Ragnarok cometh…
End of the world predictions are always fun – especially the day after. Who can forget the ‘Rapture’ predicted by Harold Camping in 2011? The rapture appeared mostly on Camping’s face as he contemplated the mighty donations to his web site…
Such predictions have an impeccable pedigree. Practically annual events. From King Otto digging up Charlemagne’s body on Pentecost through Mary Bateman, an enterprising Leeds lass possessed of a ‘magic hen’ which laid eggs giving the date of the apocalypse – just so long as she spent her free time forcing a pre-written egg back up the orifice from which it was due to emerge (an early Yew-turn oeuvre?) – to the Jehovah’s Witness’ who so far have predicted the end of the world will occur in 1914, 1918, 1920, 1925, 1941, 1975 and 1994. Like a stopped watch(tower) they will congratulate themselves on being right one day.
Now we have the Viking Ragnarok. Having watched far too many episodes of Game of Thrones, they firmly believe that ‘Winter is Coming’ –
“A vast winter shall come, not a single winter but three rolled into one unyielding cold.”
And lo! As three storms roll in from the Atlantic this week, they are ready and waiting to celebrate the end of the world. You too can celebrate the end of the world this week-end by calling into the on-line shop and purchasing a Micklegate thimble. No, I haven’t got a clue either, precisely what use a Micklegate thimble would be to you when the world has ended, maybe you are supposed to darn the hole the nuclear explosion left? Still, someone, somewhere is gainfully employed producing these things – perhaps ask them?
Apocalypses, they’re like No 16 buses, miss one and another will be along soon.
If you are a true believer in Jorvik and/or possess a medieval monk’s outfit (Hello Gildas! *waves*) suitable for the occasion – head to York this week-end, where you can listen to the apocalyptic ramblings of the wise woman….I’ll see you back here after the week-end.
(Is it just me or she Lix Dux’s doppelganger?)
Indeed it is, Madam. Monday 24th February to be precise.
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February 18, 2014 at 1:32 pm -
Liz Dux lookalike ? Gosh Anna your recent bout of ill health has done nothing to diminsh your wit —another one for my black book along with Man Flu Milliband and many others
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February 18, 2014 at 3:05 pm -
Of course the calendar has been messed about with so many times over the centuries that they could all be right. After all, nobody knows what year it really is anyway…
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February 18, 2014 at 3:15 pm -
My understanding of the ‘end of the world’ is when the Sun has destroyed itself and in doing so destroys the solar system. Seeing this is not going to happen in anyone’s life time for the next few aeons, I really wonder why people get worked up about this, indeed I will stick my neck out and opine that the Human race will have been extinct long before, in Geological times, the Sun consumes everything. End of the world? Bah & Humbug!
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February 18, 2014 at 8:55 pm -
There could be a rather large lump of rock heading in from the oort cloud that could make a nasty mess of the world as well, but I do agree that a lot of people like the doom and gloom outlook – I can’t think of a reason why though.
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February 19, 2014 at 8:36 am -
As a Creationist, the sun won’t last billions of years, just like it wasn’t created billions of years ago. The end of the world as we know it will end just after the separation of the wheat and the tares.
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February 19, 2014 at 9:18 am -
We in the Diddymen cult kneweth that Kenneth singeth the truth, when he sangeth, “Tares for souvenirs are all you’ve left me”.
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February 19, 2014 at 10:34 am -
You can mock me all you like, but God will not be mocked.
I got an order from a customer in Knotty Ash the other day. I had to laugh (obviously). Fortunately, it was a web and not a telephone order.
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February 20, 2014 at 9:05 pm -
A coincidence, perhaps, but astronomers have completely mislaid a 270-m wide asteroid which was due to pass 3,4 million km away this week…
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February 20, 2014 at 9:09 pm -
Yes, but the Voynich manuscript has just been de-coded and that is bound to say where it went to…
It’s behind you….
When are you in Bordeaux?
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February 20, 2014 at 9:43 pm -
Last weekend of March (same thing as last time so I’ll e-mail as soon as I have an itinerary).
That is assuming, of course, that the world hasn’t ended by then; what with floods, asteroids and now earthquakes, it’s all starting to look rather interesting. Fortunately my historical re-enactor son gave me an amulet of Thor’s Hammer last solstice; I think I’ll keep it in my pocket for the next few days, just in case…
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February 18, 2014 at 3:57 pm -
“Will this wind, be so mighty, etc., etc…
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February 18, 2014 at 5:01 pm -
“A vast winter shall come, not a single winter but three rolled into one unyielding cold.”
That is one prediction that at least has more than a grain of truth in fact is all true as a volcanic eruption large enough has indeed made it happen in the past and there is little doubt that it will occur again. Yellowstone park volcano has been dormant for 600000 years and therefore overdue or at least due and if that one blows it will cause more than 3 years of cold. There are may many lesser volcanoes but some of those will give the predicted 3 years. Religious insight is not needed on this occasion as the far more rational and scientific evidence indicates the very probable likelihood of the occurrence.
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February 18, 2014 at 5:20 pm -
“A vast winter shall come, not a single winter but three rolled into one unyielding cold.”
Nah, the Met Office has promised us Global Warming.
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February 18, 2014 at 6:16 pm -
Ha! You’ll be singing a new tune when Fenrir comes and bites your skinny ass.
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February 18, 2014 at 6:19 pm -
“A vast winter shall come, not a single winter but three rolled into one unyielding cold.”
Where’s this on the hockey stick, then?
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February 18, 2014 at 6:26 pm -
“Monday 24th February to be precise”…………Freddie Starr’s next appearance perchance?
When yUK common law administration and policing are exposed to be under the guidance of a few misguided wimmen and their “male” camp-followers. So greybeard white males relax, it’s not the end of the world for you, there is still much persecution to be done if you have a few quid invested in real estate.
Just a guess.
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February 18, 2014 at 7:59 pm -
Why are there no predictions for good weather etc? Why do the religious doom-mongers always accentuate the negative?
I’ve invented a religion and my first prediction is: ” It’s getting a bit better and will improve further if everyone smiles and are nice to each other. Keep a pullover and umbrella handy though. And chocolate biscuits.”
Feel free to convert to cheerfulism but remember that anorak wearers are HERETICS!
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February 19, 2014 at 12:07 am -
“Why are there no predictions for good weather?”
The Met Officer did try it once:-
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February 19, 2014 at 11:22 am -
They didn’t learn though. They are predicting the same this year!
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February 18, 2014 at 8:58 pm -
Was that Duxy auditioning for the job of newsreader on Ickey’s “The People’s Voice” TV Channel?
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February 19, 2014 at 9:16 am -
Hello Anna,
I do read your blog, but rarely have time left to comment. May God bless you and preserve you to keep us informed and entertained for a long time to come.
The JWs came out of Freemasonry. Albert Pike, a top Mason who gave away many secrets in his book “Morals and Dogma” admitted (may have been elsewhere) that to destroy Christianity was a major part of their plan so us to usher in the age of Lucifer.
I was a Mormon once. Going through a very tough period in my life, I fell for their story about it being the “only true church on the earth”. Thirty months later, when I was better, I realised it wasn’t. Their ‘prophets’ didn’t go in for exact dates, but they also came out of Freemasonry and these ‘prophets’ were equally misinformed (for want of a better word). Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, for example, believed that men live on the moon and even in the sun.
Talking of David Icke, Moor Larkin, he believes that aliens live inside the moon and are controlling us with mind rays, yet he has millions of followers.
This man makes great videos exposing “The People’s Voice” TV channel and Mr Icke. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9mfwzEqOjM
The Freemasons also have the Fabian/Frankfurt School infiltrated mainstream political parties and MSM to discredit Christianity and the unholy Common Purpose operatives are worming their way through every institution. Westboro Baptist Church, I’m almost sure, is a set-up job to do the same. Ask yourself how one solitary church can get global publicity on a regular basis and I think you have the answer: the whole thing is a scam.
But the Day of Judgment will come. Now is the time to repent.
“But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.”
For these misguided fools who think they’re prophets by issuing dates:
“And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.”
And the ones who are knowingly trying to destroy Christianity:
“But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.”
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February 19, 2014 at 10:07 am -
* Ask yourself how one solitary church can get global publicity on a regular basis and I think you have the answer: the whole thing is a scam. *
A bit like Operation Yewtree and the book of Savile Revelations I guess.
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