I looked up the trusty Oxford on this one, seeking inspiration, and found the definition is all tied up with St John's book of Revelation. Now there's an interesting read if ever I read one. I think all fantasy books published since and including Tolkein have used images and ideas from here. Dragons, personification of death, famine etc, horsemen in general, the rapture, wars, dot dot dot. You know, if the Bible says in Revelation that there are dragons, and it the Bible is the literal truth that some people say it is, well then There Be Dragons! Wish I could see one.
Apocalypse as total disaster to a select group of people seems to be happening a lot these days. There are wars and rumours of wars not to mention famine and plague every day in the news. With so much happy news around I am relieved I don't have TV, I really don't think I could cope. Too much empathy. But I guess I would get desensitised quickly. It must be necessary to cope.
I wonder if there will be another mass extinction event and whether we would survive it? We are pretty ingenious as a species so we might. I wonder if it will be on this planet?
Posted by Toni at May 14, 2004 02:37 PM