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The End of the World!

THE END OF THE WORLD! THE TRUE DATE OF (AND SOME FAILURES ALONG THE WAY) SINCE THE BEGINNING, MAN HAS ALWAYS BELIEVED THE END OF THE WORLD WAS RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER. MANY OF THE PREDICTIONS WERE BASED ON FAITH, FEAR AND LUNCERTAINTY COMPLEMENTED WITH A HINT OF MATH. OTHERS WERE CREATED BY THE INSANE. (CHARLES MANSON COMES TO MIND) ... FOR WHATEVER REASON WE ANTICIPATE THE APOCALYPSE IN OUR LIFETIME, HERE ARE SOME OF THE MOST FAMOUS PREDICTIONS OF THE PAST, ALONG WITH SOME WE HAVE TO LOOK FORWARD TO! END DATE: VARIOUS C. 2800 BC CLAIMANT: ASSYRIANS CHRISTIANS IN EUROPE PREDICTED THE END OF THE AN ASSYRIAN CLAY TABLET DATING TO AT LEAST I DON'T HAVE TO WORLD ON YIK! WORRY ABOUT COMPUTERS. APPROXIMATELY 2800 BC WAS UNEARTHED BEARING THE WORDS. "OUR EARTH IS DEGENERATE IN THESE LATTER DAYS. THERE END DATE: JAN. 1, 1000 ARE SIGNS THAT THE WORLD IS SPEEDILY COMING TO AN END. BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION CLAIMANT: ARE COMMON." POPE SYLVESTER II OUTCOME: OUTCOME: FAIL FAIL! END DATE: 1033 END DATE: 1346-1351 END DATE: 1284 CLAIMANT: VARIOUS CHRISTIANS CLAIMANT: CLAIMANT: POPE INNOCENT III VARIOUS EUROPEANS SOME BELIEVED MY BAD. THIS TO BE THE 1,000 ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH AND RESURRECTION OF JESUS, AND HIS THE BLACK PLAGUE SPREADING ACROSS POPE INNOCENT III SECOND COMING WAS ANTICIPATED. PREDICTED THAT THE EUROPE WAS WORLD WOULD END INTERPRETED BY 666 YEARS AFTER MANY AS A SIGN OF THE END TIMES. OUTCOME: THE RISE OF ISLAM. OUTCOME: OUTCOME: FAI FAN TALI END DATE: ICONIC FIGURE END DATE: 1600 OF THE 1658 CLAIMANT: PROTESTANT REFORMATION CLAIMANT: MARTIN LUTHER CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS PREDICTED THE END OF THE WORLD WOULD OCCUR NO LATER THAN 1600. OUTCOME: LFAIL! THIS END DATE: 1688 MATHEMATICIAN CALCULATED THE END OF CLAIMANT: THE WORLD WOULD BE JOHN NAPIER 1688 BASED ON .. THE BOOK OF REVEL TION. OUTCOME: LFAIL! END DATE: 1890-1891 THE FOUNDER COLUMBUS CLAIMED THAT OF THE LATTER DAY SAINT MOVEMENT PREDICTED THE SECOND COMING THE WORLD WAS CREATED IN CLAIMANT: JOSEPH SMITH S343 BC, AND WOULD LAST 7,000 YEARS. ASSUMING NO YEAR ZERO, THAT MEANS THE END WOULD COME IN 1658. WOULD OCUR IN EITHER 1890 OR 1891. OUTCOME: OUTCOME: FAILI FAIL! END DATE: END DATE: END DATE: 1967 1969 OCT./NOV. 1982 CLAIMANT: CHARLES MANSON CLAIMANT: CLAIMANT: REV. JIM JONES PAT ROBERTSON THE FOUNDER OF THE PEOPLES TEMPLE STATED HE HAD MANSON PREDICTED IN LATE 1976, ROBERTSON THAT AN APOCALYPTIC RACE WAR WOULD OcCUR IN 1969 AND VISIONS THAT A NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST PREDICTED THAT THE ORDERED THE TATE- END OF THE WORLD WAS COMING IN OCTOBER OR NOVEMBER 1982. LABIANCA MURDERS WAS TO TAKE PLACE IN AN ATTEMPT TO IN 1967. BRING IT ABOUT. оитсомE: OUTCOME: OUTCOME: FAILT FAIL FAILI END DATE(S): SEPT. 6, 1994 SEPT. 29, 1994 OCT. 2, 1994 END DATE: MARCH 31, 1995 CLAIMANT: HAROLD CAMPING CLAIMANT: CAMPING'S FOURTH HAROLD CAMPING CAMPING PREDICTED DATE FOR PREDICTED THE THE END WAS MARCH 31, 1995. RAPTURE WOULD OCCUR ON SEPTEMBER 1994. WHEN IT 6, DION'T, HE REVISED THE DATE TO SEPTEMBER 29 AND THEN TO OCTOBER 2. OUTCOME: OUTCOME: 3X FAILI 4X FAIL! *MORE TO COME IN 2011! END DATE: END DATE: JULY, 1999 APRIL 29, 2007 CLAIMANT: CLAIMANT: NOSTRADAMUS PAT ROBERTSON A PREDICTION ATTRIBUTED TO NOSTRADAMUS STATING THE "KING OF TERROR" WOULD COME FROM THE SKY IN "1999 AND SEVEN MONTHS" LED TO OUTCOME: FEARS OF THE END. FAIL! END DATE: IN HIS 1990 BOOK JAN. 1, 2000 THE NEW MILLENNIUM, CLAIMANT: VARIOUS ROBERTSON SUGGESTS THIS DATE AS THE DAY OF EARTH'S DESTRUCTION. AY2K COMPUTER BUG WAS PREDICTED THAT WOULD CAUSE COMPUTER OUTCOME: CRASHES, MAJOR CATASTROPHES AND THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT. OUTCOME: FAIL! FAIL * END DATE: MAY 21, 2011 END DATE: OCT. 21, 2011 CLAIMANT: HAROLD CAMPING CLAIMANT: HAROLD CAMPING CAMPING PREDICTED THE RAPTURE WHEN HIS PREVIOUS (FIFTH) PREDICTION FAILED TO COME ABOUT, CAMPING REVISED IT AND SAID THAT ON MAY 21, A "SPIRITUAL JUDGMENT" TOOK PLACE, AND THAT BOTH THE PHYSICAL RAPTURE AND THE END OF THE WORLD WOULD OCCUR OCTOBER 21, 2011. AND DEVASTATING EARTHQUAKES WOULD OCCUR ON MAY 21, 2011 WITH GOD TAKING APPROXIMATELY 3% OF THE WORLD'S POPULATION INTO HEAVEN, AND THAT THE END OF THE WORLD WOULD OCCUR FIVE MONTHS LATER ON OUTCOME: OCTOBER 21. 6X PIC FAIL!! OUTCOME: SX FAIL! AND NOW FOR.. SOME FUTURE- PREDICTIONS! END DATE: DEC. 21, 2012 CLAIMANT: VARIOUS THE END OF THE MAYAN CALENDAR GIVES us MANY DIFFERENT SCENARIOS INCLUDING A GALACTIC ALIGNMENT, A GEOMAGNETIC REVERSAL OF THE POLES, A COLLISION WITH AN UNKNOWN PLANET CALLED NIBIRU, AN ALIEN INVASION, EARTH BEING DESTROYED BY A GIANT SUPERNOVA, THE MOON EXPLODING AND THE LIST GOES ON. OUTCOME: pouBTruL END DATE: NOV. 13, 2026 CLAIMANT: HEINZ VON FOERSTER GEEZ. CAN'T YOU PEOPLE TAKE A JOKE? ACCORDING TO FOERSTER'S OUTCOME: ALIKELY FAIL! ARTICLE, PUBLISHED IN SCIENCE MAGAZ INE IN 1960, THIS WAS THE DATE THAT THE WORLD'S POPULATION WOULD REACH INFINITY, A RESULT OF THE SO-CALLED ON." (THOUGH HE LATER HINTED THE PAPER WAS CREATED IN JEST) (PROJECTIONS ALREADY WAY OFF) END DATE: APRIL 13, 2036 99942 APOPHIS: IF THE ASTEROID APOPHIS PASSES CLAIMANT: NASA THROUGH A ONE-HALF-MILE-WIDE "GRAVITATION KEYHOLE" (A REGION IN SPACE CLOSE TO EARTH) IN THE YEAR 2029, THE ASTEROID COULD IMPACT EARTH OH JUST GREAT. ON APRIL 13, 2036. BASED ON LOCATION AND ANGLE OF IMPACT, DESTRUCTION COULD BE FAR-REACHING AND GLOBAL. OUTCOME: DOUBIFUL (1 IN 250,000) END DATE: 3797 CLAIMANT: NOSTRADAMUS IN HIS PREFACE, NOSTRADAMUS STATED THAT HIS PROPHECIES ENDED IN THIS YEAR. SOME HAVE SUGGEESTED THAT THIS IMPLIES OUTCOME: THE END OF THE WORLD DOUBTEUL BEYOND THIS POINT. THE GUARANTEED END OF THE WORLD! (...AND UNIVERSE!) END DATE: C. 5,000,000,000 HOWEVER, AS THE SUN GRADUALLY GROWS HOTTER (OVER MILLIONS OF YEARS) THE EARTH MAY BECOME TOO HOT FOR LIFE IN AS FEW AS ONE BILLION YEARS FROM NOW! CLAIMANT: SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY THIS IS THE END DATE OF OUR SUN'S CURRENT PHASE OF DEVELOPMENT, AFTER WHICH IT WILL SWELL INTO A RED GIANT, EITHER SWALLOWING THE EARTH OR AT LEAST COMPLETELY SCORCHING IT. IT IS WIDELY ACCEPTED BY THE SCIENTIFIC OUTCOME: WE HAVE A WINNER COMMUNITY THAT THE EARTH WILL BE DESTROYED AROUND THIS TIME. AND FINALLY... THE END DATE OF OUR UNI VERSE: C. 10100 YEARS CLAIMANT: SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY THE HEAT DEATH OF THE UNIVERSE IS A SUGGESTED ULTIMATE FATE IN WHICH THE THERE ARE 101 ZEROS IN THERE! LUNIVERSE HAS DIMINISHED TO A STATE OF NO THERMODYNAMIC FREE ENERGY. AT THIS POINT IT CAN NO LONGER SUSTAIN MOTION OR LIFE. OUTCOME: DEFINITE WINNER! 000'000 http://www.abhota.info/ http://www-ee.stanford.edu/-acfs/vonFoersterArticle.pdf http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/051997/Monleadl.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99942_Apophis Copyright ©2012 MyFreeEmailSearch.com. All Rights Reserved. Designed by InfoMonkeys.coma

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