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The End of the World     Have you ever wondered when the orb is going to come to a draw a blank?. Haveyou ever stopped to think about on the whole of those physic predictions that so manyhave made? I hope to provide an taste to the world of Armageddon. It is almostinevitable that the world and the human race terminate someday, but just how soon?Millennialists, people who believe that the world is going to end on a set datesaying that the date will be May 5, 2000. If their calculations are right, thenwe only have 6 eld to live."Millennialisim has been present in just about every generation since the birthof Christ--and just about every crop of millennialists has been disappointed" three hundred years ago, Nostradamas predicted all of the popes, correctly upuntil the year 2000. According to Nostradamas we only have 4 popes left until "Ahorrible fiery death to all humankind" shape up more he predicted the southernCalifornia 92 earthquake, 300 years ago.Many people believe that the world will end in the prepare of world war III.Imagine if another Hitler came along, with the weapons that he could get a holdof biological, nuclear and chemical warfare, think how devastating it would beif that happened. People homogeneous Hitler are called anti-Christ. Nostradamas alsopredicted that the third anti-Christ (there have already been 2)would be born in1970, his name unreleased to the public. Supposedly he will start world war IIIin Asia some where."Millinnialism sells, and thats an indisputable fact. Theres money inArmageddon"     Deep in the heart of Arizona there are about 300 people who think thatthey will be prepared for Armageddon. The quaint town of misty falls has beenpreparing for Armageddon for 10 years now. They have build in union 40,000 sq.of underground bunkers lined with lead, some of them family size, some of thembig enough to hold 75 people comfortably. The bunkers are stocked with en oughfood and other essentials to go away for seven years. These troopers did not onlypack food, they have educational computers, lots of condoms (What else do yado?)"when doomsday doesnt come the millennialilst response is that the calculationsneed re-tuning and doomsday is unflustered imminent"     Others who have had visions have seen great natural disasters, one mansaw in a vision that he saw a role of the united states with half of it