When you think of the Apocalypse...

welsh

welsh

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What do you think?

Are you thinking biblical destruction? The Coming of the Beast? Revelations?

Or do you think of nuclear war, cities being vaporized in fireballs and people blown away in violent radiated winds?

Or maybe you see it as another natural occurrence, perhaps global warming? Floods? Tidal waves? A comet hits the planet?

Or something else?

I see man eating zombies... I don't know why. Zombies do it for me.

What about you?
 
Zombies would be rad. I'm ready for zombie infestation.

Usually I think of the whole nuclear war deal. Seems realistic enough.
 
I don't think you can beat nuclear war for that "my god what have we done" regrettful feeling.

Would it be too much to mix and match?

How about a comet smashes into the earth, causing untold amounts of smaller natural disaters. This natural apocolypse causes a secret government lab to be compromised releasing a deadly zombificaion virus. Attempting to halt the spread of the virus a lone submarine commander fires a nuke into the city becoming infested. Due to the complete chaos, what little remains off the US's nuclear forces are ordered to attack china who are believed to be the culprits of the anti zombie nuke. China of course repond in kind.

So there you have it, all manner of apocolyptic flavours, like the ben and jerrys of the doomsday scenarios.

Cheers
Sven
 
The planet engulfed in thick, dark clouds, being a total battlezone. Everyone vs. everyone.

Main colors: Black, gray, brown, light gray, white, light yellow, dark red.
 
I see everyone dressed in tie dye t shirts smoking weed and holding hands singing songs about world peace. Dear lord, wouldn't that just tickle your trigger finger? It would to some megalomaniac with a nuke who will cause the hippies to go berserko and bring out there own guns and then nukes for everyone!
 
The Apocalypse?

efrim said:
The Dead Flag Blues:

The car's on fire and there's no driver at the wheel. And the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides. And a dark wind blows.

The government is corrupt. And we're on so many drugs, with the radio on and the curtains drawn;
we're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine, and the machine is bleeding to death.

The sun has fallen down. And the billboards are all leering. And the flags are all dead. At the top of their poles.

It went like this:

The buildings tumbled in on themselves,
mothers clutching babies picked through the rubble. And pulled out their hair.

The skyline was beautiful on fire. All twisted metal stretching upwards... everything washed in a thin orange haze.

I said: "kiss me, you're beautiful -
these are truly the last days"
You grabbed my hand and we fell into it.
Like a daydream. Or a fever.

We woke up one morning and fell a little further down - for sure it's the valley of death.
I open up my wallet. And it's full of blood.
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welsh said:
What do you think?


The Coming of the Beast. Cities being vaporized in fireballs. A comet hits the planet. Zombies.
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It's all these and much more.
I can write a book/movie about this kind of things, it might not be a good one, but I could. I even have a plot/script in my head, of how all this can happen.
And the story ends to a question, "Have you seen the ruins of our worlds."(yes, at that point there are 4 of them!) And then the character dies.
 
When I think of the apocalypse, things that pop into my mind are:

-Nuclear war

-Radiated deserts

-Jagged people wielding rusty guns

-Darwinism

-Devastated cities

-Long, desolate highways

So I guess it's the nuclear war option for me. So much more cool than the others. A zombie-based apocalypse would also be neat. Go, G. A. Romero!
 
GEHENNA!

oh wait, been playing V:tM-B too much...

the apocalypse? dunno, but i think we got 99,99999% chance of it being of 'our own making' (the humans fault) rather than a natural occurence (evolution, meteor, natural plague).

humans are retards. (yes, i am human)
 
Ragnarök!

In truth actually, 'apocalypse' brings mythology heavily to mind.

Besides that, when I think of an apocalypse, I think of human nature. How different types of people act when there isn't a civilization left to belong to. Nothing ground shattering I admit, a major theme running through post-apocalyptic scenarios, which is likely why it runs through my mind at the notion of an apocalypse. Observable in the small groups you find in a zombie movie, the raider/settler conflict in The Road Warrior, and the vastly different settlements of The Postman.

As for the cause of an apocalypse, I would have to ascribe to The Postman scenario. A number of related disasters, preventing any order from establishing itself until there is too little left. In The Postman, far as I can remember, it was an initial nuclear war, plagues, famine, rioting, and survivalists that brought on the complete downfall.
 
Kotario said:
In The Postman, far as I can remember, it was an initial nuclear war, plagues, famine, rioting, and survivalists that brought on the complete downfall.
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What exactly IS the postman, if I may ask?
 
A novel by David Brin. It has been a while, so I've pulled the editorial review off Amazon.com. There are also a few samples of the book on Brin's official website, if you are interested.
Amazon.com Editorial Review said:
Gordon Krantz survived the Doomwar only to spend years crossing a post-apocalypse United States looking for something or someone he could believe in again. Ironically, when he's inadvertently forced to assume the made-up role of a "Restored United States" postal inspector, he becomes the very thing he's been seeking: a symbol of hope and rebirth for a desperate nation. Gordon goes through the motions of establishing a new postal route in the Pacific Northwest, uniting secluded towns and enclaves that are starved for communication with the rest of the world. And even though inside he feels like a fraud, eventually he will have to stand up for the new society he's helping to build or see it destroyed by fanatic survivalists. This classic reprint is not one of David Brin's best books, but the moving story he presents overcomes mediocre writing and contrived plots.
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There was also a Kevin Costner movie based on the book, though I would suggest you ignore it for quality reasons.
 
A small introduction of my idea to the story.

"As the Bible says, our universe began with a big bang. As our physicists say what begins with a bang, ends with a BANG. Though we helped it a little more than a lot, our home world ended in a bang. It all began with three sides, the Humans, the Robots and the Cyborgs. One or two sides were betrayed, no one won, but every one lost, for their stupidity. The cyborgs were destroyed for their "crimes" against humanity, they wanted to exist so they were abducting people for their experiments, cause they couldn't breed. And in fear of further conspiracies, the robots cental intelligent matrix was torn apart and the rest of the robots were exiled to Jupiter, the humans put themselves into a non-existent kind of states, to forget the past. Until once again they began to use their knowledge to embetter their lives. But this isn't the end of the story, just part of it, just where we now stand."
 
The end of civilization is going to be a mix of natural disasters, be it shortage of natural resources, and nuclear war.
 
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I could see the end of the world looking a bit like Hell in Constantine.

Postman- ok book but like so many sci-fi books, gets a bit stupid with genetically manipulated mutants, etc. I actually thought the movie was better.
 
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