We haven’t fully recovered from the wrath of typhoon Frank (I know, disaster response in this country is like a funeral march), and yet some people are now starting to talk about Fatima’s prediction that a nuclear war will happen in 2010 and it will be marked by an earthquake that will last up to 8 hours. Read this clip:
Scary. But I’m skeptical about predictions. How can one really prepare enough for things like this? If preparation is not the point, then what? Is it to pray hard? To live well? To do penance for sins committed? But what can all these do to prevent the earthquake from happening if it’s really meant to happen anyway? How can we defy fate? Is faith enough?
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This note added on July 7, 2008:
For those brought to this page through web searches: the July 18, 2008 earthquake prediction is different from the Our Lady of Fatima prediction of an earthquake in 2010, which I mention here. The July 18 quake is predicted by Brazilian psychic Jucelino Nobrega da Luz. Philvolcs said there is no scientific basis for the july 18 prediction circulating in text and emails. More of Philvolcs statement here.
very interesting barry. i’ve heard about it maybe a year ago cant remember when.
the way i see it, it might be true but people shouldn’t wait until it happens to change for the better. i really wonder why people only pray when they are in danger or when something wrong is happening. but i cannot blame them for that.
this might be an eyeopener to the people who are closely involved with the possible war. sometimes things are really made to happen.
and if it does, im sure something good will happen in the end. hehehe… masyadong serious.
i just got an email about an earthquake prediction on july 18 http://www.tristancafe.com/forum/152083. there was another prediction like this a few years back (at least 2 years ago). i remember because i was working in the reclamation area back then, and we got paranoid because you know how man-made land can be. nothing happened that day, of course. but fatima – now that’s a different story. what do YOU think?
p.s. we should really travel as much as we can while we still can, you know, just in case 2010 really is the end of world. can’t wait for KL. i didn’t find a tourist book, though.
donG ho: Maybe North Korea has heard this prediction and has a change of heart. Reports say their abandoning their nuclear ambition.
mussolini: like I said, i’m skeptical about predictions. But this is Fatima (it’s my Catholic upbringing talking, hahaha!). so you’re right, we should be traveling as often as we can before the end of the world!
eight hours? three days of total darkness? half of humanity destroyed? now, see, that’s a killer prediction (pardon the pun). i wonder what other predictions other religions or non-religions have about the end of the world?
Nostradamus’ prediction of the “man in blue turban from the kingdom of Mohammad” who would launch a devastating weapon that would decimate a huge city at latitude 45
( New York) was thought to be Kadaffy, then it became Saddam Hussein. Heck, being within nuclear radiation range from the Big Apple, I was shocked. But Kadaffy is now a tamed chihuaua and Sadam is a goner.
Man since his time immemorial had always predicted the end of the world. It will come ultimately coz nothing in this world is permanent but not in OUR lifetime. It may take hundreds or billions of years for our star to die out. As for earthquakes -it can happen but IMHO no human can predict when it will happen.
I would not spurn these ideas at all for I am myself a believer in divine messages and it might just be true; despite that I am hoping that the Fatima prediction won’t happen at all. Maybe prayers and sublimination to the Lord would help stave away all these fears.
oopps… for our sun ( which is also a star) to die out.. :blush:
i am asking the same questions, b.
I think I have read this before somewhere. The thing with predictions is that it elicits fear among people which I really don’t agree. If it’s time, it’s time then but for now it’s best to see what we can do in our present situation unless the fear of the future paralyses us.
I’m writing this comment a few minutes after a brief earthquake here in Manila. Scary shit. It doesn’t help that people are now talking about the July 18 prophecy that an 8.1 magnitude earthquake will hit the Philippines.
Are these signs of the times eh?
Thanks for the post
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