We just need someone to declare every day that the rapture will happen. Then it won't happen during their lifetime. After the person dies, appoint someone else as rapture declarer. Voila, no more rapture.

it's fucking beautiful...🥹

If fewer people thought like this, and we came together to fight what's happening, then it wouldn't be this way. But everybody just wants to sit around and be sad about it instead of actually trying to make a difference.

And I get it- it's overwhelming, and it's a lot easier to say "I told you so," than it is to say "We fought hard and won."

While I sympathize with you for feeling exhausted and depressed, it's frankly rather selfish of you to go from that to "and therefore everyone should die." There are people who are doing okay and there are people who are exhausted and depressed but who still want to make a go of it. Don't wish for the world to end because they're still using it.

Thank you. My mom is 70 and still working and I can't even tell her not to because at 43 I can barely support myself. I HOPE the fucking rapture happens

I think this is why so many people are pulled into this kind of thinking. I can't say I don't sympathise. I do believe that a better world is possible, but it feels increasingly unlikely that I'll get to see it.

I do what I can to push for things to improve, through political organising and supporting my community in whatever way I can, but it's hard not to become morally burnt out when I know that I'm doing only a fraction of what I theoretically could be due to constantly struggling to keep my head above water. That's how the capitalist engine continues to chug onwards as it does.

Here's the part where I wish I could say something reassuring, but I can't. I'm far younger than you are, so I know that if I'm feeling exhausted, then it would be trite and foolish to think I could make you feel hopeful about your future when I don't even know if I have hope for myself. In lieu of hope, please accept this offer of solidarity. It doesn't do much to change the suckish reality we find ourselves in, but nonetheless, it feels important to highlight that you're not alone in feeling this way. For what it's worth, I'm glad you're still with us, and I hope that you find some solace, in this life or the next.

Despite challenges coming up, our world is broadly in the best state it's ever been in. We are objectively at an all-time high in lifespans, quality of life and reduced war and violence.

You really, really need to turn off the news and social media (like this site) more and spend more time in your moments. I am speaking as one of your peers here. You are gonna regret spending too much time despairing over things you can't change when you could find small joys in the miraculous world we have around us. You have likely been disheartened growing up in the same world I did thinking that we would have a future with food replicators and starships. That's a hard one to let go of, I know, but there is still magic and wonder we can experience in our daily lives.

Yah you're gonna die, we all will.

So make the most of your short time and go plant a garden, take a hike, raise a puppy, learn a new language, travel to places where people don't actually dwell on the sorrows and learn from them.

No, I'm not giving you platitudes here, I am promising you, you will regret spending too much time in sorrow. The world will feel most wondrous and magical when you know your time is short, and you WILL wonder why you didn't work harder to stretch that time out.

That would be beautiful ❤️

It's proof how much of it is performative and attention-seeking, if they actually believed in anything they would be giving their belongings away, not selling the car they intended to sell anyway.

Might as well be.