[akomtu]

"People will no longer get married and will live with each other just for sexual pleasure." - taken from the Wikipedia page about kali yuga. There are many more entertaining observations there:

Lust will be viewed as socially acceptable and sexual intercourse will be seen as the central requirement of life.

People will become addicted to intoxicating drinks and drugs.

Rulers will become unreasonable: they will levy taxes unfairly.

Rulers will no longer see it as their duty to promote spirituality, or to protect their subjects: they will become a danger to the world.

Avarice and wrath will be common. Humans will openly display animosity towards each other.

People will have thoughts of murder with no justification and will see nothing wrong in that.

Gurus will no longer be respected and their students will attempt to injure them.

Weather and environment will degrade with time and frequent and unpredictable rainfalls will happen. Earthquakes will be common.

The powerful people will dominate the poor people.

All the human beings will declare themselves as gods or boon given by gods and make it as a business instead of teachings.

Everything except the last one is the norm already. I'm curious what a society of self-proclaimed gods looks like.

[bamboozled]

People in Ancient Rome (for example) were into all those types of things way more than the society I live in now. Don't really see the connection.

Are Earthquakes truly more common now?

[weikju]

I had a look at the Wikipedia page and it turns out that this age of sin started around 3000 BC and will last another 426,000 years give or take a few centuries .

So, conveniently it encompasses all known history and imaginable future of our civilization

[bamboozled]

Got me there...

[TulliusCicero]

This just sounds like standard "last days" apocalyptic religious claptrap.

Likelihood of dying by violence is lower in developed countries now than the historical norm. Forms of bigotry on average seem to be way down, acceptance of those different from you is up. People's morals have mostly gotten better, not worse.

There are still problems -- climate change is the big one that's potentially actually apocalyptic -- but for the most part humanity is prospering.

[cscurmudgeon]

> All the human beings will declare themselves as gods or boon given by gods and make it as a business instead of teachings.

I mean that is a perfect description of LinkedIn and Instagram to some extent.

[TulliusCicero]

You could apply something generic like that to all kinds of things. It's like a horoscope.

Like, think about what it's saying: "people will be full of themselves". Do you really think this is the first time in history people have thought that about others?

[cscurmudgeon]

> You could apply something generic like that to all kinds of things. It's like a horoscope.

You can apply that to your statement too.

[bamboozled]

It's not a perfect example of that at all. I use Instagram, I don't think I'm a god, or that god has anything to do with it.

[adammunich]

omg

[LurkingPenguin]

Also from the Kali Yuga Wikipedia page:

> Lasting for 432,000 years (1,200 divine years), Kali Yuga began 5,122 years ago and has 426,878 years left as of 2021 CE.