Dommedag

[Inagh]

Ja, jeg venter i spenning på om Mormonerne har rett eller ikke. Jeg var nemlig så heldig å få sitte som en mus i en krok og overvære at min venninne, som er adventist, og to mormonere, som kom på døra hennes og behørlig ble sugd inn i stua (venninna mi var overlykkelig, endelig to mormonere som var "bare hennes!") - vel - de satt i stua og kastet bibelvers i hodene på hverandre.

Åh hvor det var gøy å høre på dem der de argumenterte fram og tilbake, begge grupperinger like sterke i sin tro.

Nuvel. Dessverre oppdaget disse to mormonere meg også, der jeg satt i kroken, holdt munn og prøvde å være usynlig - og så spurte de meg hva jeg tenkte om Gud og hans vesen.

Eh... Og så fikk de høre at jeg ikke tror på Gud og hans vesen mer enn jeg tror på Julenissen og Påskeharen - dog kanskje i litt mer høflige vendinger.

Enden på visa ble nå uansett at de ble enige om å være uenige, og da mormonergutta skulle gå for kvelden, tok de venninna mi i hånda, og de ble enige om at de kom nok til å møtes i Himmelrik til slutt.

Og helt tilslutt så en av dem på meg... "men jeg er nå ikke så helt sikker på deg."

[Ulvefar]

Jeg har redigert sammen et par ting fra nettet (opprinnelig for publiserig paa FB i en liknende diskusjon) til en liste over passerte dommedager.
Enjoy having survived all of these:
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This is a far from exhaustive list of some of the predicted Doomsdays that have failed to occur this far.

Feel free to add more predictions that you know about in the comment field, and I will update the list.

About 60 CE: Interpreting the Epistles of Paul of Tarsus literally, his writings seem to imply that Jesus would return and usher in a rapture during the lifetime of persons who were living in the middle of the 1st century.

About 90 CE: Saint Clement 1 predicted that the world end would occur at any moment.

2nd Century CE: Prophets and Prophetesses of the Montanist movement predicted that Jesus would return sometime during their lifetime and establish the New Jerusalem in the city of Pepuza in Asia Minor.

365 CE: A man by the name of Hilary of Poitiers, announced that the end would happen that year. It didn't.

375 to 400 CE: Saint Martin of Tours, a student of Hilary, was convinced that the end would happen sometime before 400 CE.

500 CE: This was the first year-with-a-nice-round-number-panic. The antipope Hippolytus and an earlier Christian academic Sextus Julius Africanus had predicted Armageddon at about this year.

~950: Adso of Montier-en-Der wrote a "Treatise on the Antichrist" which was a response to a number of mid-century crises that had provoked widespread alarm and fear of an end-time apocalypse. Panic occurred in the German army of Emperor Otto I because of a solar eclipse that the soldiers mistook as a sign of the end of the world. When the last Carolingian dynasty fell with the death of King Louis V in 987, many saw this event as a precursor to the arrival of the Antichrist. King Otto II of Germany had Charlemagne's body exhumed on Pentecost in the year 1000 supposedly in order to forestall the apocalypse. Both Halley's comet in A.D. 989 and a super nova in A.D. 1006 were interpreted as signs of the end. About the same time, the Moslem caliph, Al Hakim, destroyed the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem prompting apocalyptic fear in the west as well as violent anti-Jewish outbursts.

968 CE: An eclipse was interpreted as a prelude to the end of the world by the army of the German emperor Otto III.

992: Good Friday coincided with the Feast of the Annunciation; this had long been believed to be the event that would bring forth the Antichrist, and thus the end-times events foretold in the book of Revelation. Records from Germany report that a new sun rose in the north and that as many as 3 suns and 3 moons were fighting. There does not appear to be independent verification of this remarkable event.

1000-JAN-1: Y1K.. Many Christians in Europe had predicted the end of the world on this date. As the date approached, Christian armies waged war against some of the Pagan countries in Northern Europe. The motivation was to convert them all to Christianity, by force if necessary, before Christ returned in the year 1000. Meanwhile, some Christians had given their possessions to the Church in anticipation of the end. Fortunately, the level of education was so low that many citizens were unaware of the year. They did not know enough to be afraid. Otherwise, the panic might have been far worse than it was. Unfortunately, when Jesus did not appear, the church did not return the gifts. Serious criticism of the Church followed. The Church reacted by exterminating some heretics. Agitation settled down quickly, as it later did in the year 2000.

1000-MAY: The body of Charlemagne was disinterred on Pentecost. A legend had arisen that an emperor would rise from his sleep to fight the Antichrist.

1005-1006: A terrible famine throughout Europe was seen as a sign of the nearness of the end.

1033: Some believed this to be the 1000th anniversary of the death and resurrection of Jesus. His second coming was anticipated. Jesus' actual date of execution is unknown, but is believed to be in the range of 27 to 33 CE.

1147: Gerard of Poehlde decided that the millennium had actually started in 306 CE during Constantine's reign. Thus, the world end was expected in 1306 CE.

1179: John of Toledo predicted the end of the world during 1186. This estimate was based on the alignment of many planets.

1205: Joachim of Fiore predicted in 1190 that the Antichrist was already in the world, and that King Richard of England would defeat him. The Millennium would then begin, sometime before 1205.

1284: Pope Innocent III computed this date by adding 666 years onto the date the Islam was founded.

1346 and later: The black plague spread across Europe, killing one third of the population. This was seen as the prelude to an immediate end of the world, but the world recovered.

1496: This was approximately 1500 years after the birth of Jesus. Some mystics in the 15th century predicted that the millennium would begin during this year.

1524: Manyastrologers predicted the imminent end of the world due to a world wide flood. They obviously had not read the Genesis story of the rainbow.

1533: Melchior Hoffman predicted that Jesus' return would happen a millennium and a half after the nominal date of his execution, in 1533. The New Jerusalem was expected to be established in Strasbourg, Germany. He was arrested and died in a Strasbourg jail.

1669: The Old Believers in Russia believed that the end of the world would occur in this year. 20 thousand burned themselves to death between 1669 and 1690 to protect themselves from the Antichrist.

1689: Benjamin Keach, a 17th century Baptist, predicted the end of the world for this year.

1736: British theologian and mathematician William Whitson predicted a great flood similar to Noah's for OCT-13 of this year.

1792: This was the date of the end of the world calculated by some believers in the Shaker movement.

1794: Charles Wesley, one of the founders of Methodism, thought Doomsday would be in this year.

1830: Margaret McDonald, a Christian prophetess, predicted that Robert Owen would be the Antichrist. Owen helped found New Harmony, IN.

1843-MAR-21: William Miller, founder of the Millerite movement, predicted that Jesus would come on this date. A very large number of Christians accepted his prophecy.

1844-OCT-22: When Jesus did not return, Miller predicted this new date. In an event which is now called "The Great Disappointment," many Christians sold their property and possessions, quit their jobs and prepared themselves for the second coming. Nothing happened; the day came and went without incident.

1850: Ellen White, founder of the Seven Day Adventists movement, made many predictions of the timing of the end of the world. All failed. On 1850-JUN-27 she prophesied that only a few months remained before the end.

1856 or later: At Ellen White's last prediction, she said that she was shown in a vision the fate of believers who attended the 1856 SDA conference."... some will be alive and remain upon the earth to be translated at the coming of Jesus." Though many of the attendees would grow fairly old, none are alive >150 years after the conference.

1881: Mother Shipton, (1488 - 1561), a 16th century mystic predicted the end of the world: "...The world to an end shall come; in eighteen hundred and eighty-one."

1891 or before: Joseph Smith (1805-1844) was the founder of the Church of Christ, which became the Restorationist movement after many schisms. It now includes The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- a.k.a. the Mormons, and about a hundred other denominations and sects. He heard a voice while praying. He wrote, in Doctrines and Covenants that the Lord had told him the End of the World would occur when or before he turned 85, which would have happened in 1832 had he lived that long.

1914 was one of the more important estimates of the start of the war of Armageddon by the Jehovah's Witnesses (Watchtower Bible and Tract Society). They based their prophecy of 1914 from prophecy in the book of Daniel, Chapter 4. The writings referred to "seven times". The WTS interpreted each "time" as equal to 360 days, giving a total of 2520 days. This was further interpreted as representing 2520 years, measured from the starting date of 607 BCE. This gave 1914 as the target date. When 1914 passed, they changed their prediction; 1914 became the year that Jesus invisibly began his rule.

1919: Meteorologist Albert Porta predicted that the conjunction of 6 planets would generate a magnetic current that would cause the sun to explode and engulf the earth on DEC-17.

1914, 1915, 1918, 1920, 1925, 1941, 1975 and 1994, etc. were other dates that the Watchtower Society (WTS) or its members predicted. Since late in the 19th century, they had taught that the "battle of the Great Day of God Almighty" (Armageddon) would happen in 1914 CE. It didn't. The next major estimate was 1925. The Watchtower Society then selected 1975 as its next main prediction. This was based on the estimate "according to reliable Bible chronology Adam was created in the year 4026 BCE, likely in the autumn of the year, at the end of the sixth day of creation." Their current estimate is that the end of the world as we know it will happen precisely 6000 years after the creation of Eve, whenever that may be.

1982: Televangelist, ex-Baptist minister and failed Republican presidential candidate Pat Robertson predicted that "I guarantee by the end of 1982 there is going to be a judgment on this world."He believed that as of 1980, the Anti-Christ was about 27 years old and that Armageddon would start in 1982 followed by 7 "nightmare years" of intense suffering.

2000: Widespread alarm for the second Millenium. Computer glitches, comets and the Second coming were all predicted in various media, but by and large the world remained intact into the second millenium.

2008: The Lord's Witness and the True Bible Code predicted that a nuclear bomb will hit the UN plaza in Manhattan on the Sabbath, sometime between sundown on SEP-08 and sundown on SEP-09. This is the same group who predicted that the UN would take over the world sometime between 2001-MAR-26 and APR-24 and that a word-wide famine would being during 2001-SEP.

2011 May 21: Led by numerological predictions of Harlod Camping of Family Radio, who had previously predicted Armageddon in 1994, the Rapture was widely announced to start on this data, leaving a considerable number of bevildered people and obsolete billboards when the day passed with no further ado.

Coming up: 2012, the world will end this December according to interpretations of the Mayan calendar system.

[Lilith]

Inagh: hahahaaaa

[Éowyn]

Okai... Dommerdag er visst av og på. I dag har både printer og kopimaskin på jobb tullet seg.

[Hobbes]

Tja, nå er snart oktober over. Venter vi fortsatt i spenning eller?

[Stine-mor]

Sitat en eller annen nettavis i går:

Sitat:

I dag er dagen her. Og de foreløpige rapportene tyder på at alt er ved det normale.

No kidding.

[Kitty Bastard]

Han bare bomma med en bokstav på norsk, om ikke annet. Dummedag.

[Hobbes]

Det er sånn jeg leser overskriften når jeg ser den i kontrollpanelet, Kitty.

[Marit K]

Har jeg gått glipp av dommedag?

[Stine-mor]

Opprinnelig lagt inn av Marit K, her.

Har jeg gått glipp av dommedag?

I går, Marit. Var du ikke forberedt?

[Marit K]

Opprinnelig lagt inn av Stine-mor, her.

I går, Marit. Var du ikke forberedt?

Nei, for søren. Bedre hell neste gang kanskje. Er det lenge til forresten?

[Stine-mor]

Opprinnelig lagt inn av Marit K, her.

Nei, for søren. Bedre hell neste gang kanskje. Er det lenge til forresten?

Tja, vi satser igjen neste år, gjør vi ikke?

[Marit K]

Opprinnelig lagt inn av Stine-mor, her.

Tja, vi satser igjen neste år, gjør vi ikke?

[LilleLeo]

Neinei. Dummedag eksisterer i høyeste grad. I form av lus.

[Kitty Bastard]

Jeg skal vedde på at det ble en skikkelig dummedag for han Harold også.

[Inagh]

Var dommedag i går, sier dere?

Pokker, da gikk jeg glipp av hele moroa. Og siden jeg tydeligvis er blant dem som ble igjen på jorda, er jeg redd det dermed blir business as usual i morgen.

[Marit K]

Nei nei nei, jeg tror jammen jeg gikk glipp av det igjen. 11.11 klokka 11.11. Fikk jo vite det ett minutt for sent, for søren!

[Stine-mor]

Det er mye man går glipp av når man er hjemme med sykt barn.

[Hobbes]

Eller er syk selv. Man får fulgt veldig godt med på hvordan renoveringa på utsiden av bygget her går, da.

[celebelen]

Lurer på hvordan det er når man sitter og tror dommedag skal komme, og så skjer det ingenting. Blir man glad eller skuffet?