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For thousands of years, humans have been absolutely convinced the world is about to end. And for thousands of years, we've been spectacularly wrong. From the Mayans who never actually predicted 2012, to Norse warriors who believed a giant wolf would devour the sun, to modern doomsday preppers stockpiling canned goods for the rapture-humanity has imagined its demise in increasingly creative and absurd ways. We've blamed angry gods, cosmic alignments, nuclear war, Y2K, killer asteroids, and even the Large Hadron Collider for our impending doom. The End Is Extremely Fcking Nigh* is a darkly humorous journey through history's most fascinating apocalypse myths, end-times prophecies, and civilization-ending disasters that never quite managed to end civilization. Discover how the ancient Sumerians invented the flood myth that would terrify cultures for millennia, why medieval Europeans were convinced dancing would bring about the apocalypse, how a 19th-century farmer convinced thousands to wait on a hilltop for Jesus (spoiler: awkward), and why we keep falling for the same doomsday patterns over and over again. Packed with bizarre rituals, failed predictions, catastrophic misunderstandings, and the occasional actual close call, this book reveals what our apocalypse fantasies say about human nature, fear, hope, and our desperate need to believe we're living in special times. Because if there's one thing humans love more than surviving-it's being convinced we won't.

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