After I was asked to be interviewed on the Emanuel and Ben program on "Non-Stop Radio" on 20/12/2012 about past predictions that did not come true, I am bringing the list I made (and I read only a part of it on the broadcast)
634 BC - many Romans feared that the city would be destroyed on the 120th anniversary of its founding. This is due to a myth according to which 12 eagles revealed to Romulus a mystical number that symbolizes the longevity of Rome. Some early Romans decided that each eagle represented 10 years.
389 BC - some Romans believed that the mythical number that was revealed to Vermolo represented the number of days in a year so they decided that Rome would be destroyed in 365 after its founding - 389 BC.
Quotations from Jesus in the New Testament have been interpreted by biblical experts, including Albert Schweitzer and Johannes Weiss, as a prediction of a great apocalypse. According to these studies, back in the first century, some of the first Christians expected that Jesus would return within one generation after his death. According to some of the experts in the field, Fowles was one of them.
66-70 Some believe that the Jews who rebelled in Rome saw the rebellion as the war of Gog and Magog.
January 1, 1000 - First appearance of the Millennium Apocalypse - Several Christians believed that the end of the world would come on this date including Pope Sylvester II. Riots broke out in Europe
On December 31, the end of the Christian millennium. When the first millennium apocalypse did not happen, many believers decided that it would happen at the end of the year, riots again appeared in Europe.
In 1033, believers in Europe decided that on the thousandth anniversary of the death of Christ, he would return and the end of the world would come. After that, there were Christian scholars who predicted the end of the world to 1184.
In 1186 Juan of Toledo predicted that the alignment of many planets would cause disaster
Towards the year 1200 Joachim of Flore determined that the millennium would actually begin between 1200 and 1270. The believers of Joachim of Flore changed the date to 1290 when the end of the world did not come. Later the date changed again to 1335.
Pope Innocent III who died in 1216 predicted that the world would end 666 years after the appearance of Islam, i.e. in 1284.
In the years 1346-51 the Black Plague spread throughout Europe, which caused many to see it as a sign of the end of times.
There were astrologers who determined that on January 1, 1524 the world would come to an end through floods that would begin in London, according to calculations made in June half a year earlier.
February 20, 1524 - the alignment of planets was seen by the astrologer Johannes Stöffler as a sign of the millennium. After the prediction did not come true, he postponed the end of the world to 1528. On May 27th of that year, Hans Huth predicted that the end of the world would come on that day.
Towards October 19, 1533, the mathematician Michael Stiefel calculated that Judgment Day would occur on this date at eight o'clock in the morning.
Jan Attis predicted that the world would end in the Apocalypse in 1534 and only the city of Münster would survive.
Around the year 1400, a French theologian named Pierre d'Ely wrote that 6,845 years of human history had passed and the end of the world would come in the 7,000th year, that is, in 1555.
The founder of Protestant Christianity Martin Luther predicted that the world would end no later than 1600
Shabtai Zvi calculated that the Messiah would arrive in 1648 (the truth is that he arrived 300 years later...) following the failure of this prediction, he recalculated the date to 1666
There were Christians who believed that in 1656 the world would be destroyed as it was in 1656 for its existence according to the Bible - the flood.
Christopher Columbus claimed that the world was created in 5343 BC and would last 7,000 years. Since the writers of the Tanakh did not know the concept of zero, it means that the world will come to an end in 1658.
In 1666 (the year when Saturn the deer predicted the end of the world) some Christian scholars also decided that the number 666 did not please them and it symbolizes the end of the world.
Jacob Bernoulli, the mathematician predicted that a comet would destroy the earth on April 5, 1719 (I wonder what he would have said about the evidence that the dinosaurs became extinct due to a comet or asteroid that collided with the earth 65 million years ago). William Winston predicted a comet crash on a ball in Israel on October 16, 1736.
Black skies during the day in England as a result of huge forest fires elsewhere on earth plus heavy smog that day caused fears in 1780 that it was a sign of the end of the world.
Presbyterian pastor Christopher Love predicted that the world would end in 1805 with an earthquake.
In the 19th century, during the Crimean War - 1753-56, some saw it as the battle of Armageddon.
The people of the Apostolic Church founded in 1831 said that the world would come to an end as soon as the last of the dozen founders died. The latter died in 1901.
Predictions for the year 1910 raised concerns that Halley's Comet would destroy life on Earth, but not the Earth itself - attributed to Camille Palmarion.
During the First World War there were several times when it looked like the Battle of Armageddon
Joseph Ruttenford, claimed that in 1925, the return of the Israelites from the dead heralded a new era.
Reverend Jim Jones, founder of the People's Temple, saw in his vision that a nuclear holocaust would begin in 1967. George Van Tessel translated it to an exact date - August 20, 1967 when Soviet missiles would destroy the southern USA. Van Tessel claims that the prophecy was given to him through communication with aliens.
Reverend Charles Manson predicted that the apocalypse would occur in 1969 and ordered the murder of Tate and Labinka in an attempt to close the race war.
John Gribbin and Steven Flagman predicted that on March 10, 1982 in their book The Jupiter Effect, the gravitational forces created by the alignment of all the planets would cause disaster, including earthquakes on the San Andreas Fault. In practice what it helped was to send the Voyager spacecrafts that succeeded in one ticket to explore several planets, thanks to the relative proximity as a result of the alignment.
Leland Jansen predicted that Halley's comet would be drawn towards Earth and cause widespread destruction on April 29, 1987.
Louis Farrakhan, the founder of the Nation of Islam stated that the Gulf War will be the Armageddon War which is the final war.
South Korea knew riots after Lee Jang Rim, the leader of Mission Dani in Seonal predicted the end of the world for October 28, 1992. The Seoul police prepared for mass suicides, recruiting 1,500 police officers to monitor thousands of believers who had gathered at the group's headquarters and were waiting for the end of the world. Their efforts were successful, although four members of the group committed suicide in the days leading up to this day.
Also in 1994 it was Harold Camping who predicted the end of the world first for September 6th and then revised it to September 29th and October 2nd. After this date also passed peacefully, he postponed the end to 2011.
On March 26, 1997, members of the Shearei Rakiye sect committed suicide, because their leader believed that the bright comet Hale Bop was hiding an alien spaceship that was coming to rescue them, and that they should commit suicide and their souls would be taken to the ship and they would move to a level of existence greater than that of humans. Marshall Applewhite and 38 of his followers found their deaths.
In 1997, some expected the fulfillment of Archbishop James's prophecy from the 17th century, according to which the world would be destroyed in 6,000 years, he calculated that the world was created in 4,004 BC.
According to a prophecy of Nostradamus beginning with the words "The king of terror will come from heaven, in the seventh month of 199 July 1999 led to fears about the end.
And of course there were countless apocalyptic prophecies towards the year 2000, and the second coming of Christ, just mention God Lindsay, James Gordon Lindsay, Tex Maras (a man who advocates conspiracy theories9, Timothy Dwight - president of Yale University who predicted that the millennium would begin at the beginning of the year 2000. Jehovah's Witnesses who re-edited previous failed predictions in 1971 and 1984 and more.
Some attribute to Isaac Newton a thesis according to which the Christian millennium, with everything involved in it, will begin in the year 2000. In his book observations on Daniel's vision and the apocalypse of Saint John.
On January 1, 778 believers of a cult in Uganda were murdered by the leaders of the sect after the end of the world did not come.
Bug 2000 is suspected to cause global economic chaos, and the Antichrist will take over. That day, Tim LeHaye and Jerry Jenkins, who predicted it, said they were wrong. After nothing happened on January 1st and throughout the year, there were Christian scholars who postponed the end to December 31st.
Nancy Leeder expected Nibiru to crash into Earth in May 2003. Aliens on the planet Zeta Reticuli told her so in a message via a brain implant. A star is supposed to enter our solar system and cause the poles to shift on Earth and wipe out humanity. Later this claim will be included in the list of claims regarding December 21, 2012.
The members of the Japanese sect Aum Shinirkyu predicted that a nuclear world war would occur between October 30 and November 29, 2003. They decided to help this when they attacked several subway stations in Tokyo with nerve gas.
Pastor Peter Robertson wrote in 1990 in his book The New Millennium that the earth will be destroyed on April 29, 2007.
In 2008 there were concerns about the activation of the Large Hadron Collider at Sarn in Geneva which would allegedly cause a black hole to swallow the Earth.
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Notice for inspection.
Eli Reuven
Learn the facts and then write. Otherwise you're out of luck.
Scientists never claimed that Manhattan should be under water today.
Unfortunately, and unfortunately for everyone who loves their children, it turns out, factually, that the situation is more serious than those scientists claimed at the time.
It's upsetting that people like you are spreading lies that will harm children's lives. It's a sad combination of evil and stupidity.
Eli Reuven
Everything you said is wrong.
In the US alone, 600 billion dollars (at that time) were invested in fixing the problems. Instead of thanking the engineers, you slander.
Climate scientists never claimed that Manhattan would be under water today. On the other hand, today we know that climate scientists underestimated the dangers, and the situation is more serious than they thought.
Uneducated people like you will always come and slander exactly those who take care of their children.
This combination of evil and stupidity has already done tremendous damage in the world. But what do they care???
How did you jump from a thousand bugs to the Antichrist in the same sentence? After all, these were "computer scientists" who predicted the Alfiim bug and advised us not to fly on a plane during the date change, withdraw a lot of cash at an ATM in advance, and there were even those who advised to try not to be in cities while it was happening because everything would collapse. run away to the woods.
Which reminds me of another catastrophe that didn't happen - according to some climate scientists, Manhattan should have been underwater a long time ago...
The pretended departure of Maran Edmor from Lubavits, Israel, proves that he knows that the war of Gog and Magog is about to come, and therefore he only reveals his face in secret, and only virtuous individuals know his location.
When it appears to everyone's eyes, it will be a supreme sign that the end of all flesh is imminent and we must change our actions, repent and strike at sin, otherwise we will all be swallowed up
Sami Elakim
I have no idea what you were trying to say - but it sounds pretty idiotic...
The end of the world did not materialize, why? The end of the world does not come in one fell swoop, it comes in stages as it is created step by step, since the beginning of the millennium there have been dozens of disasters we have been attacked around our globe, it operates according to its own laws, to the end of the world? This is only the first batch of mega disasters that will come upon us. A disaster does not prepare us, the world is wise on a genius level in creating it to what it is today, so is it wise to destroy itself???
Sincerely, Sami Elkayam
To Itzik, you probably mean big rip
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I don't understand the criticism of some people here regarding the article (especially the criticism of Itzik's bridle extension).
It can be classified under the heading "scientific education and critical thinking" - which, in my opinion, is just as important as scientific results. Because without it, not only would we not have scientists, but also their conclusions would not be accepted by the public.
This topic is certainly appropriate for a scientific site that aims to make science accessible to the public, because that is exactly what this site does - well done, Father!!
Since when is Charles Manson a priest?
Of course this is a partial list, but a great article.
It seems to me that the more dramatic end of the world were in 1000 and 1033 - I would be happy to know more about it.
Another ego trip article.
By the way, one thing related to doomsday is that I saw this week on the Science Channel regarding dark matter, that in 50 billion years, due to the relationship between dark matter and energy, a situation will arise where the matter has disintegrated and whatever it is is a kind of black screen in front of us and then everything will disappear, is there anyone here who can raise the issue In the article here, he will detail the issue for me, because in the program they talked about it superficially. And does it have the ability to shrink the space back to its starting point? Or only the matter will move to the starting point in the "big bang" theory.
If anyone knows a site that explains the matter I would also welcome it. (also possible in English).
And please no crazy things...
Thank you.
N.C.:
And to Tommy I thought I was the only sane one on this site.
All the other delusional here (and you know who you are):
People here do science degrees and it seems to me that it makes them more delusional by the moment.
There are people here who are astronomers, someone found the truth about Planet X that was supposed to arrive yesterday and exterminate the human race, there was a greater chance that I would get an attitude that Apophis would hit the Earth tonight than the chance that Planet X (Nibiru) would emerge from the darkness and destroy the Earth. The dark matter in space is easier to discover than Nibiru, really guys, stop trolling the site.
Wait, wait, give it a chance!!!! There are still 5 and a half hours to destruction... and if not... wait a minute, actually we have to calculate according to Guatemala time and there the time seems to be 11 in the morning, so there is still a chance for destruction.
In the name of all the "cuckoos", the fools, the fools, the idiots, the "newbies" and the rest of the loosers.
Father, be ashamed that this is what a person like you finds worth writing about on a website that pretends to respectfully represent science and denounce the infantile nonsense of dark people!
If stupidity were a painful disease...
Come on guys, there is nothing more waiting to be messed with, have you been infected with that bug of all the bored Christians who happen to believe all the doomsday nonsense?
Really, every week I wait to discover and learn something new in science and all I discover is that this site is mercilessly turning into a mystical site, maybe do us a favor and bring us something a little more serious. If I wanted to read this nonsense, I would buy bazooka gum, at least there the jokes are more entertaining....
This site has become a joke, what happened did you get infected from the "end of the world" week on the National Geographic channel?
Shame on you!!!!!!!
My father, I heard the program - thanks to Kader Omer for the link.
You have a small mistake, the sun is heating up, in another billion years it will be hot enough to evaporate the oceans. That means we only have a billion years to escape from Earth.
Haim Mazar
No need to write a thesis.
Most people are stupid - that's all.
Those who did not listen to 103.0FM tonight,
can enjoy it here:
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Haim Mazar.
About the entirety of these prophecies it was said: "From the time the Temple was destroyed, prophecy was given only to fools" and the Sages were right. It should not be forgotten that prophecy in the Bible has a completely different meaning than giving future predictions. The prophets were educated and sharp-witted people. Each of them had a combination of extremely high intelligence, a rich language and a deep understanding of the political and social reality in which they lived. In today's terms, they were the people of realpolitik in the classical sense of the term and also a militant and very opinionated opposition. Apocalyptic visions were not in their writings. Regarding those fortune tellers, whether they watch the stars, or read in coffee (for example, I read in a cup of tea with lemon) and tarot cards, I say two things. I am discussing these predictions for the famous Age of Aquarius - to me the Age of Aquarius reminds me of a sponge and as for the phenomenon of spirituality, if I stand next to a ventilator I will also be spiritual. Hoping I don't stand with my back to him so I don't catch pneumonia.
Only one question is asked. Why are there those who are engaged in this field and devote a lot of time to it and many people follow them in droves? The answer must be sought in mass psychology and sociology. Is there anyone who is ready to pick up the gauntlet and write a master's or third degree thesis on this?
That they won't work for you
The black hole is already here
This is the end of the world