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would anyone take a random doomsday date seriously?

seems to me all these doomsday dates are picked more because they sound convincing. i remember when june 6, 2006 (6/6/6) was supposed to be doomsday. and before that i think it was supposed to be january 1, 2000 (or was it 2001 making it 1/1/1). and now the big one is december 21, 2012 (12/21/12). would anyone believe a prophecy if someone just made up a random number, like say feb. 17, 2058?

Public Comments

1. idk this is relig. here..............

2. I think that if you pick any date and say that it's a doomsday, some people would believe it.

3. Lack of education.

4. I have a book called 5/5/200. The world was supposed to end that day.

It didn't.

5. Until they show me that giant meteor hurling toward the Earth, I'll disregard such nonsense; I mean come on, people in general are pretty stupid; we as modern day people one of the strongest nations on Earth built a city below sea level right next to the sea, seems to me if there is a God, he's more about punishing the stupid.

6. I don't know, shall we start our own?

At its present rate of mutation, the Ebola virus will become sufficiently UV-resistant to go airborne no less than fifteen years and no more than twenty years from now. When it *does* it will be lights out.

So, how about we decide on, say, 2026 as the likely year? 2nd June 2026; or 6th February 2026? What do you say?

;-)

7. WHAT? The world is going to end on Feb. 17, 2058? I need to make plans!

8. Yep, there's always going to be someone that gullible. June 21 2068 will be when a giant bran muffin falls on the Earth and wipes out all humanity.

9. Of course! The world must end on the 49th aniversary of the day the US switched to all digital TV.

10. No, there is no person in any society that will believe any random date unless he is shown some proof or it corresponds to his own beliefs. there are many reasons put forward to assess a theory like prophecies and NASA blahs

11. Astronomers have verified that on April 13, 2029, a rather large asteroid (named 2004 MN4 or "Apophis") is actually going to come within several thousand miles of our planet, just below the altitude of our geosynchronous satellites, and will be visible to the naked eye. Any variation in its trajectory between now and then could put it on a collision course with Earth, which would cause an extinction-level event. If people are looking for a doomsday date just to have something to look forward to, at least this one is supported by evidence.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6914766/

12. Give a person a reason to accept a proposition, no matter how stupid it is, and you'll find one fool who will buy it. Hook, line, and sinker.

On Penn and Teller's show, they had a man pretending to be a doctor at a mall, who was pretending to sell bogus alternative medicine equipment. People were willing to pay hundreds of dollars for things like his "magnet suit" (all of the magnets had been demagnetized and sewn into regularly clothing, but patients were sure that they felt better). Some even consented to a free "snail massage" in the false belief that snail mucus will tighten their facial skin and make it feel refreshed.

The point is that fools can be found easily. Just make up a reason, and you'll eventually find a gullible-enough victim.