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“We’re dealing with human na
ture here, and the key issue here is
we don’t knowhow people are go
ing to react,” Osanka said. “You
could have a lot of strangeness go
ing around as people get crazy.”
Technological concerns domi
nate the list of current troubles,
but some religious groups believe
the apocalypse is near.
This was the primary fear for
those who lived through the first
millennium change in the years
999 to 1000.
“It was frightening,” said histo
ry professor John Nicols. “They
thought it was going to be the end
ofthe world."
Nicols said people today have
grown up with the folklore sur
rounding the end of human exis
tence. But back in medieval times
religious visionaries truly believed
that Christ’s second coming would
be the end, the final judgment.
To prepare for the first millen
nium, people increased their vis
its to the local confessional, prac
ticed self-flagellation as
punishment for their sins and
construction of long-term projects
ceased, Nicols said.
Most beliefs were related to reli
gion, but some people relied on the
calendar and numerical mysticism.
“The sense of 1000, the number
element in Ylk, isn’t prevalent to
day as it was back then,” Nicols
said. “People take these ideas of
an order, a kind of mathematical
order underlying the physical
world as a pattern.”
Even computer experts don’t
know what will really happen this
time around, but the day of the
first millennium was a day like
any other.
“It was a normal day like any
other and people quickly forgot
it,” he said.
For skeptics who believe this
will be the case again, Osanka ad
vised to assume the worst and
hope for the best.
“We’re dealing with a world
that is increasingly complex and
things are more and more inter
connected,” Osanka said. “I know
enough about computers and the
interconnectedness of things that
I’m nervous.”
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from 1 to 2 p.m. in EMU Century
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from 4:30 to 9 p.m. in the EMU
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sponsoring an Israeli dancing
event from 7 to 10 p.m. in the
EMU Walnut Room.
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