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november2009_june_july_2009.qxd 23/11/2009 4:37 PM Page 9 9 15 Doomsday Prophecies 9 15 Doomsday Prophecies 2012: 15 doomsday Type of Prophecy: Scientific catastrophe Type of Prophecy: Scientific catastrophe "The 2012: 15 doomsday prophecies and how Prophet: Albert Porta Jupiter Effect" prophecies and how they turned out Details: Porta, a meteorologist at the University Prophet: John Gribbin and Stephen Plagemann they turned out of Michigan, predicts that during the third week Details: In their best-selling 1974 book The Continued from Page 8 of December 1919, an unprecedentedly Jupiter Effect, respected astronomer Gribbin Continued from Page 8 humongous sunspot would occur, due to the and his co-author Plagemann predict that the Great fun abounds in the new iconography of "electro-magnetic pull" on the sun exerted by March 10, 1982, alignment of seven planets the era, with skeletons (scary ones, not the Tim the alignment of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, would lead to global upheavals that would be Burton-y, singing kind) carrying off the living. Saturn and Neptune. He loses his job ... which the envy of Irwin Allen, with the San Andreas French doctor de Covino of Liège says that it may be the reason terrestrial meteorologists fault flattening California, massive storms, a seems as if one infected person "can infect the don't work in astronomy much these days. change in the speed of Earth's rotation, etc. whole world." Florentine chronicler Villani Gribbin eventually recants, maybe after thinks the plague was "divine action" the How It Turned Out: World still here. thinking about what happened to Porta. The purpose of which might be to wipe out high tide on the predicted doomsday does turn humanity, like the biblical flood. Number 6: Date World Ends: 1921 out to be a less-than-tsunami-like .04 millimeters higher than normal. San Diego How It Turned Out: Europe devastated, but astronomer Dennis Rawlins tells The New York world still here Times that day that any undue gravitational pull individuals feel can be alleviated by "sitting Number 4: Date World Ends: 1843-44 down." How It Turned Out: World still here, but .04 millimeters wetter. Number 8: Date World Ends: 1988/2007 Type of Prophecy: Scientific catastrophe Prophet: Henry Adams Type of Prophecy: Biblical apocalypse Details: Adams, one of the great thinkers of American history, author of books like Prophet: William Miller Democracy and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Education of Henry Adams, works out when the Details: The Great Disappointment. Miller, end of the world will come in his 1910 treatise, founder of the (you guessed it) Millerite Letter to American Teachers of History. movement, works his way through the Book of Cranking out analysis of cultural trends that Type of Prophecy: Biblical apocalypse Daniel and figures out with AIG mortgage- would do Hari Seldon proud, he uses a model calculator certainty that the world will end in based on the dissipation of energy to figure out Prophet: Hal Lindsey 1843. When that doesn't happen, some of his the four stages of human civilization—the followers firmly set the date as Oct. 22, 1844. religious, the mechanical, the electrical and the Details: Lindsey's 1968 book, The Late, Great This really was a Disappointment, as many of ethereal—and nails with certainty that the end Planet Earth, predicts the end of the world in Miller's followers sold everything they owned will come in 1921. No calculations are made on 1988, one biblical generation (40 years) after in anticipation of the second coming. Today, of the dissipation of energy expended by the the foundation of the state of Israel. When 1948 course, having misled lots of people and disseminating of crackpot theories, which may doesn't suit him any more as a date by which to causing them to lose their homes and driving have thrown off Adams' results. gauge the start of a 40-year generation, Lindsey them into bankruptcy, Miller would get a $50 decides that 1967 is more accurate. So, that million bonus. How It Turned Out: World still here. would place 2007 as the end of the world. What's today's date? How It Turned Out: World still here Number 7: Date World Ends: Mar 10, 1982 How It Turned Out: World still here. (Pg 11) Number 5: Date World Ends: 1919. Looking for that special Christmas Gift for those people in your life who are . into the world of the paranormal and the science of parapsychology? Look No More! Goto www.xzonexmaslist.com