which bristles with insights that are sure to both provoke and encourage."
"Tradition and Apocalypse invites readers to abandon every anxious traditionalism in order to inhabit the only kind of tradition Christianity can actually be: that strange discursive tradition--patient and radical, generous and revolutionary--demanded by the permanent ferment of its apocalyptic origin and its final telos in the coming of the Kingdom of God. We have dogma and history only as we find them suspended between the advent and the final apotheosis of the Gospel apocalypse. That faith must own both dogma and history in this way is the summons of this extraordinary book."
It punishes horizontal asset spam builds just as much as glacier decks. The only thing that can stand up to it is Architect, and even that has some interesting interactions. (When making an apocalypse run, you usually don't WANT to break the architect. Because anything they install is going to blow up in a moment.)
Criminal is the most obvious place to put this, just because so much of their "rig" consists of the threat of powerful events as much as it does programs or hardware. Cards like Aesop's Pawnshop and Chop Bot 3000 are good ways to recover after an apocalypse, offering free, clickless card-draw and econ for the foreseeable future. Or heck, just slap down a R&D Interface or Keyhole and watch the corp scramble for ice. e24fc04721