{"quotes":[{"text":"This was especially true in some millennialist sects that filled their literature with paintings of Armageddon. Pictures of terrified people running away from some formless fiery doom that burned their world down behind them, while smug worshipers—of the correct religion, of course—watched from safety as God got with the smiting.","author":"James S.A. Corey","tags":["armageddon","doom","fire","god","millennialist","smiting","worship"],"id":1148,"author_id":"James+S.A.+Corey"},{"text":"There was the kind of silence there might have been on the day before Creation. Adam stood smiling at the two of them, a small figure perfectly poised exactly between Heaven and Hell. Crowley grabbed Aziraphale's arm. 'You know what happened?' he hissed excitedly. 'He was left alone! He grew up human! He's not Evil Incarnate or Good Incarnate, he's just...A human incarnate-.","author":"Neil Gaiman","tags":["armageddon","good-and-evil","humanity"],"id":19989,"author_id":"Neil+Gaiman"},{"text":"As the night air started to creep in, he lifted her in his arms and walked the back way to their home on campus. He spent the evening digging her grave, not even caring who came his way. He didn’t care whether he lived or died, now that he had lost his only love. Mike glanced into her face one more time, and then covered her with dirt. “We bury our own. We take care of the ones we love.” He spoke softly, then placed a flower on her grave and made his way back to their dorm room.","author":"Joseph McGinnis","tags":["apocalypse","apocalyptic","armageddon","end-of-the-world","science-fiction"],"id":38927,"author_id":"Joseph+McGinnis"},{"text":"What silence rules the ghostly hoursThat guard the close of human sleep!(“The Testimony of the Suns”).","author":"George Sterling","tags":["apocalypse","armageddon","silence","sleep"],"id":65668,"author_id":"George+Sterling"},{"text":"Mounting tensions in Eastern Europe send shivers down the spine. Barely a quarter of a century after the end of the Cold War we seem to be sliding inexorably towards another.","author":"Alex Morritt","tags":["aggression","armageddon","armies","army","caucasus","caucasus-region","checkmate","checks-and-balances","cold-war","conflict-management","conflict-resolution","conflicts","cool-response","crimea","defence","defences","destruction-of-us","diplomacy","eastern-europe","eastern-european","end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it","error","errors","escalation","fear-of-unknown","fear","fears","fears-and-doubts","force","forces","forces-of-darkness","geopolitical-forces","geopolitical-tension","geopolitics","historical-perspective","history-repeating-itself","impasse","inexorably","international-community","international-relations","international-relationships","lack-of-judgement","learning-from-mistakes","lessons-learned","lessons-learned-in-life","lessons-of-life","live-and-learn","mexican-standoff","military","military-history","military","military-theory","moscow","moscow-rules","nato","nuclear-power","nuclear-proliferation","nuclear-threat","nuclear-weapons","one-upmanship","peace-on-earth","peace","peacemaker","political-commentary","political-quandary","political","politics-observation","poor-judgement","poor-leadership","power-struggle","power-struggles","quandary","red-army","regressing","regression","repeat-mistakes","repeated-mistake","repeating-the-past","rules-of-engagement","russia","russian-federation","sabre-rattling","shiver","shivers","sliding","soviet-occupation","soviet-russia","soviet-union","sphere-of-influence","spine-chilling","stalemate","standoff","struggles","super-powers","tension","treaty","troops","ukraine","warfare","warmonger","wars","weapons-of-mass-destruction"],"id":105706,"author_id":"Alex+Morritt"},{"text":"Sorry, there’s just not enough mead to go around.","author":"Daniel Keidl","tags":["armageddon","dwarf","mead","mythology"],"id":109996,"author_id":"Daniel+Keidl"},{"text":"The world is heading for another major crisis that is being called, even by the secular world, “Armageddon.","author":"Billy Graham","tags":["armageddon","billy-graham","end-times"],"id":114896,"author_id":"Billy+Graham"},{"text":"Have you ever thought what a God would be like who actually ordained and executed the cruelty that is in [the biblical Book of Revelation]? A holocaust of mankind. Yet so many of these Bible-men accept the idea without a second thought.","author":"C.J. Sansom","tags":["apocalypse","armageddon","book-of-revelation","cruelty","destruction","fundamentalism","holocaust","mania","orthodoxy","radicalism","religion"],"id":124036,"author_id":"C.J.+Sansom"},{"text":"Oh, one more thing,' Thor calls out. 'If I know my prophecy, and I do, you beautiful ladies had best start looking for a boat!","author":"Daniel Keidl","tags":["armageddon","mythology","prophecy","thor"],"id":161797,"author_id":"Daniel+Keidl"},{"text":"Every fundamentalism focuses on end times, and Armageddon is, in a sense, a rhetorical trope, an emphatic and overwhelming conclusion, meant to wrap up and make tidy the mistaken wanderings of history. For a fundamentalist the end is one of the forms desire takes, a passion no different from lust or avarice, intense with longing and the need for fulfillment and relief. It’s like they’re horny for apocalypse. They get off on denouements, which partly explains why Hell House never amounted to much more than a series of murderous conclusions. It focused only on that part of a story where life finds itself fated. Inside every act a judgement was coiled. Real people with their ragged and uncertain lives, their stumbling desires, their bleak or blessed futures, would only break into the narrative, complicating the story, dragging it on endlessly.","author":"Charles D'Ambrosio","tags":["armageddon","fundamentalism","hell-house","religion"],"id":180169,"author_id":"Charles+D%27Ambrosio"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":33,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}
