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Wednesday, June 10, 2009 at 2:13 AM
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We'll always have 20XX!

DateWednesday, June 10, 2009 at 2:13AM

BELIEF WATCH: "2012: A Y2K for the New Age," by Lisa Miller, Newsweek, 11-18 May 2009.

Just when you thought we were safe from the millennialists!

All predicted by the Mayan calendar: Earth is "transformed" by a new "world age" that sounds vaguely New Age in its "human growth" potential.

In Mexico, most people consider it a crazy gringo invention.

An odd twist on a global doomsday. Call it a global bloomsday.

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But we're still not sure what our AD date should be.
June 10, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterLouis Heberlein
Amazing isn't it. Every decade we get a new "End of the World" date. As an ex-Jehovah's Witness, I am intimately aquainted with this phenomena. "This isn't my world! I don't like it! I want it to change! Dues ex Machina is gonna square things up on 20XX!" =)
June 11, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterTom Mull
Isn't Beetle Juice gonna blow up soon?
June 11, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterLouis Heberlein

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