It was 3pm, wednesday october 28, 1992. I was eleven years old, all alone in the house and in need of an absolution. We were told an asteriod was going to hit the earth and create a tidal wave several hundred metres high which would destroy the world. At that age I didn't really know much about asteroids and tidal waves (armaggedon was at least minus 8 years old), so all I understood was a rock was gonna hit the earth and we were all gonna die.

My dad was abroad studying, my mum the type of parent who believed her children were safe only if they were locked up in her "bunker" of a house or if she was with them physically, so she always took my brothers to school everyday, my sister was in FGGC, I had just written my Lagos State and G2 and was awaiting my result.

There was no facebook then, no bb or whatsapp, the internet was still learning how to walk, I didn't get my first windows 3.1 computer until a year later, there was no phone to call anyone, and there was no multichoice to know what was going on (except u had a large scale satellite like "ultima" back then). There I was, all alone in the house, waiting for a death I didn't believe I had earned at the time.

At that age I didn't fully believe the whole idea, but then again I couldn't doubt the words of the "scientist" at the time. I was young, my other name naiive, and even though I had been born again for five years already, I couldn't randomly retrieve revelations and visions from the Father's Presence like I can now (the Holy Ghost was a Hammer-house-of-horror Ghost to me, God a Deity I feared more than I loved and I didn't know much about the book of revelations {it always scared me shitless at the time}).

So what did I do? I took me a broom and swept the entire house, and after picking up the broken broom's pices from my finger skins with my teeth and a blade, I cleaned the rest of the house, had my bath, put on my best shirt at the time and sat down in the parlour. It was 3:55pm, and I had about 5 minutes to live.

At that age I could only process one thought at a time, which was the fact that I was gonna experience death as a result of a collision brought about by a natural occurence mankind had no control of. By 3:58 I asked God to forgive me of my sins and I closed my eyes and waited. It felt like three and a half eternites had passed when I opened my eyes again and looked at the clock; it was 4:02pm.

Then it dawned on me, like a bolt out of the blue, this unexplainable feeling, that the world wasn't going to end. I rushed out of the house like a bullet released from its prison in a magazine. Festac was different then, but as I drank in the afternoon sun and ate the breeze that graced my coconut head I knew that it had all been a hoax.

With a hiss on my lips and happiness freshly wrenced from a deep sense of foreboding I switched on the TV (somehow nepa brought light after they found out they weren't gonna end as well). If I can remember correctly muppet babies wasn't due till 4:30 on NTA 2 channel 5.

Over the past 20 years I have heard about the world ending and every time i check my spirit and get that feeling I got back then, that it is all in error. So based on this I believe the world will not end anytime soon. Of course there are other reasons but I have only stated one.

Natural disasters will continue to happen (a sad reality this is), but our world ain't coming to an end anytime soon.

You may indeed question my drawn conclusion based on my extra sensory perceptions, I love critics cos without them life would be boring and ideas would be as sovereign as GOD.

So i have told you mine, so tell us - do u think the world will end this tomorrow and if you don't I would be very much obliged to know why.

Dude... The world may not come to an end 2mrw, though there wld be a great warning sign. Quotes from what I read, there wld be a huge cross on the sky like a comet. The sky wld be red. Every1 above the age of 7yrs wld be have an encounter with the Lord for 15mins. A few wld survive the wrath of God. We have been asked to pray for ourselves n everyone esp. Those who may die as a result of the shock of the scence, as they will not have a chance to ask God for forgiveness of sin... Its sth I look forward to. Even Natgeo of DSTV channel 181 also predicted it.

teddy2011: Dude... The world may not come to an end 2mrw, though there wld be a great warning sign. Quotes from what I read, there wld be a huge cross on the sky like a comet. The sky wld be red. Every1 above the age of 7yrs wld be have an encounter with the Lord for 15mins. A few wld survive the wrath of God. We have been asked to pray for ourselves n everyone esp. Those who may die as a result of the shock of the scence, as they will not have a chance to ask God for forgiveness of sin... Its sth I look forward to. Even Natgeo of DSTV channel 181 also predicted it.

This is your take i take,

My take is nothing will happen out of the norm, the ordinary and the mediocre,

If nothing happens tomorrow what should I do to you and these prophets of inevitable doom?

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