User:Jeremygbyrne/The End of the World (As We Know It)

The End of the World (As We Know It) is a 2006 non-fiction work by Sylvia La Some. The book was developed during research into the monetization of wikifacs, and was designed to expand from its initial thirteen-chapter structure, over time, into an Encyclopaedia Eschatonnica comprising the authoratitive reference for information on the subject.

Brief
The book was professionally ghostwritten as an eLance project, from a brief provided by the "author", outlining the book's structure and providing chapter outlines and research sources.

Introduction
One of the greatest mysteries we confront is whether there is existence beyond this existence; life after death. The idea that individuals persist in some form after the death and decay of their biological bodies is the foundation of most forms of religion, and from this idea spring others. Many early cultures seem to have believed in a cyclic universe, based on the cycle of the day and year, often cycling from Golden Age through decay and back. Others, rare perhaps before around 5,000 years ago, came to believe the world itself, like every individual, might one day come to an end.

These days we can worry about devastation in so many ways: the end of our way of life (ie. Pseudoextinction), our nation, our civilisation, species, planet and even the entire universe. But what's likely snd what's fantasy? Is the World really going to End?

Eschatology is inevitably connected with the idea of the survival of the soul after death. The Day of Judgment is taught by many faiths to be the first opportunity for souls to enter Heaven, ie. it's The Resurrection of the Dead, without which there is no immortality. But the eschatology of most religions is also deeply concerned with sin and salvation; reward and punishment; the depraration of the sheep from the goats &mdash; with the inevitable possibility of social control which comes through the promise of Judgment after death. Alternately, the End Times offer a "theology of Hope"; much of Jewish Eschatology and much of the major influence on Islamic Eschatology is a promise of liberation of the oppressed (and the righteour punishment of the oppressor). Eschatology can readily become a call to revolution, and indeed the Messiah, Madhi and even sometimes the normally peaceful Jesus are seen as warrior/liberator figures. (How is this challenged by Apokatastasis, the idea of Universal Salvation championed by Church fathers like Origen?)

Esoterica for future development

 * Consider Jesus' Harrowing of Hell in respect of Apokatastasis
 * Pauline eschatology is specifically linear (developing the Jewish ideas of liberation eschatology).
 * Has the "Kingdom of God" Jesus promised been fundamentally misunderstood? Note the differences between the Synoptic futurism and John's emphasis on the present. (Refer Albrecht Ritschl on this topic; he says the Kingdom of God is the Godly life, and Jesus its exemplar, that Jesus believed he had brought it about and it had nothing to do with the future, except its spread and enhancement; .)
 * Process theology?
 * Joachim of Fiore
 * "Revelation" is "proleptic anticipation" of the event (ie. portrayal of its inevitability); see Ragnarok
 * Perpetual cycles vs Alpha and Omega, beginning and end; perhaps about the importance of the individual in the Grand Scheme of Things?
 * 20th Century USA needs an enemy, else there can be no End Times in our lifetime (like we've been promised as no people have been promised before), no Second Coming possible?
 * Thus, once Communism gone, Islam had to be brought in


 * Eternal return
 * Last Judgement vs Continuous judgement; why are the dead waiting?
 * Islamic ideas

so perhaps stories of great, world-ending conflicts resonate with us, and we readily see them reflected in our own times.
 * Talk briefly about long history of the idea, its fashionability and its cultural significance
 * Mention legend, prophecy and universal analogy
 * Mention the Anthropic principle: perhaps we necessarily live in a world whose symbols can be interpreted to match our expectations?
 * Is it ever a good thing for Everything to End?
 * Great clashes between sides who see themselves as mortally and intractably opposed are common in human history,
 * The Return of the King and the War at the End of the World

Ways to Go Out
The End of the World as reality: what are the possibilities?

Note Asimov's A Choice of Catastrophes.


 * Human extinction & End of civilization

References:
 * Economic collapse
 * Peak Oil


 * Pandemic
 * Bird Flu


 * World War III countdown: Doomsday Clock
 * Doomsday device
 * Nuclear winter
 * Global War on Terror as WWIII (or WWIV)?


 * Extinction event
 * Doomsday event
 * Asteroid Impact event
 * see Shoemaker-Levy 9 (1-2km fragments), Chicxulub (10km; 100 million megatons), impacts on moon; Tunguska 1520-magaton (2150 km2) blast radius; other major extinctions now being blamed on asteroids too; note their impact is measured in statistical likelihood in given periods, eg. 1 in 300,000 years. Comets (ie. Keiper belt objects) come in much faster than asteroids.


 * Environmental collapse
 * Abrupt climate change
 * Climate surprise
 * Global warming
 * New Ice Age with Global cooling (no longer believed to be a threat)
 * Tipping point


 * Geomagnetic reversal
 * Solar variation
 * Sunspots
 * Red giantism
 * Supernova and Hypernova
 * Gamma-ray burster
 * Vulcanism
 * Yellowstone Caldera
 * Supervolcano (documentary)


 * End of the Universe
 * Big Crunch
 * Heat-death of the Universe, by entropy
 * Big Rip
 * Big Freeze
 * "The Last Question"


 * Apocalypse by philosophy

Less likely possibilities:
 * Rise of the Robots
 * Grey Goo
 * Alien Invasion
 * Human evolution into something else
 * Nibiru's return

And then there's Religious Apocalypse: see below!

Relevant books

 * Coming Earth Changes: Causes and Consequences of the Approaching Pole Shift, William Hutton (ARE Press, 1996); a failed Pole Shift prediction for 2001
 * A Guide to the End of the World: Everything You Never Wanted to Know, Bill McGuire (Oxford University Press, USA, 2002)
 * The Orion Prophecy: Will the World Be Destroyed in 2012, Patrick Geryl (Adventures Unlimited Press, 2002); speculation about the coming Pole Shift in 2012 predicted by the Maya and the Egyptians
 * The Path of the Pole, Charles Hapgood (Adventures Unlimited Press, 1999); the classic work on pole-flipping
 * Pole Shift: Predictions and Prophecies of the Ultimate Disaster, John Warren White (A.R.E. Press, 1985); summary of Pole Shift material which demonstrates its paucity beyond Velikovsky and Hapgood
 * The Tutankhamun Prophecies: The Sacred Secret of the Maya, Egyptians, and Freemasons, Maurice Cotterell (Bear & Company, 2001); links Mayans, Egyptians and the sacred 144,000 number to "supergods", cycles of rebirth and the effects of sunpot activity on female fertility
 * Coming Global Superstorm, Whitley Strieber (Thorndike Pres, 2000); the book on which the film The Day After Tomorrow was based

Randomness

 * Transformation of existence extends all the way to the "Kingdom of Heaven".

The Beginning of the End
Once we've got that boring stuff out of the way, the human imagination really begins to open up.

Discuss the impact of Big Bang theory on the "Steady State" of the 50s and 60s.


 * Early man's ideas?
 * The Fifth Sun
 * Mayan 2012 date; Mayanism
 * Aztec Fifth Sun, Nahui-Ollin (or "Four-Earthquake") will end in a huge earthquake, and tzitzimime (female skeleton monsters from a paradise world beyond the Western Stars) will kill everyone


 * Hopi
 * Germanic
 * Ragnarök, a typically fated Apocalypse (see its Portents and the Final Battle); is Old vs New (as per Gods & Titans), not Good vs Evil; aftermath is cycling back to Golden Age
 * Fimbulwinter, the End Time when strife occurs
 * Gradually overtaken by Christian eschatology


 * Buddhist
 * Maitreya
 * "expectations of a heavenly helper, the need to opt for positive righteousness, the future millenium, and universal salvation" from Zoroastrianism?
 * Hubbard claimed to be Maitreya


 * Hindu eschatology
 * Kalki, 10th avatar of Vishnu
 * Kali Yuga, age of darkness (see Hindu_calendar)


 * Scientology
 * Last Judgement vs Continuous judgement; why are the dead waiting?
 * Islamic ideas


 * Pseudoextinction, the idea that people like us may cease to exist
 * The Alternative to the End
 * Eternal return

Fictional

 * Lovecraft, "stars are right"
 * Tolkein's Final Battle Dagor Dagorath
 * Lewis' The Last Battle

Relevant books

 * The Mayan Prophecies : Unlocking the Secrets of a Lost Civilization, Adrian Gilbert (Element Books, 1996); links Mayan end-date predictions to Atlantis, sunspots and poel-flips; also offers theory on serpents in the mayan mythos, mayan "Flood" date
 * The Vedic Prophecies: A New Look into the Future, Stephen Knapp (World Relief Network, 1998); discusses Vedic apocalyse, Kali Yuga, Kalki etc.
 * Signs in the Sky : The Astrological & Archaeological Evidence for the Birth of a New Age, Adrien Gilbert ([[Three Rivers Press], 2001); The primacy of the Orion constellation in ancient through, explains Mayan date relative to a "heavenly marriage" of Venus and Orion, believes the Old and New testament references to the "Son of Man" referred to Orion

End of Days, The Original Series
Discuss feedback and adoption of eschatological beliefs between main faiths (as per ).

Gospel apocalyses (ie. Matthew) are hadith. Islamic eschatology re-visits the near pre-millenialism of the Gospels, and may have originally been seen as an apocalyptic Christain sect. As per Jesus' comments about the Kingdom, Muhammed said that some alive in his time would live to see Dajjal. Like Jesus, he was born amidst a great clash of civilisations (Byzantium and Persia), and may have been driven by Jewish eschatological aspirations surrounding the rebuilding of the Third Temple in a Sassanid Jerusalem. Much Islamic material is attributed to K'ab al-Ahbar, a converted Jew. Note that the Q'uran is not an apocalyptic book. In Islamic writing, it is common for the speaker to explain esoteric foreign words to the listener (rather than translating them into Arabic), as part of assimilating this essentially foreign material. (see for listing of Muslim "Portents of the Hour", such as "men will wear silk", and Allah withdrawing the Q'uran from the world, leaving it to be taught by demons; also typical of Apocalyptic teachings of the ascetics (who, we note, were overly concerned with sexual purity etc.) In the last battle, everyone is sorted into their respective sides (waverers are rejected) and evil outnumbers good. Traditional clerics are turned into Monkeys and beautiful (but Western-influenced) mosques are destroyed. Although it is a widely quoted aphorism that Muhammed (like Jesus) did not know the Hour (based on the several Q'uranic references to only God knowing), but this doesn't stop speculation, even in the hadith. In Islam, God ends the world when the level of unbelief has fallen beyond supportable levels, so the ten signs of the Last Day (see Kitab al-fitan, "The Book of Tribulations" by Nu'ayam ibn Hammad (albeit one of many who wrote books by that title; after 1100 the Sunni fashion changed to calling everything Ashrat al-sa'a), who is the equivalent of and Maimonides) are bad news for Muslims. The Kitab al-malahim by Ahmad ibn Ja'far ibn Muhammad ibn al-Munadi deals with the Eastern (ie. Iraqi and Persian) traditions. Later "traditionalists" in Islamic scholarship tended to sideline apocalyptic writings, "proving" them "weak" or "forged", and much material can only be founnd outside the "six canonical books".

Note Paul Casanova's idea that Muhammed and the early Muslims were drive by the idea that the end was imminent. David Cook (author claims that there is no example in the Islamic tradition of continuity from the Tribulation to the Day of Ressurrection and Judgment.

Islamic eschatology occurs after the Day of Judgment and is fixed and immutable, while apocalyptic occurs before, and is subject to change.

Note: Dabbat al-ard (the Beast from the Earth, who marks belivers and unbelievers with a Mark all can see) and immediately precedes the Resurrection and Yajuj and Majuj (Gog and Magog). Also Evil (sarikh) and Good (munadi) heralds announce things. Note Cycle of Twelve Rulers (probably from the 12 sons of Ishmael) to rule before the end leads to the Shi'a Twelve Imam tradition, while the Sunni attempted to stretch the 12 by adding extra Caliphs in groups of 3, 6 and 9, leading to its eventual abandonment (as "forged").

More detailed notes:
 * The ten signs of the Last Day (see Kitab al-fitan, "The Book of Tribulations" by Nu'ayam ibn Hammad (albeit one of many who wrote books by that title; after 1100 the Sunni fashion changed to calling everything Ashrat al-sa'a), who is the equivalent of and Maimonides) are bad news for Muslims. The Kitab al-malahim by Ahmad ibn Ja'far ibn Muhammad ibn al-Munadi deals with the Eastern (ie. Iraqi and Persian) traditions.
 * In Islamic writing, it is common for the speaker to explain esoteric foreign words to the listener (rather than translating them into Arabic), as part of assimilating this essentially foreign material.
 * Note Paul Casanova's idea that Muhammed and the early Muslims were driven by the idea that the end was imminent. David Cook (author claims that there is no example in the Islamic tradition of continuity from the Tribulation to the Day of Ressurrection and Judgment.
 * Note Wahabbism seems to be dedicated to fitna; the natural ally of the "Saints"? This would explain US/Saudi connections including the post-911 flights.
 * Islamic eschatology "proper" describes what occurs after the Day of Judgment, and is fixed and immutable; their apocalyptic writings occur before the Day, and are subject to change.
 * Note that the apocalyptic literature deals with the three early civil wars as malahim and assumes everyone is in Heaven (to avoid the theological problem of deciding who was right amongst the Companions of the Prophet on either side). Also, building these into the apocalyptic helps explain how the fitna are part of the progress towards the End of Days.

Jewish eschatology

 * Mashiach ia a normal human, on whose arrival:
 * All of the people of Israel will come back to Torah
 * The people of Israel will be gathered back to the Land of Israel
 * The Holy Temple in Jerusalem will be rebuilt
 * Israel will live free among the nations, and will have no need to defend itself
 * War and famine will end, and an era of peace and prosperity will come upon the Earth
 * (Full Signs of the Messiah mainly from Isiah)


 * Maimonides wisely suggests that we'll find out if someone is the Messiah only by assessing his life in retrospect
 * Many Reform Jews believe in Messianic Age: The World to Come as a Utopia, but less in the literal Messiah

Note Pirqei al Mashi'ah (336) tells of the Muslims and Jews reuilding the Third Temple together and falling out when the Jews' sacrifices are not accepted by God (following the machinations of Satan).

The Messiah and the Beast
A common motif; evidence of dualism. Great clashes between sides who see themselves as mortally opposed are common in human history, and thus stories of great, world-ending conflicts resonate with us, and we readily see them reflected in our own times.

The Return of the King and the War at the End of the World: don't forget Jesus as Messiah was the fulfilment of Jewish Eschatology, and should have summoned the end of the world. (Knowing this helps explain why he felt the need to talk about the end of the world in the Synoptic Gospels.)


 * Messianic Age, a golden age of peace and plenty
 * Messiah
 * Saoshyant, Zoroastrian Man of Peace
 * Mitra, the Zoroastrian son of God, sent to defeat Satan
 * Mithras, the Hellenistic variant found in Mithraism (or a bull-killing Ahriman in Antichrist disguise?); note Ouroboros in Mithraism; very similar to Christianty
 * King in the mountain
 * Davidic line


 * The Enemy
 * Angra Mainyu
 * Zahak


 * The Beast Unchained
 * Azhi Dahaka
 * Leviathan
 * Lotan
 * Jörmungandr
 * Ouroboros
 * The dragon in Revelation
 * Zilant

The Last Book
The development of Christian Eschatology and the Revelation of John the Divine.

Note changeover during the 20th century from liberal humanist views which took the Second Coming as metaphorical for the ongoing triumph of the (earthly) kingdom (see Henry Fosdick) to a futurist eschatology (eg. Johannes Weisse "Preaching on the Kingdom of God", 1892) which promised not a gradual development of salvation, but a Deus Ex Machina salvation by the arrival of God. Note particularly Albert Schweitzer "The Mystery of the Kingdom of God", who believed an assumption of an eschatological viewpoint on the New Testament reduced inconsistencies in the liberal analysis. (He did this by ignoring John and some of Luke.)

Note this guy's careful distinguishing of the Tribulation and the Wrath, which he says helps simplify the muddle of pre-, mid- and post-trib Rapturalists. Also has two "second comings" in his interpretation (one in the clouds as marriage to his Church, the other on a white horse to slay his enemies at Armageddon).


 * Christian eschatology
 * Consolatio peccatorum, seu Processus Luciferi contra Jesum Christum, influential on development of doctrine of afterlife


 * Six Ages of the World
 * Revelation
 * Chronology_of_Revelation
 * Stages of Revelation from the Catholic Encyclopedia
 * Note particularly the Divine Drama of the Third Book

Critical interpretations

 * The Apocalypse of John, on Early Christian Writings, a good links list
 * Re-reading Revelation with the Christianisation
 * Also, the Catholic Encyclopedia notes Peter Vischer's theory about the addition of Christian material to a Jewish book


 * The Mystery of the Apocalypse in The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly Hall

Controversy
Is the Book of Revelation a later-period ring-in, or even a forgery? User:Jeremygbyrne/Revelation mystery

Relevant books

 * Revelation and the End of All Things by Craig Koester, (2001); a guide to Revelation
 * The Complete Idiot's Guide(R) to the Book of Revelation, James Bell (2001); includes many theories about the interpretation of the book

Symbols of the Apocalypse: Culture and Interpretation
The images and ideas from Revelation have become so diffused through the culture, we see them all around us.

Revelation

 * Four Horsemen
 * Temple in Jerusalem
 * The Third Temple


 * Two witnesses
 * Dragon
 * The Woman Clothed with the Sun
 * Ten Lost Tribes
 * Ten Lost Tribes

Could the symbols in Revelation (including 666) be describing the state of the sky at a particular time, rather than a person?


 * Manly Hall discusses Seven Churches, Angels, Bowls, Trumpets etc.:
 * When related to the Eastern system of metaphysics, these churches represent the chakras, or nerve ganglia, along the human spine, the "door in heaven" being the brahmarandra, or point in the crown of the skull (Golgotha), through which the spinal spirit fire passes to liberation. The church of Ephesus corresponds to the muladhara, or sacral ganglion, and the other churches to the higher ganglia according to the order given in Revelation. Dr. Steiner discovers a relationship between the seven churches and the divisions of the Aryan race. Thus, the church of Ephesus stands for the Arch-Indian branch; the church of Smyrna, the Arch-Persians; the church of Pergamos, the Chaldean-Egyptian-Semitic; the church of Thyatira, the Grecian-Latin-Roman; the church of Sardis, the Teuton-Anglo-Saxon; the church of Philadelphia, the Slavic; and the church of Laodicea, the Manichæan. The seven churches also signify the Greek vowels, of which Alpha and Omega are the first and the last. A difference of opinion exists as to the order in which the seven planers should be related to the churches. Some proceed from the hypothesis that Saturn represents the church of Ephesus; but from the fact that this city was sacred to the moon goddess and also that the sphere of the moon is the first above that of the earth, the planets obviously should ascend in their ancient order from the moon to Saturn. From Saturn the soul would naturally ascend through the door in the Empyrean.

The Mahdi and Dajjal
The last of the great Monotheisms, Islam's End of the World draws on the symbols and ideas of the older Peoples of the Book.


 * Islamic eschatology (Category)
 * Second Coming in Islam: The Summit of Religious Evolution
 * Mirza Ghulam Ahmad the Mahdi claimant of the Ahmadiyya movement

See http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t53138.html for list of Islamic signs.

Identifying the Antichrist
Discusses the many identifications with the Antichrist made to famous people over the years. (A favourite "End Times" game for all the family.)

Relevant books

 * Antichrist and a Cup of Tea

Gazing into the Abyss: Modern Prophecy and the End of Days
If Muhammed is the Final Prophet, who're these guys?


 * Nostradamus
 * Edgar Cayce

Failed Prophecy

 * Bible code
 * Harold Camping's 1994?, Family Radio
 * Hal Lindsey's The Late, Great Planet Earth and 1988 Second Coming
 * A Brief History of the Apocalypse, listing many "failed propecies"

Date setters
(note conclusion)
 * Timeline of unfulfilled Christian Prophecy

Relevant books

 * Bible Code II: The Countdown, Michael Drosnin (Viking Books, 2002); takes the failed Bible Code into 2004 (nuclear attack on New York) and 2006 (same in Israel)

Immanentizing the Eschaton: Attitudes to Annihilation
Is there a Conspiracy to bring about the end of the world?


 * Immanentize the eschaton
 * Mahdaviat
 * Fifth Monarchy Men
 * Voluntary Human Extinction Movement

Not to be confused with:
 * Millennialist movements
 * Ghost Dance movement in Native Americans to drive away whites
 * Burkhanism

Also:
 * Benjamin Creme's Share International, which forecast the millenium in 1982

Childhood's End
Transformation of human consciousness, ala Childhood's End; return to the Golden Age.

Also, Apocalypse as metaphor for the Culture Wars
 * Novelty Theory
 * Omega Point

Surviving and Thriving

 * Utopia
 * Technological singularity
 * The Spike


 * Space and survival
 * Final anthropic principle, says extinction of intelligence is impossible
 * Dyson's eternal intelligence

Revelant books

 * The Archaic Revival, Terrence McKenna's 2012 book
 * [True Hallucinations], Terrence McKenna's Novelty Theory book
 * ''Maya Cosmogenesis 2012 : The True Meaning of the Maya Calendar End-Date, John Major Jenkins (Bear & Company, 1998); the first star alignment explanation for the Mayan end-date
 * Galactic Alignment: The Transformation of Consciousness According to Mayan, Egyptian, and Vedic Traditions, John Major Jenkins (Bear & Company, 2002); energy emanating from the galactic centre triggers changes in consciousness on a 26,000 year cycle
 * The Star Mirror', Mark Vidler (Harpercollins, 1999); discussion of the alignment of ancient human constructions with patterns in the sky
 * A Monument to the End of Time: Alchemy, Fulcanelli and the Great Cross', Jay Weidner (Aethyrea Books, 2000) and *The Mysteries of the Great Cross of Hendaye: Alchemy and the End of Time, Jay Weidner (Destiny Books, 2003); connect cathedral architecture, Alchemy and the Great Cross at Hendaye, alleged by Fulcanelli to predict the End of Time
 * The Cosmos of Soul: A Wake-Up Call for Humanity, Patricia Cory (Gateways, 2001); links the Mayan end date to Atlantis and the interfering Annunaki, who robbed us of our destiny by manipulating our DNA and our culture

Conclusion
Even if there is an end, only date-setters are silly enough to try to specify it. As the Bible says:


 * Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.
 * Of that day or of that hour knoweth no one, not even the angels in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.

And who'd want to know, anyway? Paranoia and panic about coming annihilation could destroy any society.

Why be a pessimist? Nobody's going to enjoy the Tribulation, so why bring it on by seeing it in the clouds?


 * "Ala marlaa pirua selaney" [sp?!]

Of course, until we're safely clear of the Millennium (and World War III) the End of the World fad is likely to persist, as our Appendix certainly shows.

B: The Apocalypse in Art
Characteristics of Apocalytic art.


 * Michelangelo's The Last Judgement
 * Thus Spoke Zarathustra, various reflections on transformation to a new kind of human
 * World_War_Three\

Movies

 * Doomsday film: a list of End of the World movies
 * The Omen
 * Rosemary's Baby
 * The Beast (2006)

Books

 * The Left Behind series
 * User:Jeremygbyrne/Revelations a High Fantasy retelling of the "Divine Drama" of the Third Book
 * The Antichrist (book) by Nietzsche has nothing to do with it

Online Resources
List the best, with commentary

Style and tone
The book varies from detailed and scholarly (eg. analysing cross-cultural eschatology) to light and fluffy (eg. discussing Antichrist identification) and the sensationalist (eg. dicussing the Revelation controversy).

Auctorial pseudonym
La Some in writing The End of the World styled herself "Rev. S R La Some", having obtained ordination as a minister of the Universal Life Church (under her real name of Sarah Ellen Bennett) in February 2006.

Books with similar titles

 * The End of the World As We Know It: Social Science for the Twenty-First Century, Immanuel Wallerstein (University of Minnesota Press, 2001)
 * The End of the World... As We Know It : Clear Direction for Bold and Innovative Ministry in a Postmodern World, Chuck Jr Smith (WaterBrook Press, 2001)
 * The End of the World As We Know It: Faith, Fatalism, and Apocalypse in America, Daniel Wojcik (New York University Press, 1999)
 * The End of the World As We Know It, Kathryn M. Balteff (iUniverse, 2005), a novel
 * The End of the World As We Know It... and Other Entertainments, Donald Kaul (Image & Idea, 1979)

Short works

 * The End of the World as We Know It, Dale Bailey, (Fictionwise, 2006)
 * The End of the World As We Know It, Jeffrey Sachs The Guardian article
 * The End of the World .... As We Know It, essay
 * It's the end of the world as we know it, essay

TV and film

 * The End of the World as We Know It, TV documentary by Nick Hornby, 2005
 * It's the End of the World (As We Know It), episode #28 of Grey's Anatomy

Similar books

 * Pocket Guide To The Apocalypse: The Official Field Manual For The End Of The World, Jason Boyett (Relevant Books, 2005) (wikipedia entry)
 * Field Guide to the Apocalypse : Movie Survival Skills for the End of the World, Meghann Marco (Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 2005)
 * ''A Guide to the End of the World : Everything You Never Wanted to Know, Bill McGuire (Oxford University Press, 2002)

Unfinished work
These pages need to be checked at some stage for useful material.
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 * Four Views on the Book of Revelation
 * The Lat Things: Biblical Perpectives on Eschatology
 * Studies in Muslim Apocalyptic (Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam)