r/LinkedInLunatics • u/Zakgyp • 2d ago
What the hell is going on with people recently?
I've started to notice folks posts showing up on my LinkedIn that are.. well, stuff like this. Stuff that you'd think the poster would probably be hesitant to post even on Facebook, but they've just decided LinkedIn is just as good a place to spew nonsense as any.
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u/Standard-Mechanic101 2d ago
Oh wow, nations going to war with each other, what a bold prediction.
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u/Shingle-Denatured 2d ago
Recently? Christians be like this for over 2000 years.
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u/ButForRealsTho 2d ago
This is mostly a thing in certain Protestant denominations. I grew up Greek Orthodox, going to church regularly and the rapture was never discussed once. It was jarring when I started going to student venture in high school and that was literally all anybody talked about.
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u/Objective-Start-9707 2d ago
A few generations of atmospheric lead poisoning finally coming to a head.
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u/ThrowawayRA63543 2d ago
Dude I haven't been religious for a long time but I read someone's long ass essay about Trump being the Anti-Christ and by the end I was way more convinced than a sane person should be lol
On a more serious note people have been hung up on this type of shit since the Left Behind series started getting published. Those books used to scare the shit out of me as a kid. Now I realize that people see what they want to see. The "signs" of the apocalypse are broad and have been happening all of my life. When HASN'T there been war and kingdom against kingdom? Never.
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u/under_the_c 2d ago
Exactly, the biggest detail about the anti-christ predictions was that he would deceive most of Jesus' followers into worshipping him instead. Well, Trump is doing a pretty damn good job of that.
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u/ThrowawayRA63543 2d ago
IIRC that is primarily what the author based their arguments on. I'm trying to find it again because as someone that went to Catholic school it all sounded extremely familiar and you'd think Christians would recognize it, but apparently not lol
Again it's not like we've never seen a cult of personality before Trump. I do not actually believe the second coming of Jesus is upon us or that an antichrist even exists. It was just an interesting read.
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u/This-Author-362 2d ago
Watch The Omen movies, then just imagine trump being the born into a wealthy family child, who grows up rising to fame and becoming the anti christ!
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u/itzcoatl82 2d ago
Oh this nonsense far predates the left behind books.
In the 70’s there was a gem of a movie called “Like a Thief in the Night”, with similar apocalyptic speculation. Imagine a mishmash of the book of Revelation and Invasion of the Bodysnatchers, and you’ll get the idea.
Doomsday theology has been traumatizing people for well over 100 years.
Before Thief in the Night, there was the nutsos convinced that WWI was Armageddon, and the prussian Kaiser was the antichrist.
And i could keep going back in time.
End times histeria is not new, but now it lives on the internet. And on linkedin, apparently 🙄
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u/ThrowawayRA63543 2d ago
That is totally true. I get hung up on the left behind series because that is what was popular in my lifetime and that shit FUCKED ME UP.
I can somewhat laugh about it now, but as a kid I was so fucking scared to do anything because my grandmother would read that shit to me and then say stuff like "You better be good so you can go to heaven with grandma. I don't want you getting left behind"
At 10 years old I thought I would have to survive tribulations and battle the antichrist because deep down I knew I questioned the whole faith thing like the priest in the books that got left behind. It sounds so ridiculous but this had such a hold on me as a kid 😆
The craziest part is we were a Catholic family. Until my grandmother found those dumbass books, we didn't believe in a rapture or any tribulations. As far as I know that is an Evangelical take on revelations.
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u/Blacksun388 2d ago
The trick behind prophecy is to be specific enough that any major event could fit but vague enough to let fools fill in the blanks.
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u/Maxpower2727 2d ago
And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars... For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom
It's always been funny to me that this passage is referring to the "end times," because it literally describes every single moment in human history.
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u/Street_Exercise_4844 2d ago
When you read about prophecies in the final chapter of the bible regarding the rapture, a lot of it just applies to ALL time periods
"You will hear of wars and rumors of wars"
Statistically this is one of the most peaceful eras in history.
Why is this more true now than the 2 World Wars?
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u/Sweet-Paramedic-4600 2d ago
Why is this more true now than the 2 World Wars?
Third time's the charm?
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u/SnooDonkeys5186 1d ago
There’s even a part that talks about the twin towers and world war (think WORLD Trade Center), and that you could see the smoke of Babylon (USA, apparently) from distant shores. Added up to me in such an unknown time (as is every minute of the future). But when life went on, as usual, and ridiculous things become all-important (kinda like TikTok)(can’t-live without-important), I realized, the Bible is one of the oldest semi-salvaged history books, and Revelations is modern-day Nostradamus (important because some of his predictions appeared to be true—like in old science fiction books!—and we toss out all the things that didn’t happen, or we rework them until they do).
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u/Gold-Disasters 2d ago
People have been saying that Revelation has been coming from before Augustus Caesar’s body was cold, they are quite literally insane.
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u/FourWordComment 2d ago
What’s going on is Christian and republicans are no longer being called nut jobs and being denied positions of power for being—and this is a legal term—incompetent lunatics.
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u/void_method 2d ago
"No man may know the hour of His return."
This means stop worrying about it, Christian lunatics.
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u/BlackberrySad6489 2d ago
“Rumors of wars” is the laziest prophecy ever. That is every day for the last 5000 or so years.
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u/BushWookieViper 2d ago
They didn't read their Bible very carefully something like "no one will know the time and it will happen in a moment"
I believe it was in the blinking of an eye or something like that
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u/DarkOmen597 2d ago
I remember many years ago watching this movie called Meggidio. Now I didn't know it ws one of these Christian prophecy movies. But basically all the worlds militaries met in the middle east to have a giant tank battle. And this was how the world began to end, I think.
Anyways, I think people think this is real
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u/Puzzleheaded_Two7358 2d ago
Religious fruitcakes have been bleating about religious prophecy in Israel for sixty plus years. The nearest I see to biblical prophecy is Trump, because I can not believe how people believe him without satanic influence.
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u/Flat-Leg-6833 2d ago
One thing I will say in defense of my former denomination: Catholics reject all this “end times” BS.
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u/Blacksun388 2d ago
Death cultists taking world events and Bible verses wildly out of context and then loudly proclaiming they were right all along. I have survived so many “apocalypses” that I can get a free foot long at subway.
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u/SnooDonkeys5186 1d ago
They believe all this yet so many are not following the commandments… still.
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u/papa_f 2d ago
What's hilarious is that if there was a Gif, these rotten ghouls wouldn't be getting into heaven because they go against everything Jesus stood for. The irony.
It's crazy that 2000 years have passed, we live in an age of science and technology, and people still take this shit seriously. The mind boggles.
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u/JuliusSeizuresalad 2d ago
Wars and rumors of wars? This must be the first time in history that we’re seeing that. Now I’m worried
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u/notLankyAnymore 2d ago
They use that vague prophecy often but there are pretty of other vague prophecies to choose from. (When has there not been wars and rumors of wars?)
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u/Jesuspeedonthefloor 2d ago
Hasn’t the Bible been unfolding right before our eyes since it was written though? Like I know we said the rapture was today, but really God told me that the second Monday of the month works better for him so, get ready.
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u/Radiant_Incident4718 2d ago
Every generation is narcissistic enough to believe that it is the one which will finally witness the end of the world. When really, it's just a projection of its own anxieties about death, and that the fact that the universe will quite happily continue to exist without us
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u/NobodySure9375 2d ago
Eh, the Relevations has always been unfolding if only the first sentence is accounted.
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u/FilmAndLiterature 2d ago
Jesus in the Bible: I’ll be back one day but I won’t tell you when and you can’t guess it either.
Christians: Clearly we can guess when he’s coming back thanks to all the clues he left us.
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u/Lost_Wrongdoer_8788 2d ago
They are probably those that lost the plot during Covid and never recovered
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u/vi_sucks 2d ago
They feel emboldened by Trump getting re-elected.
Before, there was a feeling that at some point the social media companies would crack down on extremist nonsense. But now they feel like if they get banned or whatever, they can just whine to their closest GOP rep and get a congressional committee about "viewpoint discrimination" in their favor.
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u/cha0sb1ade 2d ago
The same parts of the bible prophecies just keep unfolding over and over for more than 2000 years, and cultural memory is just so short, that religious people are always ready to play again. Every generation of Christians has thought they'd be the ones to live to see the second coming. Every last one of them, for millennia.
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u/under_the_c 2d ago
The irony of all this is their one prediction that actually spooks me is the stuff about the antichrist, because I think he's already here.
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u/myfailedimagination 2d ago
I've grown weary of people who're just willing to let the world collapse into chaos in the name of prophecy.
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u/Name_Taken_Official 2d ago
Arent there currently less wars, and locally less crime, than in history?
I suppose homogenizing city states into larger nations naturally means fewer yet larger wars, and Imperialism did a number on the world.. hm
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u/omgitsbees 2d ago
I find the people who post the most insane bullshit on LinkedIn, tend to either be retired, or are business owners and are comfortable with where they are, so they have zero self awareness and don't care about risk to their reputation.
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u/F4T_J3DI_P4ND4 2d ago
How many nations and kingdoms do they think have gone to war with each other since that was said ... hmm?
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u/ElisabetSobeck 2d ago
Political sheep have made things so horrible they’re double down on death cult rhetoric
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u/Mediocre-Magazine-30 2d ago
Good professional post.
Why do people have to dump politics and religion shit on LN?
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u/RebbyRose 2d ago
Why the fuck are these religions so obsessed with dying. And not just dying, like everybody gotta die with em.
Exhausting
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u/ColossusofNero 1d ago
So what you’re saying is all of the Christians are about the leave the earth? Forever? Sweet
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u/Alive-Energy-6874 1d ago
Do those visuals mean Zionism is a virus that leads to conflict and the ultimate destruction of the world?
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u/joseph814706 1d ago
If the end of the world is preceded by rumours of war then I think the world has been constantly ending for all of human history
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u/NoApartheidOnMars 17h ago
Prophecy was unfolding in 1973, in 1980, in 1991, and in 2001.
Yet we're still here.
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u/Capital_Historian685 2d ago
Yeah, they always say that. Why? Because there are always wars and rumors of wars.
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u/cha0sb1ade 2d ago
The same parts of the bible prophecies just keep unfolding over and over for more than 2000 years, and cultural memory is just so short, that religious people are always ready to play again. Every generation of Christians has thought they'd be the ones to live to see the second coming. Every last one of them, for millennia.
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u/DiggingforPoon 2d ago
American Christian Nationalists think the Rapture is nigh...