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In high school debate, I found a killer piece of evidence to counter any given doomsday argument.

From Eric Zencey:

There is seduction in apocalyptic thinking. If one lives in the Last Days, one’s actions, one’s very life, take on historical meaning and no small measure of poignance.





That's not evidence.

You just used a type of Ad hominem fallacy called appeal to motive fallacy.


Not to mention it’s an assumed motive at that.

Well, it was high school.

List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_ap...


And yet many doomsdays have occurred.



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