The end of the world is going to happen September 10th 1979, December 31st 1981, October 28th 1992, December 31st through January 1st 1999/2000, May 21st 2011 at 6:00 P.M., and December 21st 2012. This is just a handful of the dates that have been predicted for the end of the world according to www.bible.ca. As a matter of fact, there have been 242 recorded predictions made as to when the world would cease to exist as we had thus far known it, according to Bible Ca's
I query, why are there so many predictions throughout time, that the world is going to stop turning soon? For generations as far back as time is recorded our ancestors have been worried about the end of humanity. In 44 A.D., one of the first “cult leaders," as we would call him today, showed up on the scene. Though the compulsion to worry is as old as time, it certainly seems that in recent years I am hearing that “The end is here,” every time I turn around.
I can not help but feel that there has to be a common thread in what events, economic, military or weather related and so forth, with eras in time when there has been a higher concentration of, “THE END IS HERE,” predictions. The aim of this blog is to find just that, the link or links which bind these eras.
I don’t believe I shall have the slightest bit of trouble finding sources to research this topic sufficiently. With a minimum of 240 predictions I feel that there are plenty of separate predictions to perform an accurate study. I plan to analyze aspects including occurrences in society as well as natural events so that I may compare frequency between certain events and spikes in doomsday predictions. By this methodology I hope to find out just what the link(s) could be that cause the hysteria, which I believe is behind these pessimistic predictions.
Sources
"242 Dates for the end of the world!!! Date Setters",. http://www.bible.ca/pre-date-setters.htm,. n.d.
I like that you are asking the question, "why are there so many predictions, in certain different groups of time." This will allow you to really analyze what's going on here. I had a student once use the blog to ask whether the 2012 theory was "real," and as you can imagine, that inquiry didn't go anywhere. Yet you are examining what's behind these theories, and the trends that might link our human instinct to feel like the end is in sight. Be sure to use scholarly sources for this and not random websites!
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