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[jshackles]

I remember when I was in grade school, as early as Kindergarten, having to do "fallout drills". Kind of like a fire drill, except everyone in the building had to evacuate to the fallout shelter that was in the basement of the schoolhouse. We were told, more or less constantly, that the USSR would nuke the USA, and that we would retaliate, and that would cause the end of civilization.

I was a freshman in high school when the Berlin wall fell. We didn't do any more drills after that.

 

[Ionian]

The NT has a much more intense apocalypse in it. Read Revelation. It gets rough.

I don't know that there are no video games in eternity. This idea that there is no technology but some agrarian society is a misnomer. Now certainly if there is a video game it would be different because the concept of death would not exist. I don't know if a video game would have a failure state.

Dude, I'm Irish all schools were run by priests and nuns. From childhood.

Of course it made an impression.

We HAD to know the texts. Even had an exam as a kid/teen continually about it.

Get back in your box.

 

[AJUMP23]

Dude, I'm Irish all schools were run by priests and nuns. From childhood.

Of course it made an impression.

We HAD to know the texts. Even had an exam as a kid/teen continually about it.

Get back in your box.

I don't think I was calling you out. I don't fit in a box.

 

[Amory]

We didn't cover "the end of the world". But I grew up in the relative sanity of the 90s, when schools were at least ostensibly about education instead of pushing narratives and sensationalism.

We did learn about global warming and whatnot.

Edit: I should mention I'm obviously fine with kids learning about the literal end of earth, what will happen when the sun expands and whatever. But I don't think it's helpful for teachers to be throwing out their predictions for how the world is imminently going to end. That doesn't seem like a productive use of time.

 

[GymWolf]

Dude, I'm Irish all schools were run by priests and nuns. From childhood.

Of course it made an impression.

We HAD to know the texts. Even had an exam as a kid/teen continually about it.

Get back in your box.

That sound hellish (ironically)

 

[haxan7]

Never got anything like that in my school. Public school in the 90s in the Northeastern US.

 

[Dark Star]

Heat death from the sun going supernova and swallowing up the earth in however many billion years, 5, 10, etc. Nothing for us to worry about, though, our planet will outlast humanity and whatever comes after us.

Humans probably won’t even make it another 1000 years at the pace we’re at. Way too much pollution and corporate greed and destruction of natural areas including lakes and oceans.

We either change our ways, adapt, make it to Mars and stand the test of time, evolve. Or we just stay primitive and consume all of our earthly natural resources, churn out more buildings and parking lots and cars, and deforest the planet and make things worse for every following generation until humans end up like the survivors of walking dead or terminator lol.

 

[I collect VHS tapes]

I live in SoCal so we talked about earthquakes a lot. and the sun eating us.

 

[Kamina]

Schools here dont normally have EndTime Theory on the timetable…

 

[Tams]

They didn't because they weren't a shit school.

 

[Brian Fellows]

oh it was during the time of Furn Gully and captain planet, so pretty sure they tried to tell us deforestation would be what killed us (and paper grocery bags… my how times have changed)

I remember hearing a lot about the hole in the ozone layer around that time.

 

[It's all in the wrist]

God. Its going to be a fire-y end. But only because nobody left was going to be worth saving, so I didn't need to worry about anything.

 

[TransTrender]

Ozone holes
Oil energy collapse by the mid 90's
Death by smog

 

[Ionian]

Ozone holes
Oil energy collapse by the mid 90's
Death by smog

Smog, that brings me back to the 80's and coal.

I'd call over to my mates in absolute clouds of the shit during winters, ground level as well. Went into the air and came to rest everywhere. There is no doubt deaths happened to older people and fucked up young people.

Of course as a kid you didn't care but there is a reason coal was banned.

Unless you lived the 80's or before, you'll never know.
You couldn't see anything and could barely breathe

 

[partime]

Went to a good Christian grade school in the midwest and was taught about the Armageddon early on. I was a struggling student and really thought it would happen before 5th period because I had a big test that day.

 

[InfiniteCombo]

Regular school didn't.

But as a kid I went to Sunday school. So... The book of Revelation in the Bible is how I was taught about the end of times.

 

[Kraz]

The Chrysalids was part of Grade 7 which introduced a few of these topics in the school setting for education. Don't recall the teacher being too involved beyond helping us with tools and grading.

Wouldn't call it "explaining" either. The book provided a means for a complex thought experiment to learn applicable skills with these subjects. A better a way of putting it.

 

[ahtlas7]

Yersinia pestis

 

[bajouras]

My geography teacher told us about global warming. That everything would either freeze to death or burn/dehidrate. Mind you, we never even heard of that before he told us. A year or two later, that movie “the day after tomorrow” came out and he actually took the class to see it. We were in 6th grade and I remember feeling afraid of a giant wave hitting us while I slept for a while. My friends and I even came up with plans to escape a 300ft tall wave, like highest point near our city, quickest way to get there with traffic. Good teacher after all.

 

[Kagey K]

Nuclear war, we would practice by hiding under our desks for the bomb. (I'm sure my desk will save me)

Ozone layer and we are all going to fry like ants under a microscope.

Buncha bullshit.

 

[Methos#1975]

Nothing was ever said until The Day After aired and it became nightmare fuel for many, then the cold war and threat of nuclear fire was discussed a bit.

 

[Ionian]

School assembly, by nuns. Taught us the Gulf War.

Nuns.

Watched television as much as I could. Generally BBC, was traumatizing as the threat of nukes.

Then you grow up and learn the real history.

A murderous bastard met his own fate.