The Apocalypse and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies

Prophecies are central to most myths and religious narratives, but these days we don’t take them very seriously. This is probably because so many prophecies fail to materialise — but this then begs another question: why, when so many prophecies fail, do some people continue to believe in them?

An obvious example of this is the so-called ‘millenarians’ who believe in the second coming…