Doomsayers have been around since Adam met Eve, but now they are more prevalent (there are more than 1,000 in the United States alone), and it seems that each is trying to come up with the most outlandish prognostication. For example one guru predicted that elderly Nazis were hiding beneath the South Pole and were plotting to take over the planet with help from space aliens. Another warned that a monster quake will make Phoenix, Ariz., a seaport, split the continent in two and bring back the sunken city of Atlantis. Another Armageddon expert believes that the plague of locust, predicted in the Bible, to show up in the last days, will actually be killer bees. (This guy may be right). One of the latest harbingers of the end of the world, as we know it, was a red heifer, named Melody, born in Israel where some devout Jews saw her birth as a sign from God that the coming of the Messiah was near. Since this cow was believed to be the first red heifer born in the Holy Land in two millennia and since in ancient times, the ashes of a red heifer were mixed with spring water to purify high priests before they entered the temple, there were fears that some extremist groups might interpret Melody's birth as a sign that the time was right to rebuild the temple on the site that housed some of the holiest shrines in Islam. Even though mainstream religious groups did not respond to Melody's threat, some secular Israelis wanted her shot or at least burned to ashes. However, under Jewish law, a sacred cow must be immaculately red, so Melody beat the rap, since she is more auburn than crimson, and has white hairs in her tail, snout and eyelashes. Then there are those who believe that UFOs (unidentified flying objects) will have some part in ending the earth. However, most believers are just predicting eminent contact with extra-terrestrial life forms and are waiting patiently to be "beamed up" or to join with outer space crews to change the world into a better place.
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