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Are there any actual groups who believe that the world will end after completing a task?

In Eric Frank Russell's Now Inhale and Arthur C. Clarke's Nine Billion Names of God there are described Buddhist monks who have a task which will seem to take aeons to complete in order to bring about the end of the universe. I've seen this pop up a…
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