Armageddon: if you can’t hasten it, maybe you can dodge it?

September 30th, 2015 by Charles Cameron

I can’t embed MI7 Agency‘s Passage Through the Veil of Time, but it’s an intriguing entry into the prediction stakes, and the first I’ve seen that confirms Richard Landes‘ contention that Christian millennial movements will be with us at least until the second millennial anniversary of the death and resurrection of Christ in the 2030s — and no doubt through the start of the next Islamic century in 2076 AD since, as Tim Furnish has also reminded us, “Mahdist expectations increase at the turn of every Islamic century.”

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  1. Grurray:

    September 30th, 2015 at 2:05 pm

    From Schindler’s article,
    “Assassination efforts continued, spurred on by the USSR’s humiliating upset loss to Yugoslavia at the 1952 soccer Olympics, an event which resulted in the dismissal of senior Soviet officials denounced as having ‘dishonored themselves and the entire nation and all people working for peace.'”
    This is reminiscent of the events in Ukraine after the 2014 Sochi Olympics. One month after the Russian hockey team was humiliated on their home ice, Putin invaded Crimea, and then six months later he invaded the Donbass. Russian dictators never change.
    Looking at these recent events, I tend to think that Kennan, et al. overreacted. Hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops bogged down in a guerrilla war in the mountains of the Balkans right at the doorstep of the Iron Curtain would not have been a disaster for NATO. The subsequent flare-ups in East Germany and Hungary a few years later may have turned out very differently. Unfortunately, our guys were wedging everything onto their chess board instead of something more multi-dimensional.
    .
    Speaking of dodging a bullet, a new documentary was just released about the Soviet officer whose experience with a false alarm vaguely inspired the movie “Wargames”
    http://www.military.com/daily-news/2015/09/17/russian-who-saved-the-world-recalls-his-decision-as-50-50.html
    Sometimes one person does make a big difference.

  2. Bryan Alexander:

    September 30th, 2015 at 4:39 pm

    “Hotwiring the Apocalypse” is one awesome title.

  3. Charles Cameron:

    September 30th, 2015 at 6:51 pm

    Hi Bryan:
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    Yeah, it’s a terrific coinage. Unfortunately, the idea has been widely transferred from the Sunni (“Jihadi-Salafi”) side of the street to the Shia side in Iran, where it almost certainly doesn’t fit. Tim Furnish:

    [S]ome other analysts fall off the horse on the other side and wrongly turn Ahmadi-nezhad’s Mahdism into a Shi`i death wish. This incorrect take is a variation of the idea of “hot-wiring the apocalypse,” first devised by Professor Reuven Paz. It posits that there is a strain of Islamic eschatological thought which hopes to force Allah’s hand in sending the Mahdi, as it were, via sparking a major conflagration (nuclear, or otherwise) with the West (either the U.S. or Israel). This may be true of some of the Sunni jihadits with an apocalyptic bent, but there is very little evidence that such an idea is operative in the upper echelons of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The ayatollahs may be cut-throat, anti-Israeli and anti-American—but they are not stupid.