On Monday, May 3, 2021 at 5:59:40 AM UTC-6, This is Mike MCCLINTON wrote:
> On Monday, May 3, 2021 at 5:54:36 AM UTC-6, This is Mike MCCLINTON wrote:
> > On Monday, May 3, 2021 at 5:51:58 AM UTC-6, This is Mike MCCLINTON wrote:
> > > There is no one on Usenet, who understands the true meaning of anonymous or winning, Kerry Chatwin is percent and his drunken wife is Idlehands, and any other alias they dream up ...but life goes on and its great at this side of the screen. Kerry's twitter feed proves he has no support from his friends or family on his new transiton towards God, no one likes to be preached to by a guy like Kerry who hurt every last friend he had..he has no one but Angie..boo hoo, and she drinks to cope.. and he claims to be clean ,,, but those he infected? what about them..Kerry's dick is dirty angie..he put it up the asshole of other men, and they shit on it..get it..
> > > kerry and angie chatwin..quite the pair..one drinks it away and one is preaching about God now..
> > >
> > > does it get any more sickening...
> > >
> > > God is a woman Kerry, and she will never forgive you
> > She saw you hurt women, she saw you ..and put a curse on you, that makes you believe in outlandish predicitons and tatoo yourself with rididiculous ink of horsemen and more lunacy..
> each and every parent on the team, identified Kerry as a loony..
> fans called into the office begging the admins to get him off the radio..
> a fellow police officer was billeting his son, and asked for him to be placed in a new home..
> his wife never came to the games, no aunts, no uncles, no one came to support Owen but Kerry..no one...not one single person outside the family came to cheer for the Chatwins..nothing has changed ..
the world will be here long after Kerry
10 Failed Doomsday Predictions
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Religious leaders, scientists, and even a hen (or so it seemed) have been making predictions for the end of the world almost as long as the world has been around. They’ve predicted the destruction of the world through floods, fires, and comets—luckily for us, none of it has come to pass.
2012 Maya Apocalypse
The corn god (left) and the rain god, Chac. Drawing from the Madrid Codex (Codex Tro-Cortesianus), one of the Mayan sacred books. In the Museo de America, Madrid.
Madrid Codex
The corn god (left) and the rain god, Chac, drawing from the Madrid Codex (Codex Tro-Cortesianus), one of the Mayan sacred books; in the Museo de América, Madrid.
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December 21, 2012, marked the end of the first “Great Cycle” of the Maya Long Count calendar. Many misinterpreted this to mean an absolute end to the calendar, which tracked time continuously from a date 5,125 years earlier, and doomsday predictions emerged. End-of-the-world scenarios included the Earth colliding with an imaginary planet called Nibiru, giant solar flares, a planetary alignment that would cause massive tidal catastrophes, and a realignment of Earth’s axis. Preparations for the end of the world as we know it included a modern-day Noah’s ark built by a man in China and extensive sales of survival kits.
Harold Camping
12 solar X-ray images (Yohkoh)shown were obtained between 1991 and 1995, and show the decrease in solar coronal brightness (by about a factor of 100) as the sun goes from an "active" state to a less active state.
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Twelve solar X-ray images obtained by Yohkoh between 1991 and 1995. The solar coronal brightness decreases by a factor of about 100 during a solar cycle as the Sun goes from an "active" state (left) to a less active state (right).
G.L. Slater and G.A. Linford; S.L. Freeland; the Yohkoh Project
Among the most prolific modern predictors of end times, Harold Camping has publicly predicted the end of the world as many as 12 times based his interpretations of biblical numerology. In 1992, he published a book, ominously titled 1994?, which predicted the end of the world sometime around that year. Perhaps his most high-profile predication was for May 21, 2011, a date that he calculated to be exactly 7,000 years after the Biblical flood. When that date passed without incident, he declared his math to be off and pushed back the end of the world to October 21, 2011.
True Way
Taiwanese religious leader Hon-Ming Chen established Chen Tao, or True Way, a religious movement that blended elements of Christianity, Buddhism, UFO conspiracy theories, and Taiwanese folk religion. Chen preached that God would appear on U.S. television channel 18 on March 25, 1988, to announce that he would descend to Earth the following week in a physical form identical to Chen. The following year, he prophesized, millions of devil spirits, together with massive flooding, would result in a mass extinction of the human population. Followers could be spared by buying their way aboard spaceships, disguised as clouds, sent to rescue them.
Halley’s Comet Panic
Comet P/Halley (Comet Halley, Halley's Comet) as taken March 8, 1986 by W. Liller, Easter Island, part of the International Halley Watch (IHW) Large Scale Phenomena Network.
Halley's Comet
Halley's Comet, 1986.
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Halley’s comet passes by the Earth approximately every 76 years, but the nearness of its approach in 1910 created fear that it would destroy the planet, either by a celestial collision or through the poisonous gasses it was rumoured to contain. A worldwide panic ensued, stoked by the media and such newspaper headlines as “Comet May Kill All Earth Life, Says Scientist.” A group in Oklahoma tried to sacrifice a virgin to ward off impending doom, and bottled air became a hot commodity. The Earth probably did pass through part of the comet’s tail, but with no apparent effect.
Millerism
Religious leader William Miller began preaching in 1831 that the end of the world as we know it would occur with the second coming of Jesus Christ in 1843. He attracted as many as 100,000 followers who believed that they would be carried off to heaven when the date arrived. When the 1843 prediction failed to materialize, Miller recalculated and determined that the world would actually end in 1844. Follower Henry Emmons wrote, “I waited all Tuesday, and dear Jesus did not come … I lay prostrate for 2 days without any pain—sick with disappointment.”
Joanna Southcott
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Cloud-to-ground lightning discharge from a cumulonimbus cloud to a field.
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Beginning when she was 42 years old, Joanna Southcott reported hearing voices that predicted future events, including the crop failures and famines of 1799 and 1800. She began publishing her own books and eventually developed a following of as many as 100,000 believers. In 1813, she announced that in the following year she would give birth to the second messiah, whose arrival would signal the last days of the Earth—despite being 64 years old and, as she told her doctors, a virgin. She died before a baby could be born.
The Prophet Hen of Leeds
Barred Plymouth Rock hen.
Barred Plymouth Rock hen.
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In 1806, a domesticated hen in Leeds, England, appeared to lay eggs inscribed with the message “Christ is coming.” Great numbers of people reportedly visited the hen and began to despair of the coming Judgment Day. It was soon discovered, however, that the eggs were not in fact prophetic messages but the work of their owner, who had been writing on the eggs in corrosive ink and reinserting them into the poor hen’s body.
Great Fire of London
Because the Bible calls 666 the number of the Beast, many Christians in 17th-century Europe feared the end of the world in the year 1666. The Great London Fire, which lasted from September 2 to September 5 of that year, destroyed much of the city, including 87 parish churches and about 13,000 houses. Many saw it as a fulfillment of the end of the world prophecy. Given such a large amount of property damage, though, the death toll of the fire was remarkably low, reportedly only 10 people--not quite the end of the world.
The Great Flood
Artist's concept illustrates a solar system that is a much younger version of our own. Dusty disks, like the one shown here circling the star, are thought to be the breeding grounds of planets, including rocky ones like Earth. Dated 2005.
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Artist's conception of a young version of the solar system depicting the dusty disks thought to be the breeding grounds of planets.
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Johannes Stöffler, a respected German mathematician and astrologer, predicted that a great flood would cover the world on February 25, 1524, when all of the known planets would be in alignment under Pisces, a water sign. Hundreds of pamphlets announcing the coming flood were issued and set in motion a general panic; Count von Iggleheim, a German nobleman, went so far as to build a three-story ark. Though there was light rain on the day of the predicted flood, no actual flooding materialized.
Montanism
The Angel Shows John the Heavenly Jerusalem, from the Apocalypse of St. John, c. 1020; in the Staatsbibliothek Bamberg, Germany (MS. 140)
Angel showing John the heavenly Jerusalem, manuscript illumination from the Revelation to John, c. 1020; in the Staatsbibliothek in Bamberg, Germany.
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Montanism, a 2nd century schismatic movement of Christianity, began in Phrygia (modern Turkey). Based on the visions of Montanus, who claimed to speak under the influence of the Spirit, Montanists believed the second coming of Christ to be imminent. Many Christian communities were almost abandoned when believers left their homes and migrated to a plain between the two villages of Pepuza and Tymion in Phrygia, where Montanus claimed the heavenly Jerusalem would descend to Earth.
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Many of the languages that are made up for television and books are just gibberish. However, a rare few have been developed into fully functioning living languages, some even by linguistic professionals and professors. If learning French and Spanish at school wasn’t quite your cup of tea, you may want to try one of these on for size. Who knows when a few words of tlhIngan Hol may come in handy?
Alienese: Futurama
Alienese (also just called “Alien Language”) is perhaps one of the easiest languages on this list to learn—if you’re a mathematician, that is. The language, intended to be used for hidden in-jokes on the animated show Futurama, began as a simple substitution alphabet, with 26 characters that directly corresponded to the English alphabet. However, that proved too easy for fans, so a second form of the language was devised, using math instead. Each symbol has a numerical value, and messages are decoded into English thusly: first, translate the first symbol directly (0=A, 1=B, etc.), then for remaining letters subtract the previous symbol’s value (if the result is less than 0, add 26).
Lapine: Watership Down
Richard Adams’s Watership Down is the tale of a colony of rabbits looking for a new home. The rabbits speak a language known as Lapine, which is meant to sound “fluffy.” While only a few dozen words of Lapine appear in the text, fans have since developed the language into a functional one with distinct grammar and vocabulary.
Os e layth Frithyeer hyaones, on layth zayn yayn dahloil. - If it’s sunny today, we’ll go and find dandelions
Na’vi: Avatar
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A scene from Avatar (2009).
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For his 2009 blockbuster film Avatar, director James Cameron wanted his alien race, the Na’vi, to be a fully developed concept, complete with their own working language. He enlisted the help of linguist Paul Frommer, who created an extensive vocabulary and grammar for the giant blue beings. Fans quickly caught on and, with help from Frommer, continued to develop the language.
Fayvrrtep fìtsenge lu kxanì. Fìpoti oel tspìyang, fte tìkenong liyevu aylaru. - These demons are forbidden here. I will kill this one as a lesson to the others.
Dothraki: Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire
George R.R. Martin, in his A Song of Ice and Fire book series, established the nomadic horse-rearing Dothraki people. In the books Martin included very few words of the Dothraki language, but for the HBO television series David Peterson of the Language Creation Society was hired to turn those words into a complete lexicon. As the Dothraki people’s lives depend first and foremost on their horses, Peterson created the language to reflect this close relationship with horse riding and rearing. Dothraki is frequently spoken by actors on the show, and many fans are learning, too.
Hash yer dothrae chek asshekh? - How are you today? (Do you ride well today?)
Klingon: Star Trek
Klingon is one of the most well-known fictional languages. It was created by linguist Marc Okrand as the language of the warrior Klingon race on the television show Star Trek. Okrand published several books about the language, and an organization known as the Klingon Language Institute has a quarterly journal dedicated to it. Fans use the language to conduct marriage ceremonies and to write songs, and there has even been an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet published in Klingon. While Klingon does have its own alphabet, the language is usually transliterated into English.
nuqDaq ’oH puchpa’’e’ – Where is the bathroom?
Elvish: The works of J.R.R. Tolkien
J.R.R. Tolkien, author of the trilogy "The Lord of the Rings."
J.R.R. Tolkien
J.R.R. Tolkien.
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J.R.R. Tolkien, a philologist and lexicographer, began creating his Elvish languages before he started on any of his well-known works, such as The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy. There are actually two forms of Elvish commonly learned by fans: Quenya, or high Elvish, and Sindarin, both based loosely on Finnish and Welsh, two languages Tolkien himself studied. And these can be subdivided into different dialects. There are even different forms of Elvish script—one of which you may have seen on the One Ring featured in The Lord of the Rings films.
Elen síla lumenn’ omentielvo – A star shines on the hour of our meeting.