"The earth is degenerating today. Bribery and corruption abound. Children no longer obey their parents, everyman wants to write a book, and it is evident the end of the world is fast approaching." Lately we have been seeing a lot of end of the world predictions based on the erroneous belief that the Mayan Calendar ends in 2012.
Or that the sun is in the equinox of the milky way galaxy, or that planet X is going to hit the earth, or numerous other end of the earth prophecies, (Y2K, Revelations, etc.) People have been predicting the end times since the beginning times, in some cases resulting in millions of deaths, (In China one end of the world prophecy resulted in a war which killed 20.000.000 people.) Usually these end of the world prophecies are started due to celestial events or religious fervor. Christopher Columbus predicted the world ending during his lifetime. Its easy to understand people feeling as if chaos is ensuing when death and destruction are shown 24 hours a day on news feeds around the world. But keep in mind that there have always been mass murderers, rapists, psychotic leaders, drugged out killers and clean freaks. (Those clean freaks scare the heck out of me.) But just as there are a lot more bad people in the world, there are also a lot more good people. So when predictions like the one we started this little diatribe with are spouted, take them with a grain of salt.
After all the quote above was found on an assyrian clay tablet dated from 2800 BC.
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