The failure of Wednesday's start-up of the biggest-ever atom smasher in Switzerland to destroy the world per some people's predictions reminds us that doomsday prophecies have always been with us; and they've always been wrong.
The Daily Telegraph offers a sampler of 10 fizzled doomsdays, including the one supposedly heralded by the appearance of the Hale-Bopp Comet in 1997. Thirty-eight members of a California cult known as Heaven's Gate committed suicide in preparation for a UFO rapture that never came.
A much, much longer list of Apocalypse Nots dating back to utterances of Jesus Christ Himself can be found, where else, at Armageddon Online.
And PBS offers a scholarly examination of the history of Apocalypticism in western culture (it seems you can't have one without the other).
Looking ahead, the world will absolutely, without question, no doubt about it, quite definitely come to an end for sure on December 21, 2012, and there's a thriving cottage industry to prove it.
The Daily Telegraph offers a sampler of 10 fizzled doomsdays, including the one supposedly heralded by the appearance of the Hale-Bopp Comet in 1997. Thirty-eight members of a California cult known as Heaven's Gate committed suicide in preparation for a UFO rapture that never came.
A much, much longer list of Apocalypse Nots dating back to utterances of Jesus Christ Himself can be found, where else, at Armageddon Online.
And PBS offers a scholarly examination of the history of Apocalypticism in western culture (it seems you can't have one without the other).
Looking ahead, the world will absolutely, without question, no doubt about it, quite definitely come to an end for sure on December 21, 2012, and there's a thriving cottage industry to prove it.
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wow…people take this stuff too far, i beleive that yes, the apocolypse will happen, but people claiming to be great theologins(sp?) that can prophecy when the last day of earth will be are full of it because the bible they claim to know so well says no one will know the day or time….
Ammy,
I totally agree with you. This stuff totally used to creep me out,but it really doesn’t anymore. It’ll happen when it happens. You can’t live life worrying about something that may or may not happen anytime soon.