Makes me shiver but does anyone believe the 2012 theory that the World will end?

[mrblanche]

I did hear on the news that the preacher who predicted the end of the world on two separate dates last year has admitted God probably won't tell people when it's going to happen.

 

[swampwitch]

My husband is going to be interviewed on a Discovery Channel show about this. 

 (He's a scientist.)

 

[margecat]

No, it won't, IMHO.  It's the Mayan calendar thing, as discussed here.  Every once in awhile, some group or person predicts the end of the world that year, as I seem to remember in my lifetime so far. Here's a Wikipedia link to back me up, and put your mind at ease:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events

If you can get a DVD of Penn & Teller's B.S. (can also be found under the spelled-out profanity), they devote a segment to the Mayan thing/end of the world. I agreed with them before I even watched it. It's Season 7, episode 4.

 

[margecat]

I did hear on the news that the preacher who predicted the end of the world on two separate dates last year has admitted God probably won't tell people when it's going to happen.

Harold Camping? I heard that he admits he didn't know when he predicted it. In other words, made it up (obviously to us, of cource, since we're still here, but you get what I mean!).

 

[margecat]

It seems Mr. Camping made these predictions before, in the 1990's. (Let's put it this way, folks--don't use him to help you place bets at the horse track...)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events  (same Wikipedia article I posted in another reply, above. I didn't notice it, until I read through it after I linked it--sorry).

 

[thembcat]

I don't personally believe that the world going to end at the end of this year.    The Mayan calender wasn't predicting the apocalypse it was predicting the beginning of a new age for the Mayan people.  The whole End of Days theory was just a bunch of crazy people twisting the translation to fit their need to cause panic. Lol I believe more in the theory is that its predicting when the aliens are going to return than I do the theory of it being the End of Days.