This group of radical Christians predicted that the final apocalyptic battle and the destruction of the Antichrist were to take place between 1655 and 1657. Columbus claimed that the world was created in 5343 BCE, and would last 7000 years. Assuming no year zero, that means the end would come in 1658.

An apocalypse is a revelation: seeing something which has been hidden. It comes from the Greek word, Apokálypsis, which means “lifting of the veil”, or finding out something secret. Often this secret is discovered in a dream or a vision. In religion, the word describes Armageddon or the end of the world.

The apocalyptic literature of the Jews had its most flourishing growth in the period which begins with the Maccabean struggle and closes with the uprising under Hadrian, from I68 B. C. to I32 A. D., a period of three hundred years.

The fourth and final Horseman is named Death. Known as Θάνατος (Thanatos), of all the riders, he is the only one to whom the text itself explicitly gives a name. Unlike the other three, he is not described carrying a weapon or other object, instead he is followed by Hades (the resting place of the dead).

It is believed by many Christians that the biblical Book of Revelation depicts as an “apocalypse”, the complete destruction of the world, preceding the establishment of a new world and heaven.

1. Purify water. Ensuring your drinking water is safe so that you don’t succumb to disease in a post-apocalyptic world will be crucial.
2. Prevent infection.
3. Generate power.
4. Grow food.
5. Drive tree-powered cars.
6. Restart a chemical industry.
7. Be scientific.

The CW television series Supernatural has Lucifer’s ultimate plan being to unleash a zombie virus, known as the Crotoan Virus, upon the Earth, and to have humanity become ravenous, intelligent, fast zombies which devour and kill each other to cleanse the Earth of humans and to have Lucifer and his angels rule the Earth …

Romero-style zombie apocalypse happened in 1599, the night Shakespeare’s Henry V opened — and builds from there.

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Being aware of these infectious diseases may just help you to avoid your own personal zombie apocalypse….Symptoms usually progress quickly and may be difficult to diagnose right away:

• Muscle soreness.
• Warm and red/purplish or black-spotted skin.
• Ulcers and blisters that erupt on the skin.
• Fever.
• Extreme tiredness.
• Vomiting.

Kinemortophobia, or the fear of zombies,1 is surprisingly common. Zombies play a major role in horror fiction from novels to Hollywood films and are a staple at most major Halloween events. The term “zombie apocalypse,” which refers to a pandemic in which zombies take over the planet, is a relatively new concept.

Obesophobia, also called pocrescophobia, is the fear of gaining weight. It’s most prevalent in adolescent women, but men can have it too. Like all phobias, obesophobia is a type of anxiety disorder.

There is a little-known psychological phenomenon, called the uncanny valley, which explains it. The “dead” eyes and near-human characteristics of zombies provoke an instinctive disquiet in us. This is down to our inability to process these “strange” faces using normal psychological mechanisms.

Consensus zombies have only one weak spot: The brain. You must attack the brain. There is no other way to bring them down. Editors must load their weapons with the best ammunition they can find and fire as quickly and accurately as they can, directly towards the brain of the consensus zombie.

Several sources cite zombie aversion to water as a primary defensive strategy when dealing with zombie attacks.

Some cultures, for example, believe that spirits may return and haunt the living. Such beliefs may play a role in contributing to necrophobia. In other cases, having been exposed to a traumatic event, such as the death of a loved one, might contribute to an obsession with or fear of dead things and death.

Although fast zombies appear much scarier on-screen, their speed is their weakness. Fast zombies don’t just run fast; they become zombies fast, too. In “World War Z,” the time between being bitten by a zombie to being reborn as a sprinting, snapping shock troop of the undead yourself is less than 15 seconds.

Many of the movies that feature “fast” zombies, like Train to Busan or World War Z, lean more into the action divide of the “action-horror” territory. And that makes sense: fast zombies are exciting and make for good chases with lots of frantic running, shooting, and yelling. They’re all about kineticism.

I Am Legend is a 1954 post-apocalyptic horror novel by American writer Richard Matheson that was influential in the modern development of zombie and vampire literature and in popularizing the concept of a worldwide apocalypse due to disease.