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18-9-2012: This website, which imagines it has some global/historical scope, wishes to say as little as possible about the multi-country furore which has arisen due to comment about the so-called movie trailer on You Tube of a badly-done movie named Innocence of Muslims. But it does appear that various groups of Muslims around the world have indeed been too-innocent (unsophisticated) and fallen victim to an unscrupulous, but very determined, Internet Troll who has virally foisted awareness of this badly-done movie onto the world stage. Something here has happened with use of the Internet that the Islamic World is simply going to have to catch up with. From Ayatollahs down. Enough said.
It has only been since 1945 that Europeans have stopped killing each other due to religious/ideological differences. Why would Muslims today want to repeat any of the mistakes about religion that Europeans have made since the ending of The Crusades? Why would they wish to avoid modernity, the Internet, and so many advances in human knowledge? It seems to this website that behind all calls that ¨God is Great¨ stands a great sense of human non-greatness held on the part of the person saying it -- a sense of inferiority. The time has come for humanity here to grow up. Enough said.
Robert Kutner, Obama's Challenge. Scribe,2009, 212pp.
David Eliot Cohen and Mark Greenberg, Obama: The Historic Front Pages. Sterling Publishing, 2009, 224pp.
David Remnick, The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama. Picador, 2010, 656pp.
David E. Sanger, The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power. Bantam Press, 2009, 498pp.
Barack Obama, Dreams From My
Father. a story of race and inheritance. Text Publishing,
2007, 464pp.
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The end of the world is nigh
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156AD: Montanus predicts that the New Jerusalem is to descend from heaven to land in his home town of Pepuza. (In modern-day Turkey). 365AD: Hilary of Poitiers predicts that the world will end that year. 500AD: Vandal invasions in Europe remind people that the 6000 years assigned to mankind's existence since Creation have now elapsed. 793AD: Beatus, Abbot of Liebana, ascertains that the Apocalypse is imminent. 1000AD: Many Christian authorities declare this is the date of the Second Coming. 1000AD: It is widely thought by literate people that since the first Millenium has passed, the world is due to end. 1186AD: Spanish astrologers announce the new world order is coming, and recommend that people hide in caves. 1284: Pope Innocent III proclaims that the world will end 666 years after the founding of Islam. 1366AD: The Antichrist is due to arrive, says Jean de Roquetaillade, with the end of the world scheduled for soon after his arrival. 1533: Anabaptist prophet Melchior Hoffman says Jesus will reappear in Strasbourg to save 144,000 people at world's end. 1603: Dominican monk Tommaso Campanella says the sun will collide with the Earth. After 1700: Mathematician Isaac Newton, quite an Old Testament scholar, made attempts to date the end of the world. 1688: John Napier, inventor of logarithms, applies his skills to the Book of Revelation to predict the world will end this year. 1832: Mormon founder Joseph Smith predicts the arrival of the New Jerusalem within a generation. 1844: US preacher William Miller and his many followers await the Second Coming of Christ by March 21. 1900: Doomsday, says Parisian priest Pierre Lacheze. 1914: Jehovah's Witnesses use the Book of Daniel to calculate the end for this year, later recalculating to 1918, 1920, 1941, 1975 and 1994. 1994: US radio evangelist Harold Camping says the end will come on September 6, and thousands believe him. (Camping thinks again and then says the world will end on 21 May, 2011.) 2005: Iran's president Mahmoud Abmadinejad suggests the Apocalyptic return of the Hidden Imam is imminent.
See re 1000AD, Tom Holland, Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom. (nd) When the end of the world had been widely predicted).
(Ends - there have been some 220 predictions (mostly from Europeans) about the end of the world as counted on just one available website! - Ed)
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It has to be confessed ... by November 2008 as Barack Obama became President-Elect of the USA. This website has changed its style as far as its original intentions were concerned (see above). We began with an idea of Lost Worlds, but as life has unfolded since 1997, the website has gradually been obliged to consider, for more modern times, not so much Lost Worlds, as Lost Causes. All we can say, is that we feel no personal sense of responsibility as the world has abandoned the disciplines of Civilisation (leading eg to the 2008 world financial crisis) - that is something we have tried, however vainly, to stave off, as we asked people to think/re-think.
We began in 1996-1997 with ideas of presenting helpful information on new archaeological discoveries; views on esoterica in world history, quaint items on little-known aspects of watersheds in history; items on the influence of considerations of the influence of theology in history.
But, but, Events since 9/11 have taken us over and it's been impossible to keep up. Now we have the amazing scenario where an Afro-American, albeit via Kenya, (which is real, eastern, not western, Africa), Mr. Obama, becomes the new President of the USA. This is an astonishing watershed in history! And so, this website will in future change tack a little in order to take account of this shift in what will amount to - world perceptions of matters of contemporary historical importance. Since we wholly approve of Obama, this ought to improve the website in the future. We hope so. The Lost Causes you can take as you find them! - Ed
NB: The editor has decided that some contemporary sections of Lost Worlds - The Website will be closed at sometime in 2010. It has simply gotten too big and complex to work on usefully, and it is probably the same for netsurfers/readers. The website has been on the Net for more than a decade, and culturally, (we mean, internationally), seems to have done its job. All information already gathered for inclusion will be uploaded to the Net in due course. This decision has been taken for many reasons, but chiefly as 9/11 deflected the website from its original course. The events of "9/11" as it is called were historical in their way, and slowly led the website not into the territories of Lost Worlds, but into the territories of Lost Causes. The website then will be closed with this remark in 2010 but will remain on the Net. If any webpages are modified after the closure, that will not be for content-modification reasons, but mainly for website/technical reasons where relevant. - Ed
