"It's the end of the world as we know it / and I feel fine," sang R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe. As attitudes toward the apocalypse go, you could do worse. People keep predicting the end of the world and the world keeps on taking its good time.
We use the broad term "people" here because prophets of end are an astoundingly varied lot, from Catholic mystics to Viking visionaries to some of the world's greatest minds. If you don't believe us, just click all the way through to the last entry and then come back for the we-told-you-so.
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