Word meanings

[Corsair5]

Technically, Off-Topic is not a word, but rather two words linked--oh, wait.

[Jigen]

The penny drops.

Doesn't the word Apocalypse refer to the book of revelation, you know, where they describe the end of the world?

[Silverbolt]

Yes, it does, in fact. It refers to the book of "revelation" or "vision" or "premonition" where they DESCRIBE the end of the world. In fact, the end of the World is called "Armageddon". Apocalypse is just a preview of how it'll happen.

"This summer...Keanu Reeves, Robin Williams and Orlando Bloom...

Seven Seals...Four Horsemen...Three Heroes...One Goal.

The Apocalypse - Improperly used

~Coming soon everywhere near you."

(Sorry Swift. I tried to get back on topic. I really did.)

[Ianfe]

Actually, Jigen (and the rest of you), Apocalypse comes from the Greek, and its meaning is something like "disclosure of private (privileged?) information".


... but, moving on to more serious topics: Hasn't this gone off-topic enough? Can we move the discussion to the OT forum, plz?

[Swift]

Ianfe, that's what the 'Split topic' function is for. Allow me to demonstrate.

[The Guy]

Well then, I guess we overfilled the cup on that one. Yes, Ianfe, we waaaaaaay offtopic and that's a nice "split topic" option Swift. Sorry about that you two. AND SILVERBOLT!!! Pray tell, just where exactly in your last post did try to get back on topic, for I see nothing that suggests a thing:

Yes, it does, in fact. It refers to the book of "revelation" or "vision" or "premonition" where they DESCRIBE the end of the world. In fact, the end of the World is called "Armageddon". Apocalypse is just a preview of how it'll happen.

"This summer...Keanu Reeves, Robin Williams and Orlando Bloom...

Seven Seals...Four Horsemen...Three Heroes...One Goal.

The Apocalypse - Improperly used

~Coming soon everywhere near you."

(Sorry Swift. I tried to get back on topic. I really did.)

Nope. Nothing. Nada. Zip(padedoda?). Ziltch. hehehe

P.S.  Offtopic is actually in the dictionary both hyphenated and not, but they both bring you to the hyphenated word.

Main Entry:     off-topic
Part of Speech:     adjective
Definition:     differing from the main topic; not relevant
Etymology:     1982-87

[Reish Vedaur]

Aren't I pretty?

There, THAT'S off-topic. =P

[The Guy]

Yes, yes indeed, that is quite off-topic. If you happen to look exactly like that smiley, then sure I guess. Except now this is a new thread, so you are going off-topic in a rather off-topic thread. Perhaps this should have been named "Random Rants" (like in a similar forum I go to), "Rants: The Return" or perhaps "Rants: The Second Coming"?

[Silverbolt]

Well then, I guess we overfilled the cup on that one. Yes, Ianfe, we waaaaaaay offtopic and that's a nice "split topic" option Swift. Sorry about that you two. AND SILVERBOLT!!! Pray tell, just where exactly in your last post did try to get back on topic, for I see nothing that suggests a thing:

Yes, it does, in fact. It refers to the book of "revelation" or "vision" or "premonition" where they DESCRIBE the end of the world. In fact, the end of the World is called "Armageddon". Apocalypse is just a preview of how it'll happen.

"This summer...Keanu Reeves, Robin Williams and Orlando Bloom...

Seven Seals...Four Horsemen...Three Heroes...One Goal.

The Apocalypse - Improperly used

~Coming soon everywhere near you."

(Sorry Swift. I tried to get back on topic. I really did.)

Nope. Nothing. Nada. Zip(padedoda?). Ziltch. hehehe

P.S.  Offtopic is actually in the dictionary both hyphenated and not, but they both bring you to the hyphenated word.

Main Entry:     off-topic
Part of Speech:     adjective
Definition:     differing from the main topic; not relevant
Etymology:     1982-87

The inner struggle to get back on topic is right there. You have to read between the lines, but my dark side prevailed.

WOE IS ME!

Though, I would LOVE to get that guy who reads movie previews (that voice...you all know it) read that one...

As for the term itself, well, at least I was half right. Apocalypse is NOT the End of the World.

Armageddon is.

[Corsair5]

Yeah, but they already did a movie named Armageddon.

[Silverbolt]

And one called Titanic which you do NOT want me to get started about...

[The Guy]

Soooo, about Titanic.....     Oh wait, that's not why I'm posting. This happens to be why I'm posting:

Ar·ma·ged·don   n.
1. Bible. The scene of a final battle between the forces of good and evil, prophesied to occur at the end of the world.
2. A decisive or catastrophic conflict.

And also in my "travels" on the internet dictionary:

a·poc·a·lypse  n.
1.    a. Apocalypse Abbr. Apoc. Bible. The Book of Revelation.
      b. Any of a number of anonymous Jewish or Christian texts from around the second century B.C. to the second century A.D. containing prophetic or symbolic visions, especially of the imminent destruction of the world and the salvation of the righteous.
2. Great or total devastation; doom: the apocalypse of nuclear war.
3. A prophetic disclosure; a revelation.

Apocalypse  n.
1: a cosmic cataclysm in which God destroys the ruling powers of evil 2: the last book of the New Testament; contains visionary descriptions of heaven and of conflicts between good and evil and of the end of the world; attributed to Saint John the apostle [syn: Revelation, Revelation of Saint John the Divine, Apocalypse, Book of Revelation]

It would seem that both the words mean the same thing. Oh, and Silverbolt, you actually are evil. You just try to hide it. hehehe

[Silverbolt]

As I said, Apocalypse has been used improperly for so long that using it as "catastrophe" has become legit. It's sad how movies tend to bastardize languages.

"Pathetic" is not "pitiful", but actually means "passionate".

"Romantic" is something that has to do with "Romantism" which is a literary current and not "Omg flowers and sunsets and love".

The examples are many.

I am not evil. I'm just a messed up kid.

[Corsair5]

Just like Romance Languages don't have anything to do with love.

Pathetic means passionate? Dang! I liked that insult.

[The Guy]

Well, actually, in each definition of Armageddon and Apocalypse, both words have Biblical meanings for the end of the world. Movies had nothing to do with that. And as for the word pathetic. If I called Corsair "pathetic" (just for reference sake, no insult intended), you mean I would actually be calling him "passionate"?