2017 is the new 2012

[EGross]

The world ends 2017.

http://mobile.wnd.com/2012/11/12th-centu...ls-future/

Anyone want to try to debunk this? You only have four years left.

The comments on that link are hilarious btw. "I had no idea the Mayans were so in tune with Christ."

First of all, it is from WND.COM, what do you expect?

Second, there are more than 75 forms of gematria, the idea of having the letters in Hebrew represent numbers and you have one value for a sentence in the Tanach, and then add up a different group, and if they are close, then you can do some sort of ethical teaching from that (sort of), but it never, ever, works out as a predictive process. It only "works" in reverse - something happens, you find a sentence that you can apply, create some other number to link them, and voila! (Think "Bible Codes". I once applied this to Winnie the Pooh to prove that Bob Dole would loose the presidency.)

Also, a "Jubilee" is not 50 solar years. And in some years, due to errors and a lack of witnesses when there was still a temple, a month was dropped, which has always made dating problems. In Serfer HaChassidut he presents the idea of a cycle, and so there are morality teachings that speak of cycles. (birth, death, renewal), and not predictions.

Finally, Yehuda HaChassid was not a prophet, nor did he ever claim to be one. He wrote a couple of books on ethics that were so insightful that it was said of him that "had he lived during the days of the prophets he would have been one". He used Gematria, not to predict, but to bring forth ethical teachings. And there are those who would read his texts and look for predictions, from someone who had no special powers, nor did he ever claim to have them.

So pretty much, someone looked into his books, have back checked to possible links, and are interpreting his writings to make them into something that he never would have done. And you got that weird conspiracy web site reporting this.

A realy biography of him can be found here.