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It’s the end of the world as we know it…
Lately, I’ve been asked about the latest predictions that the world is going to end. These have been going on since the earliest Christians–even Paul wrote as if Jesus’ return was imminent, possibly in his own lifetime.
Graduation marks end of the world, literally
According to a recent article by the Associated Press, the world will end on Lafayette’s scheduled graduation day for seniors, May 21. Lafayette College administration noted that it is pleased that the end of the world comes before this year’s class enters the real world.
‘Doomsday’ Message Reaches Magnolia State
A California-based “Doomsday” preacher’s message predicting the end of the world has made its way to the Magnolia state. The group’s billboards around town claim Jesus Christ will return May 21, and that has a lot of people talking.
Preparing for the end of the world
IT is heartening that the unrest sweeping through Islamic countries does not seem to be motivated by extremist religion, but rather by a political desire among ordinary people to oust tyrants and usher in democracy. This book should be read in that context, otherwise it would be frightening.
Is it the end of the world as we know it?
On Sunday we published “Road trip to the end of the world,” about a group that’s traveling by RV to spread a May 21 doomsday warning. You’ve posted about 10,000 comments on the story. And that doesn’t touch your responses to a sidebar, in which we took you on a historical journey called “Doomsdays throughout time.”
So much to do before the world ends in 2012
Quit fretting about Libya, the Leafs and Charlie Sheen. Those are but speed bumps on the highway of humanity. We have bigger fish to fry. The End Of The World. In case you have been dead or in Ottawa, and thus are unaware the year 2012 is likely our last, let me catch you up. Before it’s too late.
Kitchen Theatre play depicts end of world with a ‘boom’
So this is really how the world ends: with a bang, but no whimper — just a lot of comic cosmic quarreling between the sexes — or rather, their last two survivors. The wacky new play currently at The Kitchen Theatre in Ithaca. The brainchild of Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, a young San Francisco-based playwright (who trained as a biologist), it’s directed here by Sam Buggeln, returning after the Kitchen’s hilarious “Speech & Debate.”
Day the earth moved in Christchurch
NEARLY 50 dead in one building and up to 100 in another. ANDREW RULE visits ground zero. FIVE days ago this was one of the most beautiful small cities in the world. Now it looks more like a glimpse of the end of the world. God and nature willing, Christchurch might be beautiful again. But after the beating she took this week, she has scars that will take years and billions of dollars to heal.
Will May 21st be the End of Days?
A movement of Christians loosely organized by radio broadcasts and websites, independent of churches are convinced by their reading of the Bible that the end of the world will begin on May 21, 2011. To get the word out, they’re using billboards and bus stop benches, traveling caravans of RVs and volunteers passing out pamphlets on street corners.
Islamic uprising: Farrakhan hopes Obama ‘remembers his instructions’ US Doomsday
Today, reports of Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan’s keynote address, at the Saviours’ Day 2011 Convention, focus on what is referred to as Farrakhan’s “Doomsday Speech.” The speech was four hours long and covered, among other things, Farrakhan’s use of the word “swine” for homosexuals and lesbians, as well as – Rihanna.
