Thanks Blondie! Great post!
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Channel C ex-jws bios from long ago/several
by blondie inhttps://sites.google.com/view/channelc2-experiences/experiences/barbara-joe-anderson .
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Blood decisions are now your problem: WT JULY 2025
by raymond frantz inthe following is from the latest study watchtower july 2025, study article 28, paragraph 17:.
each christian must make up his or her own mind about whether to accept or to reject these fractions.
we may find it a challenge to understand this matter fully, but making decisions like this is part of the load that each of us must carry.
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LHG- Not just sacrifice...but child sacrifice.
No better than the ancient child sacrifices to Molech.
Sacrifice their future by interfering with and limiting education.
Keeping them up late at night, midweek on school nights for meetings, skipping sleep and schoolwork. Forbidding school sports and educational clubs. Discouraging SAT and LSAT tests, "You'll never need those, the end is just around the corner. Putting off medical intervention,"the new system" will fix that!.
Discouraging College and other education for a more secure future and family life. Encouraging Pioneering and Bethel instead of acquiring valuable education, training, or work experience.
Severe corporal punishments, mental and physical abuse, combined with "abandonment" by shunning.
And most of all, refusing life-saving medical treatments ie: Blood, based on a faulty understanding of a Bronze Age book, and modern medical treatments.
A doomsday, child-sacrificing CULT
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Did the Fred Franz style of writing cease after he died?
by SydBarrett ini was completely out by 1991 and 1989 would have been the last time i had to attend regularly.
that over the top franz writing style was still there in the 1980's although i've heard he wasn't actually doing much writing by then.
but his style was definitely picked up and imitated for many years beyond its wacky, outlandish peak of the the 50's - 70's.
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Sorry to burst your bubble Syd. I saw Fred and Ray every day. Fred was a weirdo and a fraud.
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Blood decisions are now your problem: WT JULY 2025
by raymond frantz inthe following is from the latest study watchtower july 2025, study article 28, paragraph 17:.
each christian must make up his or her own mind about whether to accept or to reject these fractions.
we may find it a challenge to understand this matter fully, but making decisions like this is part of the load that each of us must carry.
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I realized the whole Blood issue was BS at Bethel.
After almost 100 years of butchering their own meat upstate and further processing in NYC, a visiting branch overseer was livid and made a stink in 1975. Kitchen staff weren't "pouring the blood on the ground"-instead of the sink in downtown NYC. Bethel knew about and discussed Kosher methods but had never followed Orthodox procedures for Kosher meat prep. Why? "Because it would cost more time and money"! Members of the Governing body came down to the kitchen to weigh in on the subject, including the two Franzes. More money? Hell no!
Allowing fractions is like banning Pizza, but allowing tomato sauce, cheese, and bread.
Passing out suicide pact (blood) cards to parents is THE most culty thing Watchtower does.CHILD sacrifice!
Orthodox jews allow Blood transfusions, because LIFE is sacred, blood simply represents life.
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Did the Fred Franz style of writing cease after he died?
by SydBarrett ini was completely out by 1991 and 1989 would have been the last time i had to attend regularly.
that over the top franz writing style was still there in the 1980's although i've heard he wasn't actually doing much writing by then.
but his style was definitely picked up and imitated for many years beyond its wacky, outlandish peak of the the 50's - 70's.
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You mean the weird run-on sentences? lol.
Fraud-drick Franz, the first-year college dropout who insinuated he was a Rhodes Scholar? Who told people he was a "Greek scholar"?
Hey new boy! Strip off your clothes and meet me in the sauna so we can "discuss the bible " after work, Franz?
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JWs in the news:"New Orleans Jehovah’s Witnesses administrator confessed child abuse without substantial consequence, lawsuit says"
by Balaamsass2 innew orleans.
jehovah’s witnesses administrator confessed child abuse without substantial consequence, lawsuit says.
barry davis says joseph fitzgerald hall molested him in the 90s, yet hall kept working for the church nearly unimpeded.
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It is astonishing to me that after 20+ years of news coverage, ANYONE still defends and supports the JW governing body. Even among criminals, child molesters are considered the lowest of the low.
People can argue about dogma and theology endlessly, but who can argue about child rape. And the disfellowshipping of the victims and reporters?
Barbra's TV interview 20 years ago hit me like a ton of bricks. Locally I had dealt with a serial molester who left multiple victims statewide, and would simply move from county to county. The local CO, other elders, and the Governing Body would do nothing ( I wrote to some I knew personally). I had to walk into the justice department on my own to get any action. This was THE huge smack needed to wake me up. "By their fruits you shall know them. " Nightline investigation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtzyCgWQ7kI
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JWs in the news:"New Orleans Jehovah’s Witnesses administrator confessed child abuse without substantial consequence, lawsuit says"
by Balaamsass2 innew orleans.
jehovah’s witnesses administrator confessed child abuse without substantial consequence, lawsuit says.
barry davis says joseph fitzgerald hall molested him in the 90s, yet hall kept working for the church nearly unimpeded.
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Jehovah’s Witnesses administrator confessed child abuse without substantial consequence, lawsuit says
Barry Davis says Joseph Fitzgerald Hall molested him in the 90s, yet Hall kept working for the church nearly unimpeded
Ramon Antonio Vargas in New OrleansMon 21 Apr 2025 07.00 EDTShareA US man serving in various administrative roles for the Jehovah’s Witnesses sexually molested a child whom he met while working for the Christian religious sect in New Orleans – then continued his career virtually unimpeded and moved to North Carolina after completing a disciplinary suspension of less than a year, he has admitted in writing and in a sworn deposition.
The stunning revelations about Joseph Fitzgerald Hall and how he has been managed by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York that runs the Jehovah’s Witnesses are contained in a lawsuit that the abuse survivor has been pursuing against both the group and the administrator.
In a recent interview, the survivor, Barry Davis, explained that one of his main reasons for coming forward was to ensure the congregation that Hall later joined in Charlotte, North Carolina, knew the full truth about him. Hall, while testifying under oath in the course of the lawsuit, acknowledged that“there is no requirement to tell someone why you were disfellowshipped”, which is the term to describe the suspension he served over his abuse of Davis.
“They should know out there,” Davis said. “This needs to be exposed to anybody it needs to be exposed to.”
Davis, now 46, also said he shed his anonymity to support others who for years have been speaking out about child abuse within the Jehovah’s Witnesses. He contended that the evidence in his case “just kind of drives the nail in” about the reality of the issue.
In his opinion, he said: “Nothing’s changed.”
Barry Davis, far right, stands with Joseph Fitzgerald Hall when Davis was about 15. The faces of the other people in the photo are intentionally blurred. Photograph: Courtesy of Barry DavisAbout 8.5 million people globally are active members of the denomination, a primary tenet of which is that the world’s destruction is imminent.
Hall, now 60, did not respond to requests for comment about his admissions. In a statement, an attorney representing the Watchtower Society, Billy Gibbens, maintained “the actions of the accused in this lawsuit were his own and contrary to the beliefs and practices of Jehovah’s Witnesses”.
“The alleged criminal acts occurred outside the scope of any religious activities assigned to the accused by the local congregation,” Gibbens’ statement said.
Gibbens said his side could not elaborate while the case was pending in court. But he also wrote: “It is deeply distressing whenever anyone falls victim to such a heinous crime and sin. My clients deeply empathize with all victims of abuse.”
As he tells it, Davis was about nine when he met Hall, roughly aged 24, through a Jehovah’s Witnesses congregation in New Orleans’s Central City neighborhood. Hall promised Davis that he would mold him into one of the so-called Dryades congregation’s “next great” leaders if the boy listened properly, according to the plaintiff’s lawsuit.
But instead, the lawsuit argued, Hall exploited his positions as a ministerial servant and later as an elder within the congregation to get close to Davis. Hall held private Bible studies with Davis, brought him along as he proselytized to potential new converts and shared religious articles from the Watchtower Society with him.
The lawsuit said Hall ultimately took advantage of that proximity to rape Davis and inflict other sexually abusive acts on him from 1990 to 1996, beginning when the boy was 11. Hall would tell Davis that 12 “was the age of accountability”, and therefore the boy bore fault for his molestation, the lawsuit said.
Davis recalled disclosing his abuse to his mother – who was a single parent – along with another elder at their congregation – by 1998. In February of that year, the elder initiated a type of disciplinary hearing that the Jehovah’s Witnesses refer to as a “judicial committee”.
Barry Davis at about age 12 or 13. Photograph: Courtesy of Barry DavisMultiple congregation elders who formed part of the committee heard Davis deliver an account of the molestation he endured at the hands of Hall. The committee subsequently disfellowshipped Hall for 11 months – during which time he was in effect suspended from the congregation – before he was allowed to return, the lawsuit said.
Meanwhile, the lawsuit added, the committee instructed Davis to “repent” and quit his “homosexual lifestyle”. The group prohibited Davis from carrying the microphone at congregation gatherings, working behind the literature counter or leading trips to proselytize to prospective new members, along with other privileges.
And crucially, the lawsuit said, it ordered Davis to cooperate with the Jehovah’s Witnesses in keeping what Hall had done to him secret because it would impugn the sect if word got out. The lawsuit asserted such an instruction violated laws in Louisiana which require religious organizations such as the Jehovah’s Witnesses to report any suspected child abuse to state authorities.
Davis said he complied with the committee’s wishes for years – even after he was kicked out of standing in a friend’s wedding when news of his having tried to hold Hall accountable circulated among the congregation.
But Davis said he eventually left the Jehovah’s Witnesses and moved to the Dallas area in Texas. There, in 2014, about six years after his mother died, he decided to revisit Hall’s abuse and the resulting treatment he got from the Jehovah’s Witnesses after seeing a local news story about an attorney filing a lawsuit against the sect on behalf of five clients with their own abuse allegations.
Davis said he reached out to that lawyer, who could not assist him because his case unfolded in Louisiana rather than in Texas. Then, in 2019, he contacted New Orleans-based attorney Kristi Schubert, who has represented a number of religious abuse survivors – but, initially, she couldn’t help because Louisiana laws in effect at the time meant Davis had only until his 28th birthday to sue over his molestation by Hall.
Davis was about 40 at the time.
Nonetheless, in 2021, Louisiana’s legislature enacted a law that in part temporarily allowed child molestation victims to file lawsuits seeking damages for their abuse no matter how long they had waited.
The law’s constitutionality was challenged. But Louisiana’s supreme court upheld it as constitutional on 12 June 2024.
A recent picture of Barry Davis. Photograph: Courtesy of Barry DavisThat very same day, Schubert filed a lawsuit in New Orleans’s civil district courthouse on Davis’s behalf. It demanded damages from Hall and the Watchtower Society, including for the mental and physical trauma with which the plaintiff was left.
The lawsuit has generated exceptionally compelling evidence against Hall, who – as of a deposition in March – said he was representing himself without an attorney.
In his mandatory response to the lawsuit, Hall wrote that he is “guilty of have [sic] an inappropriate relationship” with Davis.
“We fondled each other and played with each other sex organs and laid on each other buttocks,” said Hall’s response, which was replete with typos. He added that he and Davis engaged in oral sex, though the plaintiff at the time could not legally give consent to that act or any of the others Hall mentioned.
Furthermore, Hall wrote that a book which Davis authored and self-published about his abuse “speaks truthfully to a large degree about [the] encounters”.
Schubert interrogated Hall under oath during a 27 March videoconference deposition. Hall invoked his constitutional right against self-incrimination – colloquially known as pleading the fifth amendment – at least 48 times.
But he did answer when Schubert asked him if the letter was true and whether he wrote it of his “own free accord”. Hall’s answer to both questions: “Yes.”
Hall additionally testified about how he had a wife as well as a son – and how since 2003 he had belonged to a Jehovah’s Witnesses congregation on Monroe Road in Charlotte. He said he was considered what is known as a regular “publisher”, by which he was regularly participating in organized preaching at his congregation.
Despite his being disfellowshipped after Davis reported his molestation, Hall said he does not “know of any rule” prohibiting from proselytizing around children. He also said there was no mandate for him to disclose the reason for his disfellowship to anyone, including fellow members of his congregation.
Speaking in the weeks after the deposition, Davis said Hall’s statements evidently contradict the Jehovah’s Witnesses claims in their policies that “children are a sacred trust” – and their “protection … is of utmost concern and importance”.
Davis said he hopes Hall and the Jehovah’s Witnesses make him whole for his ordeal. But furthermore, he said he hopes the Jehovah’s Witnesses rethink the way they have let Hall carry on his business within the denomination.
“It’s upsetting – it’s infuriating,” Davis said. “I just think that is ludicrous.”
In the US, call or text the Childhelp abuse hotline on 800-422-4453 or visit their website for more resources and to report child abuse or DM for help. For adult survivors of child abuse, help is available at ascasupport.org. In the UK, the NSPCC offers support to children on 0800 1111, and adults concerned about a child on 0808 800 5000. The National Association for People Abused in Childhood (Napac) offers support for adult survivors on 0808 801 0331. In Australia, children, young adults, parents and teachers can contact the Kids Helpline on 1800 55 1800, or Bravehearts on 1800 272 831, and adult survivors can contact Blue Knot Foundation on 1300 657 380. Other sources of help can be found at Child Helplines International
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Seeking JW friend
by Jujitz inhello: i'm currently not yet a jehovah's witness but i'm seeking a friend to help me to better understand their doctrine.
thank you.
david.
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Welcome! I also recommend JWFacts.com to learn more. Ray Franz's "Crisis of Conscience" is an excellent biography of a JW leader.
What country are you in? Tell us about yourself.
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Is anyone watching The Handmaid’s Tale on Hulu?
by Biahi inafter finishing season 6, episode 5, it occurred to me that, if the jws were right, (they’re not), the “new system” would end up being very much like this.
picture the commanders as the elders.. it’s a riveting series.
i wanted to see it, because i read the book when it first came out.
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3rd gen and I started watching The Handmaid's Tale a couple of years ago. She has started again recently.
Scary!
Reminds me of most countries in Islam...or what far right cultists, and some fanatical JWs I have known would consider "godly".
I watched "DAS BOOT" series last week. The Nazi fanatics had some of the same ideas.
It only takes a minority of fanatics in the population to make the majority miserable.
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Curious? How many members of this group feel we are living in the "End Times"?
by Balaamsass2 ini like to take a peek at the kids over on reddit every week or so.. this thread caught my eye:" curious….
do any ex jw or pimo, still believe the world is ending.
i see people who have never been witnesses think that the world will end soon and they say things like “jesus is coming soon”….
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Let's not forget the 1900s! :) JWs get a lot of mentions.
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Date(s) (CE) Claimant(s) Description Ref. 1901 Catholic Apostolic Church Founded in 1831, this church claimed that Jesus would return by the time the last of its 12 founding members died. The last member died in 1901. [95] 1901 Annie Keeler Keeler, a prominent doctor in Connecticut, predicted that due to the alignment of the planets, the world would come to an end and "complete the planetary cycle as it was in the days of Noah". [96]
[97]23 Apr 1908 Michael Paget Baxter The last of numerous apocalyptic predictions by this Anglican evangelist and author; this prediction was published in 1894. [98] 1910 Camille Flammarion Flammarion predicted that the 1910 appearance of Halley's Comet "would impregnate that atmosphere and possibly snuff out all life on the planet" but not the planet itself. "Comet pills" were sold to protect against toxic gases. [86]
[99]1892–1911 Charles Piazzi Smyth This pyramidologist concluded from his research on the dimensions of the Great Pyramid of Giza that the Second Coming would occur somewhere between 1892 and 1911. [100] 1914 Charles Taze Russell Russell said "...the battle of the great day of God Almighty... The date of the close of that 'battle' is definitely marked in Scripture as October 1914. It is already in progress, its beginning dating from October, 1874." [101] 1915 John Chilembwe This Baptist educator and leader of a rebellion in the British protectorate of Nyasaland predicted the Millennium would begin this year. [94] 1918 International Bible Students Association "Christendom shall be cut off and glorification of the Little Flock (The Church) in the Spring of 1918 A. D." [102] 1920 International Bible Students Association In 1918, Christendom would go down as a system to oblivion and be succeeded by revolutionary governments. God would "destroy the churches wholesale and the church members by the millions." Church members would "perish by the sword of war, revolution and anarchy." The dead would lie unburied. In 1920 all earthly governments would disappear, with worldwide anarchy prevailing. [103] 13 Feb 1925 Margaret Rowen According to this Seventh-Day Adventist, the angel Gabriel appeared before her in a vision and told her that the world would end at midnight on this date. [104] 1926 Spencer Perceval This British MP, who was one of the 12 apostles of the Catholic Apostolic Church, believed that the world was growing nearer to the Apocalypse due to what he viewed as the rampant immorality of the times in Europe. [105] Sep 1935 Wilbur Glenn Voliva This evangelist announced that "the world is going to go 'puff' and disappear" in September 1935. [106] 1936 Herbert W. Armstrong The founder of the Worldwide Church of God told members of his church that the Rapture was to take place in 1936, and that only they would be saved. After the prophecy failed, he changed the date three more times. [107] 1941 Jehovah's Witnesses A prediction of the end from the Jehovah's Witnesses, a group that branched from the Bible Student movement. [108] 1943 Herbert W. Armstrong The first of three revised dates from Armstrong after his 1936 prediction failed to come true. [107] 1947 John Ballou Newbrough The author of Oahspe: A New Bible foresaw the destruction of all nations and the beginning of post-apocalyptic anarchy in this year. [93] 21 Dec 1954 Dorothy Martin The world was to be destroyed by terrible flooding on this date, claimed this leader of a UFO cult called Brotherhood of the Seven Rays. The fallout of the group after the prediction failed was the basis for the 1956 book When Prophecy Fails. [109] 22 Apr 1959 Florence Houteff The second prophet of the Branch Davidians predicted the apocalypse foretold in the Book of Revelation would proceed on this date. The failure of the prophecy led to the split of the sect into several subsects, the most prominent led by Benjamin and Lois Roden. [110] 4 Feb 1962 Jeane Dixon, various Indian astrologers Dixon predicted a planetary alignment on this day was to bring destruction to the world. Mass prayer meetings were held in India. [111]
[112]20 Aug 1967 George Van Tassel This day would mark the beginning of the third woe of the Apocalypse, during which the southeastern US would be destroyed by a Soviet nuclear attack, according to this UFO prophet, who claimed to have channeled an alien named Ashtar. [113] 1967 Jim Jones The founder of the People's Temple stated he had visions that a nuclear holocaust was to take place in 1967. [114] 9 Aug 1969 George Williams The founder of the Church of the Firstborn predicted the Second Coming of Christ would occur on this day. [115] 1969 Charles Manson Manson predicted that Helter skelter, an apocalyptic race war, would occur in 1969. [116] 1972 Herbert W. Armstrong The second of three revised dates from Armstrong after his 1936 and 1943 predictions failed to come true. [107] Jan 1974 David Berg Berg, the leader of Children of God, predicted that there would be a colossal doomsday event heralded by Comet Kohoutek. [117] 1975 Herbert W. Armstrong Armstrong's fourth and final prediction. [107] Jehovah's Witnesses From 1966 on, Jehovah's Witnesses published articles stating that the fall of 1975 would be 6,000 years since man's creation and suggested that Armageddon could be finished by then. [118] 1976 Brahma Kumaris The Brahma Kumaris founder, Lekhraj Kirpalani, has made a number of predictions of a global Armageddon which the religion believes it will inspire, internally calling it "Destruction". During Destruction, Brahma Kumari leaders teach the world will be purified, all of the rest of humanity killed by nuclear or civil wars and natural disasters which will include the sinking of all other continents except India. [119] 1977 John Wroe The founder of the Christian Israelite Church predicted this year for Armageddon to occur. [93] William M. Branham This Christian minister predicted the Rapture would occur no later than 1977. [120] 1980 Leland Jensen Jensen predicted in 1978 that there would be a nuclear disaster in 1980, followed by two decades of conflict, culminating in God's Kingdom being established on Earth. [121] 1981 Chuck Smith The founder of Calvary Chapel predicted that the generation of 1948 would be the last generation and the world would end by 1981. Smith said that he "could be wrong" but added that his prediction was "a deep conviction in my heart, and all my plans are predicated upon that belief." [122]
[123]Apr–Jun 1982 Tara Centers Full-page adverts in many newspapers dated 24 and 25 April 1982 stated that "The Christ is Now Here!" and that he would make himself known "within the next two months". [124] 10 Mar 1982 John Gribbin, Stephen Plagemann Gribbin, an astrophysicist, co-authored the 1974 book The Jupiter Effect which predicted that combined gravitational forces of aligned planets would create a number of catastrophes, including a great earthquake on the San Andreas Fault. [99]
[125]21 Jun 1982 Benjamin Creme Creme took out an ad in the Los Angeles Times stating that the Second Coming would occur in June 1982, and the Maitreya announced it on worldwide television. [126] 1982 Pat Robertson In late 1976, Robertson predicted on his The 700 Club TV programme that the end of the world would come in this year. [127] 1985 Lester Sumrall This Pentecostal minister predicted the end of the world in this year, even writing a book about it entitled I Predict 1985. [128] 29 Apr 1986 Leland Jensen Jensen predicted that Halley's Comet would be pulled into Earth's orbit on this day, causing widespread destruction. [129] 17 Aug 1987 José Argüelles Argüelles claimed that Armageddon would happen unless 144,000 people gathered in certain places across the world in order to "resonate in harmony" on this day. [130] 11–13 Sep 1988,
3 Oct 1988Edgar C. Whisenant Whisenant predicted in his book 88 Reasons Why the Rapture Could Be in 1988 that the Rapture of the Christian Church would occur between 11 and 13 September 1988. After this prediction failed to come true, Whisenant revised his prediction date to 3 October. [131] 30 Sep 1989 Edgar C. Whisenant After all his 1988 predictions failed to come true, Whisenant revised his prediction date to this day. [131]
[132]23 Apr 1990 Elizabeth Clare Prophet Prophet predicted a nuclear war would start on this day, and the world would end 12 years later, leading her followers to stockpile a shelter with supplies and weapons. After Prophet's prediction did not come to pass, she was later diagnosed with epilepsy and Alzheimer's disease. [133]
[134]9 Sep 1991 Menachem Mendel Schneerson This Russian-born rabbi called for the Messiah to come by the start of the Jewish New Year. [135] 1991 Louis Farrakhan The leader of the Nation of Islam declared that the Gulf War would be the "War of Armageddon which is the final war". [136] 28 Sep 1992 Rollen Stewart This born-again Christian predicted the Rapture would take place on this day. [137] 28 Oct 1992 Lee Jang Rim (이장림 or 李長林)
Lee, the leader of the Dami Mission church, predicted the rapture would occur on this day. [138] 1993 David Berg Berg predicted the tribulation would start in 1989 and that the Second Coming would take place in 1993. [139] 1993 Edgar C. Whisenant After his 1988 and 1989 predictions failed, Whisenant moved the outer limit of his prediction to 1993. [140]
[141]1994 Edgar C. Whisenant When his 1993 prediction failed to materialize, Whisenant updated it to 1994. [142] 2 May 1994 Neal Chase This Bahá'í sect leader predicted that New York City would be destroyed by a nuclear bomb on 23 March 1994, and the Battle of Armageddon would take place 40 days later. [143] 6 Sep 1994,
29 Sep 1994,
2 Oct 1995Harold Camping Camping predicted the Rapture would occur on 6 September 1994. When it failed to occur he revised the date to 29 September and then 2 October. [144]
[145]31 Mar 1995 Harold Camping Camping's fourth predicted date for the end. This would be Camping's last prediction until 2011. [144] 17 Dec 1996 Sheldan Nidle Nidle, a Californian psychic, predicted that the world would end on this date, with the arrival of 16 million space ships and a host of angels. [146] 26 Mar 1997 Marshall Applewhite Applewhite, leader of the Heaven's Gate cult, claimed that a spacecraft was trailing the Comet Hale-Bopp and argued that suicide was "the only way to evacuate this Earth" so that the cult members' souls could board the supposed craft and be taken to another "level of existence above human". Applewhite and 38 of his followers committed mass suicide. [147] 10 Aug 1997 Aggai The 1st-century bishop of Edessa predicted this date to be the birth date of the Antichrist and the end of the universe. [148] 23 Oct 1997 James Ussher This 17th-century Irish archbishop predicted this date to be 6,000 years since creation and therefore the end of the world. [149] 31 Mar 1998 Hon-Ming Chen Chen, leader of the Taiwanese cult Chen Tao – "The True Way" – claimed that God would come to Earth in a flying saucer at 10:00 am on this date. [150] Jul 1999 Nostradamus A quatrain by Nostradamus that stated the "King of Terror" would come from the sky in "1999 and seven months" was frequently interpreted as a prediction of doomsday in July 1999. [151] 18 Aug 1999 The Amazing Criswell The predicted date of the end of the world, according to this psychic well known for predictions. [152] 11 Sep 1999 Philip Berg Berg, dean of the worldwide Kabbalah Centre, stated that on this date "a ball of fire will descend, destroying almost all of mankind, all vegetation, all forms of life." [153] 1999 Charles Berlitz This linguist predicted the end would occur in this year. He did not predict how it would happen, stating that it might involve nuclear devastation, asteroid impact, pole shift or other Earth changes. [154] Hon-Ming Chen
