O.K. has anyone heard about the world supposedly ending on 8/22/06?

Question

Can any one fill me in on this?

LOL, well I heard that some culture 's calendar only went up to 8/22/06 and then it would all end and was just curoius as to what culture that could be to do some reading on it

Answer 1

bunch of lunies with nuthin better to do. dont worry about it

Answer 2

It's something Bernard Lewis was talking about.. it has to do with the Muslim calendar and "the night when many Muslims commemorate the night flight of the profit Muhammad on the winged horse Buraq, first to 'the farthest mosque,' usually considered Jerusalem, and then Heaven and back'

Another blog mentioning this stuff:
http://reformsyria.blogspot.com/2006/07/august-22-doomsday-in-middle-east.html

Answer 3

Hers the best answer that I got to a similar question a few days ago...it may help you. Feel free to go through my last few questions and see what people said....


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August 22nd is the day the Iran's Pres. has stated he will give his response to the incentive package offered to Iran to give up its Nuclear Enrichment program from the USA, France, Great Briton, Germany and I believe Russia and China as well.

Iran has dragged its feet for months sense receiving the generous offer. During that time some have claimed that Iran has though its influence in the Gaza Strip, Iraq and, Lebanon created as much turmoil as possible. Iran has made many statements saying it has no intention of stopping its research and development of its nuclear program.

Lastly the date does seem to correspond to a date significant in the Muslim religion. If what I read is correct the 21st of August marks the date the Muslims belief that Mohammad flew across the sky in Chariot followed by large flash of light? This has lead some to speculate that Iran could have some big event planned on that day to shock the world.

Maybe they test a nuclear weapon or maybe they smile and say thank you for the incentives and agree to stop enriching uranium or maybe they try to start WWIII. Who knows.

Answer 4

Iran's Day of Terror?
By Robert Spencer
FrontPageMagazine.com | July 27, 2006
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has frustrated
Western officials by refusing to reply to their offer of various
incentives in exchange for Iran’s discarding its nuclear program
until August 22. The Western governments had asked
Ahmadinejad to reply by June 29; why would Tehran need two
extra months?
Farid Ghadry, the president of the Reform Party of Syria, has
offered a provocative explanation for this delay. He asserts that
the Supreme National Security Council of Iran chose the
August 22 date “for a very precise reason. August 21, 2006
(Rajab 27, 1427) is known in the Islamic calendar as the Night
of the Sira’a and Miira’aj, the night Prophet Mohammed (saas)
ascended to heaven from the Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem on a
Bourak (Half animal, half man), while a great light lit-up the
night sky, and visited Heaven and Hell also Beit al-Saada and
Beit al-Shaqaa (House of Happiness and House of Misery) and
then descended back to Mecca.…”
The Night Journey, or Miraj, is central to Islam’s claim to
Jerusalem as an Islamic holy city. According to Islamic
tradition, Muhammad was carried on a Buraq, a miraculous
horse with a human head, from Mecca to Jerusalem, where he
ascended into heaven and met the other prophets. The only
thing the Qur’an has to say about it is this: “Glory to (Allah)
Who did take His servant for a Journey by night from the
Sacred Mosque to the farthest Mosque, whose precincts We did
bless, in order that We might show him some of Our Signs: for
He is the One Who heareth and seeth (all things)” (17:1). There
is no identification of the “farthest Mosque” with any mosque
in Jerusalem in this, but the Hadith is very clear on the
identification of its location with Jerusalem.
The traditions say that Muhammad and the Buraq, along with
the angel Gabriel, went to the Temple Mount, and from there to
heaven itself, where Muhammad encountered various prophets.
In the sixth heaven was Moses, occasioning a dig at the Jews.
“When I left him,” Muhammad says, “he wept. Someone asked
him, ‘What makes you weep?’ Moses said, ‘I weep because
after me there has been sent (Muhammad as a Prophet) a young
man, whose followers will enter Paradise in greater numbers
than my followers.’”
Evidently, however, Muhammad’s stories of his journey were
not altogether convincing: even some of the Muslims
abandoned their faith and challenged Muhammad’s most
faithful follower, Abu Bakr, to do the same. Abu Bakr was
contemptuous: “If he says so then it is true. And what is so
surprising in that? He tells me that communications from God
from heaven to earth come to him in an hour of a day or night
and I believe him, and that is more extraordinary than that at
which you boggle!” The world has continued to witness such
unshakeable devotion from Muslims to this day.
Did Muhammad really go anywhere? According to his favorite
wife, Aisha, he did not: “The apostle’s body remained where it
was but God removed his spirit by night.” Nevertheless, the
Night Journey has become firmly embedded in the Islamic
consciousness, such that Muslims today celebrate it as one of
the central events of Muhammad’s life. And now, according to
Ghadry, Ahmadinejad is planning an illumination of the night
sky over Jerusalem to rival the one that greeted the Prophet of
Islam on his journey. What the Iranian President, he says, is
“promising the world by August 22 is the light in the sky over
the Aqsa Mosque that took place the night before. That is his
answer to the package of incentives the international
community offered Iran on June 6.”
Certainly a nuclear attack on Jerusalem or even an all-out
conventional assault against Israel by Iran would be consistent
with Ahmadinejad’s oft-repeated denials of Israel’s right to
exist and recent predictions that its demise was at hand. He
hinted at the use of nuclear weapons in his phrasing when he
said that Israel “pushed the button of its own destruction” by
finally retaliating against Hizballah’s relentless rocket barrage
from south Lebanon.
“Arrogant powers,” Ahmadinejad said, “have set up a base for
themselves to threaten and plunder nations in the region. But
today, the occupier regime” – that is, Israel – “whose
philosophy is based on threats, massacre and invasion, has
reached its finishing line.”
Will he attempt to make good on these threats this year on the
anniversary of the Miraj, illuminating the night sky over
Jerusalem? Will Western powers heed Farid Ghadry’s words
and move to stop Iran before it is too late?

Answer 5

Nope.. Actually, the Mayan Calendar, Nostradamus, and Edgar Cayce believes the end of of the world (or end of a chapter) would be in 2012

Answer 6

My niece and I are pretty upset about this! To have to world end on her birthday and not even get to mine. Do you think we can ask for them to wait at least wait a week so I can see what everyone got me.

Answer 7

According to a specific, un-named religious group, that is a big day for things to happen....Additional reinforcement provided by an un-named Iranian honcho...

Answer 8

i have, i think its dumb (just my opinion), just because according to some people the world was supposed to end on 6/6/06 and were all STILL here, so i dont believe it...

Answer 9

I heard of this, honestly I think it is BS, but you never know. We will just have to wait.

I hope it doesn't, I KNOW I am going to Hell, plus I want to spend more time with my kids.

Answer 10

That's not the end of the world, it's just the release date for season two of House on DVD....

Seriously, I have no idea what you're talking about :)

Answer 11

Well I hope not! My son's 10th birthday s that day and we plan on going out for dinner!