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Newton set 2060 for end of world
The Daily Telegraph ^
| February 22, 2003
| Jonathan Petre
Posted on 02/21/2003 5:35:31 PM PST by MadIvan
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To: MadIvan
I may or may not be around for that. I'll be 81.
To: MadIvan
Re:
The most definitive date he set for the apocalypse, which he scribbled on a scrap of paper, was 2060.
Gad! Noooooo! I will only be 113 by then!
So many fish, so little time!
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posted on
02/21/2003 8:21:13 PM PST
by
sonofatpatcher2
(The French! Even President Bartlett called them wossies! (^;{)
To: MadIvan
And Kepler devoted reams of paper to discussing the probable sex of the angels.
Hey, everybody needs a hobby.
To: RLJVet
Where is that? The parable of the fig tree (matthew 24:32), just before the day and hour verse (matthew 24:36).
I hate to get into scripture quoting, but I had to here to answer your question.
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posted on
02/21/2003 8:28:57 PM PST
by
templar
To: templar
Well, I started it.
Thanks.
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posted on
02/21/2003 8:32:57 PM PST
by
RLJVet
To: RLJVet
>>>...no one knows the day nor the hour.
He didn't say the day or hour. He said Year. :-)
To: RightWhale
Newton became quite mystical in his dotage. Quite a change for the premier mathematician of his day, but maybe not unusual for old scientists.I think the theory is that he suffered the effects of mercury poisoning (from his experimentation in alchemy) in his old age and became rather loony. He almost lost the prestige he earned earlier in life.
To: MadIvan; Siobhan; narses; Salvation; Aquinasfan
According to the great medieval scholar al-Suyuti (15th cent. A.D.), it will happen in
2076 A.D. (the Muslim year 1500 A.H.). His treatise on the subject is currently in reprint, and is a hot item in the mideast
Expect terrorism to get progressively worse until then, as more and more Muslims catch millennial fever.
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posted on
02/21/2003 8:51:35 PM PST
by
Dajjal
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Eat, drink and be merry...for tomorrow we die. Since we're doing scripture:
And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided? So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God. (Luke 12:19-21)
To: MHGinTN
See how hard it is to be precise?It's not that hard to be precise.
It's hard to be accurate.
My prediction is that the world will end on precisely 2061-06-23 17:23:44.9922. I can't guarantee the accuracy of this prediction.
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posted on
02/21/2003 9:08:30 PM PST
by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: MadIvan
If it happens, it will be by an Islamibomb.
To: MadIvan
Guess I better leave a few one-way tickets in my will to my future grandchildren for passage to a moon colony. ;)
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02/21/2003 10:08:46 PM PST
by
Brett66
To: MadIvan
Sir Isaac Newton is one of the most brilliant men of all time. It figures he would approach the Bible with an abacus in hand.
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02/21/2003 10:11:42 PM PST
by
xm177e2
(smile) :-)
To: CanisMajor2002
UN: "This is your LAST LAST LAST LAST PENULTIMATE chance Saddam! Come out now, with your hands up, or we'll take off 2 weeks from the deadline for your LAST LAST LAST LAST LAST FINAL chance! We aren't kidding this time!"
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posted on
02/21/2003 10:14:17 PM PST
by
xm177e2
(smile) :-)
To: TomServo
"Well hell - I'll be dead anyway. Too bad for the rest of you losers, though. Sayonara Suckers!!" ;-)"Same here.
Doomsday bump to you.
To: John Twenty 28
2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up . . .For those of us who believe, the promise is sobering. We keep a sharp lookout for the signs of impending overflash so we will not become trapped in the inferno as did the concert-goers in Rhode Island.
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
The Earth's magnetic poles have been reversing themselves for billions of years previous to now.Some tout that magnetic pole reversal will bring about the end of the world.
How come the world's still here then? ;-)
To: Doctor Stochastic
"My prediction is that the world will end on precisely 2061-06-23 17:23:44.9922. I can't guarantee the accuracy of this prediction."Damn. Your making it hard to plan my activities for that date and time.
To: RoughDobermann
"How come the world's still here then? ;-)"It isn't. You just think it is.
To: blackbart.223
So, you're saying that The Matrix has me? Damn. I knew I should've stayed in bed this morning...
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