A Brief History of the Apocalypse

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  Country Girl

  Reading this really fascinated me in that it makes you realize how minute the JWs are in the history of apocalyptic cults, and how narrow one's world can become when one is living within the prism of such a mind-bending cult, in comparison to the largest religions of the world, and what small parts these cults play in the grander scheme of things, whatever that is. Here is the introduction, and link:

  http://www.abhota.info/end1.htm

  "The 21st century has begun in earnest! And despite the cries of doomsayers, psychics and prophets, the world has not come to an end!

  Is the idea that the End is near a recent phenomenon? Far from it. Indeed, Chicken Littles have crying doom since ancient times. The aim of this page is to debunk end-time prophecy by listing hundreds of failed doomsday predictions, allay the fears spread by end-time preachers, and demonstrate that doomcrying is nothing new. I also hope you will derive amusement from some of the more bizarre prophecies.

  I have strived for accuracy through careful cross-referencing among source materials. I'm constantly adding new information and correcting mistakes, yet there may still be some errors.

  Please journey with me through the wild, wacky and wonderful world of failed doomsday prophecy!"

  Country Girl
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  Quotes

  (sorry, someone had to do it)
  
  

  ITS THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT (LYRICS)

  
  
  That?s great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and
  Snakes, an aeroplane and lenny bruce is not afraid
  Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn - world
  Serves it?s own needs, dummy serve your own needs. feed
  It off an aux speak, grunt, no, strength, ladder
  Start to clatter with fear fight down height. wire
  In a fire, representing seven games, a government
  For hire and a combat site. left of west and coming in
  A hurry with the furies breathing down your neck. team
  By team reporters baffled, trumped, tethered cropped
  Look at that low playing! fine, then. uh oh,
  Overflow, population, common food, but it?ll do. save
  Yourself, serve yourself. world serves it?s own needs,
  Listen to your heart bleed dummy with the rapture and
  The revered and the right, right. you vitriolic,
  Patriotic, slam, fight, bright light, feeling pretty
  Psyched
  
  It?s the end of the world as we know it
  It?s the end of the world as we know it
  It?s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine
  
  Six o?clock - tv hour. don?t get caught in foreign
  Towers. slash and burn, return, listen to yourself
  Churn. locking in, uniforming, book burning, blood
  Letting. every motive escalate. automotive incinerate
  Light a candle, light a votive. step down, step down
  Watch your heel crush, crushed, uh-oh, this means no
  Fear cavalier. renegade steer clear! a tournament,
  Tournament, a tournament of lies. offer me solutions,
  Offer me alternatives and I decline
  
  (chorus)
  It?s the end of the world as we know it (it?s time I had some time alone)
  It?s the end of the world as we know it (it?s time I had some time alone)
  It?s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine (it?s time I had some time alone)
  
  I feel fine
  
  (repeat chorus)
  
  The other night I dreamt of knives, continental
  Drift divide. mountains sit in a line, leonard
  Bernstein. leonid brezhnev, lenny bruce and lester
  Bangs. birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom! you
  Symbiotic, patriotic, slam book neck, right? right
  
  (repeat chorus)
  
  It?s the end of the world as we know it
  It?s the end of the world as we know it
  It?s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine (it?s time I had some time alone)
  
  (repeat chorus 2x)
  
  Fine
  It?s the end of the world as we know it (it?s time I had some time alone)
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  euripides

  Paul, Miller of the 1800's, Martin Luther, Freddy Franz, Charles Russell, Garner Ted Armstrong, they all thought the End was going to come any moment. It's a movement generated by the disenfranchised and minority oppressed to keep the numbers stable. It certainly has a way of making the person making the current prophecy feel quite imporant in the cosmic scheme of things, as if it all came down to them in their lifetime. Apocalyptic mentality pervades all of society these days, unfortunately.