Word: armageddons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thus, unlike many of his colleagues, Leakey does not believe that modern man is necessarily programmed for Armageddon. Other species faded and died out simply because they had no choice. "But in our case," says the Anthro- pologist, "extinction would be entirely of our own making, the result of being intelligent enough to create the means of our own destruction but not rational enough to ensure that they are not used...
...stupidest people in the world except for businessmen, who have a genius for stupidity"; the League of Women Voters is "a bunch of nosy broads who front for the big spenders"; others who oppose his beloved proposition, "dummies, goons, cannibals or big-mouths." The tax issue, he says, is "Armageddon, a war of machetes. They're going to cut off our heads. Or we're going to cut off theirs...
Other Afrikaners talk about the sacrifices that lie ahead. Implicit in these phrases may be a startling notion: that the Afrikaners, short of the long-predicted Armageddon, might conceivably be prepared to hitch up their ox wagons once again and retreat backward toward the old Boer republics and the Cape, striking some sort of bargain in power sharing or land sharing with rivaling black nationalism. Any such solution would lie in the distant future. For the moment, there is only a sense throughout the beleaguered white tribe that the present system cannot hold, but that the prescriptions decreed...
Ravenal's "modest proposal for ending Armageddon" also includes firm U.S. commitments not to bomb civilian targets and to foreswear the first-strike use of nuclear weapons. The result, he argues would be a lessening of the probability of an American first strike, accompanied by our own diminished vulnerability...
Rutherford's rallying cry became "Millions now living will never die!" By 1968, the sect's magazine, Awake!, was proclaiming a new date for Armageddon: "Today we have the evidence required, all of it. And it is overwhelming! All the many, many parts of the great sign of the 'last days' are here, together with verifying Bible chronology." That complex chronology ran like this: Adam was created in the autumn of 4026 B.C., which meant that 6,000 years of human existence would end in late 1975. The 6,000 years would be followed...