…and if it doesn’t, maybe we’ll reschedule it for 2016.
“If you tell the people a lie often enough, and loud enough, eventually they will believe you.”
– Adolf Hitler
Human beings started out like the rest of the animal kingdom, applying day to day skills in order to survive. As time went on, humans developed skills in hunting/gathering, forming communities and the need to grab everyone’s attention for the sole purpose of scaring the living crap out them. One of the qualities that sets you and I apart from Daisy the Hamster, is that Daisy is more interested in playing in her exercise wheel than stressing about how the world will end. What I’m basically saying is that, no matter how advanced your brain is developed, if you don’t believe in these end-of-the-world predictions, why would you be scared of them? Remember the Y2K Bug of 2000? It was predicted that utilities, communications, and any other objects that depends on electronics will come to a crashing halt. I still have the candle my mother gave me on the night of December 31th 1999 for “just in case”. Just like the 220+ end-of-the-world dates, they all came an went without incident. Although it‘s funny that the Y2K Bug made bigger news than the 15 Doomsday predictions scheduled for 2000. For example, in the November 18, 1997 issue of the Weekly World News, it was reported that the CIA has caught a space alien who had crash-landed on June 20th in a New Mexico desert. The alien was from a destroyed planet that’s over 200 light years from earth and claims to be the sole survivor. He reported, in perfect English, that God is “furious with His creations everywhere.” None of the species that he created turned out as expected. So, God is systematically working his way across the galaxies, setting fires and exploding planets one by one. Earth will be next! Then there’s the June 24, 1997 issue of Sun Magazine, reported that in 1961, Pope John XXIII predicted that Doomsday will begin with the detonation of an atomic bomb in a major European city by a Libyan terrorist group. This will trigger a massive six-month war that will cause the deaths of millions of people. Then of course some bored mathematical genius said that if you divide 2000 by 3, you will get the devil’s number 666.66666666666667. What that has to do with the world ending is beyond me. But it is listed as #3 of 15 Doomsday Events scheduled for the year 2000. The brain child who came up with this needs to stay out of the prediction business and re-read The Book of Revelation 13:17-18. For those suffering from Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia, 666 refers to “the number of a man,” or the beast. There’s no reference to Satan or any kind of anti-Christ. Back when most of the western world was under new management of the Roman Empire, the Jews and early Christians used numerals, codes and symbols to avoid prosecution. Just like how siblings use codes and Pig Latin to avoid prosecution from their parents when they screw up. So the three numbers, 666 or 616, simply refers to “Ner? Caesar a.k.a. Roman Emperor Nero. So the next time you’re in an intense game of Trivia Pursuit, and you get a 666 question, you’ll know the answer.