Oh, and they love to frighten us, ordinary people, astrologers and pseudoscientists from science with EXACT dates of the end of the world. How many were there? I can only name about ten offhand. And not only in the past and this century. They have frightened people before.
By the way, today, August 19, 2017, the same date is expected. But the sun is shining on the street, children are playing in the yard, people are walking slowly about their business … There are no meteorites in the sky, and there are no massive epidemics either. Maybe they just turn off the lights in the evening?
By the way, the church even reacted to the statement about the end of the world on 2017-19-07. The Russian Orthodox Church called this news nonsense, people's tendency to nightmares and a fried plot. The media, in turn, quoted a certain prediction of Matrona of Moscow.
All the panic appeared due to the fact that the predictions of Matrona of Moscow were published on the Internet. Allegedly from her words “In the evening everyone will die, and in the morning they will rise. And mankind awaits sorrows and troubles, which no one has seen. But only this phrase was already heard in 1993, 2000, 2012 and even at the beginning of this.
Against this background, no one even noticed the less replicated date of the end of the world - 2017-17-07. She also identified herself in the media. Why this particular date? The combination of these numbers is attributed to mystical properties. The number seven is a perfect number, it is a symbol of mystery and exploration of the unknown and the unknown. Since prehistoric times, she has symbolized 7 ruling planets, 7 days of the week, 7 notes of the scale.
But it was still February 10, 2017 - also the end of the world according to the prediction of St. Matrona of Moscow. And 02.22.2014 - the end of the world according to the Vikings, who called this day Ragnarok.
Do you remember 2012-21-12? According to the Mayan calendar, this date was considered the end of life on Earth. At the beginning of the 21st century, these prophecies have become firmly entrenched in popular culture thanks to Dan Brown's novel The Lost Symbol. Probably, many believed in the end of the world a little.
In 2011, Harold Camping from California made a lot of noise with the end of the world. He announced that the world would end on May 21st. He made this conclusion based on 70 years of Bible study and mathematical calculations. And on May 23, he said that the "moral coming" took place and now it remains to wait for October 21, when the end of the world will finally come. But on that day, nothing happened. By the way, then Harold apologized.
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And in 2009, Armageddon was supposed to come according to the interpretation of the Nostradamus century by Peter Laurie.
The year 2000 was especially rich on the exact dates of the end of the world. For example, the end of the world for humanity as a result of the appearance of the Second Moon. Or the most popular January 1 - "computer end of the world", the year 2000 problem.
We are not talking about the numerous Armageddons due to collisions with celestial bodies or the parade of planets. Until now, we are frightened by asteroids, which are rapidly flying towards our planet. But the dates pass, and life goes on as usual.
By the way, pseudoscientists have one more prediction about the end of the world in reserve. This time it is said that the planet Nibiru will hit the Earth in October 2017. And then another such EXACT date will appear and more … Well, we will survive this day too.
Svetlana the Unbeliever