OT: Apocalyptic Quotes

[AgentZero]

Hunpecked said:
Been done. See the "Left Behind" books.


Speaking of the living dead, as I recall most of the films include the line, "When there is no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the earth."

I am aware of the series but since fervent Christians claim its the best thing written since the Bible (don't believe me, check the reviews on Amazon) and everyone else seems to have a much lower opinion of it, I haven't been much inclined to plunk down any cash for it.

And without giving too much away, I'm really mostly interested in the sequence of events referred to as 'The End of Days' since the premise behind the story is that once the 'final' battle between Heaven & Hell kicks off, everything goes wrong and both sides end up cutting their losses and legging it. How everything goes wrong, well, that's the fun part!

Oh, and I said Apocalypse, not Zombie Apocalypse!

[Urendi Maleldil]

"Maybe the reason we've been so busy lately is because the dead really have been rising from the grave." -Ghostbusters

"Yee-ha!!" -Dr. Strangelove

Oh my God, you blew it up. Damn you! Damn you all to hell!" -Planet of the Apes

[Puke]

Might i suggest a Norse appocalypse, instead of a Christian one. Ragnarok is so much more fun, and you can parallel it to a nuclear winter.

[AgentZero]

Puke said:
Might i suggest a Norse appocalypse, instead of a Christian one. Ragnarok is so much more fun, and you can parallel it to a nuclear winter.

Keep in mind it's not a proper apocalypse. It's an apocalypse gone wrong. Few unexpected guests show up and everything gets rather messy. Plus my two central characters are quasi-biblical figures, the archangel Gabrielle (no, that's not a typo, I'm using the feminine tense on purpose), and that happy-go-lucky angel of death, Azrael (though I am perfectly aware that he wasn't actually an angel, much less one of death, but it's my story & I'll do what I please. I mean, I've already turned him into a demon, for crying out loud!).

And when I said Apocalyptic quotes, I should have actually said apocalyptic quotes, that is, quotes with an 'end of all things' feel to them, as opposed to quotes referring to the Apocalypse.

[Puke]

AgentZero said:
and that happy-go-lucky angel of death, Azrael

could be Loki. and a valkyrie.

[AgentZero]

I know, if I was being properly accurate, it should be Loki, but Azrael just has a more sinister ring to it. Plus Loki's the name of my pet in WoW, if I named the character Loki, I'd have no choice but to title the story 'Ode To My Cat'.

Anyway, keep the quotes coming, although I really could use a few more quotes from religious texts pretaining to the Apocalypse, and not just Christian ones. Muslim, Jewish, Buddist, Hindu, hell if they have Armageddon in Shintoism, I wanna know about it.

[geoschmo]

AgentZero said:
I know, if I was being properly accurate, it should be Loki, but Azrael just has a more sinister ring to it.

Not for me. How sinister could someone be who couldn't even catch a Smurf?

[EvilGenius4ABetterTomorro]

O.k., I was really into this stuff in the early 80's. This is what I remember.
1.Bad stuff happens and America somehow gets knocked out of the "superpower" status.
2.Rise of the 10 nation European superpower.
3.Rise of an Asian superpower (who could that be?)
4.Russia and Arabs try to invade Israel and get defeated miraculously (somepeople say this has already happened)
5.China (oops, I mean Asian Superpower) sweeps across central asia headed for the middle east.
6.Massive battle on the plains of Meggiddo. This is the Apocalypse. The tongues eaten in people mouths and eyes melting in sockets kinda thing. The bodies remaining can't be touched due to some sort of contamination.
7.Rise of the anti-christ? Or does this happen before the Apocalypse? Anyway things are really bad, Jesus comes and makes everything nice.

Remember Secty. James Watt? He thought Jesus was comming soon so it was o.k. not to protect the eviroment.