A while ago my mother read that everyone will go deaf from a book in bulgaria, I overheard her reading it out loud. My only thought and reply was "So the earth will turn into some kind of hell? ... You're torturing people through your voice."
You see because she's saying bad things and it makes everyone upset when someone does that, even when it's read from a prophetic book.
The one thing I can't put my finger on now is... if it did happen in the late future, how would people actually be torturing anyone with their voice. We simply wouldn't hear anything except through technology.