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none of the following is in my own words but it sure echoes my own sentiments..............

A favorite subject of prophets has always been the end of mankind and/or the demise of our planet. Part of the technique, for some, is to place the date far enough ahead that when The End fails to arrive, the oracle is no longer around to have to explain why. Others, prepare excuses well in advance and manage to survive the great disappointment that often follows a failed prediction, they merely redesign the details and settle back once more to confidently await doom.

Here is a short list of some rather interesting end-of-the-world prognostications. Judging from the record earned by the soothsayers in this matter, we may safely assume that our planet will continue very much the same as it is for some considerable period into the future.


B.C.-A.D. According to the New Testament, The End should have occurred before the death of the last Apostle. In Matthew 16:28, it says:

Verily, I say unto you, there be some standing here which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.

One by one, all the apostles died. And the world rolled on for everyone else. . . .







A.D. 992 In the year 960, scholar Bernard of Thuringia caused great alarm in Europe when he confidently announced that his calculations gave the world only thirty-two more years before The End. His own end, fortunately for him, occurred before that event was to have taken place.







December 31, A.D. 999 The biblical Apocrypha says that the Last Judgment (and therefore, one supposes, the end of the world) would occur one thousand years after the birth of Jesus Christ. When the day arrived, though it is doubtful that there was all the panic that was reported by later accounts, a certain degree of apprehension was probably experienced. It was said that land was left uncultivated in that final year, since there would obviously be no need for crops. According to the Encyclopedia of Superstitions, public documents of that era began, "As the world is now drawing to a close . . ." Modern authorities suspect that historians Voltaire and Gibbon may have created or at least embellished this tale to prove the credulous nature of medieval Christians.

Significantly, Pope Sylvester II and Emperor Otto III momentarily mended their considerable political differences in anticipation of a certain leveling of those matters.







A.D. 1033 Theorists pressed to explain the A.D. 999 bust decided that the 1,000 years should have been figured from the death of Christ rather than from his birth. Bust number two followed.







September 1186 An astrologer known as John of Toledo in 1179 circulated pamphlets advertising the world's end when all the (known) planets were in Libra. (If the sun was included in this requirement, this should have occurred on September 23 at 16:15 GMT, or at that same hour on October 3 in the new calendar.) In Constantinople, the Byzantine Emperor walled up his windows, and in England the Archbishop of Canterbury called for a day of atonement. Though the alignment of planets took place, The End did not.







A.D. 1260 Joaquim of Flore worked out a splendid calculation that definitely pinpointed A.D. 1260 as The Date. Joaquim had a bent pin.





(oops, my words here haha) Steppin on a pace or two................





1532. A bishop of Vienna, Frederick Nausea, decided a major disaster was "near" when various strange events were reported to him. He was told that bloody crosses had been seen in the skies along with a comet, that black bread had fallen from midair, and that three suns and a flaming castle had been discerned in the heavens. The story of an eight-year-old girl of Rome whose breasts, he was told, spouted warm water, finally convinced this scholar that the world was due to end, and he so declared to the faithful.

I plan on being here long after 2012. I have so much I want to do before I'm ready to leave this planet. Tell the Mayans to go ahead without me, I'll catch up to them in a hundred years or so.

I reckon 'some' folks have been capitalising on the Mayan Prophesies Kid (good to see you ) and that in actual fact, the Mayan calendar is a cyclical theory, based on some pretty impressive mathematics too - but I think the emphasis originally was on 'new beginnings' as opposed to 'endings'..................... seems to me, somebody/bodies have/has been using this piece of wisdom for their own designs/ends

Yep, there's always somebody trying find a way to manipulate and control others.

Ever wonder if the Mayans were practical jokers and meant to cause the stir that's resulted from all of this?

Hi Trish

That is London stuffed then for the Olympics.

The end the world would take some energy to accomplish. I see no such threat heading our way. We do not ourselves own the power to do it, so it would have to come from elsewhere.

But the mankind?

Again, to accomplish that in 4 years is a bit tight. Even with nuclear weapons it would take longer to erase the cockroach Homo sapiens.

So, no, I don’t think so.

But, as said here by Gongman, end the world as we know it, for that it takes only one single event important enough to make us all see the world and our life in a different light.

And I too, would like to see that happen, as I am not too fond of it as it plays down at the moment.

Not sure what kind of "Humans" you encountered where!

Besides we are always free to check out of this Planet,and leave the rest of the inhabitants be!

hahaha, if they did Kid, then they did it with style - to encourage people to use mathematics in their equations was a stroke of pure genius in my opinion...........

words, hearsay and supposition can all be questioned but when these things are reduced to mathmatical formulae they begin to represent replicable theorem............ hahaha I love mathematics

Imagine a cosmic event that will totally invalidate the fundamentalist interpretation of the majority of the world's religions? Would that seem like the end of the world to a lot of people?

Aha. I thought so...

What happens when it is proven that God isn't Jesus, or some sort of magical mystical power, but the emperor of a Galactic Empire, and Satan is nothing but a rebellious scion of a noble family within that Empire?

Who writes history?

And how is it proven?

When paradigms shift, worlds end, and new ones begin...

I think the answer to your question can be found on Mars.... paradigm shifts laying dormant indeed. It's a meme starting to take shape....

I hope the world ends in 2012....we will be spared another election!!!!!!

But then NOBAMA can't run for a 2nd term.

Don't know, I do beleive the rapture will take place, within 25yrs, but as too the Mayan calendar, if they are not right, at least I think they will be close, it says in the Bible that we will not know the day or the hour, but it doesn't say that people won't be able to figure out, the year. But I will say that we are living in the last days for sure, unlike all the other guesses man has made throughout the ages, they did not have Isreal become a state in their time.... JMO

no I'm not a crazy( I don't think)

OK I guess I'm not the crazy one, but I have a guess who is...........

that will be enough to ruin life for Dude, anyway

maybe the beginning would be the start of the rapturethen comes the seven year tribulation. which I pray that I will not be around for...

i predict the world will end the next time someone posts a 2012 thread on CS

He's busy in the Russian Army now...fighting against Georgia.... He doesn't have time to help Nobama now.

As in "is everywhere, not exterminated very easy". I do not know any other feature that we subscribe to the cockroach. I see humans everywhere, under rocks, on mountains, on islands and everywhere scattered over the main lands.


What did you read in to it?