Boris Kulagin , Ph.D in Technical Sciences Introduction With such a flood of frankly bad and sad world news that we've been dealing with lately, it's easy to think that we're living in the End Times — and maybe we are... "Many people are beginning to feel that we are living in a dystopia, and the words 'apocalypse' and 'Armageddon' are already perceived differently»." What do these terms mean? Is it the same thing? And what is a "Happy birthday" then? "The Apocalypse" often has a religious meaning, but not always...