Why Do People Believe in The Apocalypse?

Because people would rather stroke themselves than obtain any knowledge that would contradict apocalypse theories.

Disillusioned people are everywhere and there's always a charismatic person to lead them into their deaths.

Everything began with nothing and everything will end in nothing.

Turn off the computer, grab a beer, pick up your partner and do some shit. Just wait till it happen and while waiting it, live your life to the fullest. Simple.

People believe in the Apocalypse, more specifically one that happening soon, so that they don't have to go through all that hassle of trying to fix the planet. :P At least that's what the environmentalists say.

We will end ourselves with our own hands, period. I.E. : A nuclear holocaust, environmental problems, or the good 'ol Malthusian collapse.

I don't think it's so much the idea of the Apocalypse per se, but that it would happen within out lifetime. There are people want to die in a spectacular manner, and there's a certain poetic flair about death-by-Apocalypse that these people gravitate to, and that certain other ways like-- oh say, sudden cardiac arrest lack. When you die by any other manner (as in like, pretty much how everyone will), sure your family and friends may mourn for a month at best, but life goes on. In the greater scope of things, your death is meaningless. But in an apocalypse, you are part of the very last generation of humans. You are the terminus of human existence, not some random bloke in its median that got taken out by dysentery.

There's also the appeal of certainty. Humanity can be wiped out without much warning by the innumerable cosmic shit-o-murder that fly around our galaxy; stuff like gamma ray bursts, black holes, America-sized asteroids, and even the inevitable expansion of our very own sun. Also, these. Scary stuff, and pretty much the foundation of Lovecraftian horror. But with the Apocalypse, you have control over when these happen (or at least the illusion of it).

Or well, maybe that guy who cried Rapture just made a killing swindling Christians and you want in on that goldmine. It could happen.

There are 2 main reasons I can fathom that someone would predict the world is going to end and tell everyone.
1. They want to manipulate and control others. The easiest way to do this is with the threat of death since most of us are afraid of death.
2. They genuinely believe it is going to happen and only wish to warn others.

My only real opinion about the apocalypse is that it's gonna happen. Unless we're warned about it (by a credible/visible source) there is very little to do to stop it, and as such when it happens. . . well, chances are we're dead anyways so won't care :P

I think that an apocalypse caused by our own doing is more likely than some outer deity saying "Game Over".

I never really believed it. But I have to admit, I did have this "what if" thought in the back of my head.

what Fuse said

I believe that, as it has been said, that people think the world will end, because they observe many other things ending. Thus the idea that everything has to have a beginning and an end.
The interesting thing here is that beginning/end is always just a logical division. That is, this linear model is not the only way to comprehend things. The other one is to look at cycles. I'm not educated enough to be sure, but I think I've heard that in early cultures the cyclic world model was common. I wonder why that changed.

Every thing has to end eventually. This world is no different. But I doubt that some God's gonna cause it. Probably gonna happen via Big Crunch or the sun going out but thos are like a billion years away.

We believe in the apocalypse because living is sufering. Ok ok ok, sounded a little too much like Shoppenhauer, but the truth is that we look for shortcuts instead of working our way. Ending it all solves ALL our problems, "no man, no problem" as once said in WW2, and just ending it, witout any more expectives is exactly the easiest way.
Why we ALL believe on it, one way or another? Because we have some aspects were we all share in commom, the so called social conscience(not so sure about how you write consience, sorry for any mistakes).
But the real reason is simple: Stuff ends.
Everything ends one day, and so does we, one day we'll end. That's why we believe on the apocalypse, because it's one way to express that feeling, that though, that way of existence of wich we're into.

i agree,, it will happen but we dont know when,,

The end of the world is inevitable...it's when it happens and how it happens is the true mystery.

Because people have set there self's up sins biblecal times. They have programed a image in to there head because 88% of the world is some reliogen in which there is a end off days,And monkey see monkey do. And it gits to ever one because you hear it, see an image,or read it. makes an easy way to scary people to the path others want. sorry rambeld.

I'd think they believe it, because of the fact that there is many different ways the world could end, easily. And they want to think something will come out of it