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EARTHDATE: May 29, 2011

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THE AFTERMATH OF THE END OF THE WORLD

by Hazed

So the world didn't end last weekend. No surprise, really. The man who predicted it would stayed silent for a few days while his followers looked terribly peturbed. He then showed up and explained that he still hadn't got things wrong, he had just misinterpreted exactly how the world would end.

His prediction had said that the rapture would happen on May 21, complete with world-wide earthquakes, then those not lucky enough to be lifted to heaven would suffer six months of torment before the world finally exploded six months later.

Now he says that the world will still be destroyed in a fireball in six months - on October 21, to be precise - but that the preceding stuff wouldn't happen exactly as he predicted. So he has six months in which to think up another excuse when nothing happens on his next predicted date.

Meanwhile, his gullible followers may, eventually, cotton on that he is not to be trusted. Or maybe not. He's not the first to predict the end of the world, and here's a fascinating rundown of just how often some loon has foreseen the end of it all.


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