"BE JOYFUL, THOUGH YOU HAVE CONSIDERED ALL THE FACTS."
Boston University's Richard Abanes, author of End-Time Visions, notes upcoming dates that could have more apocalyptic potential than Jan. 1, 2000:
• 2007: Some Bible prophecy buffs consider this year a candidate because it concludes the generation (40 years) after Jews reunified Jerusalem.
• 2012: Other New Agers think the Earth will be destroyed just before Christmas because the ancient Mayan calendar will run out of dates. (Historians say it won't.)
• 2033: This is a big one for some Christians: the estimated 2000th anniversary of Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection.
• Beyond that lie 2076, which is 1500 in the Muslim calendar and could energize Sufi mystics and New Agers, and 2240, the start of humanity's seventh millennium by traditional Jewish reckoning.
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Ask the Dream Doctor - a free service by Charles Lambert McPhee, one of the country's leading experts in the field of dream analysis. His website has a database of more than 30,000 dreams submitted for online analysis, plus dream message boards and a dream symbols dictionary .
Sir Isaac Newton predicted that the world will end in 57 years. Newton's somber prediction was unearthed by a Canadian researcher as part of a British Broadcasting Corporation documentary, "Newton: The Dark Heretic" to be aired on March 1. There is a handwritten Newton document predicting the end of the world in 2060, according to calculations he made based on the Bible. Newton, who died in 1727 and won fame for formulating the law of gravity, studied the Bible for more than 50 years, trying to unravel what he believed were God's secret laws of the Universe.
A stroll through failed prophecies-to-be - for
2012 and beyond.
The Bible, the Quran or "Mein Kampf"?
It's an international bestseller featuring the life and sayings of a charismatic leader and self-styled prophet. It's also a book whose words have been used to justify the march of armies and the slaughter of innocents. But is it the Bible, the Quran or "Mein Kampf"? Take the quiz to see if you can identify which passage comes from which book.
Did history predict this conflict? The authors of "The Fourth Turning, an American Prophecy" make a compelling case for history as a series of repeating cycles, each encompassing about four generations. Each cycle for them is defined by four "turnings" - a high, an awakening, an unraveling and a crisis. For people familiar with their work, the events of Sept. 11 were not only awful but eerie, clearly the dawn of a "fourth turning."
Looking back through the prism of Sept. 11, officials now say that an intercepted message was a telling sign of a drastic shift in the ambitions and global reach of Al Qaeda during the last three years. Clearly, the officials agree, the United States failed to grasp the organization's transformation from an obscure group of Islamic extremists into the world's most dangerous terrorists.
Was the unspeakable horror of September 11 foretold by prophets and psychics? While the best-known names of prophecy seem to have failed, some eerily accurate visions and predictions have come from unexpected sources.
Terrorist Attacks: The Wingdings Prophecies - The Doomsday Font.
A New Target? Evidence of Plot to Attack Sears Tower - The FBI says it
has no specific or credible threat against the Sears Tower in Chicago, but
federal officials with access to intelligence information tell ABCNEWS the
government moved late last week to re-evaluate emergency evacuation plans
for the nation's tallest building.
Trying to make sense of the Sept. 11 tragedies, people are turning to all kinds of supposedly mathematical explanations. Sept. 11 is written 9-11, the telephone code for emergencies. Moreover, the sum of the digits in 9-11 (9 +1+1) is 11, Sept. 11 is the 254th day of the year, the sum of 2,5, and 4 is 11, and after Sept. 11, there remain 111 days in the year. Stretching things even more, the e-mails noted that the twin towers of the WTC look like the number 11, that the flight number of the first plane to hit the towers was 11, and that various significant phrases, including "New York City," "Afghanistan," and "The Pentagon" have 11 letters.
Killing echoes ancient prophecy - The shocking massacre of the members of the Nepalese royal family carries undertones of a grim prophecy handed down to the country's ruling Shah dynasty more than 230 years ago.
Your Astrological Sign is Not The One You Think It Is
Author Gregg Braden says his research led him to a lost form of prayer.
He believes this prayer form is key to averting the doomsday scenarios of war, disease and tragedy that prophets through the ages have predicted for the early years of the 21st century. "We now know that predictions offer isolated possibilities. We also know that we choose our possibilities with each breath that we take, in each moment of every day," he said.
An elderly Indian astrologer, Parsai, says that both Mars and Pluto will be in direct conflict with Saturn at different times between now and this summer and he predicts another earthquake somewhere on the West Coast of the United States, or an equally dramatic natural event before April 10, or between May 11 and July 20, 2001. He also makes a bold prediction that China may attack the West Coast of the United States sometime between 2008 and 2009.
According to Parsai, another time span when the Western United States could experience a major disaster includes nearly all of December 2001. He claims to be correct in his predictions 90% of the time.
2001, according to the ancient Chinese horoscope, is the year of the snake - a year when Peruvian soothsayers predict earthquakes, air crashes and an assassination bid against Cuban President Fidel Castro.
A new unsupported prediction that Gujarat, India will be hit by yet another 6.0 earthquake on March 10 has created panic. (And ultimately proved to be false.)
Don't look now, but scientists think
The Big One is just about due. We can expect a Big Quake every 300 to 500 years on the West Coast of the U.S., along what is called the Cascadia Subduction Zone. And the Big One, when it comes, will be longer and broader in scope than Seattle's latest 6.8 quake, and surely will stir up the sea with a huge tidal wave.
Historians and archaeologists who study the downfall of ancient civilizations are warning that parts of the modern world may be heading the way of history's fallen empires.
Researchers say the overcrowded cities, water shortages and electricity brownouts in 21st century California, India and Brazil are ominous reminders of the fate of ancient Rome, Babylon and the Mayan empire. To be sure, modern cities enjoy more advanced technologies than ancient metropolises. Nevertheless, the problems of crowding, pollution, crime and sanitation that overwhelmed populous societies in the past threaten to do so again, especially in less fortunate parts of the world.
Celebrities, including primate researcher Jane Goodall and actor Peter Ustinov, said it may be the last millennium for mankind unless a new culture keeps evolving. The Green movements, a search for natural food and means of healing, and a boom in non-governmental organisations in the past decades have shown that a new global consciousness is forming to meet the dangers created by technological development and poverty. The new movements, which often confront the interest of governments and business, could soon create a significant political force in several countries. "Apocalypse may have been cancelled," said writer Arthur C. Clarke.
JANUARY 2001:
Negotiations over a disputed Jerusalem holy site are failing to take into account its central role in the end-times prophecies of Judaism, Christianity and Islam alike — or to calm those who want to see the prophecies played out, an Israeli author warns.
Pope John Paul's frailty has prompted some in Rome to turn to the prophecies of ST. MALACHY to identify his successor. These are forecasts by a saintly 12th-century Irish bishop. They are coded descriptions of popes up to Peter II - the next pope but one - and the last, as his reign is supposed to coincide with the end of the world.
Rampaging Muslims burned down scores of hotels and bars in a northern Nigerian city in reaction to the lunar eclipse January 9th, which they blamed on sinners. Paramilitary police battled gangs of Muslim youths in the streets of the largely Islamic city of Maiduguri for hours. Residents said at least 40 hotels or drinking houses were set ablaze. Similar violence was reported in Barma town 80 km (50 miles) away where youths chanting Allahu Akbar (God is Greatest) took to the streets. "The immoral acts committed in these places are responsible for this eclipse," police quoted a youth leader as saying.
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"The entire Quran was given to the Angel Gabriel during the month of Ramadan during the time of Prophet Muhammad - peace and blessings upon him - between 570-632 C.E.."
Did Yale's win over Harvard predict a Bush presidential win? Since 1940, the outcome of the Yale-Harvard football game usually has paralleled the outcome of the presidential race. A Yale victory in the November matchup has meant a Republican won the presidency that year, while a Harvard win has translated into a Democratic victory. The two exceptions to this trend came in 1960 and 1976 — also years with razor-thin presidential election margins.
Another interesting twist this year is that the presidential candidates attended these two universities. Texas Gov. Bush graduated from Yale, while Vice President Gore earned his degree from Harvard.
How do 6 psychics see the outcome of the presidential election? Three say Gore, two Bush, one unsure.
Japanese foot-reading cult ordered to pay for fraud -
A Japanese court ordered the cult and its founder to pay $926,000 to 16 people who said they were told they would get cancer unless they joined the group. The Ho-no-Hana Sampogyo group and founder Hogen Fukunaga, claimed to cure diseases by inspecting the soles of people"s feet.
Russians Seek Spiritual Healing in Pyramids -
After being denied spiritual and religious under communist rule, Russians now soak up all kinds of mystical experiences. Some have turned to pyramids.
The Lost Ten Tribes of Israel have been an American fascination since 1492, when Columbus mused whether American Indians might be descendants of Jews dispersed by Babylonian conquerors in the sixth century B.C.
A half-kilometre off Paradise Point, lies an ancient, underwater arrangement of stones that has baffled natives, mystics and scientists for generations.
Decades of both weird and real science have only served to intensify the mystery. They call it the Bimini Road and some say it leads to the lost continent of Atlantis.
The seer who foresaw the fates of a number of important political leaders of South Asia has finally failed to foresee his own fate.
The mysterious Pir Mujibur Rahman Chisty, who had innumerable disciples at home and abroad, including influential politicians, army generals and top bureaucrats, was found murdered at his Dhaka residence on the night of September 27.
In the Ivory Coast and other parts of Africa, widespread unrest has resulted in the resurgence of an ancient craft: the making of protective talismans.
Jewish talli tot - prayer shawls. Traditionally, only males have worn prayer shawls, but a growing number of females are opting to don them as well. Some have a vision that in a few years that will be the norm.
New Edgar Cayce book.
An animal rights group says it plans to use the Turin Shroud in an advertising campaign to persuade people to stop eating meat. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) said it would unveil its campaign "Make a Lasting Impression -- Go Vegetarian" next week in Turin, where the shroud is on display in the city's cathedral.
In Naples, Italy, the dried blood of their city's patron saint, Saint Gennaro, usually turns to liquid twice a year - on Septemer 19, the saint's feast day, and on the first Saturday in May.
Disaster has struck at least five times after the blood failed to liquefy.
Psychic Fraud? Florida's attorney general's office is investigating the Psychic Readers Network and its sister company, Access Resources Incorporated, after former employees testified that many of telephone psychics were actually homeless people from a local shelter.
"The rate at which humankind has made other mammal species extinct since the end of the last Ice Age amounts to the beginning of a catastrophic event in its own right.
Humans are adding to the pace of the present mass extinction which will involve all large mammals and many other groups. We will be one of the extinguished species."
Hundreds of members of a polygamous Mormon splinter group have pulled their children out of the public schools along the Utah-Arizona state line -
preparing, perhaps, for the end of the world. The end of days is rumored to be either a few days or a few months away.
Artifacts found at the bottom of the Black Sea provide new evidence that humans faced a great flood, perhaps that of the biblical Noah, thousands of years ago. Remnants of human habitation were found in over 300 feet of water about 12 miles off the coast of Turkey, undersea explorer Robert Ballard said. Ballard said his team, using remote-controlled underwater vessels with cameras, located a former river valley beneath the sea and in that valley was a collapsed structure, including some preserved wooden beams that had been worked by hand. The structure was ''clearly built by humans,'' and was characteristic of stone-age structures built 7,000 years ago in the interior of Turkey.
Thousands of people were traveling to Assiut in southern Egypt in recent weeks after reports of an apparition of the Virgin Mary and a flock of exceptionally large, white pigeons in a shining light.
Working as a telephone psychic
Conspiracy theorists and Web chatters have burned up the Internet with accusations of a Vatican coverup of what was revealed to the children in the third vision of Fatima.
Even before giving birth, Eartha Grant Mears knew the son she carried would be a preacher. The prophets had spoken it.
`Prophets and elders in several different churches I attended at the time told me he was going to be a special child, that he was going to be different from other children,'' she said. "
Veiled in mystery, the Shroud of Turin, one of the world’s most famous religious relics, is on display starting August 14th for 70 days — the longest time in its history.
August 8, 2000 - Rain of Fish Hits England - "In an event of almost biblical proportions, a rain of fish fell on Norfolk, England, last Sunday, covering the seaside resort with slithering two-inch-long sprats.
Weather experts were able to explain the rare weather phenomenon, which was triggered by a small mini-tornado.
A powerful updraft, generated during a thunderstorm over the North Sea, formed a mini-tornado more than a mile offshore from the city of Great Yarmouth. The small funnel cloud scooped up and carried away thousands of small fish swimming close to the surface. The storm clouds carried the small sprats — related to the common herring — a half mile inland and deposited them as a silver rain over the area.
Met Office spokesman Andy Yeatman said, "It's impossible to say where the fish came from, but often these clouds can be carried a distance of one or two miles."
Miracle girl? Thousands believe the girl in a coma can heal others.
A place for witchcraft aficionados to view crystal balls, broomsticks, black mirrors, torture devices, trident wands and pentagrams? The Buckland collection of witchcraft and magic contains about 500 artifacts tracing the history of witchcraft from the caveman era to the present and may soon be opened as a museum in New Orleans.
Before the Nazi Party adopted the swastika and turned it into the most potent icon of racial hatred, it traveled the world as a good luck symbol.
Buddha's footprints were said to be swastikas. Navajo blankets were woven with swastikas. Synagogues in North Africa, Palestine and Hartford, Conn., were built with swastika mosaics.
U.S. News & World Report, July 24 - "A mysteries of history special issue. The Shroud of Turin could date back to the time of Jesus, after all. There probably was no Pope Joan who was stoned after she gave birth to a child. Stonehenge was not constructed by aliens, though no one knows who made it or for what purpose. "
A premonition? JFK Jr. book says Jackie O. feared her son would die in a plane crash.
Breaking months of silence, Falun Gong's leader is telling his
followers that China's crackdown on the banned spiritual movement is an
"evil-wrought'' test foretold by the 16th-century French soothsayer
Nostradamus.
"If you see a crow flapping its wings, beware: A big accident is about to happen.
Nor do you want to see a crow facing your door, because that signals danger.
And if a crow is sitting on top of a house with a red thread in its beak, call the
fire department posthaste, because the flames aren't far behind.
These superstitions come from Asia, and they're just a few of the scores of
myths that surround the unfortunate crow and its slightly larger cousin, the
raven."
ABCNEWS Special Report: 'The Search for
Jesus' -
Was he really born in Bethlehem? Where did he walk
and what did he say? In a long-awaited television and
Internet special, Peter Jennings reports on what scholars
believe is true and false about the life of Jesus.
The Final Secret of Fatima -
Vatican Unveils Text; No Apocalypse.
June 19, 2000 - The Vatican said it will unveil the details of the
so-called third secret of Fatima next week.
The gist of the secret was revealed last month during Pope John Paul II's
pilgrimage to the shrine of Fatima in Portugal. But the Vatican has not yet issued
an official document.
Egypt is only country outside Palestine that the Lord visited while he was on
earth.
He was there about two years. His flight to Egypt fulfilled an ancient
prophecy, a 2,800-year-old reference in the Book of Isaiah.
Coptic celebrations this month will mark the ancient visit.
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Three theologians representing Jesus Christ
sued the Protestant and Roman Catholic churches for bringing his name into
disrepute -- and lost in a German courtroom.
Catholics are free to believe or not believe the so-called third
secret of Fatima because visions aren't the basis for dogma, Pope John Paul II's top
guardian of orthodoxy says.
President
Clinton accused the terror network
allegedly operated by Saudi fugitive Osama bin
Laden of plotting to harm Americans gathered
for millennium celebrations.
Thailand can expect a bountiful harvest
this year, two sacred oxen predicted at the annual royal plowing ceremony.
Prophetic scripture in the sequences of telephone area code numbers?
That and more at Alphabetics.
An Australian new-age guru who claims to have lived on little more than fresh air and light for seven years has defended her
teachings in Scotland, where one of her followers recently died.
The Archbishop of York warned that the Net could bring a plague of locusts and other such biblical disasters upon the world unless Net users repent and wear sackcloth.
Ugandan authorities
say the leaders of a doomsday cult
appeared to have systematically killed
cult members for months, and feared
finding more mass graves around the
country after they discovered 153 more bodies buried under. Some cult members -- who had been asked
to sell their possessions and give the proceeds to the
church -- had apparently demanded their money back
when a prediction the world would end on December 31,
1999 failed to come true.
"When nothing happened on the 31st it appeared they (the
cult's leaders) had a problem," he said.
The solution appeared to have been to kill unruly cult
members. The cult leader, Joseph Kibwetere,
is a failed politician and self-styled
prophet who claimed to have heard a conversation
between the Virgin Mary and Jesus in 1987 predicting
the world would be destroyed for not obeying the Ten
Commandments.
The co-founder of one of Silicon Valley's top technology companies believes scientific advances may be ushering humanity into a nightmare world where supersmart machines force mankind into extinction.
Residents of a farming town in
Peru blame the attacks by hordes of locusts on
"divine intervention."
New scientific
tests on the Shroud of Turin, revered by
some Christians as Christ's burial shroud,
link the relic to the area of Israel or
Jordan
Doomsayers charge that the gravitational effects of an upcoming planetary alignment will wreak havoc on Earth. Astronomers call the
idea absurd.
Scientists say 'no way' to solar tidal doom.
The arrival of the Year of the Dragon on Saturday should have China and the world on tenterhooks as astrologers warn it could bring momentous or cataclysmic changes. The year of the dragon has a history of causing massive upheavals in China.
"Just before hurricane season in 1998, religious broadcaster Pat Robertson told his "700 Club" TV audience that the city of Orlando, Fla., should not have sponsored that year's "Gay Days" festival, that touting homosexuality would cause God to visit hurricanes and tornadoes upon the city. The first hurricane of 1998 hit Robertson's headquarters in Virginia Beach, Va. And in November 1999, the supreme Islamic leader in Afghanistan said that if Americans did not "cease hostility against the Taliban," the United States would suffer earthquakes and storms, and took credit for September's Hurricane Floyd. "(from 'News of the Weird')
`New religions' fill void for many - Uncertainty, rejection of materialism draw secular Japanese to beliefs that some say are dangerous. The number of registered religious groups in Japan has risen 15 percent over the past decade, to more than 6,500.
"Deshin Shekpa was born during the year of the male wood mouse (1384), and it is said he could be heard chanting a mantra and reciting the alphabet while still inside his mother's womb. At his birth, he boldly proclaimed himself to be the fifth incarnation of the Karmapa, one of Tibetan Buddhism's holiest figures. Ancient texts describe the fifth Karmapa as a conjurer of miracles, able to light the clouds with iridescent colors and summon flowers to fall from the sky. But his many teachings, while a source of soothing wisdom, also included a dark prophecy: Centuries in the distance, during the time of his own 16th and 17th incarnations, the demonic power of ``perverse aspirations'' would bring the entire Karmapa lineage close to destruction. This vision seems prescient, for now there is not one claimant to the title of Karmapa but two, both of them teen-age boys."
Doomsday Family Under Mental Watch - A family of six were under psychiatric observation after telling neighbors they planned to leave Earth -- and then piling trash and their belongings in the center of their living room, authorities said.
Visions of the Virgin - Thousands of believers throng to hear the Mother of Jesus speak—through a man who lives in Boston.
"If the interpretation of a unique, enigmatic culture that survived some 2,000 years in the splendid isolation of Cyprus is correct, then these people — who rejected pottery, cattle (both domesticated and wild), and virtually all weapons — formed the world's first religious cult and the first of countless anti-technology sects that followed. "
A round-the-clock camera has been trained on Jersalem's eastern gate to capture Jesus' millennial return. Set up by an evangelical Christian organization in Hereford, England.
How the world ends is a matter of faith.
"You probably want to know when and how the world's going to end, right? As you must suspect, there is no definitive answer. For some, the details of The End depend on religious faith and the calendar, but there are plenty of faiths and calendars to choose from.
Fear and dread: Why we worry about Y2K .The big Y2K, the year 2000, the beginning of the end, the apocalypse, Armageddon, the violent end to the Big Bang start. Well, maybe, maybe not. Regardless, we seem more obsessed with The End than usual -- witness the glut of end-of-the-world movies and a doomsdayesque preoccupation with all things Y2K.
A center that treats former cult members says the year 2000 could be a busy one. The Wellspring Retreat and Resource Center, which bills itself as the nation's only live onsite counseling center for recovering cult victims, expects cultists disillusioned by unfulfilled millennial prophecies to soon dot its client list.
As frenzied revelers flock to Pacific islands or Times Square on New Year's Eve, certain religious believers will be contemplating the end of the world. But experts on millenarian religion say they know of no sects that expect the apocalypse to actually occur in coming days. Faiths that formerly talked that way are hedging.
A team of international experts say they have cracked the apocalyptic code hidden in the biblical Book of Revelation -- and uncovered the truth about the end of the world! In 'Cracking the Apocalypse Code', (Element Books, $22.95 - available in January) Gerard Bodson and his researchers explain how they used a method of coding that uses the numerical correspondences of the Hebrew alphabet as its key to unveil the first hidden message within The Book of Revelation. Identifying a second 'beast' who is among us now, Bodson reveals that he will lead China and its close ally, North Korea, in a nuclear attack at noon on February 5, 2043 that will destroy Japan. In retaliation, the United States and her allies will launch a counterattack. The Middle East and its precious oil resources will become the stage for the last battle -- Armageddon.
Jesus is coming back!The Space Brothers are landing in 2001! - by Alex Heard, the executive editor of Wired magazine and the author of 'Apocalypse Pretty Soon'.
Toyota to examine 'satanic' TV ad . After a newspaper claimed the spot was riddled with subliminal satanic messages, Toyota France said Sunday it was opening an inquiry into European television advertisement for its latest model, the Yaris Verso. The film, showing a father practicing getting to the hospital in time for the birth of his child, appears harmless. But Le Parisien newspaper said that, when shown at slow speed, satanic texts referring to the "power of the moon" and the "beauty of darkness" are visible, as well as incitations to suicide and images of bloodied Red Crosses.
Dec. 16 — Authorities in Jordan today arrested two more men in an alleged plot to kill Americans and other tourists during the Christmas and New Year's holidays.
December 15 - A 4.8 quake on Wednesday forced out more than 2,000 followers of a Philippine cult hiding in tunnels for fear of the sky raining down fire at the start of the new millennium. Officials said followers of cult leader Ceferino Qunito were hiding in dozens of tunnels in the central province of Leyte.
What if nothing happens?
What if after years, months, days, hours, minutes and final seconds of Chicken Little-ing, the world wakes up on Jan. 1 to discover the great Y2K disaster is a yawner? Actually, there are eons of precedent for Armageddons that never happen.
Doomsday prophets in for disappointment
Since before the Great Depression, Mormons have been instructed by their leaders to keep a year's supply of essentials stored away. "It's not something that we started all of a sudden for Y2K," Nicholls said. "We just think it's a good idea to have it on hand for any kind of emergency, such as a financial setback or a natural disaster."
The doomsday cult that released deadly nerve gas into Tokyo's subways is still capable of terrorism, Japanese police have concluded, Kyodo News agency reported. "There is a fear of possible cyber-terrorism in the future," given the cult membership's professional skills and its network of affiliated computer companies.
Time Magazine, Dec. 6 - A week after decrying millennium hype, Time celebrates Jesus as the unofficial man of the past two millenniums.
"Jews should butt out of the turn of the millennium," said Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, a historian and visiting professor of the humanities at New York University. "It's not our calendar. We are not at the turn of our millennium."
Celebrating the life of the ages -
Church of Advent takes Christ-like view of Y2K. Cathedral Church of the Advent has launched an advertising campaign to focus on the real significance of Y2K: that the calendar is based on the birth of Jesus of Nazareth 2,000 years ago. "We want it to be a celebration of hope for the future and the coming of Christ and what that has meant for the world," said the Rev. Paul Zahl, dean of Cathedral Church of the Advent. "It's a special Christmas. The Millennium has finally to do with the birth of Christ."
Is end near? As millennium nears, religions offer views of world's demise
11/19/99 was the last day of your life that all the digits of the date will be odd. The next date that will contain all odd numbers will be 1/1/3111. The next time all the digits of the date will be EVEN will occur 2/2/2000. An all-even date hasn't occured since 8/8/888, but there will be many more all-even days during the next millennium.
End-times visions - When Judgment Day beckoned in 999.
Gregorian millennium overwhelms other cultures: "Sure, it's the eve of the Gregorian year 2000 - check any office calendar in Cairo, even the ones written in the crescents and angles of Arabic script. But it's also 1420 in largely Muslim Egypt and across the Middle East, counting in lunar years from the day the Prophet Mohammed fled Mecca for Medina. Egypt's once-large Jewish community has dwindled to a few families, whose Hebrew calendar switched to 5760 in September. Then there are the Copts, Egypt's largest minority. They're out of step even with other Christians, celebrating New Year's on Sept. 11, the anniversary of the first Egyptian Christian's martyrdom under the Roman Emperor Diocletian in 284... Hinduism, a religion of many gods and many interpretations, naturally has a multiplicity of calendars. According to one, this is the year 2056; another has it 1921. In either case, it's merely a moment in a huge, never-ending spiral of time."
Freemasons Set to Reveal Secrets on the Internet - A group of British freemasons -- a secretive society famed for its men-only membership and behind-the-scenes influence -- is set to reveal the world of the secret handshake on the Internet. The freemasons' Bradford lodge in northern England's web site.
What year is it really? -
The calendar used around the world is a Christian invention. But there are still other methods of marking time. Depending on whom you ask, next year is really:
•7509 (Byzantine) •5761 (Jewish) •2660 (Japanese) •1421 (Islamic)
Quake gives birth to religious revival in Turkey: In the Koran, the prophets say that if people do not accept believers, the last event will be a natural disaster, an apocalypse. "All around the world, people must take the message that they must leave the guns and the atom bombs. This is coming from the Koran and (the Islamic prophet) Mohammed, Moses, and Jesus, that all people should live as brothers."
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