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Gregorian millennium
overwhelms other cultures: "Sure, it's the eve of the Gregorian
year 2000 - check any office calendar in Cairo, even the ones written
in the crescents and angles of Arabic script. But it's also 1420
in largely Muslim Egypt and across the Middle East, counting in
lunar years from the day the Prophet Mohammed fled Mecca for Medina.
Egypt's once-large Jewish community has dwindled to a few families,
whose Hebrew calendar switched to 5760 in September. Then there
are the Copts, Egypt's largest minority. They're out of step even
with other Christians, celebrating New Year's on Sept. 11, the anniversary
of the first Egyptian Christian's martyrdom under the Roman Emperor
Diocletian in 284... Hinduism, a religion of many gods and many
interpretations, naturally has a multiplicity of calendars. According
to one, this is the year 2056; another has it 1921. In either case,
it's merely a moment in a huge, never-ending spiral of time."
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2007: Some Bible
prophecy buffs consider this year a candidate because it concludes
the generation (40 years) after Jews reunified Jerusalem.
Extracts from: http://www.religioustolerance.org/end_wrl1.htm
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2012: Other New
Agers think the Earth will be destroyed just before Christmas because
the ancient Mayan calendar will run out of dates. (Historians say
it won't.)
Extracts
from: http://home.att.net/~thehessians/MilleniumProphets.html
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2003: Sree Vishiva
Karma Veera Narayana Murthy, an avatar of Krishna will arrive to
establish a 108 year reign of dharma (righteousness). This will
be preceded by four years of: a rain of blood in towns and villages,
circulation of poor quality coins, the appearance of male goats
and oxen with mammary glands that can be milked, and the appearance
of many incurable diseases.
Beyond that lie 2076, which is 1500 in the Muslim calendar and
could energize Sufi mystics and New Agers, and 2240, the start of
humanity's seventh millennium by traditional Jewish reckoning.
Extracts
from: http://home.att.net/~thehessians/MilleniumProphets.html
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