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The End of the World is a future event, but it is best for all people to be prepared. The best way to prepare for the End of the World is not to store up food, water, or resources. Rather, the best way to prepare for the End of the World is by placing faith in Jesus and accepting Him as your Lord and Savior. They loaded the whiskey, clothing, food, boat gear and fuel into their runabout, and then they actually shook our hands and politely thanked us,” Shaw tells the Guardian. This is a wonderfully imaginative mix of psychology, quantum mechanics and the meaning of human consciousness. It is based on the “ quantum mind” idea developed by the physicist Roger Penrose in the late 80s. The theory is not taken very seriously now by scientists, but is great sci-fi thriller fodder. Rogerson was a very charming man,” she recalls. “But he used that charm to get what he wanted out of people. The bottom line – he was a psychopath.” ‘My life was totally insane’

In 2019, Ruth decided she had to add another bookshop – one just for children, where they could stretch out while they read, and borrow books if they liked. William Miller’s supporters have left behind detailed accounts of the day of disillusionment when, having sold all their possessions, many of them waited patiently for the lights in the dawn sky heralding the coming of Christ. On 21 May last year the followers of the Californian radio evangelist, Harold Camping, followers waited with similar anticipation. Their social network messages flew around the world as they watched for the second coming of Christ from New Zealand to the USA. Snuggled among the books on the shelves are soft toys that children can take home for the night, their names chosen by the first child who borrowed them. Book Genre: Autobiography, Biography, Biography Memoir, Books About Books, Contemporary, Memoir, Nonfiction It should have been September 23 rd1186 according to John of Toledo, but nothing happened. Judgement Day failed to materialise again on 5 April 1761, as foretold by London’s William Bell. Nothing apocalyptic happened on 28April1843, and again on 21 September1945. The twenty-fifth of June1982 too ended with the world intact. The twenty-first of May2011 came and went uneventfully. Over the last 2000 years there have been at least 200 confident prophecies made that the end would happen not just soon, but on a specific date. All, so far, have ended in relief for the many, but disappointment and disillusionment for the few.The Commodore’s final disparaging words were that Shaw would never make anything of herself, and never get a job at sea. And then, two years ago, she opened another – this time inspired by what she saw as a male reluctance to read. As she writes in her book:

Annihilation , by Jeff VanderMeer. Deliciously weird thriller set in the slippery, post-everything frontier of ‘Area X.’ Before long, they were engaged, the church booked, the invitations printed, the dress fitted, and their rings made from gold Ruth’s father had mined in Central Otago. Underlining all her wanderings and adventures are some very deep losses and long-held pain. Balancing that out is her beautiful love story with Lance, and her delightful sense of humor. Ruth had kept hers too, in a small box she carried everywhere, as her life lurched across the world.After two years, seeing few prospects of going to sea or advancing her nursing career, Shaw piled her possessions into her Ford Prefect, and deserted, the first New Zealand “WREN” to ever go AWOL. That gives me so much joy,” she says. “I know I’m doing my job, I’m giving my readers something that they will hold really close.”

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely of places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it." But just months into their new life, Peter was killed in a car accident, while working as a journalist. This will make you weep and make you laugh and make you want to read more books - and make you want to visit Ruth and her two wee bookshops. Her possessions soon followed her home, the tea chests, and Joshua’s cross that she’d wrenched from the cemetery soil.The idea of apocalypse as entertainment was taken to its absurd limits by Douglas Adam, the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, in his creation of the restaurant at the end of the universe. There, time traveling patrons could watch the cosmic denouement while enjoying a good meal. A severe blood condition saw him baptised and buried on the same day, a plain wooden cross marking his grave, his death certificate all Shaw was left with. Interestingly, when prophecies fail, the ensuing anti-climax does not always result in disillusioned believers slinking away red-faced. Sometimes the believing churches are, strangely, re-empowered. After the great disappointment of William Miller’s followers in the 1840s they re-grouped and evolved into a new church, the Seventh Day Adventists, which today is a thriving worldwide organisation. The fascination with the end time runs through history. Ever since humans began speculating about their origins they have probably been wondering about the ultimate destiny of the world. Even before the time of the early Christians, who expected a spectacular Judgement Day at any moment, the ancient Romans had their own end-time scares.Over the last 2000 years prophets have come, and gone, with regularity. Around 1000 AD and also prior to the recent millennium switch, anticipation has beenheightened. The first of January2000 had its own distinctive variation on the theme when many feared that the world’s computer systems would crash simultaneously. Upon recovery Shaw landed in northern NSW and found herself in her third ill-fated marriage, living on a semi-rural property nurturing her newly found hobby of pig rearing. After it ended she took to the seas again: this time on her own nine-metre yacht Magic. She ended up in Tasmania, standing alongside Bob Brown in the early 1980s in a bid to stop the construction of the Franklin Dam; and then in Sydney, hired as a welfare officer to sex workers by Sydney City Mission, working the beat of Kings Cross in the era of Abe Saffron, Roger Rogerson and Neddy Smith.

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