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7 Reasons The World Will Not End in 2012 7 Reasons The World Will has promised at least seven other dates when NOT End On Armageddon would occur. Top 10 Doomsday Songs The world still hasn't ended and the Dec. 21, 2012 group is now best known for distributing Need a list of the top doomsday songs Business Insider religious pamphlets door-to-door and refusing to prepare yourself for the impending end of blood transfusions. times? With the End of the Mayan Calendar It's Nov. 21, 2012. REASON 5: March 10, 1982 less than a month taking place on Friday, Which means you officially have one In 1974, astrophysicists John Gribbin December 21 2012. There's no better way to go month until the end of the world, according to and Stephen Plagemann published The Jupiter out than by blasting Ultimate Classic Rock's ancient Mayan calendar predictions. Effect, which claimed that on March 10, 1982, following list of the Top 10 Doomsday Songs: If you're the country of Mexico, a 52- the planets would align on the same side of the week campaign has already been launched to Sun creating gravitational effects that would # 10 - The End profit from the impending apocalypse. lead to catastrophic earthquakes. The Beatles Keep in mind that doomsday theorists It goes without saying, the book was and religious sects have been predicting The eventually followed by The Jupiter Effect # 9 - Until The End Of The World End for thousands of years. Reconsidered. U2 Fortunately, all of these dates have come to pass. REASON 6: Y2K (January 1, 2000) # 8 - When The World Is Running To maintain your faith that this will also Nobody was really sure what would Down, You Make The Best Of be the case one year from now, we've compiled happen on January 1, 2000, except that it What’s Still seven other dates when the world was supposed necessitated stockpiling bottled water, D The Police. to end, but didn't. batteries, and guns. The fear was that computers would not # 7 - After Forever REASON 1: 1000 A.D. understand the year "00," reading it as 1900 Black Sabbath Christian authorities believed the new instead of 2000. Presumably, this would cause millennium would be the Second Coming of the technological universe to collapse. # 6 - Run Like Hell Jesus. The millennium came. Everyone was Pink Floyd In anticipation of his return, many fine. A few people were disappointed about people disposed of their belongings, left their spending their life-savings on a doomsday # 5 - Hells Bells jobs, and abandoned their homes. bunker. AC/DC When the date came and went with no apocalypse, folks who thought the end was near REASON 7: May 21, 2011 # 4 - It’s The End Of The World As We realized they had miscalculated Jesus' age and Harold Camping, president of the decided the world would actually end in 1033 Family Radio Network, created a lot of hoopla Know It A.D. last spring when he predicted that world would REM This, as we know, also turned out be a end in a series of rolling earthquakes known as vast miscalculation. "The Rapture." # 3 - (Don’t Fear) The Reaper After May 21 came and went sans any Blue Oyster Cult REASON 2: 1792 signs of hell-fire and brimstone, Camping In 1780, a heavy gloom fell over New pushed The End back to October 21. # 2 - Bad Moon Rising England prompting a religious group known as No word yet on why we're all still here, Creedance Clearwater Revival the Shakers to believe Judgment Day was although the 90-year-old preacher has decided coming. to stop making predictions, resigning from his # 1 -The End Though the unusual blackened sky, later post shortly after the second failed doomsday The Doors called the "Dark Day," was most likely caused forecast. [] by a mix of smoke from forest fires and heavy fog, it sent the religious sect on a mission to spread their message of celibacy as the path to Illuminations Of Personal and Planetary Destiny - redemption. Inspired by The Urantia Revelation We assume this caused a particularly large amount of grief when humanity was not Based on the mysterious Urantia Book, The Adventure of extinguished. Being Human: Lessons on Soulful Living from the Heart of the Urantia Revelation, a profound but often humorous REASON 3: March 21, 1843 — March 21, guide, provides lessons from our “divine parents” about 1844 the challenge of being human. It also explains why our William Miller confused thousands of difficult lives offer an ideal setting for the adventure of followers, or Millerites, when he declared that soul growth. the world would end between March 21, 1843 These cheerful lessons are selected from “live” and March 21, 1844. transmission sessions in a humble living room in Mill When the year rolled over and nothing Valley, California. Highly personal and often endearing, happened, the date was moved to October 22, these instructions on the art of soulful living render the 1844. spiritual import of The Urantia Book more accessible than After Jesus failed to arrive for the ever before. second time (known as the "Great The Adventure of Being Human Disappointment"), some members went on to Lessons on Soulful Living from the Heart of the form the Seventh Day Adventists. Urantia Revelation Transmitted by Jerry Lane • Edited by Byron Belitsos REASON 4: 1914 $14.95 trade paperback • Origin Press/Celestia In 1876, Charles Taze Russell, founder • 257 pages of the Jehovah's Witnesses (originally known as Available at AMAZON.COM Zion's Watch Tower Society), predicted that Christ would return in 1914. http://evolving-souls.org/ Since that prophecy failed, the society