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  • n  the doctrine that the Scripture prophecies of the Apocalypse (as in the Book of Revelations) are presently in the course of being fulfilled
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    Please login to view the requested resource. It may speak to Shirley Temple Black’s age of 85, but likley more to the presentism that engulfs modern American culture, that her death wasn’t, for many newspapers, a front-page story.
    Feb. 18, 2014 - The Harrisonburg Daily News-Record
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  • Cory Doctorow in Quill & Quire (blog)
    I call it 'Presentism' because in today's history we cannot separate the future from the present. What we do today, what we destroy, determines our future. There is no longer a difference between present and future. What could once be called... Brian Eno http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Eno&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHOrTHradgtl0ojFjGXEmgos_7IAQ Art Daily http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp%3Fint_sec%3D2%26int_new%3D29180&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFxsgGPnZ8UBrv-GWWa-WJpyVvA-A Feb 22, 2009 77165 104083 presentist On the new novel's subject - terrorism and Homeland Security anxieties - Doctorow says, I'ma presentist:. All science fiction writers, whether they admit it or not, are writing metaphorically about the present. To extrapolate the future is really...

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