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Doomsday Is Coming: Escape Earth on Dec. 21, 2012, for as Little as $24.49

Some people see the 2012 doomsday prophecies as a sign the world will end on Dec. 21 next year. Others see the apocalyptic predictions as nonsensical hogwash fueled by superstition and misconceptions about the Mayan calendar. But Jack Dowd, an entrepreneur in Fairfield, Iowa, sees the fears of Armageddon as an...

Will This Mysterious French Town Survive the End of the World?

An increasing number of people who follow esoteric teachings believe a small, picturesque village in southwest France has special powers and is the place to wait out the global apocalypse they warn is coming in 2012. Among the many myths surrounding rural Bugarach, population 189, are claims that the so-called lost...

From Betelgeuse to Ophiuchus: 5 (Perhaps Unlikely) Signs of the Apocalypse

Has the proverbial die been cast? For those looking around for signs that the world is about to end, there has been no shortage of possible harbingers of late. While Surge Desk doesn't put much stock in any one theory, the preponderance of doomsday prophecies has caught our eye. Here then is a run-down of the latest...

NASA Calls '2012' Most Flawed Sci-Fi Film Ever

The 2009 film "2012" depicted an ultimate end-of-the-world scenario based on an ancient Mayan calendar that ends on Dec. 21, 2012. But does NASA believe the film accurately portrays something that will really happen? Absolutely not. In fact, NASA scientists say the doomsday "2012" is the most ridiculous sci-fi film...

Doomsday: After Many Predictions, We're Still Here

"Repent, repent, the end is near!" Or is it? How many times have we heard that in movies, on TV, throughout literature and in the Bible? Yet, as often as people have predicted a global apocalypse, we're still here, still intact. You've undoubtedly heard about the upcoming end of the world, scheduled for Dec. 21, 2012....

Background on apocalypse

An apocalypse (Greek: apokálypsis; "lifting of the veil" or "revelation") is a disclosure of something hidden from the majority of mankind in an era dominated by falsehood and misconception, i.e.

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