Re: (guest) 07 Feb 2010 21:20
can you tell me that isaac newton says that it wont happen before 2060
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Re: (guest) 07 Feb 2010 21:20
Read the text in the grey box on the Isaac Newton page above. It gives the full text written by Newton and states specifically "not before 2060."
do you think the world will end in 2060 or soon after?
No.
Isaac Newton was a smart guy, but he was also subject to his own metaphysical beliefs and prejudices. He believed in Arianism, which was considered heresy in Newton's time, so he outwardly maintained a facade of Christianity, but secretly held his own beliefs that Jesus was not divine. He was also an alchemist… a discipline which we know today is pseudo-science.
So, simply because Newton believed that something would happen does not mean that we should also believe it. Newton also did not say that 2060 was the end date, but rather that according to his calculations, it could not occur before that date.
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i just watched the nostradamus effect and it kept saying armagedin and the revolutionary book or something like that. what do they meen?
aslo there was a marathon of the show, i watched the beginning and it sayed something about the war script, it seemed to link to isaac newtons date for the end of the world or does the show try to link them?
That particular show leans heavily on the so-called "Lost Book of Nostradamus".
Here's the problem: The "Lost Book of Nostradamus" cannot be traced to Nostradamus. Most scholars feel that it cannot be dated any earlier than 1689, more than 100 years after Nostradamus' death, which is a problem for the people who would like to claim that Nostradamus wrote it.
I recommend the wikipedia entry on it for more information.
"Do you ever think about things you do think about?" - Henry Drummond to Matthew Harrison Brady in Inherit the Wind
Sorry, I only answered part of your question.
I'm going to address the rest of your question with a categorical statement: The History Channel has become one of the most offensive fear-mongering sources of bad science and bad information available in the media or on the internet. It is right up there with the "Weekly World News", in my opinion. I look forward to their next documentary on how "Bat Boy" is busy fighting terrorism in the sewers of New York City.
"Do you ever think about things you do think about?" - Henry Drummond to Matthew Harrison Brady in Inherit the Wind
Now, my history of predictions and prophecies are a little bit rusty, but wasn't there someone who did calculate that we may face extinction in the year 3000?
Completely off-topic to 2012, I know, but the OP's post reminded me of this and now it's bugging me because I can't remember where that estimation/prophecy/prediction came from.
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lol ok thank yo, but i stil dont knowwho or what amergedin is?
Oh, I'm sorry…
'Armageddon' refers to a specific battle in the book of Revelation in the Bible. According to some interpretations of that book, the 'Second Coming' is supposed to be preceeded by a huge armed conflict at the mountain named Megiddo. Megiddo is a small mountain on which ancient forts were built that guarded the main highway, the Via Maris, that connected Egypt with Mesopotamia. It is the site of several pivotal battles throughout history, and is today primarily interesting because of the archaeological value.
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im not very religious therfore i thought the bible was one book is the book of revelation a story in the book or is it a seperate book they found lateron and say god wrote it?
"The Bible" is actually a collection of books written by different people at different times. The 'Book of Revelation' was actually written by John of Patmos (scholars disagree on whether he was the same 'John' that wrote the Gospel of John).
What is in "The Bible" actually varies. The decision making process happened multiple times, by different groups.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books_of_the_Bible for a list and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_canon for way more than you probably want to know.
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why do you think iisac newton wrote a letter for the future, do you think he wanted to warn us and hope we could stop the end of the world ( in the show i watched they decribed the end of the world would be caused by a huge war).
Stopping the end of the world? That's for the cliché heroes in science-fiction movies.
If, and when either our planet, or our universe decides that it's our time to go, there's absolutely nothing that anyone can do to prevent it.
Personally, "end of the world" is sort of a dumb statement, if you think about it.
Nothing we do to this planet will kill it. It will always renew itself.
The only thing (to my knowledge) that can actually put a permanent end to the world, is the Sun, or possibly a collision with the Moon, which just isn't going to work, since the Moon is actually moving away from us.
The only threat that we can possible prevent is a threat that was created by ourselves. We are, indeed, our own worst enemy. However if nature selects us, as it did with the Dinosaurs and the creatures before them, then there's nothing that we can say, or do about it.
Prophecies are tricky, considering of course that many of these ancient "prophecies" can be related to practically anything.
A midget gets ran over by a Monster Truck, driven by Madonna and Elvis. Nostradamus predicted it.
The fact is this: We humans enjoy taking every little thing and blowing it out of proportion and out of context.
It's good business and it makes for some good tall-tales.
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then hy did iisac newton write aprophecy he didnt get any money out of it, and he said we will die from a war "witch is the antichrist" we can stop wars if we really neede to.
That's like saying why did Paul the Octopus bother to predict the World Cup results - he didn't get any money out of it either.
But are we going to blindly follow every prediction Paul the Octopus makes because of his fame, in the same way that one may follow every prediction Newton made because of his fame, or are we going to conclude that what he does is 'just a prediction, not an absolute certainty'.
what the hell is this issac newton came up with the three laws andthats it
No, Issac Newton came up with quite a bit more than the three laws of motion. However, he did not make a 'prediction' per se… he was taking issue with the people of the day who said that they could predict "the rapture" with math formulas and the Bible. He said it would not occur before 2060.
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