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Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :

Well.

At the time of this writing, less than 2 hours of July 31st remains in the EST timezone, and I think its safe to say that no World Wars are being fought (with the possible exception of the one Jubes and I are involved in, that you can read about in the Officer's Lounge, but that one started LONG ago...)

So.

When's the NEXT time that the world's supposed to end (or begin to end?)

*Dings bell*

Sorry, Nostro, old pal, but your time has elapsed. Don Pardo, tell him what he didn't win!

*Pardospeak* Well, Nostradamus, you didn't win credibility for your prediction, as interpreted by loyal readers. But just so you don't go away empty-handed, you're still eligible for our "extra-vague lightning round," in which your prophecies will be re-interpreted again and again, in an attempt to glean more "secrets" from your ramblings, and discover what time you "really" meant.

Thank you, Don! Now, who's our next contestant? Mr. Cayce? Miss Dixon?

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Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :

... of course, someone WILL send me email if WW III begins in the next 110 minutes, right?

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Posted by The First One (Member # 35) on :

There's this nutter here who's calculated that 11 days have been added to the calendar since the time of Nostradamus, and therefore 11 days after the last possible day of July is August 11th - the day of the total eclip0se here. . .

Posted by Jubilee (Member # 99) on :

Here, too.

*SHUDDER*

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Posted by Jeff Raven (Member # 20) on :

Don't you guys get it? The end of the world is going to come when we least suspect it, like on some idle tuesday, or something...heheheh

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Posted by Saiyanman Benjita (Member # 122) on :

I don't know. October 4th, 1999 at 4:27 AM. Just a guess, but it's probably as accurate as a Nostradamus.

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Posted by Sunspot (Member # 77) on :

Hey everyone, the world's gonna end on the 14th of July!

Wait, it didn't. Hmm...

Okay, I got it! It's gonna end sometime in the rest of the month of July!

Wrong again...Strange...

(etc etc)

There is nothing "strange" or "supernatural" about this so-called prediction falling onto the day of the eclipse. How long ago was this "extra eleven days" thing announced? When was this eclipse date given?

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Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :

It will end in FIRE!!!!!!

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Posted by The First One (Member # 35) on :

But not in darkness.

You know, I know where this nutter will be on the 11th. Unfortunately I'll be at the other end of the country, else I'd personally see to it that his world ends. . .

Posted by Jaresh Inyo on :

The fools will find some way of explaining to us why it didn't happen, when it will, and will then get angry at us for not believing.

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Posted by Jaresh Inyo on :

Damn double posts.

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Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :

Sunspot: Ironic. That's the day I was baptized.

Posted by Coddman (Member # 10) on :

*Dares show his face in here*
Well, y'see, if one were to interpret Nostradamus' prediction (the MONTH) as an astrological month, rather than a literal month, the month would be September '99 and not July '99. Ya didn't believe me before and you SURE as hell won't believe me now *LOL@self!* But that's my post anyway.

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Posted by Holst on :

How interesting, October 4 is my birthday. Well at least it will be one hell of a birthday.

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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

It's also the birthday of the space age!

(Right?)

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Posted by Jubilee (Member # 99) on :

*shrugs* .... I've lost my faith in all of that stuff.

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Posted by Jaresh Inyo on :

Coddman, I have a question for you. Please don't take it as an attack, I ask simply out of curiosity. Before August rolled around, did you believe that he meant September, or did you come to that belief after the missiles didn't start flying?

Posted by Coddman (Member # 10) on :

I believed he meant July, not September. Two reasons for this.

1. The prediction actually reads "July".
2. A few people from these forums had varying-type premonitions about the date July 14. I guess I was telling myself, "It HAS to be July." *LOL*

But of course it wasn't. EVERY ONE of Nostradamus' quatrain-prophecies is written in strange methods designed to keep the average person from figuring it out. Why should the WWIII prediction be any different? The July part is probably just a decoy.

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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

Convenient.

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Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :

*snickers*
Yes, the July part is just a decoy... but so is the 1999 part and the WW III part.

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Posted by Baloo (Member # 5) on :

If the facts do not support the theory, discard either:

the facts
or
the theory.

--Baloo

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Posted by Coddman (Member # 10) on :

First of Two: Perhaps. *LOL*

Very funny, Baloo. Nyah!

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Posted by Jaresh Inyo on :

*LOL* He could really have been predicting the score for some stupid baseball game.

Posted by Orion Syndicate (Member # 25) on :

So what if it didn't end now, it'll end at midnight on January 1st 2000 for sure.

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Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :

So I shouldn't buy stock now??

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Posted by Holst on :

Orion: What time zone do you mean by midnight, do you mean eastern standard time, pacific time, mountain time, etc? I just want a more precise time when everything is going to end.

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Posted by Jaresh Inyo on :

Precision and Nostrodamus hardly go hand in hand.

Posted by Orion Syndicate (Member # 25) on :

I meant midnight GMT and just in case you think that I actually believe that crap, DON'T!

I'm just quoting some nutters off the TV who said that the year 2000 meant nothing to them because the world will end at the stroke of midnight. My brother thinks the world will end before the 16th century on the Islamic calender starts, and since it is 1419/20 about now, we have 80 years according to my brother.

People should just live their lives as they come and not worry about this stuff because I am pretty damn sure that I will die normally (whatever normal is) and not because of the end of the world.

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Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :

The World will end On October 14, 4,755,832,201 AD, when the sunn expands and engulfs the Earth. Give or take a million years or so.

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Posted by Michael Dracon (Member # 4) on :

I agree on that

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Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :

Unless we get hit by a 'riod first.

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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

Which we most certainly will, countless times between now and then. But those won't destroy the planet, or even scar it for long.

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