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I was in Washington D.C. sightseeing about 20 years ago. This guy walked up to me, in front of the Capitol steps, and handed me a pamphlet. It said that the world was coming to an end and it gave an exact date; August 22nd or something. A couple hundred feet down the way, another guy handed me a deal that also said the end was coming but; different date. Like three weeks later.

So, I figured, at least one of them is wrong, and went about my business.

Here is the Mayan calendar.

I guess somewhere on there it says the world will end in 2012. Looks kind of cool. Why does the Mayan calendar go to 2012 when the Mayans only lasted until 1300 or so? Why would you do 700 extra years of work?

Here’s a site, Library of Date Setters of The End of the World!!!, that has a list of 220 different end of the world prediction dates ranging from 44A.D. to September 14, 2047. They think it’s coming but, question the methods most use.

Yes the end is coming, but all human predictions are wrong!

Date setters, making irresponsible predictions! Misleading the ignorant masses for higher TV ratings and book sales!

An untold number of people have tried to predict the Lord’s return by using elaborate time tables. Most date setters do not realize mankind has not kept an unwavering record of time. Anyone wanting to chart for example 100 BC to 2000 AD would have contend with the fact 46 BC was 445 days long, there was no year 0 BC, and in 1582 we switched from Julian Years (360 days) to Gregorian (365 days). Because most prognosticators are not aware of all these errors, from the get go their math is already off by several years.

Here’s my favorite from the early 70s.

A little cartoon, a little humor, perhaps the best way to sell doomsday.