Do you think the world is about to end?

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The Christians had their own end of the world last spring. Harold Camping had them all convinced that the rapture was due last april I believe.

And he is not the last one who will "predict" the Rapture either. The Book of Revelation Freaks will be back again and again and again. They never stop their nonsense.

ruveyn

I wonder if that end of the world predicter in the news paper who got chastisted by The Preacher the news paper column writer preacher was part of that band. Preacher told them they were a false phrophet.

I don't recall the number of Christians dropping by 5 or 6 orders of magnitude last April. Or do you mean all in the sense of a small, insignificant fraction?

The world as we know it will end soon, I think. Same as it did several times in the past.

I kinda lost the thread of that paragraph!
Lol!

But I think we are indeed talking about the same guy- a preacher who got condemned by other preachers.


Harold Camping was condemned for blasphemy by mainstream christians because the bible even says that even Jesus doesnt know "the final hour and nor the final minute. But that is known only to father."

But camping's radio network website ( it was actually called 'we CAN know") claimed that are ways extract the date of the end from scripture despite that.

So Camping's followers were marginalized by the religious and the nonreligous alike. But his followers marched in the streets and were quite convinced that the end was the next day!

Even as a kid, I was raised with believing that nobody could give a date for the end of the world and wound up correct,(Unless you say in the future, then you're right in a way), thanks to the book of Matthew. If they claim they are Christians, yet proclaim a certain date, then they're not truly Christians.

It's more likely he predicted his OWN end. Didn't he suffer a debilitating stroke between his two appointed apocalyptic dates?

This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius. Age of Aquarius. Aquarius.

Evidence, please?

Preferably, something other than lyrics from a song that lost its popularity more than 40 years ago.

And the tallest building in the west, for a thousand years before the Sears Tower was built in 1937, and it is ugly.

Has your culture developed new food crops, domesticated new species, or even considered the long rang effects of your behavior?

An extended drought starting in 800 lead to decline, but before that they have an 8,000 year record of of being a people.

They did not predict the drought, or Columbus, but they survived both and are making a comeback. Numidian traders brought back tobacco, cocaine, asprin, Quinine, and Zero, from across the ocean.

They added a lot to the sum of knowledge,

So right on time comes Feathered Serpent, a just discovered huge comet, which is being speculated to be the return of The Great Daylight Comet of 1680, just because that is the largest on record.

It's passage around the Sun will be from Sept, 2013, to Mar. 2014,

1680 left woodcuts of a comet that covered the sky.

Nothing is sure yet, it is one of the long period comets, and they are the big ones.

The age ender was said to go out 1,000 AU, which takes 26,000 years.

Now comes the fun as it is on the planetary plane, will stir up the Asteroid Belt, will get two shots at Earth, and we do know our Metor Showers come from small prior comets.

It is also on course to make a close pass around the Sun, under two million miles, where it will degas, and come out like buckshot.

There was no one around in 1680 that plotted the orbit, but later people said thousands of years. Too soon for it's return, and this new one might well be that one that comes every 26,000 years and leaves mile wide craters on land, and stories of floods that covered the earth. We have the crater record, it is time, and it is big.

Everywhere gives comets bad press, there were no "Good Comets".

It was picked up by some Russians with a half meter scope, confirmed by larger scopes, and reported badly on AOL. They called it ISON, and it is coming as a wrathful god to cleanse the Earth.

Early projections say it will pass within 40 million miles of Earth, but fails to say before us, or after us, in orbit. Perhaps +/- 40 million miles is just a mathematical range. They also do not say coming in or going out, which does make a differance.

As is, it stands the be the largest comet of the modern age. Brighter than the full moon, visable in the day time, No scope or binocs needed, maybe sun glasses.

There is another, not as large, but still great comet range, due in March.

It is time to seek the caves in the mountains,

2013, The Year of the Comet.

I heard actually that if a comet to hit Earth we'd be in a much worse way than if it were a full blown asteroid, ie. its a matter of speed and hence velocity - comets being smaller but considerably faster.

Its real, as in on its own its nothing more that measuring the procession of the equinox. Whether that's going to have any effect at all is a different question.