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19 Jun 07 - 10:14 AM (#2081037) Subject: BS: Not to worry - end of world delayed From: beardedbruce I had thought it would be in 2038 (19 Jan 2038 at 3:14:07 AM GMT) but it looks like I was wrong! "In one manuscript from the early 1700s, Newton used the cryptic Book of Daniel to calculate the date for the apocalypse, reaching the conclusion that the world would end no earlier than 2060. "It may end later, but I see no reason for its ending sooner," Newton wrote. However, he added, "This I mention not to assert when the time of the end shall be, but to put a stop to the rash conjectures of fanciful men who are frequently predicting the time of the end, and by doing so bring the sacred prophesies into discredit as often as their predictions fail." " http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/06/18/newton.papers.ap/index.html |
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19 Jun 07 - 10:37 AM (#2081058) Subject: RE: BS: Not to worry - end of world delayed From: GUEST,Keinstein In another document, Newton interpreted biblical prophecies to mean that the Jews would return to the Holy Land before the world ends. The end of days will see "the ruin of the wicked nations, the end of weeping and of all troubles, the return of the Jews captivity and their setting up a flourishing and everlasting Kingdom," he posited. Well we've got the ruin of wicked nations, and good ones as well, and the Jews have set up a republic rather than a kingdom. Lets hope for the end of weeping and all troubles- a few good H bombs should see to that. there won't be anyone left to weep. But he doesn't apparently tell us how long before the end of the world all this happens. |
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19 Jun 07 - 10:43 AM (#2081067) Subject: RE: BS: Not to worry - end of world delayed From: catspaw49 In case of rapture I will be stealing your unmanned Ferrari. Spaw |
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19 Jun 07 - 11:16 AM (#2081099) Subject: RE: BS: Not to worry - end of world delayed From: Becca72 according to the other thread on how long you'll live I won't be around when the end comes...good deal, I suppose |
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19 Jun 07 - 12:04 PM (#2081166) Subject: RE: BS: Not to worry - end of world delayed From: Rapparee Yeah, GUEST, that's what happened when I experienced the Rupture. |
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19 Jun 07 - 12:24 PM (#2081180) Subject: RE: BS: Not to worry - end of world delayed From: Peace "Not to worry - end of world delayed" So I have to file income tax then? |
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19 Jun 07 - 12:55 PM (#2081220) Subject: RE: BS: Not to worry - end of world delayed From: concertina ceol i assume it is on a vigin train then? |
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19 Jun 07 - 01:11 PM (#2081230) Subject: RE: BS: Not to worry - end of world delayed From: gnu Peace... if the feds find out when the end of the world is, they'll expect you to file in advance. |
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19 Jun 07 - 01:21 PM (#2081237) Subject: RE: BS: Not to worry - end of world delayed From: HouseCat I just read recently that the Mayan calendar predicts the end of the world as 2012. That means I won't have to get another bad driver's license photo taken. |
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19 Jun 07 - 01:21 PM (#2081238) Subject: RE: BS: Not to worry - end of world delayed From: Grab Spaw, how many Ferrari drivers do you think will be ascending, then...? Having said that, I'm going for first dibs on a razz round St Marks Square in the Popemobile! |
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19 Jun 07 - 01:55 PM (#2081283) Subject: RE: BS: Not to worry - end of world delayed From: McGrath of Harlow And then drive it round the canals no doubt... |
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19 Jun 07 - 04:59 PM (#2081430) Subject: RE: BS: Not to worry - end of world delayed From: Don Firth I've been reading THIS for the past few days. I've heard Barbara Rossing speak a number of times. She commented that she wanted to use the word "Racket" rather than "Exposed," but her publisher chickened out. Felt it was too confrontational, even if true. On the other hand, on March 23, 1989, the 300 meter (1,000-foot) diameter Apollo asteroid 4581 Asclepius (1989 FC) missed the Earth by 700,000 kilometers (400,000 miles) passing through the exact position where the Earth was only 6 hours before. If the asteroid had impacted, it would have created the largest explosion in recorded history. As I recall, there is a big sucker that is scheduled to pass the Earth inside the orbit of the moon (which is approximately 240,000 miles from Earth) in 2025. One of the major concerns is that during this near-miss, the asteroid's orbit may be deflected sufficiently by the earth's gravity that when it returns in in 2037, there could be the granddaddy of all thumps! Folks are already figuring ways of trying to deflect its trajectory. Don Firth P. S. As I understand it, we didn't know about the 1989 near miss until it had already gone by. And, of course, there are lots of these things out there that we don't know about . . . yet. . . . |
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19 Jun 07 - 05:10 PM (#2081437) Subject: RE: BS: Not to worry - end of world delayed From: Donuel Don't laugh, there are real signs of the end of times like: polar bears drowning on the Jersey shore and penguins bursting into flame. |
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19 Jun 07 - 05:18 PM (#2081443) Subject: RE: BS: Not to worry - end of world delayed From: Rapparee Both are understandable if they are happening in New Jersey. |
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19 Jun 07 - 09:32 PM (#2081662) Subject: RE: BS: Not to worry - end of world delayed From: The Fooles Troupe "the Mayan calendar predicts the end of the world as 2012" That's only for THIS world - then the next one starts - Mayan Atrolog/my is more complex than just one cycle... |
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19 Jun 07 - 10:08 PM (#2081704) Subject: RE: BS: Not to worry - end of world delayed From: Little Hawk Well, naturally. When one world ends, another begins. Like everything else in Nature. |
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20 Jun 07 - 01:21 PM (#2082355) Subject: RE: BS: Not to worry - end of world delayed From: HouseCat Oh no. Does that mean I still have to get my driver's license renewed? HC |
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21 Jun 07 - 08:59 AM (#2083011) Subject: RE: BS: Not to worry - end of world delayed From: manitas_at_work Will that be before or after the Olympics? |
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21 Jun 07 - 03:00 PM (#2083295) Subject: RE: BS: Not to worry - end of world delayed From: GUEST,petr an old man walks the city a large sign in his hand it says the world will end at midnight 12:30 in Newfoundland. |
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21 Jun 07 - 03:30 PM (#2083311) Subject: RE: BS: Not to worry - end of world delayed From: KB in Iowa "Will that be before or after the Olympics? " After. I read that the cycle will end at 11:11 AM (GMT) on December 21, 2012. |
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21 Jun 07 - 06:42 PM (#2083509) Subject: RE: BS: Not to worry - end of world delayed From: cookster So I have to go to school next year? |
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21 Jun 07 - 07:22 PM (#2083537) Subject: RE: BS: Not to worry - end of world delayed From: Bill D yep, cookster..YOU may have to learn the stuff that deflects asteroids and saves us. |
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21 Jun 07 - 08:47 PM (#2083601) Subject: RE: BS: Not to worry - end of world delayed From: frogprince Them mayans are wrong. Heathen predictions don't count. Any good dispensationalist can tell you that it can't be more than a couple of years now before the secret rapchur and the beginning of the tribulashun. Heard Billy Graham hisself proclaim that it couldn't be more than a couple of years. (That was in Chicago, about 1962.) |
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22 Jun 07 - 10:48 AM (#2084026) Subject: RE: BS: Not to worry - end of world delayed From: GUEST,Ian cookieless Can't understand why any number of people down the ages, who have otherwise turned on their critical faculties, convince themselves that ancient texts are somehow authoritative in way that no other text is, just because someone claims it is; and that the subject matter is something other than it obviously is; and that because it is hopelessly vague, it is therefore very accurate. |
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22 Jun 07 - 11:44 AM (#2084081) Subject: RE: BS: Not to worry - end of world delayed From: cookster OK Bill I might want to go to school then.Am I right? |
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22 Jun 07 - 11:47 AM (#2084084) Subject: RE: BS: Not to worry - end of world delayed From: KB in Iowa Yes, cookster, you definitely need to go to school so that you can save us all from certain destruction. I am not terribly fond of certain destruction. |
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22 Jun 07 - 11:50 AM (#2084087) Subject: RE: BS: Not to worry - end of world delayed From: cookster me either. |
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23 Jun 07 - 02:52 AM (#2084638) Subject: RE: BS: Not to worry - end of world delayed From: Dead Horse I predict that the trains will run late, the weather will get worse, and that Mudcat will crash. All this will happen in the 156th year of the reign of our dear Queen Elizabeth 2nd !!! |
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15 Jul 07 - 08:34 PM (#2103734) Subject: RE: BS: Not to worry - end of world delayed From: cookster I predict the world won't end for a while. |
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15 Jul 07 - 09:03 PM (#2103746) Subject: RE: BS: Not to worry - end of world delayed From: Peace So far so good! |
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15 Jul 07 - 09:13 PM (#2103751) Subject: RE: BS: Not to worry - end of world delayed From: Bill D tick...tick...tick.... |
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15 Jul 07 - 09:20 PM (#2103758) Subject: RE: BS: Not to worry - end of world delayed From: cookster Jeapordy theme do do do dodo do do do do dodo do do do bum bum |
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15 Jul 07 - 09:28 PM (#2103772) Subject: RE: BS: Not to worry - end of world delayed From: bobad Have you seen anyone about those ticks, Bill? |
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15 Jul 07 - 09:29 PM (#2103773) Subject: RE: BS: Not to worry - end of world delayed From: SINSULL I don't know, Don. That near miss sounds a lot like being almost pregnant. 2026? I hope it doesn't screw up my Social Security payments. |
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15 Jul 07 - 09:39 PM (#2103783) Subject: RE: BS: Not to worry - end of world delayed From: Bill D no, but I have tocked about them. (besides, you mean tics) |