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This is a list of predictions about the end of the world which, clearly, never came true. For the sake of fairness I have included five predictions based on religious beliefs, and five based on science or pseudo-science.
Montanus was an early “heretic” in Christianity who predicted that the end of times were upon the world. Joined with two “prophetesses”, Montanus claimed to be the embodiment of the Holy Spirit and began to preach a third testament. Montanus’ beliefs became fairly widespread and caused a great deal of confusion and dissent within the early Christian church. Tertullian, the Christian writer (pictured above) rejected mainstream Christianity and converted to montanism. Montanus was eventually condemned at the Council of Ephesus in 431 AD.
Interesting Fact: Montanus taught that Turkey would become the “New Jerusalem” and that all of Christianity would settle there before the final judgement.
Charles Wesley, one of the founders of the Methodist church believed that the world was going to end in 1794. This view concurred with that of the Shakers who also predicted that year as the end. Despite his error, Charles’ brother John also later made a prediction of the end times; John predicted that 1836 would be the year that the Great Beast would come to earth, marking the beginning of the end.
Interesting Fact: Despite being a founding member of Methodism, Charles Wesley begged an Anglican minister to bury him in an Anglican graveyard, stating: “Sir, whatever the world may say of me, I have lived, and I die, a member of the Church of England.”
The Jehovah’s Witness religion has made a number of predictions about the end of the world. The first was 1914 – they based their prediction on prophecies from the Book of Daniel. After the end did not come, they changed the meaning of the prediction and stated that it was the date that Jesus would begin to rule invisibly (yes – invisibly). Some other years that the group have predicted the end of the world to come are: 1914, 1915, 1918, 1920, 1925, 1941, 1975 and 1994, etc. One member of the cult actually built a house for the Jewish prophets to live in when they returned to earth as part of the end times.
Interesting Fact: Charles Taze Russell (pictured above pretending to understand Ancient Greek or Latin) – the founder of the cult sold “Miracle Wheat” at extremely inflated prices, promising wheat of miraculous proportions.
Between the years of 1831 and 1841, William Miller (a Baptist minister), predicted the return of Jesus and the end of the world based on prophecies in the Book of Daniel (Daniel 8:14). “My principles in brief, are, that Jesus Christ will come again to this earth, cleanse, purify, and take possession of the same, with all the saints, sometime between March 21, 1843 and March 21, 1844.” The day came and went and the Millerites kept their faith. After further discussion, the date of the end of the world was changed to April 18th. Again the day came and went. Again the date was changed – this time to October 22, 1844. Miller continued to wait for the end until his death in 1849.
Interesting Fact: The Millerite religious movement eventually became the Seventh-day Adventist Church. They believe that the prediction was correct, but that it referred to an event in Heaven not on earth. They continue to believe that to this day. Members of the Bahá’í Faith also believe the prediction – they think it referred to the coming of a forerunner of their own religion, the Bab.
Joanna Southcott was a self-proclaimed English mystic, born in 1750. She was originally a Methodist, but she became convinced that she had supernatural powers and declared herself the woman spoken of in Apocalypse — in the King James Version, Revelation 12:1-6: “And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars”. Joanna predicted that she would give birth to the Messiah – hailing the end of the world, on 19 October, 1814. The world didn’t end on that date, but two months later it did end for Joanna who died. Her followers kept her body for some time in the hopes that she would raise herself from the dead. They finally handed her over to authorities when she began to decay.
Interesting Fact: Joanna left behind a sealed box which she claims contained a series of prophesies. The box is not to be opened until 24 Anglican Bishops gather together for that purpose. Will the secret of Joanna’s box every be revealed?
Even though Haley’s Comet had been visible many times before without any reported deaths, the passing of the comet on May 18, 1910 was thought to be a deathly threat to people because of poisonous gas coming from its tail. It is not only religious misapprehension that can cause apocalyptic panic. This may have been the first time science caused this grave fear.
Interesting Fact: Mark Twain was born in 1835. Haley’s comet had made an appearance this same year. He has been quoted as having said he would “go out with comet.” Mark Twain died in April of 1910.
Respected meteorologist Albert Porta predicted that on December 17, 1919 a conjunction of six planets would “cause a magnetic current that would pierce the sun, cause great explosions of flaming gas and eventually engulf the Earth.” This prediction led to some mob violence and a few suicides. It also caused Albert to lose his job as a “respected” meteorologist and he ended up working for a local paper writing the weather column.
Interesting Fact: The study of meteorology dates back to Ancient times with the first book on the subject being written by Aristotle in 350 BC. The book was called “Meteorology”.
The Jupiter Effect came out in 1974 and was written by two astrophysicists, John Gribben and Stephen Plagemann. It was about all nine planets aligning on March 10, 1982 to create a gravitational pull that would cause a huge increase in sunspots, solar, flares, and/or earthquakes. Many credophiles took this as a prediction. Although author Gribben even came out and said it was a theoretical “what if” festival without much of any real substance behind it, people believed it was going to happen and would not be deterred.
Interesting Fact: While the effect did not cause major catastrophe, there was some influence by the planets, with high tide calculated at 0.04 millimeters higher than normal.
The comet Hale-Bopp was visible to the naked eye for a record 18 months. Amateur astronomer, Chuck Shramek “observed” a companion object following the comet. He then called the Art Bell radio show to report his findings. This led many to believe a variety of “end of the world” theories. The internet helped spread the word even faster. The Heaven’s Gate cult felt this was their signal to commit mass suicide in March of 1997. The cult believed the companion object was a spaceship coming to pick them up only to be reached by leaving their Earthly vessels behind.
Interesting Fact: You can watch a fascinating video clip of the Heaven’s Gate cult on youtube. The video is here.
Nostradamus, arguably the best-known seer of all time predicted July of 1999 to be the chosen date of Armageddon. A “great King of Terror” was to descend from the sky. When that didn’t come true the doomsayers began spreading rumors that the Cassini space probe was going to crash on Earth. The Cassini probe was filled with radioactive fuel. If this was spilled in a crash it would fulfill the prediction in Revelation 8:11 “And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.” And of course, no one can forget the years leading up to 2000 in which doomsayers the world over predicted catastrophe for man due to the Y2K bug.
Interesting Fact: Nostradamus was, by profession, an apothecary – which, in modern terms, is a pharmacist.
Contributing and Editing: JFrater, JwJwBean
September 19th, 2008 at 2:36 am
Great list,
I see the world is still hanging on for dear life. I believe the next time the world will end is in 2012? I sure hope not, England is hosting the olympics then and I would hate to miss it…
Oh and i’ve got dinner with Osama Bin Laden on the date predicted… *rolls eyes*
September 19th, 2008 at 3:07 am
Not at all. The world will end if Obama is elected president because he’s the anti-christ. Woogie-Boogity-Boo!
Just kidding. I just like making fun of all these morons who think they know the end of the world. If you’re right, who’s going to know?
September 19th, 2008 at 3:19 am
I bet every dollar I have that every apocolyptic prediction ever made is false. If I’m wrong, I’ll be more than happy to pay up.
September 19th, 2008 at 3:23 am
Wait, I forgot. Homer Simpson made a correct prediction, but traded his glory to get his family and (specifically) Mo’s Tavern back. Such holy dedication…
September 19th, 2008 at 3:41 am
I predict that many people will read this list and write comments about it.
September 19th, 2008 at 3:42 am
Great list jamie, although I think #2 was not a prediction by scientists or astronomers that supposed satellite would cause any harm/damage on Earth or even if it existed. A fringe group and UFO enthusiasts blew it out of proportion.
As for the bottom five in the list…no wonder they all come from one religion.
September 19th, 2008 at 3:46 am
One of the ‘religious’ guys, I forget who it was, claimed that the world didn’t end on the day that he predicted because he prayed hard enough to God that God changed his mind.
Wasn’t that nice of him?
September 19th, 2008 at 4:03 am
Joanna Southcott is buried in my local churchyard, alongside the great artist John Sell Cotman. I’m pretty sure they did open her box in the 20s and it was discovered to contain some papers and lottery ticket….
September 19th, 2008 at 4:07 am
It’s funny how people try to predicte the end of the world when Jesus said that “no one knows of the day and time, not the angels in heaven neither the son of man, only the Father in Heaven knows.”
September 19th, 2008 at 4:19 am
I try to be as compassionate as possible, even in the face of ignorant dogma (‘blind faith’), because I know that people are generally well intentioned… but the more I ponder the issue, the more I can’t come to any other conclusion aside from religion being a form of spiritual poison… a mental illness, possibly the greatest evil in humanity.
I obviously don’t deny people’s desire for spirituality and to have a life of meaning, what I mean is (as evidenced in all of the religious entries on the list) when people start claiming they are the midle man between God and humanity and they deserve some form of authority and automatic subservience, this is what separates religion from spirituality- religion has nothing to do with God, and everything to do with controlling human beings.
Q: What’s the difference between a cult and a major world religion?
A: Nothing. The major world religion is so large it can force society to accept it, even if it is completely ignorant.
September 19th, 2008 at 4:20 am
Q: What’s the difference between a cult and a major world religion?
A: Nothing. The major world religion is so large it can force society to accept it, even if it is completely ignorant.
True, so true. The same can be said for ancient mythologies.
And I seriously doubt Nostradamus predicted Y2K.
Anyway, let’s all prepare for 2012……
September 19th, 2008 at 4:29 am
Do Jews, Hindus, Muslims, Zoroastrians or Great Green Arkleseizurists ever make predictions about the end of the world?
I second what Juan said. Anyone “Christian” who claims to know when effectively claims to be greater than Jesus.
I second (only) part of what Mr Graves said: “[it has] everything to do with controlling human beings”.
September 19th, 2008 at 4:34 am
Some other notable predictions:
Harold Camping of Family Radio, which features his program, “The Open Forum” wrote a book back in 1992 called “1994?” that predicted the end of the world would occur on September 6, 1994. He has sinced revised his prediction to end the world in 2011. (Is he trying to upstage the Mayans or something?)
Edgar Whisenaut was a NASA scientist who predicted the end of the world with his book “88 Reasons why the Rapture will Occur in 1988.” Some folks actually began selling off their property and giving away their possesion in preparation of the September 11, 1988 event.
After selling 4 million copies, 1988 came and went, much the the begrunge of people who bought into it. But never fear. Whisenaut revised his prediction stating he was off by one year and published another book based on his findings that the end would occur in 1989. However, that one didn’t sell quite as well as its predecessor. Fool me once….
September 19th, 2008 at 4:36 am
Ghidoran- Dang, I had effectively blocked 2012 from my mind, then you had to bring it up.
I’m outta here, I gotta go stock up on oil lamps and canned food…
September 19th, 2008 at 4:38 am
The only problem with predicting the end of the world is that you’ll only ever be proved wrong because if you’re right then you’ll no longer exist and people won’t be able to write lists for us to take the pee out of.
September 19th, 2008 at 4:50 am
Comment #12 got me thinking…I’m a Christian, so I know what the Christian Bible says about the return of Jesus/armageddon, but I’m curious to know what other religious texts say about “the end times.” Do they even mention it at all? If not, then that’s why you usually only hear Christians talk about it. If the other religions do, well, then they’re doing a good job in keeping the information to themselves.
September 19th, 2008 at 4:58 am
Actually, about nº 1, there is a really spooky theory which compares that “King of terror” coming from the sky with Chernobyl’s 1986 disaster. It speaks about a “Red star that will fall from the sky”…Survivors say that when the reactor exploded, what they could see was a giant red bubble slowly falling.
“And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.”. Radiation was spread by air and water, and it will stay there for thousands of years.
But here comes the spookiest part of all: “Chernobyl” is supposed to mean “Wormwood”…and, thinking about it, if a disaster of that kind went uncontrolled, that could really be the end of the world…
(And by the way, none of these said anything about the LHC?
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September 19th, 2008 at 5:28 am
Peri:
Not all religions are apocalyptic. In fact, few extant religions are. Christianity (at least certain varieties of it, which emphasize the apocalyptic) retains this mythology as a sort of hand-me-down from Hebrew theology of the day (i.e., when Christianity was born) some elements of which were *highly* apocalyptic. Some Hebrew Zealots, for instance, believed that it was right around the corner.
Today, however, only Christianity really has this, of the major religions. And then it isn’t emphasized except by those who profess to *literal* translations of the Bible. Which is not to say that other Christians don’t believe, let’s say, in the second coming—but they don’t follow word-for-word the so-called prophecies of Revelations—which many scholars have established actually referred to ancient Rome, not our modern world.
September 19th, 2008 at 5:44 am
Only 10? Haven’t they all been failures by definition? Waitaminute. Is anyone still there??? HELLO????
September 19th, 2008 at 5:46 am
What about October 14, 2008. Some nutjob at work told me that there would be a giant spaceship landing some were in the sothern hemesphere on that date…. Not exactly the end of the world but a prediction none the less, look it up.
September 19th, 2008 at 5:58 am
IT`S SAD TO SAY THAT SOME OF THIS FALSE PREDICTION PUSHED SOME PEOPLE TO COMMIT SUICIDE AND YET IT WAS JUST A FALSE PREDICTION.
September 19th, 2008 at 6:13 am
I want to hear more about predictions from American Natives. I remember some chief saying that end days will come when humans finish a house in the sky (International Space Station).
September 19th, 2008 at 6:27 am
wow, so i guess the lesson to learn is, don’t make apocalyptic predictions. like was said above, all you be is wrong.
it’s like saying that chocolate and strawberries don’t belong together, all you can be is wrong.
btw, i don’t know if i like the new font for the comments being the same as the font for the headings.
September 19th, 2008 at 6:40 am
Mr. Graves #10 – I can’t agree more. Thank you so much for putting it so eloquently.
September 19th, 2008 at 6:46 am
This was a great one! There has certainly been a lot more than this. Unfortunately there are religious figures out to make money on fear with such predictions. “88 Reasons Why the Rapture Could Be in 1988″ Edgar C. Whisenant is just one example. 4.5 million copies were sold!
And wasn’t it the Mayans who predicted the worlds end in Dec. of 2012?
September 19th, 2008 at 6:53 am
Jesus ruling invisibly made me laugh out loud…reminds me of the time my tattoo artist told me he wanted to do a whole back piece- in clear.
September 19th, 2008 at 6:55 am
Glad to see Jehovah’s Witness predictions were included – I grew up as one and clearly remember being in service (going door to door proseltyzing) and having various members point out particular homes that they would claim as their own – once the present owners died off in Armageddon, of course (which was due “any day now”. Even as a child I remember being horrified at this blithe acceptance and outright joy in the death of others.
September 19th, 2008 at 7:10 am
You seem to think that Jehova’s guy was stupid because he is trying to read latin or greek but acutally he is very smart for tricking people into buying his wheat, I bet he made a bunch of money off of that wheat.
The world is going to end on December 25, 2008 at 6:00 am Mountain Time, the only way to be saved is to buy my Holy Candy Canes and put them on your tree so you can give them to Jesus when he comes to judge you.
September 19th, 2008 at 7:22 am
Russell was not expecting “the end of the world” in 1914. From 1904 to 1914 he wrote many times that he was expecting the “time of trouble” to begin in 1914. He stated that he did not know how long the time of trouble would last but that he thought it would not be long. Toward the end of 1913, Russell prepared a tract, entitled: “The End of the World in 1914 – Not the View of Pastor Russell or of the I.B.S.A.” This tract was circulated in January of 1914. No, Russell was not expecting “the end of the world” in 1914.
http://ctr.reslight.net/1914.html
Christian love,
Ronald
September 19th, 2008 at 7:34 am
Come on this prediction is within the next month (October 14th, 2008) some body say something about it.
September 19th, 2008 at 7:37 am
Charles Taze Russell, who knew nothing of, and did not believe in such an organization as the Jehovah’s Witnesses, did not believe in Armageddon as is taught by the Jehovah’s Witnesses.
It was Joseph Rutherford, who, after Russell died, gained control of the Watch Tower Society, reportedly by dubious methods, and then used that legal entity to form a new religious organization that he later called “Jehovah’s Witnesses.” (Russell believed that local congregations should be free of any central control.) Rutherford’s new organizational ideas along with his new teachings regarding Armageddon, the second death, etc., led most of the earlier Bible Students to withdraw support from Russell.
Regarding Russell’s knowledge of Greek, see:
http://rlctr.blogspot.com/2008/09/russells-perjury.html
Regarding “Miracle Wheat,” see:
http://ctr.reslight.net/miracle-wheat.html
http://ctr.reslight.net/reply.html
http://www.pastor-russell.com/life/rich1.html
http://www.pastor-russell.com/life/rich2.html
Christian love,
Ronald
September 19th, 2008 at 7:40 am
Well I guess you have a few weeks to get your signs made.
September 19th, 2008 at 7:47 am
UFO Video, you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRcQPyBn_Iw
September 19th, 2008 at 7:53 am
I beileve the world is going to end of December 21 2012 because it is my younger brother’s 16th birthday. scary he will be able to drive.
September 19th, 2008 at 7:55 am
Great list JwJw and Jamie. . . very well done, personally would have liked to have seen what some of the Ancient cultures believed but hey that’s just a wicked idea for another list.
September 19th, 2008 at 8:10 am
And this on the veritable eve of the full test of the LHC!
You’re timing couldn’t have been better!
September 19th, 2008 at 8:11 am
Just thought I’d mention regarding number 8 – Charles Russell never claimed to be able to read Greek or Latin. The record on this is still public domain if anyone wants to check (Police Court of the City of Hamilton, Ontario, March 17, 1913). A section of the transcript reads:
Q. You don’t profess, then, to be schooled in the Latin language?
A. No, sir.
Q. Or in Greek?
A. No, sir
Russel was then asked if he could recognize Greek letters and he said yes. That appears to be where the rumors began.
September 19th, 2008 at 8:15 am
I love this list! Very interesting!
September 19th, 2008 at 8:17 am
like george carlin says, I LOVE to see when these religious robots crash and burn.
September 19th, 2008 at 8:20 am
fromthefuture – can you please extend that by 48 hrs. Its my birthday bash and you will be invited, that way we can all go down under (or up) singing and making merry with a glass in your hand.
No problems about hangovers – or did I make a fool of myself last night.
Ja re cheak your pc. time machines and try and calculate if you can extend by a day or three.
September 19th, 2008 at 8:21 am
Also with number 8 – Miracle Wheat. It was donated to the Watchtower Society in 1911, and they did what any corporation would do – they sold it. It was sold for 1 dollar a pound, which was the price suggested by the two men that donated it. The money recieved from selling it went to support the missionary work. Russell didn’t get a penny of it for himself.
When some people criticized this sale, all who had contributed were informed that if they were dissatisfied their money would be returned. The money received for the wheat was held for a year for that purpose. But not one person asked for a refund.
September 19th, 2008 at 8:22 am
Meh… an apocalypse ain’t such a bad way to go.. I just hope I get to see the new season of Lost before it happens..
p.s. has anyone seen the pics of Katie Holmes’ new play.. a ton of an anti-scientology group showed up with signs and shit saying SAVE KATIE.. it’s really funny..
September 19th, 2008 at 8:22 am
who was that guy on the internet who said he traveled back in time and Russia and the USA will go to nuclear war in 2008, or something?
September 19th, 2008 at 8:26 am
Preston Nichols? that montauk project dude?
September 19th, 2008 at 8:48 am
The heck of it is, Jesus himself told his disciples: “Not even I know when the hour will come … only the Father knows.” Yet all these self-proclaimed Doomsday prophets claim to know better than Jesus. Whatever happened to “Do not presume to know the mind of God?” Just live a decent life, don’t fuck too many people over for the fun of it, and — well, you’re supposed to keep duct tape, drinking water and flashlight batteries around the cave *anyway*.
September 19th, 2008 at 8:54 am
Weird that you wrote this list. I just had a dream the other night about the end. I read Revelation when I was 6 years old, and fell in love with it. I don’t really know if I believe it so much now, but all such end of the world things have always been my passion.
September 19th, 2008 at 8:54 am
35. segue
And this on the veritable eve of the full test of the LHC!
You’re timing couldn’t have been better!
Are you talking about Dec. 21st 2012? Same day the Mayans predicted the end of the world? I thought the LHC would be at full power next year.
September 19th, 2008 at 9:49 am
Context is so important when pulling stuff for the Bible, for example, #1, read the verses before it, you’ll see why wormwood was way out of context.
September 19th, 2008 at 9:52 am
Didn’t John Titor predict/inform that there would be a global holocaust a while back? I don’t remember anything happening quite on the scale he envisioned but Joan Rivers does now have a starring role in her own TV show. Coincidence?
September 19th, 2008 at 10:08 am
segue #35:
You’re timing couldn’t have been better!
Nice grammar.
September 19th, 2008 at 10:08 am
Well October 14th is my birthday, and you know we all have a fear of getting older so now I guess I won’t have to worrry about it. lol
September 19th, 2008 at 10:09 am
46. Sedulous, the synchronization tests were run, clockwise and anticlockwise, in August.
The particle accelerator was tested in one direction on September 10.
It will be tested in the opposite direction sometime this month (if all goes according to the latest info I’ve read).
After that, the scientists working on the LHC will make the decision when to shoot the particles at each other, but I suspect it would be sometime this year.
September 19th, 2008 at 10:14 am
This is a great list and a nice idea to include 5 religious and 5 based on pseudo-science.
I also enjoyed the interesting facts at the end of each description. Nice job guys.
By the way my birthday is December 21st (Date of end of the world prediction)
It also happens to be the 1st day of winter. I remember my sister teasing me when I was a little kid that my birthday didn’t last as long as hers because mine was on the shortest day of the year.
That wasn’t very nice of her.
September 19th, 2008 at 10:32 am
13. Spocker: I actually own both of those books. I bought them for my mom when I thought she was being a little ansy about scripture predictions.
Just pointing out about March 10, 1992- that might be an error. I was told I was born on a day of great planetary alignments (I think all the planets lined up on one side of the sun), and I was born exactly 10 years before that. So it may be 1982, or it may be a completely different thing.
There’s an entire webpage devoted to apocalyptic predictions.
September 19th, 2008 at 10:44 am
You are right that was a typo on my part. It should be March 10, 1982. Jamie can you fix that please?
September 19th, 2008 at 11:08 am
And there are many many websites dedicated to this subject. I bet I know the one you are thinking. It had like 9 pages of apocalyptic predictions. This could have easily been a mutch larger list.
Sidenote: Today is International Talk Like a Prirate Day. Arrrggg. Walk the plank.
September 19th, 2008 at 11:16 am
Number 4 says Aristotle wrote ‘Meteorology’ in 350 A.D.; he lived 384 to 322 B.C.
September 19th, 2008 at 11:27 am
Segue,
thanks for the clarification, I’m so freakin’ excited about it!! Even if it does mean death by tiny blackholes…
September 19th, 2008 at 11:31 am
I copied this from wikipedia, clarification on the planetary alignment thing:
“The word ’syzygy’ is often loosely used to describe interesting configurations of planets in general. For example, one such case occurred on March 21, 1894 at around 23:00 UTC, when Mercury transited the Sun as seen from Venus, and Mercury and Venus both simultaneously transited the Sun as seen from Saturn. It is also used to describe situations when all the planets are on the same side of the Sun although they are not necessarily found along a straight line, such as on March 10, 1982.”
September 19th, 2008 at 11:45 am
smurff: I don’t know I’ll check with the dicnitaries of light and see if I can make it October 25th that way the hangover will be long gone.
September 19th, 2008 at 11:53 am
Great job, JwJw! Well done, my lady, well done.
September 19th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Excellent list Jw, Jamie. Goes to show that any time someone thinks they have all the answers, they just make a fool of themselves. The funny thing common to most of these folks, is that when proved wrong, they didn’t take it a lesson in humility, but as an error in calculation.
September 19th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
One more Kris in here!!!
September 19th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
“If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all”. My moms words of wisdom usually keeps me from making negative comments, but for the sake of constructive criticism I am not happy with the comments section today, it was a very painstaking read for me (and I do so love the comments).
Perhaps the people that made the above predictions should have taken my moms advice.
September 19th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
62. I guess there is. There’s the one who lives in India that I know of- not the same one who posted 2.?
Jw: My post about the page wasn’t meant negatively in any way- I was just musing about that page and the HUNDREDS of incorrect predictions. That page took away an fears I had about any impending apocalypses. It was a great list, too! I didn’t say that before, sorry!
September 19th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Sedulous: Unless I’m mistaken, syzygy is also the longest word in the English language with no constant vowels.
September 19th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
JT (#8): the Southall followers claim that that was not the actual box but a fake (very handy)
September 19th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Randall (#18): Well put. I know that the Catholic Church believes the end times are coming but “no man knows when”. It is also the literalists who believe in the “rapture” – it is not a part of the beliefs of early Christianity. In fact, it seems to have come primarily from John Nelson Darby in the late 19th century.
September 19th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
dischuker: the font thing is a bug – I just fixed it. Sorry.
September 19th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
I just noticed a mistake I made in comment #31. The sentence:
Rutherford’s new organizational ideas along with his new teachings regarding Armageddon, the second death, etc., led most of the earlier Bible Students to withdraw support from Russell.
Should read:
Rutherford’s new organizational ideas along with his new teachings regarding Armageddon, the second death, etc., led most of the earlier Bible Students to withdraw support from Rutherford.
Christian love,
Ronald
September 19th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
What about that one last december of a man that had a cult of people, he believed he was the last jesus and the world was going to end in december, he had sex with several members of the group and when the apocalypse didn’t come he set a new date and lost no followers.
And of course, the LHC apocalypse, as a joke one.
September 19th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
Very interesting list!
Appropriate since I’m in the middle of Umberto Eco’s book “The Name of the Rose” (no, I haven’t seen the Sean Connery movie yet!!) and one of the monks uses the predictions from John’s Apocolypse to make sense out of the murders in the book–and there is a discussion amongst some characters who think that the Apocolypse was upon them in those years leading up to the Great Schism.
Fascinating read for anyone who is interested!
September 19th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
i’ll bet joanna’s box has a pipe bomb in it.
September 19th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
65. Cedestra: I did not take it to be a negative in any way. I was just saying yes it was one of those that I used for my research. And it had a TON of predictions. I also was going to say thank you for the polite way of pointing out my typo too. It was very polite.
P.S. No t in much lol. I have no idea what I thought I was spelling.
P.P.S. Jamie: Thank you for fixing said typo.
September 19th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
#50. henry o
segue #35:
You’re timing couldn’t have been better!
Nice grammar.
****
Yeah. Mental vacation time.
September 19th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
#58. Sedulous
Segue,
thanks for the clarification, I’m so freakin’ excited about it!! Even if it does mean death by tiny blackholes…
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Sedulous! So am I! And I’m positive we’ll still be here to talk about it afterward.
btw, been meaning to tell you, I like your nick.
September 19th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
wow itneresting
September 19th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
I predict we’ll be adding global warming to this list someday.
September 19th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
good list….
September 19th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
I’ll partly answer my own question from way back. Great Green Arkleseizurist live in perpetual fear of the time they call the coming of the great white handkerchief.
(Douglas Adams, one of the Hitchhiker books.)
September 19th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
Miracle Wheat! Too funny. There is, however, miracle rice. There’s a site called freerice.com and they donate rice to poor countries. It’s mainly a vocabulary based test (although they have added more topics)and it gets really challenging.
segue and Anon: I think you will really like it. It gets harder the better you are. Randall, too. Check it out.
September 19th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
when i saw this list i knew jehovah’s witnesses would be mentioned. i am one of jehovah’s witnesses and have been asked why the end hasn’t come like it was predicted. in reality we don’t know ourlselves, but it doesn’t hurt to try and save others before it does. not to mention i love what i do, which is quite different from other youths who have “grown up” in this religion.
September 19th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
nobody can tell the end of the world..we just have to be prepared spiritually..and believe in God..not in humans,as we..as indicated above..
*phooey*
September 19th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
As a Buddhist, I rather prefer our version- that every 10,000 years, a new Buddha is born- to coincide with the time when the old teachings have been forgotten. There is no mention of an “end of times.” It just keeps going.
September 19th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
-I don’t believe it. I was going to write this list, but when I clicked on the link to find the submission requirements, the site blanked out on me. Still missing some of the things I was going to list… most notably X-day from the Church of the SubGenius. I was literally thinking about a list like this all day. I guess the LHC inspired more people than I thought…
September 19th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
don“t tell anyone OK the truth is that the world will end when U died & thats a fact
September 19th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
85. Hillery: With the vast number of apocalyptic predictions out there I am sure you can make a 10 MORE Failed Apocalyptic Predictions list and submit that. There are many list that are continuations of a first. I for one would love to read what you find.
September 19th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
the 2012 thingy will be the next on this list four years later. I’m very sure.
September 19th, 2008 at 11:56 pm
Miracle Wheat was the named so by one who was not associated with Charles Taze Russell. It was K. B. Stoner, a farmer of Fincastle, Botetourt county, Virginia, who discovered this strain of wheat, and it Mr. Stoner who named it “Miracle Wheat.” This was about 1907. It was the newspapers that quoted Mr. Stoner, saying that he discovered one stalk of corn with 142 heads. Mr. Stoner then developed this strain by keeping it separate from other strains. There was nothing at all “funny” about this. This really did happen, and it was reported in newspapers. United States government officials became interested in the remarkable wheat and sent Assistant Agriculturalist H. A. Miller to examine it. In his report he declared:
“‘The wheat, which came from an unknown source, has been grown in the nursery every year since that time, and also has been grown under field conditions the last two years, giving excellent results. The yield has been from two to three times the yield of other varieties grown on the farm under the same condition of culture, except the rate of seeding, which was two pecks to the acre, while other varieties were sown at the rate of eight to ten pecks per acre, which is the common practice of farmers in the vicinity.
“‘Milling tests have been made of this wheat, and its quality seems to be as good as, if not superior to, other varieties of winter wheat.’
“The average height of the wheat, according to the report, is four feet four inches.
“It is said that the Russian government has secured an option on the wheat, and will buy a consignment of 80,000,000 bushels when that quantity shall have been raised. During the next year the seed will be distributed among farmers in Virginia and North Carolina, who will raise it and preserve the seed, keeping the seed only for planting until the required amount will have been produced. By next fall, it is believed, 30,000 bushels will have been produced.”
Please note that it was not Russell who made these claims, but rather this was in a government report made sometime around 1908.
Mr. Stoner sold some seeds of this strain of wheat to some of the Bible Students at $1.25 a pound. Nothing was ever said against Mr. Stoner, but many false accusations have been made against Charles Taze Russell, who had nothing to do with Miracle Wheat itself.
Mr. Bohnet, one of the Bible Students who bought some of these seeds, grew this wheat and decided to sell the seeds, not at $1.25, but at $1.00 a pound, and donate the proceeds to the Watch Tower Society. He made arrangements with the Society to store the seeds on the Society’s premises and ship the orders from the Society’s headquarters. Brother Russell simply made an announcement of this arrangement in the page of the Watch Tower magazine. Russell himself had nothing to do with setting the price, nor of the actual selling of this Miracle Wheat. Russell, himself, did not receive the money from the sale of this wheat, despite all the insinuations and twising of facts that so many like to present.
The original strain of Miracle Wheat had to be kept separate from all other strains in order to get the desired results. In time, however, farmers who used this strain failed to do so, and so the strain died out. A new, more stable, strain of “Miracle Wheat” now exists however, and is being used all over the world. This wheat was developed under Norman Borlaug. There is nothing “funny” about Miracle Wheat! It is a fact!
http://tinyurl.com/4q879r
The actual hoax involved with the sell of Miracle Wheat from the Society’s headquarters was that promoted by the Eagle and others who have twisted the whole affair until it is ridiculous, and would be laugable, if so many were not so absorbed in promoting the riduculous false accusations as though they were fact, and many like to believe the false rather than the true.
September 20th, 2008 at 2:12 am
Interesting Fact: Montanus taught that Turkey would become the “New Jerusalem” and that all of Christianity would settle there before the final judgement.
you misspelled ‘thought’ as ‘taught’
September 20th, 2008 at 9:36 am
Vera Lynn, thanks for freerice.com, I went and checked it out, played it for a while, got hooked.
I’m afraid I’m going to make some people fat with my vocab!
Kidding.
It’s a good cause, and no reason *not* to participate.
September 20th, 2008 at 9:48 am
segue (91) What level did you make it to? It really makes me look at roots, prefixes, suffixes, etc. Sometimes I have to look at a word for a minute or two.
September 20th, 2008 at 10:08 am
Vera Lynn, I didn’t even check for levels! I will next time, I promise!
Yes, looking at the roots is the best way to figure out a word when you don’t know the meaning. That’s why, after 4 years of high school Latin, I took a class in ancient Greek in Uni, to add to my store of root words. In my home library now, in addition to the Latin, ancient Greek roots, French and Spanish, I have an Indo-European root word dictionary among others.
I’m just a word collector.
September 20th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
segue (93) Good Lord girlfriend!!! Yes I believe you will hit level 60. The words get harder the more you get right. But I’m sure you noticed that
September 20th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
Quote: “The word ’syzygy’ is often loosely used to describe interesting configurations of planets in general … It is also used to describe situations when all the planets are on the same side of the Sun although they are not necessarily found along a straight line …”
It is also a killer word in Scrabble.
September 20th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
This just proves religion is stupid
September 20th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Sedulous, bad news! There’s been a problem with the LHC. In order for it to function properly, the internal temperature has to be one degree above zero C.
Something went wrong (I haven’t had time to read the articles in full yet. It’s been a busy day.), but in short the temp’s have been raised to about 100 +C, and repairs will take months.
Hopes that the first trial collisions would be carried out before the machine’s official inauguration on 21 October now seem to have been dashed. It even looks uncertain whether this can be achieved before 2009.
September 20th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
i feel like you stole this list from a link i sent you the other day
……i hope thats not the case, it just seems like you just published this a few days after i sent you that link from time
September 20th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
Islam also talks about the end of the world but insists on the believe that no one except Allah knows. So that is why no one bothers and cares about it in Islam.
September 20th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
Enigma (99) That’s interesting. I know a lot of people who are Muslim and I hadn’t heard it put that way before.
September 20th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
? (98) JFrater wouldn’t do that. Trust me and him. He’s better than that. I promise.
September 20th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
? (98): the hotlink you sent did inspire me to put this list together. As you will see if you investigate the text – the writing here is not copied.
September 20th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
jfrater (102) I knew you didn’t do it. Inspiration is one thing.
Plagarism another.
I got your back!
September 20th, 2008 at 11:23 pm
#99 Enigma (love your music btw), i see Islam also talks about the end of the world but insists on the believe that no one except Allah knows. So that is why no one bothers and cares about it in Islam. Well thats supposed to be the same for christians, i guess some just get a little carried away, at the end of the day they just make themselves look foolish with the predictions, it does however make a nice change to chat about something other than the weather!
September 21st, 2008 at 7:44 am
92. Vera Lynn
segue (91) What level did you make it to?
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I played last night for a while, got to level 53, and 3329 grains of rice. I quit before the game was over (*is* the game ever over?).
I’m going to play again today or tomorrow, I have a major and two minor art projects to get done, and most of yesterday was taken up with gardening chores (4 good-sized trees were installed Friday evening, so all required some care, and some cleanup around them, and I had to stop a couple of times to reoxygenate my blood/brain). Today should be easier.
September 21st, 2008 at 7:45 am
That was 3429 grains.
September 21st, 2008 at 9:29 am
as i look i can see that the world is ready for change but the day or the hour i dont know but i do know that some like grape koolaid some like orange koolaid and some like the other flavors but what you have to understand its still just all koolaid those who read this and understand you are blessed those who dont you also are blessed
September 21st, 2008 at 2:12 pm
All I know is that I stay as far away from kool-aid as possible. I don’t care what flavor it is, or what the package looks like, it’s all just sugar water cisero, something designed to keep the kiddies happy.
September 21st, 2008 at 3:07 pm
87. JwJwBean: Fair enough, I’ll be working on that, then…
September 21st, 2008 at 6:37 pm
segue (105) You made it to level 53?!?! I am in awe!I never made it into the 50s. I knew you could. You and Anon. Could you imagine if you played together? That would be crazy. Probably blow out the site!
Keep me posted on whatever list. I’ll know what you mean. Like “FR level 56.”
September 21st, 2008 at 7:02 pm
The world is not going to end in 2012. I think there is a misunderstanding, the Mayans are merely noting a major spiritual change in humanity (something to do with alignment of stars or planets or whatever), where humans are forced to take another path or some new awakening, blah blah blah. Besides, the world is going to end for everyone eventually when we shuffle off this mortal coil. I think most humans are really bored and looking for a big bang, anyways! Get a life peoples.
September 21st, 2008 at 9:01 pm
I am actually God embodied here on earth. No one has proved I’m not.
September 21st, 2008 at 10:53 pm
111. krchuk – The world is not going to end in 2012. I think there is a misunderstandings……No sh**! Is this guy is posting in the wrong room? Krchuk if you care to read the posts or even the site title “Top 10 Failed Apocalyptic Predictions” you may (or then again may not)realize that we all agree that the world is not ending just yet. We got a life, now you get an education.
September 22nd, 2008 at 3:31 am
What do you mean, “never came true”?
September 22nd, 2008 at 6:31 am
Also of note is the “psychic” Criswell, a sort-of C-list celebrity in his time, but nowadays is mostly known for his introduction to the Ed Wood movie “Plan 9 From Outer Space.” Among his predictions that people would shed the need for clothes in the “future” of 1980, and that outer-space phonomenae would cause disasters in 1982, he predicted the End Times would occur on August 19, 1999. Obviously, he must have used his influence on the other side to save us all. Thanks, Criswell.
September 22nd, 2008 at 8:09 am
Some of these I knew of… I’m not looking forward to the Mayan (?) 12/21/12 prophecy – hopefully they’re wrong too!
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Comment: Jehovah’s Witnesses were referred to first in this article as a religion and then as a cult. I take some offense to this comment, as a former JW and generally tolerant person. The first meaning of cult is “a particular system of religious worship, esp. with reference to its rites and ceremonies.” Now, if *that* is how the term is being used, then please use it for Catholicism, Judaism, Buddhism, etc. However, if it is being used as “a religion or sect considered to be false, unorthodox, or extremist, with members often living outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leader,” this is where I take offense. And I could conceivably say all religions can be seen as “false, unorthodox, or extremist” by any one person or group.
The JWs are genuinely nice people who follow the Bible to the letter and were able to explain every question I had to my satisfaction. Now, it took me some time to realize that I really don’t believe that much in the Bible (I was raised Catholic and just continued as a Christian assuming I believed). Because of my personal beliefs, I left.
There is no “charismatic” leader or compound to live on or Kool-Aid to drink for JWs. It’s just a religion.
September 22nd, 2008 at 11:47 am
I predict innumerable predictions in the years to come. Oh, and that the American voting populace will elect a President who will become as unpopular in the first year of his administration as he is popular right now.
September 22nd, 2008 at 11:58 am
#97 Segue,
Here’s a quote from wikipedia as to what happened. It doesn’t seem like a major set back. It’s so amazing that they can cool anything to nearly absolute kelvin.
“On 19 September a quench occurred in about 100 bending magnets in sectors 3-4, causing loss of approximately one ton of liquid helium, which was vented into the tunnel, and a temperature rise of about 100 kelvins in some of the affected magnets. Vacuum conditions in the beam pipe were also lost.[15] It has been reported by CERN that the most likely cause of the problem was a faulty electrical connection between two magnets, and that the incident will result in a delay of at least two months before any particle collisions can occur, most of the delay being due to the time needed to warm up the affected sectors and then cool them back down to operating temperature.”
“So am I! And I’m positive we’ll still be here to talk about it afterward.
btw, been meaning to tell you, I like your nick.”
If Stephan Hawking is confident in our survival, that’s good enough for me!
And thanks
September 22nd, 2008 at 12:06 pm
If Stephan Hawking is confident in our survival, that’s good enough for me!
But I wonder how much attention the Exulted One is paying to his science these days…since he started on his alternative career : http://www.mchawking.com/
September 22nd, 2008 at 1:34 pm
118. Sedulous, thank you, it’s a good, clear explanation. I had some time last night to catch up on my news reading. Looks like we won’t be seeing any particle smashing until 2009.
phooey!
110. Vera Lynn
I’ll do exactly as you suggest.
119. kiwiboi
But I wonder how much attention the Exulted One is paying to his science these days…since he started on his alternative career : http://www.mchawking.com/
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I’m so disillusioned!
September 22nd, 2008 at 1:40 pm
I’m so disillusioned!
segue – there’s some sick puppies out there. At least it’s funny…
September 22nd, 2008 at 2:18 pm
I’ll grant you it’s funny, kiwiboi, but I always had such high regard for him!
I once drove 4 hours through a blinding rainstorm just to see him speak for an hour, and I had to turn around and drive right back because I was in the middle of a shoot!
I’m disappointed, I guess, that he turned out to be just like everyone else underneath all that brainpower.
But *that* is my problem, not his.
September 22nd, 2008 at 6:34 pm
Atwork, I am not attacking you personally … I am merely noting all the loonies running around predicting the end of the world in 2012. Touchy, touchy.
Have a nice day
September 23rd, 2008 at 3:28 am
I’d like to support Brickhouse here, I am very familiar with Jehovah’s Witnesses and their teachings. They should not be labeled as “cult” in any case.
If you think they should, then please label the others too..
September 23rd, 2008 at 8:30 am
I agree with several others on this topic. Jehovah’s Witnesses are definately not a “cult”. They do not have one person leading the organization. But whoever put together this list is certainly a slanderer.
September 23rd, 2008 at 12:39 pm
For as long as the world has been here, people have been convinced that the end is Nigh. The truth is that the world will not end…someday it will when the sun burn up all of it’s hydrogen fuel and expands to it’s next stage. It’ll take Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. And possibly ignite Jupiter and Saturn.
September 23rd, 2008 at 3:16 pm
krchuk, you are on the wrong site you need to come to http://2012-comet.com/phpbb/viewforum.php?f=1 and have fun ridiculing the ” loonies” come on its fun, lol
September 23rd, 2008 at 4:56 pm
well i sure hope it’ll fail as a prediction, but it isn’t out of possibility that the U.S, will be attacked while the economy is in a slum and if McCain becomes prez and dies within days of the attack, because he’s like almost eighty, and Palin takes over and everyone says, “OOPS” and all her friends are in power too, and they all say “OOPS”
anyway, it’s not MY prediction but could be a plausable possiblity anyhow.
Is the Jupiter Effect what happened in the movie 2001? I can’t remember. And the Dark Slab aligns to broadcast?
September 24th, 2008 at 7:12 am
The world will end when I die. For me, anyhow. The rest of you might keep living but I’ll have no way to know for sure. Fortunately, I’m only in my 20s so I should have quite a few years left.
September 25th, 2008 at 3:22 am
Only GOD knows when the world is gonna end. When the only way to survive in the world in to have the 666 mark of the beast implanted you know its gonna happen soon afterward. If that starts to happen pray to GOD to repent and Jesus will come down right before the rapture/apocalypse and save all who have repented. Heaven will be great beyond your wildest dreams!
September 27th, 2008 at 7:01 am
October 14th this year?Oh no, thats three days before my 16th bday!:( *no that i believe such things:)
September 27th, 2008 at 7:21 am
I’ve also heard that the world was supposed to end on 6/6/06.
And it continues today..
Supposedly the world is supposed to end in the year 2012 or 2021.
And aliens are supposed to come to earth this year, October 14, 2008.
haha.
September 27th, 2008 at 10:51 am
Re: Halley’s comet.
You state “This may have been the first time science caused this grave fear”
This is completely wrong. Science didn’t create the fear, superstitious and irrational pundits created the fear.
September 27th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
4 years from and the calendar ends.
I stumbled upon the mayan calendar. The Mayans calendar ends Dec 12, 2012. I didn’t know Mayan was in my blood until i asked about my mom’s heritage. My mom is from Guatemala, her family has always lived in Guatemala thus making her and me a % Mayan. She said a 4 hour distance between her home and the ancient ruin temples where the prophecy is contained. My dad’s birthday is Dec 12, 1964. This apocalypse is my Natural Heritage. I believe the number 4 has a significance, a lot of significant dates and years have the number 4 pertaining to change (an apocalypse can be a good thing. It can stand to be a beginning of CHANGE from the norm not the bringing of a disaster or an END).
Am I the bringer of the apocalypse?
September 27th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
4 months from now and the calendar ends. It’s called “New Year’s Eve” and the next day is called “New Year’s Day 2009″. Time will go on, the world will go on, my heart will go on, despite the fact that a certain, arbitrary, human-devised measure stops at that point. See you on 21 Dec 2012, probably with a hangover.
September 28th, 2008 at 7:14 am
One successful Apocalyptic Prediction: The financial market of the United States will collapse, and the citizens will have to foot the bill to bail it out.
The government is buying out (supposedly) the financial institutions to the tune of upward of $7 Billion, but that money come from the tax-payers (me and everyone else in the country).
There is a (supposed) guarantee that the tax-payers will be paid back in 7 years, but don’t hold your breath.
It looks as if free-financial market economy, as we’ve had for decades and decades, is probably dead.
Randall, I’m sure you can tell me why I’m wrong. Please.
September 28th, 2008 at 10:20 am
wow we all should be dead by now ! Lol i bet god is playing some joke and that every time a perdicton is made god is making sure its not on that day. So keep making the predictions people ! lol
September 30th, 2008 at 6:34 am
Oh yeh lets all make fun! well the aliens “are” coming october 14th…..or is it 16th? anyway i got proof as i took this photo of a cigar shaped ufo only the other day http://www.thehomegrown.com/gallery/3/pipe.jpg
October 4th, 2008 at 11:01 am
yeh yeh i know! i meant pipe shaped! lmao. Or is it the wrong photo? the truth is out there
October 13th, 2008 at 11:18 am
To those objecting to the use of the word “cult” when referring to the JWs – Regardless of its exact dictionary definition, the word has come to be applied to just about any church whose teachings differ from what the Bible and the Bible alone teaches (apparently God can’t stand people adding to or subtracting from his word). The JWs could be said to be a perfect example of this, considering the fact that they use their own special translation of the scriptures!
Then again, what exactly DOES the Bible teach? It depends upon which denomination’s interpretation you choose to believe, I suppose.
October 13th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
I have asked many people if they think Obama is “hot” and they say yes.
People follow Obama for no particular reason.
2012 is next election year.
December 21st is around election time.
If Obama wins 2008 election … He Is The Anti-Christ!
He will win our trust and then BAM right smack down all Hell
breaks loose.
just letting you know.
October 13th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
Want some koolade?
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October 14th, 2008 at 9:36 am
141. Charlie: Take a good, long, look at the title of this list. Let the meaning seep into your brain.
Understand it now?
Okay.
You, by dint of the very title of this list, have just offered us a prediction which has to fail.
Just letting you know.
October 14th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Hey Segue, this is not a complete predection. It is just what may or may not happen. Also, it is not a “predection”
of the end of the world, it is simply a “predection” of what may happen in the “new” age. I simply don’t believe 2012 is the end. Simply because nobody can predict the end of the world.
and i was just kinda messing around 2
two more notes…
Segue is awsome.
#142 Hello Kitty – What is that?!
October 14th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
Charlie, you did get that I was teasing, because you were so obviously teasing, right?
October 15th, 2008 at 9:25 am
Well it’s now October 15, where are the aliens?
October 15th, 2008 at 10:24 am
Seems i have been mis-lead by Blossom Goodchild about the alien invasion. I have sold my house and all my worldly goods because of this, i dont suppose she could refund me? Blossom, if you are reading this send a cheque to me for £250,000, that should cover it, thanks in advance!
P.s when are we expecting the alien mothership next?
October 15th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
I’m American, my Mum was an Australian who never changed her citizenship; hence, an alien.
When I was in Uni, there was a lot of UFO stuff going around, people really believed they were being abducted, or some of the world leaders were aliens in human disguise. I’d get a huge kick out of telling these gullible souls that my mother was an alien.
They’d get all bug-eyed, and say, “Really?”
“Oh, sure.”, I’d say
“So, like, you’re half alien?” they’d ask in horror.
“Uh huh”
“Do you have any…powers?”, was a usual question.
“I can move from one place to another”, I’d answer that one.
“Hhhow?”they’d stutter.
“Drive, of course.”
Then I’d give it up, but I had fun first, and no one ever got angry or got their feelings hurt.
October 16th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
145. Segue yeah I got it. haha
space Aliens are failed human clones (just my belief)
October 26th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
what about the year 2000 or 6-6-6?
October 28th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Are you including the latest predictions of the world’s end? Harold Camping who only suggested 1994 as a strong possibility has now removed the question mark entirely and is absolutely 100% sure based ONLY on the Bible and nothing else that Christ will return on May 21, 2011. 1994 it turns out was the date when the gospel would commense to be more fruitful than ever before. He says if he understands one passage correctly in Revelations that the total number being raptured on May 21, 2011 will be 200 million and all the others yet alive after that date will enter into the “Day of Judgemnt” lasting 5 months. It will be HELL on earth with plagues destruction and death ending with the whole universe being destroyed. The good news however is that 86 year old Camping now believes that there is no eternity in hell awaiting any of the unsaved. He like nearly all conservative Bible teachers had believed and taught that doctrine his entire life until just a few months ago when his eyes were opened by God to this and several other new understandings previously “Sealed” to being understood by teachers of Scripture. He sites verses like in Daniel where God said “seal up these words until the end” and others that indicate that God’s people will understand booth time and judgment. Think what you like …myself? I ordered a free copy of the booklets “We are almost there” and “To God be the Glory” and so far I am shaking in my boots with fear! Proof after intertwined proof cause me to think “this HAS GOT to be of God! There is no way this all can be be simply an amazing bunch of coincidnece … that would be IMPOSSIBLE! And in the Bible God plainly stated that he would do nothing except he revealed it to His servants the prophets. So the information has ALWAYS just been sitting there waiting ….”
October 28th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
Doug, I find it odd that you would be “shaking in my boots with fear!”, if you believe you are right with God.
That seems hypocritical.
Of course, it all sounds like craziness to me. Harold Camping seems a candidate for a rubber room and and anti-psychotic medications…but maybe that’s just me.
December 12th, 2008 at 1:41 am
The JW thing is untrue and pretty much slander, but everything else is accurate.
December 20th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
2012 should be included here. they take interpretations of ancient mayan culture too literally. this list demonstrates both extremes of people afflicted with messianic complex and gullibility coming together. besides, whenever the end DOES happen, obviously no one will know; they’re not going to be famous.
January 19th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
December 12th, 2012.
January 20th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
I can tell you all the date of the end of the world it will be on the 21st of March in the year 5000000000. That’s when the sun super novas.
If that doesn’t kill the earth nothing will!
January 26th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
Sigh, this list just goes to show the ignorance of some Christians. Might I ask that when Christ does come back on earth, how will he judge the countless more buddhists, hindus, muslims, etc.? It should be more like the end of the Christian world to me.
Doug, i think you may just be gullible. If you are right, then I’ll explain to Jesus how hundreds of other nutjobs have tried to predict his second coming and failed. Making me doubt any apocalyptic prediction. Hopefully he’ll still admit me to heaven.
February 3rd, 2009 at 5:58 pm
wankers will believe anything
February 13th, 2009 at 9:01 pm
Obama isn’t doing too well in office. I guess that my prediction was wrong(#141). And I spent a whole 3 minutes on the dagblasted thing! Hrump. >:(
February 14th, 2009 at 9:22 am
159. Charlie: The man has been in office 3 weeks!
How well had you done when you’d gone from cubbyhole worker to CEO of your company after only 3 weeks?
February 14th, 2009 at 9:30 am
omg! didn’t realise i wrote 157.
Charlie: give the man some time, fixing a nation takes months. He’ll prove his worth at the end of his term in office.
Oh, and I believe many people believe in Obama because of his ideals and psychology. Why? Because it allows us to know how he’ll respond to an unknown oncoming dilemma. Specifics is something that can be hammered out later. As long as I know how he’ll respond, then I’ll be happy having him in office knowing he will make wise decisions.
I absolutely hate people who get caught up with ideologies, left or right, conservative or liberal… they disgust the heck out of me. It’s like they don’t have a mind of their own and need someone to tell them where they ought to be and how they ought to think, which they end up translating into the world, making the world a more polarised place.
February 18th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
Don’t forget this one.
http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/bibleprophicies.htm
February 18th, 2009 at 7:42 pm
Oh yeah. About the Obama thing … Well the reason I said that was because he said, “I screwed up.” It had something to do with taxes. I was just exxaggerating it a little bit. He does have a big job ahead of him. With the world ending and all. @$#% Nazis.
March 5th, 2009 at 6:36 am
some of this talk of 2012 sometimes makes me think about if the the world gonna end or not! ive heard so many different stories ive came up with my own theory, i dont think the world gonna end, but it gonna change in som respects! i know it might sound crazy but it all to do with the magnetic field around the earth, that is what of course makes us alive and the way we use our brains, also liked to pressure points in our body!
The magnetic field around the earth, north pole and south pole, all this conntrolled by the flow of magma under our earths crust. This flow is gonna change. when? 2012.
why do i think this u ask.
what do we dig up out of our earths crusts for many years now and that they say is nearly running out? oil.
i see oil maybe as a coolant for the earth or some sort of way the heat doenst get in or escape the earths crust.
but when it does run out who says the the flow not gonna change. it has to affect the magnetic field.
So to my conclusion, i belive the world not gonna end, but maybe our way of thinking will change or we will somhow jus sort of wake up! or even maybe different dimensions! sounds crazy! could mite be! u dicide. let me know what u think guys.
March 6th, 2009 at 9:24 am
Great article, I wrote myselfs on that subject (in french) at
http://www.la-fin-du-monde.fr/
March 7th, 2009 at 10:51 am
we wont die
March 23rd, 2009 at 5:48 pm
Anyone who tries to predict the end of the world is an idiot.
April 20th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
Only God exactly knows when this earth will end.
May 8th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Article on sunspot cycles. Doom, Doom, Doom, Doom, Doom, Oh pretty, Doom.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090508/ap_on_sc/us_sci_space_weather_3
Enjoy
July 7th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
MIRACLE WHEAT
Foes of C. T. Russell used not only his domestic affairs but other “weapons” against him. For instance, his enemies have charged that he sold a great quantity of ordinary wheat seed under the name of “Miracle Wheat” at one dollar per pound, or sixty dollars per bushel. They have held that from this Russell realized an enormous personal profit. However, these charges are absolutely false. What are the facts?
In 1904 Mr. K. B. Stoner noticed an unusual plant growing in his garden in Fincastle, Virginia. It turned out to be wheat of an uncommon kind. The plant had 142 stalks and each bore a head of fully matured wheat. In 1906 he named it “Miracle Wheat.” Eventually others obtained and grew it, enjoying extraordinary yields. In fact, Miracle Wheat won prizes at several fairs. C. T. Russell was very interested in anything related to the Biblical predictions that “the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose” and “the earth shall yield her increase.” (Isa. 35:1; Ezek. 34:27, AV) On November 23, 1907, H. A. Miller, Assistant Agriculturalist of the United States Government, filed in the Department of Agriculture a report commending this wheat grown by Mr. Stoner. Throughout the country the public press took note of the report. C. T. Russell’s attention was drawn to it, and so in Zion’s Watch Tower of March 15, 1908, on page 86, he published some press comments and extracts from the government report. Then, in conclusion, he commented: “If this account be but one-half true it testifies afresh to God’s ability to provide things needful for the ‘times of restitution of all things which God hath spoken by the mouth of all the holy prophets since the world began.’—Acts 3:19-21.”
Mr. Stoner was not a Bible Student or an associate of C. T. Russell, and neither were various other persons who experimented with Miracle Wheat. In 1911, however, Watch Tower readers J. A. Bohnet of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Samuel J. Fleming of Wabash, Indiana, presented to the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society the aggregate of about thirty bushels of this wheat, proposing that it be sold for one dollar per pound and that all the proceeds be received by the Society as a donation from them, to be used in its religious work. The wheat was received and sent out by the Society and the gross receipts from it amounted to about $1,800. Russell himself did not get a penny of this money. He merely published a statement in The Watch Tower to the effect that the wheat had been contributed and could be obtained for a dollar a pound. The Society itself made no claim for the wheat on its own knowledge and the money received went as a donation into Christian missionary work. When others criticized this sale, all who had contributed were informed that if they were dissatisfied their money would be returned. In fact, the identical money received for the wheat was held for a year for that purpose. But not one person asked for a refund. The conduct of Brother Russell and the Society in connection with Miracle Wheat was completely open and aboveboard.
Because Charles Taze Russell taught the truth from God’s Word, he was hated and maligned, often by the religious clergy. But then, Christians of modern times expect such treatment, for Jesus and his apostles were dealt with similarly by religious opposers.—Luke 7:34.
July 7th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
Correction of Viewpoint Needed
Prior to the latter part of the year 1914, many Christians expected Christ to return at that time and to take them away to heaven. Thus, in a discourse given on September 30, 1914, A. H. Macmillan, a Bible Student, stated: “This is probably the last public address I shall ever deliver because we shall be going home [to heaven] soon.” Clearly, Macmillan was mistaken, but that was not the only unfulfilled expectation he or his fellow Bible Students had.
Bible Students, known since 1931 as Jehovah’s Witnesses, also expected that the year 1925 would see the fulfillment of marvelous Bible prophecies. They surmised that at that time the earthly resurrection would begin, bringing back faithful men of old, such as Abraham, David, and Daniel. More recently, many Witnesses conjectured that events associated with the beginning of Christ’s Millennial Reign might start to take place in 1975. Their anticipation was based on the understanding that the seventh millennium of human history would begin then.
These erroneous views did not mean that God’s promises were wrong, that he had made a mistake. By no means! The mistakes or misconceptions, as in the case of first-century Christians, were due to a failure to heed Jesus’ caution, ‘You do not know the time.’ The wrong conclusions were due, not to malice or to unfaithfulness to Christ, but to a fervent desire to realize the fulfillment of God’s promises in their own time.
Consequently, A. H. Macmillan explained later: “I learned that we should admit our mistakes and continue searching God’s Word for more enlightenment. No matter what adjustments we would have to make from time to time in our views, that would not change the gracious provision of the ransom and God’s promise of eternal life.”
Indeed, God’s promises can be trusted! It is humans who are prone to error. Therefore, true Christians will maintain a waiting attitude in obedience to Jesus’ command. They will keep awake and ready for Christ’s inevitable coming as God’s Executioner. They will not allow false predictions to dull their senses and cause them to ignore the true warning of the world’s end.
July 22nd, 2009 at 10:26 pm
‘Fact: Montanus taught that Turkey…’ — wrong word used? Maybe you meant thought.
September 22nd, 2009 at 2:20 am
I hope i won’t be around or long gone when the end of the earth comes.:)
September 22nd, 2009 at 6:27 pm
Some fool dressed like a pimp, holding a bible, knocked on my door yesterday morning like I would really let him in when I didn’t know him….I crooked my side eye so hard on him I do believe he thought the world did end and he scurried away.
On that note I am ready for the world to end as I am pretty much sick of people anyway.
September 22nd, 2009 at 6:48 pm
@Aj (173): I hope i won’t be around or long gone when the end of the earth comes.
This sentiment makes no sense. Why do you think that dying on just some other random day is better than dying on the earth’s last day? It’s the same net result for you either way.
October 5th, 2009 at 10:16 am
I have read your comments, brothers and sisters. Let me tell you a joke about the end of the world.
A guy meets another.
“You know, Joe. I’ve just heard on the radio that the sun will end in 3 billion years”.
“How many years, you say?”asked Joe in disbelief.
“I said 3 billion years,” his friend replied.
“Oh, I am so relieved,” Joe said. “I thought you said 3 Million years.”
October 26th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
it’s not that people make these idiotic predictions but the disturbing fact that they gain followers. Morons, all of them.
172 – No. As in he taught people that Turkey etc etc.
November 29th, 2009 at 9:41 am
2012 PFFT if all of them dates didnt come tre what makes people beleive that this 1 event will
also if that dosent happen there is always 2021
February 1st, 2010 at 1:10 pm
thats funnie bacause bolth family guy and the simspons made fun of the y2k and the end of the world no poeple that believe that thats good but poeple how take it to fare damn thats dumb
February 5th, 2010 at 12:51 pm
@ Ghidoran:
“He said that a religion teaches you how to be in the world, while a cult tries to take you out of the world. He explained that a religion gives its members guidance and support in how to survive and get along out in the world. And then he pointed out that cults always try to isolate their members from the world. Cults want their members to live together, usually in isolation, and break off all contact with friends or family who aren’t also members of the cult.”
http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/4532
February 9th, 2010 at 4:14 am
Just to keep everyone updated, after 2012 the next doomsday date would be 2036 (asteroid collision, they say).