A one M. J.Agee said it will be May 28, 1998.
But she was wrong.
She says it will be pentecost.
She says this every year.
But really, I know .
It’ll be May 33rd.
Imaginary artwork: a wall full of clocks, all counting down to various doomsdays and blinking zero as the days go past. There would have to be spares at the beginning because you know that there will be more predictions later.
The heat death of the universe would have the longest countdown. It couldn’t run on electricity, though, if it was meant to count down all the way.
Would it be possible to provide it with an energy source that would last long enough?
According to interpretations of the Mayan Calendar , the world will not so much end, as be “transformed” around the Winter Soltice 2012 - so I don’t know if that counts. Before I checked these sites, I had remembered that the 2012 was the end of the world according to the Mayan calendar. And by the references in these sites, others must have interpreted it that way too.
While you are polling psychics on the end-of-the-world, ask them for some Lotto numbers, too. And share with your SDMB buddies.
Of course, to be honest, its more or les irrelevant in most Christian theologies. Fact is, everyone is going to die sooner or later, science or no, and you do not know when. It could be tommorow, it could be five minutes or forty years from now. We all have our own personal judgement day - there ain’t gonna be a line stretching to the pearly gates.
The point of teling people that the world is going to end, originally, was not about scaring them, but forcing them to confront the plain truth that everyone knows and most people try to forget.
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*Originally posted by kasuo *
I think you better worry about the future, but about that what you know for sure what will happen. For example you needing to buy new furniture.
I’ve stumbled upon a site some time ago (no link, no cite:( . Just read the bible) where it is said that Jesus lied and he wouldn’t come because it could be proved from cites of the bible that he wanted to come back withina few decades after his death.
Maybe we should just add up all predicted dates, maybe we get the correct value?
Being a Catholic, I’m not much into determining judgement day, but I remember that Jesus clearly said “no one knows the day” and “it will be like a thief…” so the message was “don’t waste your time trying to figure it out, live like it is right now”.