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Originally Posted by Weiss Pinguin (Post 1460808)

It's obvious you're missing the point here ;)

If you're serious, which point am I missing?

If you're not, then I'm really missing the point...or something...:dead:

I'll add Jehovha's witnesses and the multiple end of the world guess':har:

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1914 was one of the more important estimates of the start of the war of Armageddon by the Jehovah's Witnesses (Watchtower Bible and Tract Society). They based their prophecy of 1914 from prophecy in the book of Daniel, Chapter 4. The writings referred to "seven times". The WTS interpreted each "time" as equal to 360 days, giving a total of 2520 days. This was further interpreted as representing 2520 years, measured from the starting date of 607 BCE. This gave 1914 as the target date. When 1914 passed, they changed their prediction; 1914 became the year that Jesus invisibly began his rule.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/_t...o/topbul1d.gif1914, 1915, 1918, 1920, 1925, 1941, 1975 and 1994, etc. were other dates that the Watchtower Society (WTS) or its members predicted. http://www.religioustolerance.org/_t...o/topbul2d.gifSince late in the 19th century, they had taught that the "battle of the Great Day of God Almighty" (Armageddon) would happen in 1914 CE. It didn't. http://www.religioustolerance.org/_t...o/topbul2d.gifThe next major estimate was 1925. Watchtower magazine predicted: "The year 1925 is a date definitely and clearly marked in the Scriptures, even more clearly than that of 1914; but it would be presumptuous on the part of any faithful follower of the Lord to assume just what the Lord is going to do during that year." 6http://www.religioustolerance.org/_t...o/topbul2d.gifThe Watchtower Society selected 1975 as its next main prediction. This was based on the estimate "according to reliable Bible chronology Adam was created in the year 4026 BCE, likely in the autumn of the year, at the end of the sixth day of creation." 8 They believed that the year 1975 a promising date for the end of the world, as it was the 6,000th anniversary of Adam's creation. Exactly 1,000 years was to pass for each day of the creation week. This prophecy also failed. http://www.religioustolerance.org/_t...o/topbul2d.gifThe current estimate is that the end of the world as we know it will happen precisely 6000 years after the creation of Eve. 9 There is no way of knowing when this happened.

"What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck? I pray you, excuse me, I have not the time to listen to such nonsense." - Napoleon Bonaparte, when told of Robert Fulton's steamboat, 1800s

"Everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize it as a conspicuous failure." - Henry Morton, president of the Stevens Institute of Technology, on Edison's light bulb, 1880

"The phonograph has no commercial value at all." - Thomas Edison, American inventor, 1880s

"Very interesting, Whittle, my boy, but it will never work." - Cambridge Aeronautics Professor, when shown Frank Whittle's plan for the jet engine

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." - Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

I am glad noboby made the movie "Dieter" mentioned in OP's second picture. It would have cemented the prejudice that all Germans love The Hoff for eternity :cry:

"Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia."
-Dr. Dionysus Lardner, Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy (1793-1859)

"Men might as well project a voyage to the Moon as attempt to employ steam navigation against the stormy North Atlantic Ocean."
-Dionysus Lardner

"It is an idle dream to imagine that automobiles will take the place of railways in the long distance movement of passengers."
American Railroad Congress, 1913

"I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of anyone."
-Charles Darwin

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Originally Posted by frau kaleun (Post 1461039)

"The Americans are good about making fancy cars and refrigerators, but that doesn't mean they are any good at making aircraft. They are bluffing. They are excellent at bluffing."
-Hermann Goering

"Everything that can be invented has been invented."
Charles H. Duell, an official at the US patent office, 1899.

"I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea."
HG Wells, British novelist, in 1901.

"A rocket will never be able to leave the Earth's atmosphere."
New York Times, 1936

"To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth - all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne. I am bold enough to say that such a man-made voyage will never occur regardless of all future advances."
Lee DeForest, American radio pioneer and inventor of the vacuum tube, in 1926

"That is the biggest fool thing we have ever done [research on]... The bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives."
Admiral William D. Leahy, U.S. Admiral working in the U.S. Atomic Bomb Project, advising President Truman on atomic weaponry, 1944.

"There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will."
Albert Einstein, 1932.

-If he got that one wrong just maybe... naw...:03:

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"I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea."
HG Wells, British novelist, in 1901.

He was talking about russian subs

This may be anecdotal now but the prediction that Barack Obama would be a post racial president.

Every time you oppose our president you are called a racist. Yet the man says nothing to asuage those thoughts. Not even a beer summit.

I'm playing devil's advocate.

If it weren't for Barack we wouldn't be where we are today.

People who shoehorn politics into every conversation are boring.

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Originally Posted by mookiemookie (Post 1463203)

People who shoehorn politics into every conversation are boring.

^^This.

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Originally Posted by mookiemookie (Post 1463203)

People who shoehorn politics into every conversation are boring.

I blame Bush for that attitude. :O:

I also agree, but "boring" isn't the word I would have used.

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve (Post 1463294)

I blame Bush for that attitude. :O:

I also agree, but "boring" isn't the word I would have used.

I have other, more colorful, words for them also. ;)

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Originally Posted by mookiemookie (Post 1463305)

I have other, more colorful, words for them also. ;)

BORING can be colorful...

OK, I get it.

How about everyone flying to work in their own personal 'flying car'?

It hasn't happened and can you imagine the chaos if it did? Many have trouble navigating in two demensions, adding a third would cause even more trouble.