Now finally the film 2012 has been released, it has been increasing concern about the prophecies that point to the end of the world as we know it. The end of the Mayan calendar, the Hopi prophecies, global warming, the prophecy of St. Malachy, it seems that something bad is coming.
But we not alarmed us. Such prophecies are nothing new. They have been around since the beginning of time. Today the translation of an article from National Geographic tells us another 10 were predictions that finally I bring in failed prophecies.
4 Nov. 2009 Peter V. Bianchi, National Geographic Stock
1. In the same way that today there are people who believe that 2012 is the date of the end of the world, some elderly Romans saw in 79 AD the eruption of Vesuvius as a sign of a coming apocalypse. This was because Seneca, Roman philosopher, had predicted that the Earth would disappear like smoke, "Everything we see and admire universal burn in fire that will lead to a new, just and happy world."
The order never came, but that has never stopped people throughout the centuries and in all cultures to predict our catastrophic end.
2. Many European Christians began the year 1666 with fear. The Bible describes the 666 as the number of the beast. A prolonged plague that ravaged London in 1665 did not help calm fears, and when the Great Fire of London occurred, many believed that the end had come. For example, Londoners saw a terrible fire judgment in which the wrath of God punishing a sinful world.
3. The appearance of Halley's comet, which visits every 76 years the land has historically been a harbinger of disaster. For example, the imminent arrival of Comet in 1910 unleashed apocalyptic hysteria in the United States and Europe, believing that the comet's tail contained a gas "that permeate the atmosphere and that would end all life on the planet," according to the French astronomer Camille Flammarion.
Some took advantage of selling masks and anticometa panic pills and oxygen cylinders, especially in Rome, where people thought maintained until bottled air passing over the comet's tail.
4. Since its founding in the 1870s, Jehovah's Witnesses, a variant of Christianity, prophesied that the world would end in 1914. Nothing happened then, but since then his followers have been predicting the end of the world was near.
5. The planetary alignment has been featured in numerous predictions of doomsday. As happened on May 5, 2000 in which Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn aligned with the Sun and the Moon. The archaeologist Jeffrey Goodman said in 1977 in his book "We Are the Earthquake Generation" on that date would occur numerous earthquakes and volcanic eruptions and that the Earth would break because of stress caused by gravity caused by the alignment.
6. The television evangelist Pat Robertson predicted that sometime in the 80s Jesus Christ would return to earth. The event was predicted based on biblical texts. And the dead believers will ascend into heaven with God and unbelievers and Satan would stay on Earth in a lake of fire where they would be tormented day and night until the end of time. Redeemed believers and they go to a new earthly paradise where they would live forever (lmeaf Note: now that's a good way to gain share).
7. The bright comet Hale-Bopp discovered in 1995 and visited Earth in 1997 was accompanied by catastrophic predictions. 39 people who were part of a religious association called "Heaven's Gate" committed suicide in California when the comet was at its closest point to Earth. They believed that a UFO would travel in the comet's tail rescue them a world condemned to death, in which Lucifer would destroy everything through an apocalyptic fire.
8. Richard Noone predicted in 1997 in his book "Ice: the ultimate disaster" that the May 5, 2000 and as a result of planetary alignment displacement of the magnetic axis of the Earth would result in dire consequences and would produce a new era Glacier. Nothing happened. Quite the contrary, instead of an ice age, scientists are now concerned about global warming.
9. In 1984 a computer publication warned first cataclysm would happen on 1 January 2000. Possible errors caused by programming that did not provide for the millennium could plunge humanity into chaos. The evangelists warned his followers that they should begin stockpiling supplies and water to be prepared for the worst. Some of them like Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson hinted that the new millennium would bring to Christ.
10. When the Large Hadron Collinder (LHC) was launched in September 2008 some critics speculated that the largest particle accelerator in the world could generate an atomic collision would produce a black hole that devours the Earth itself. Scientists claimed that the production of a black hole was very remote and would collapse if it occurs itself. Numerous groups protested the launch of this device and firmly believed would cause the end of our solar system. But nothing came of it. The accelerator worked, but yes, only once and broke.
(Note lmeaf. Few days ago the LHC has become a commission, but since nobody cares now have much more cool other predictions: the Maya, the Holocaust caused by the swine flu vaccines etc etc.)
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