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Millennium legend.
The central idea of the millennium legend is that the Earth will be transformed into what it was in the beginning: a place of perfect harmony and justice, free from all suffering and strife. Often this involves the return of a hero, who established things the way they were in The First Place. Since that time, things have gone awry, to the extent that the world is so corrupt, poisoned, unjust, and full of suffering that it is no longer fit to live in. It must be restored. Progressivists believe this change will come about gradually through human effort, perhaps with divine guidance. However, the most dramatic and often poetic movements are those that foretell some form of Armageddon.
These movements never imagine a literal destruction of the entire planet. It will not become a blank cinder floating in space. Instead, what the millennium promises is an end to the world order. The planetary cataclysm is symbolic of a social overthrow. Millennialists generally perceive themselves to be the victims of immensely powerful forces, which would swallow them instantly, if God did not defend them. Consequently, it is hard to imagine the defeat of these titanic opponents without global cataclysm. The message is always one of ultimate hope. God and/or the returned culture hero will shelter the believers through the ruin, and they alone will live forever in paradise, God's chosen.
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- THE VISION THING
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Peter Carlson January 1, 1995 700+ words
...he says, his bright blue eyes twinkling merrily. Ted Daniels is the publisher of Millennial Prophecy Report. He's also the editor of Millennial Prophecy Report and its sole writer and reporter. He's a 55-year-old scholar with gray...
- Apocalyptic Cults Flourish as the 2000 Moves Closer
- Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition October 12, 1994 700+ words
...away, Ted Daniels [sp], publisher and editor of The Millennial Prophecy Report, says there are an increasing number of Americans...imminent. TED DANIELS, Publisher and Editor, `The Millennial Prophecy Report' : What seems to be changing is that the rhetoric...
- Approaching millennium brings out doomsday prophets.(Originated from...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Morphew, Clark January 10, 1996 700+ words
...have an idea of how bizarre the next years could become in the world of religion. Ed Daniels, who edits the Millennial Prophecy Report, says he has 1,100 sources he keeps in touch with regularly. Daniels says most new religions begin...
- Adam and evil; Hollywood is sinking its fangs into Adam Parfrey's bloody...
- Magazine article from: Los Angeles Magazine Collins, Michael January 1, 1998 700+ words
...Sodom and Gomorrah. A lovelorn racist murderer, a sex cult composed of the physically challenged and gothic millennial prophecy fill Cult Rapture, a recent release of Parfrey's Feral House publishing company. Parfrey is best known for...
- Millennium Watchers Get Head Start on the Hoopla Series: COUNTING TO 2000
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Jim Ritter May 19, 1996 700+ words
...certain something big is brewing, predicting an assortment of catastrophes around 2000, said Ted Daniels of Millennial Prophecy Report in Philadelphia. Koopersmith's plans are not so apocalyptic. She said she'll spend Millennium Eve...
- Smart's bawdy politic: masculinity and the second age of horn in 'Jubilate...
- Magazine article from: Criticism Hawes, Clement June 22, 1995 700+ words
...renewal has to do with the softening of social and economic barriers between people. Indeed, the Jubilate's millennial prophecy foretells a time of cornucopian mercy that would arrive too late for Smart himself, who in 1771 perished in debtor...
- It's high time we started thinking about printing some end-of- the-world...
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London Tom Lubbock May 25, 1996 700+ words
...produce similar conclusions. On none of these points has the Millennium Commission made so much as a murmur. Millennial prophecy is divided on whether it's armageddon or perpetual peace that's just round the corner; often both, but armageddon...
- Uncontrolling the controllable; New music.(Per Norgard)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) August 17, 2002 700+ words
...impulsive works of recent years. The symphony's descriptive subtitle, "At the End of the Day", might suggest millennial prophecy or a nostalgic summing-up of his own career (he was 70 this year). But Mr Norgard's sixth is typically...
