On Jan 2, 12:33 am, Don Ocean <oc...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> David Johnston wrote:
> > On Fri, 02 Jan 2009 06:17:08 +0100, Anonymous Remailer <m...@awxcnx.de>
> > wrote:
>
> >> To be fair, the Mayan Calendar is the oldest extant prophecy dating ` ``
> >> the end of the world thus is in perfect agreement with all biblical ` `
> >> and extra-biblical prophecies. Igor Panarin made no claim to divine ` ``
> >> inspiration (although it seems he was, if perhaps unwittingly), but ` ``
> >> his renowned expertise in world affairs led him to predict that the ` `` `
> >> moral bankruptcy and economic collapse of America would lead to her ` ``
> >> demise, and fragment the former superpower into six separate pieces ` ``
> >> by the year 2010--a prediction which Panarin made in September 1998. `
>
> > Since the United States is not going to disintigrate in the next two
> > years, I'm inclined to take Panarin with a grain of salt.
>
> Actually the bible ad others have predicted the world demise thousands
> of year earlier. Real bible scholars predicted the end of the earth 400
> years before the birth of Christ. Must be a little bit of an error
> factor there? The real end of the earth is a private matter with each
> individual. When you die..that is your end of the earth.
I am inclined to believe there is a lot of truth to the last two
sentences.