9 Dumbest End Of The World Prophecies Ever

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5– Harold Camping’s Billboards of Doom,

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  • Here’s one you probably remember….only because it was plastered over almost every billboard in the world.
  • Harold Camping’s rapture prophecy was declared on thousands of billboards around the world, alerting us heathens that May 21, 2011 would be judgement day. But the world didn’t end so Camping said he’d made mistake and that the world would actually end in October. When that date came and went, Camping retired from making any more public prophecies which was probably for the best.
  • Millions of dollars were wasted on the billboards not to mention all the tales of congregation members selling their cars and houses to help pay for them…

4 – Jehovah’s Witness predictions,

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  • Camping’s multiple mistaken predictions hold no candle to the tally of rapture date predictions from the Jehovah’s Witnesses.
  • It’s amazing how a group founded on its predictions could keep growing after getting it wrong every single time. Going back to saying the world would end in 1877…then again in 1914, 1915, 1918….you get the picture.
  • But of course this history of inaccuracy hasn’t stopped the church from telling people that it definitely 100% will be happening at some point. Ironically the watchtower society criticised Camping for getting his dates wrong…good job guys, call out the guy who got it wrong twice but ignore the million time you have.

3 – The Black Rainbow,

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  • Any prophecy coming from a television psychic should be treated with a hint scepticism, even Ed Wood’s go-to fortune teller.
  • Popularist psychic Criswell made many ludicrous predictions about the future including leprosy crippling the world and the hot trend of genital decoration taking the world by storm. So when he says the world will be enveloped by an evil black rainbow that would suck away our oxygen.
  • Yeah if you bought a future where people are walking around with glitter paint on their dicks then you were probably dumb enough to fear the black rainbow….but it was supposed to appear in 1999 so I think we are probably safe….probably.

2 – The Doomsday Egg,

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  • But maybe its people that are just terrible at predicting the end of days, maybe animals are the true prophets? How about a chicken?
  • In 1806 in Leeds a woman claimed one of her chickens was laying eggs with the words “Christ is coming” on the shell. The holy eggs caused more than a few people in the village to lose their minds with fear. Visitors came from all over, bearing witness to the eggs emerging from the chicken.
  • But eventually the owner was caught shoving the eggs that had been written on with corrosive ink into the chicken. Shockingly the whole thing was a hoax…probably to sell more eggs.

1 – Mayan Calendar,

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  • Believing that the end of the world is going to come based on ancient calendar because I don’t know ancient reasons.
  • People love a good mystery and the whole disappearance of the Mayan people had many enthralled. This mystery caused some to take anything in the culture as mystical. So when those people found out the Mayan’s had a calendar that predicted the end of the world, it freaked them out.
  • Even though the calendar never even predicted such a thing, it made no predictions at all because y’know calendars just tell you the date. Well at least we got a disaster porn movie out of it.

 

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