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Jesus the Promised Prophet

Ten wrong predictions of the end of the world and other events

To me, this is more like a death wish, the end of the world. Why can't people just wish their own end, but have to include the rest of us, is beyond me.

Well, Time has published its Top 10 Failed Predictions. It would be a good idea for the rest of us to read them, and to see how people can get things wrong, and still be so unrepentant as Harold Camping.

But the predictions don't stop with the end of the world. There are plain flat denials about how the world works and is. Take for instance, The Flat Earth Society.

The last wrong predictions, number 10, is telling of how the Western historical narrative is so wrong. The the fall of Communism in Easter Europe and the Soviet Union, Francis Fukuyama thought that society and civilisation was in a path of evolution, being democracy and capitalism the pinacle of that evolution. The small article points two things out, that there's a great discontent in our liberal democratic countries, yet, undemocratic China is on the rise. The system that doesn't work for North Korea or Cuba, apparently works very well in China economically.

Well, interesting read. I commend you to read the ten worst predictions. Of musical interest, see prediction number 5, where the Beatles were dismissed as washed up before they hit it big.

Luis A. Jovel

Get a grip, this may be your last day on earth, again

For Harold Camping, predicting the end of the world has turned out to be more like a hobby, than a real attempt to predict the future.

Today might be the end of the world, but Family Radio Network preacher Harold Camping, whose last Doomsday prediction in May fizzled, doesn't want to make a big fuss of it this time.

Yeah, he is not answering the phone, or giving interviews, like last time. I guess he got a boost by the earthquake that took place yesterday in San Francisco. But hey, when doesn't it tremble in California? I grew up there, I should know, at the end, I didn't pay attention to the tremors.

Camping, this time around, is not taking chances, he may get it wrong again:

Camping, who suffered a stroke in the weeks after his May 21 for the End of the World failed to materialize, reset the date for Oct. 21, but has notably sprinkled his prediction with "probably" and "maybe."

So, here in Australia, we have past the 21st of October, yet, we are still here, alive and well. But wait, Camping is American, and thinks that God works in American time. Oh well, I am happy I, and my love ones are alive.