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[King Zultan]

Since the bible has lasted this long I don't see why having robots would make it suddenly go away.

[scriver]

Remember St Terminator from TES: Oblivion, the robot from the future sent back in time to free mankind from skavery and who eradicated the Ayleid Elves with his laser gun? One of the game's expansions was about him.

I don't have a serious point to make, "religion surviving robots" just brought him to my mind and how he was seen as an angelic knight figure since he was "clad in armour" and "wielding holy flame". It's a funny story.

[Magmacube_tr]

no

[Loud Whispers]

Remember St Terminator from TES: Oblivion, the robot from the future sent back in time to free mankind from skavery and who eradicated the Ayleid Elves with his laser gun? One of the game's expansions was about him.

ONE MILLION ONE THOUSAND AND ONE

[McTraveller]

If I had to guess it has to do with the book called "Revelation" in English being called "Apokalypsis" or "Apocalypsis" in Greek and Latin respectively.

Well yes I know it has to do with that book.  I'm looking at when the usage changed.  It is funny though, because it's literally the Greek word for English "revelation" - but nobody uses the English word "Revelation" to mean "the end of the world."  They mean it as "a revealing."

I guess that's how you can start religions though - change the meaning of words...

[Travis Bickle]

If I had to guess it has to do with the book called "Revelation" in English being called "Apokalypsis" or "Apocalypsis" in Greek and Latin respectively.

Well yes I know it has to do with that book.  I'm looking at when the usage changed.

Pretty recently, apparently. I checked a few dictionaries from the 19th and early 20th century and none of them had "Apocalypse" defined in the modern usage even as an alternative meaning, though it probably was being used as such by some people a while before the people writing the dictionaries gave in and included it alongside the more correct definition.

Its general sense in Middle English was "insight, vision; hallucination." The general meaning "a cataclysmic event" is modern (not in OED 2nd ed., 1989); apocalypticism "belief in an imminent end of the present world" is from 1858.

[scriver]

Then why is the first mutant called AOPLACYSE

Czeque Malt atheists

[King Zultan]

Why the hell don't we have robots and flying cars yet, I was promised those in the 50s and I'm still waiting!