"Doomsday prophecy" undead world as usual?
source "Beijing News"
"I don't understand!" I don't understand why nothing happened -- Robert Faiz and Patrick muttered to the Times Square. Fizz Patrick wears the sign of "the end of the world". He has spent his life savings totaling 140 thousand dollars to spread the end of the world. But when the doomsday of the prophecy arrived at 18 o'clock on May 21, 2011, he was stunned.
it is said that camping has 200 million "fans"
fizz Patrick is a follower of the current world's prophecy "master" Harold Campion (Harold Camping).
through private radio family radio, camping has set up 150 broadcasting stations in the United States. Although his prophecy was completely shattered in 1990s, his prediction of the end of the world has again raised public concern around the world.
there are social psychologists who believe that for those who believe in the end of the world, the fall of the prophecy will only make them more firmly believe in the end of the world.
camping has declared that his doomsday prophecy has 200 million supporters. They all repent and atone before the end of the world, so as to smoothly ascend to heaven.
camping has raised hundreds of millions of dollars from these followers. There are as many as more than 2000 billboards set up in the subway, cars, streets and highways around the United States, and countless followers go to the streets and shout "the end of the world".
many people quit their jobs and put their life savings into the end of the world.
prophecy lost the "master" confusion
in May 21, 2011, camping's doomsday prophecy failed. On the day of
, California's residence was "closed". His son told the media that his father called him on the same day and said he was "a little confused".
the next day, after he left the house, he told the media that he was surprised at the fact that the end of the world had not happened. He said he would continue to look for answers.
third days, camping explained that he was wrong in calculating the end of the world. The real doomsday should be in October 21, 2011.
besides, the company controlled by camping will not repay the money donated by the followers. He said, "why didn't we pay for the end of the day?"
camping's doomsday prophecy not only lost a lot of people's life savings and property, but also caused some suicides all over the world.
in Russia, a 14 year old girl has changed greatly since she heard the broadcast of camping. Before May 21st, he was worried that he would not accept the end of the world and hang himself.
the western world believes that the doomsday prophecy of the end of the world is
like camping, which has existed since 65 ad, especially in the western world, represented by Europe and America.
data show that the doctrine of Doomsday in Christianity has influenced the whole western culture. Doomsday is the time when Jesus came to judge the world, also known as "judgement day". As a Christian, salvation can be redeemed through repentance and charity, and eventually to heaven.
the Western believers regard the doomsday as a metaphorical concept, and do not agree with the deep text of camping, the extreme practice of careful mathematical calculation of the time of the Bible.
the doomsday prophecy has a history of nearly 2000 in the western world. Even in the pursuit of scientific and rational twenty-first Century, the doomsday prophecy of camping also has a great market.
survey shows that 41% of Americans believe that Jesus will be on the earth before 2050. Another survey shows that 1/3 to 1/2 of Americans do not believe in evolution. They prefer to believe that the world is designed by God.
Canadian religious researcher Tito Marso said that people in 23 countries all over the world believe in the theory of doomsday.
doomsday prophecy is like the crisis early warning
transition from industrial society to the information society. Some people have not freed from the prophecy of the end of the world, and seem to believe more of it. This makes more people feel puzzled and confused.
brain and psychosocial researcher Michael Shume wrote that if you were a erectman in the African plain for 3 million years, you heard the sound of the weeds flickering. What would you think?
if you think that this may be a dangerous animal, not a common wind, you make a mistake, and you think it's not true. In the words of cognitive scientists, it is "false positives". However, this mistake does not harm you. But if you think of the sound of the grass as an ordinary wind, and don't think there is a hungry lion next to it, the mistake is more serious. It may become a "leak": the lion is true, but you are not the same.
in primitive society, living environment is extremely bad, often a small error can cause the difference between life and death. Therefore, evolution makes mankind evolve the ability to see all the future as true, and "misinformation" can make mankind safer. The end of the world is in line with human early warning. The scene of the end of the world is a scene from human experience. Many disaster scenes are not related, but people who like to contact are always interested in connecting events in the brain at different times and explaining it with religious and other aspects.
"this is psychological disharmony"
some scholars believe that the doomsday prophecy conforms to human desire to know the unknown, to help insignificant human understanding of the world, and to give hope.
Canadian religious researcher Tito Marceau said: "this is a world view that explains time and space and human existence. It is not a science, nor is it applicable globally. " The
previous doomsday prophecy was all lost, but this did not affect its "market". Social psychologists explain that the failure of "prophet" may make human trust in prophecy more intense. This is a psychological disharmony. (Jin Yu)
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the five question of the end of the world,
does not have to be frightened by the prophecy of the end of the world, but can observe some interesting questions of the world's doomsday prophecy with a calm mind, and the right to end the world's doomsday prophecy is a joke to please all living beings.
question: how do you determine the end of the day?
answer: after the "very serious" calculation of the Bible and a little "adjustment" to Judaism, camping found that "trial day" occurred in the May 21, 4990 before the epoch. The BC is the legendary year of the birth of Jesus, the year of the yuan, dividing the two concepts of "BC" and "ad", but some people used the era system (BCE). This system is set up for 0 years. Jesus said, after seven days, the world will face great floods, only Noah's ark can save human beings, and according to the standard of the New Testament, the day is equal to 1000, then the seven day is 7000 years, and the previous "trial day" is added to 7000 years, plus zeroth years, that is, one year, that is May 21, 2011.
question: how should camping explain?
answer: David Lightman, an American TV host, said that he had at least 10 reasons to defend himself, such as "don't blame me, I'm 89 years old, even the baker will forget to open", "the Oprah talk show canceled, this is not the end of the world what is that?" "Wait a minute, God is testing me - to Luo, it is dragging behind."
question: Doomsday can be foreseen?
answer: according to the understanding of the American senator and the son of the famous Christian evangelist, clergyman Graeme's son, Franklin Graham, human beings may be able to know the end of the world as quickly as the gossip of a movie star, because of the existence of micro-blog and other social networks. In its view, because everyone has a cell phone and can access the Internet, the end of the world will be broadcast live in micro-blog. He quoted the Bible as saying: "every eye will see."
Graham's subtext may be that there is no need to foresee the end of the world in advance, because if there is a doomsday, it is not an instant, a short time act, but a process, just like the scene of the film "2012".
question: how do you collect money on the end of the day?
answer: British businessman Bart Satcher founded a pet insurance company, "pets are always in the world". Many people believe that at the end of the world, they will go to heaven, but they will leave pets unattended. So, Bart put forward "the best way to save the pet," he now has 250 customers, each given him $135 to look after their pets later in the world.
a company in California began selling "jewellery" related jewelry to the end of the world. The president of the company said: "because of the backdrop of culture in this era, we have made money."
question: how does technology control face doomsday?
answer: IT magazine gives some suggestions: don't panic; set the program to run automatically, download the Apocalypse application as much as possible; don't let your computer disturb your confession; check your software license date, download some programs that can automatically close the software; don't spend money to update it again Window7; stop all video and data stream transmission; tell your friends, you are going to enter the cloud.
the prophecy of
1 ancient Romans regarded the eruption of Vesuvius as a precursor of the end of the world by the eruption of the Vesuvius volcano in Pompeii in 79 A. D. The ancient Rome philosopher, Seneca, who died in 65, predicted that the earth would disappear.
2, according to the Bible, 666 is an unlucky beast number. The plague of London, the plague of London, killed about 69 thousand to 100 thousand people in 1665. In addition, the plague aggravated the human panic. Many European Christians were frightened when they entered the 1666. This year, a big fire broke out in London. Many people believed that the end of the world was coming.
3 Halley comet has completed near ground flight every 76 years. Some people call it "return to the earth". In 1910, Halley's comet returned again, and many Europeans and Americans saw this as a sign of the end.
4, Jehovah's witness, founded in 1870s, will be a by-pass in Christianity. Jehovah's Witnesses once predicted that the earth would be destroyed in 1914.
51984 years, a computer column in the US media first warned that January 1, 2000 is the end of the world. The column says the millennium bug will lead to computational errors, causing computers and other machines to collapse and cause terrible chaos. The Washington Post reported that the evangelical new church suggested that the coming of the new millennium would lead to the destruction of the world. In the 61774 years of
, a priest in Europe distributed his so-called apocalyptic pamphlet to his followers. The pamphlet says that the solar system will be destroyed when the future planets appear. In 1997, the writer Richard Nonat wrote in his book "ice: the ultimate disaster" that May 5, 2000 is the end of the world. This day is just a planet, and the terrible melting ice will flow to the earth's equator.