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Wednesday 17 April 2013

The End Of The World Has Been Chatted About Since Roughly The Beginning Of Time

By Alan Albrecht


Ancient Mayans come back to life in the news a lot over the last 12 months. People have been wondering when life on earth would stop. They figured that Mayan calendar ending last December meant other catastrophes would happen that would destroy all life on earth. The end of the world has been a concern for some time and presents itself in many science fiction novels as the the main event in a story. These kind of events have obviously certainly not occurred, but there are lots of who believe this will happen. Sooner or later, these people say, we may have to learn to survive in the post apocalyptic reality.

The apocalypse was talked about in the New Testament. The Book of Revelations spoke in gruesome detail of the horror that awaited certain groups of people. No one was told when this event might happen. Many people have been looking for signs of world ending ever since.

Many stories have been written over the years describing how the author feels will happen. These are generally works of fiction. There has been so many books produced that the topic is considered a sub genre in the science fiction. These literary works often tell of disasters that await mankind if they do not change their ways.

The new tales were different than the story in Revelations when God sends sinners into the burning fires of hell. These various other stories give many causes of the demise from the world. A favorite event connected with destruction creators liked to create involved nuclear holocausts caused by aliens or humans.

A well known works associated with fiction was the War of the Worlds written by H. G. Wells. An actor named Orson Welles narrated this story over the radio during 1938. This caused a significant amount of panic since radio listeners since they believed that Martians had attacked the earth. There had been multiple reports in newspapers of individuals fleeing their residences and towns to avoid the aliens.

The authorities were not happy with what happened. They apparently sent police officers over the CBS studios to put a stop to the broadcast. Arriving a little too late, the officers took the scripts the actors used in hopes of avoiding repeating the broadcast. Some people ended up suing CBS because they felt so much mental anguish when they thought the ending was here.

The story was repeated numerous times later by other radio stations. However, people were well informed that the airing was remake of the classic 1938 airing. The airings were popular during Halloween in some countries.

People love to be scary stories. One the most popular subjects has been stories that concern the end of the world and how life will be after most everything is destroyed. Time will tell if anyone is right about what will happen and how the events will unfold. Until then, people will just have to wonder how the world will end.




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