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Is the world coming to an end?

Weird!!! But sounds logical!!!


INDIATIMES NEWS NETWORK
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2004 08:28:59 AM
NEW DELHI: Top astrologers in the country are hinting that the tsunami strike might indeed be a step towards Nostradamus' prediction - End of the world in 2010. Minutes after panic gripped southern India following warnings of a fresh tsunami strike on Thursday, one of India's top astrologers, Kewal Anand Joshi, warned: "It's not over yet." "We (a group of astrologers) are currently diagnosing the calamity. There's going to be another major strike in June 2005, somewhere in the world. It will continue in 2006 and even in 2007 taking millions of lives," Joshi almost assured. "And we have reason to believe, besides tsunami strikes, there'll be a series of natural catastrophes which could destroy parts of the world," he added. Toll in Saturday's tsunami-strike has already reached 80,000 of which 13,500 were killed in India alone. Experts feel the total count "will rise to 1 lakh", making this one of the most catastrophic natural disaster to have struck the world ever. Delhi-based Tarot Card reader, Pinki Vaid, took time to make some sense out of this through her cards. "It's a sign from God," she says.
"He wants us to know that materialism means nothing if compared to the lives around us. He's giving us a sign that we must learn fast or else we'll be the cause of our own destruction." "Our destiny is in our own hands now," Pinki says. She adds, "If we want, we can change Nostradamus' prediction. But we first need to learn that working in a multi-national company or making a lot of money is not what was meant to be our nature of existence." Pinki's colleague, Deepak, however, analyses the tsunami strike a little differently. "Since 1999, humans started becoming a lot more spiritual. But then there are still a lot more people who are not. So there's a big clash. The transmutation of positive and negative energies was the cause of this strike. It's the planet Earth's way of reacting to humans," he explains. "If we hope to survive, we need to erase negative energies and transform them into positive energies. Else, chaos is just round the corner," he said.


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