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Millennium Doomsday Prophecies
Skeptic's Version
Now that the year 2000 has arrived, it has become
a trend in the media and among the public to regard the year 999 as a time
of paralyzing fear, widespread panic and general confusion. While this might
be easy for the Believers to accept as historical fact, it may be more fantasy
than fact. There was no general panic, no universal abandonment of life while
all awaited death and judgement. Documents, royal speeches, papal bulls and
chronicles of the time offer little evidence of mass hysteria.
In this century, skeptical psychic investigators and medieval historians have
begun to suspect that the public's willingness to believe that the turn of
the last millennium was a time of great horror and upheaval. Skeptics dub
this myth the "Terrors of the year 1000."
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