Is the world coming to an end - India Time

NEW DELHI: Top astrologers in the country are hinting that the tsunamistrike might indeed be a step towards Nostradamus' prediction - End ofthe world in 2010.

Minutes after panic gripped southern India following warnings of a freshtsunami strike on Thursday, one of India's top astrologers, Kewal AnandJoshi, 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 theworld.

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 aseries of natural catastrophes which could destroy parts of the world,"he added.

Toll in Saturday's tsunami-strike has already reached 80,000 of which13,500 were killed in India alone. Experts feel the total count "will riseto 1lakh", making this one of the most catastrophic natural disaster to havestruck the world ever.

Delhi-based Tarot Card reader, Pinki Vaid, took time to make some senseout 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 thelives around us. He's giving us a sign that we must learn fast or elsewe'llbe 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 littledifferently."Since 1999, humans started becoming a lot more spiritual. But thenthereare still a lot more people who are not. So there's a big clash. Thetransmutation of positive and negative energies was the cause of thisstrike. 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 transformthem into positive energies. Else, chaos is just round the corner," he said.

Personally, I find this fowarded message a bit interesting in a sense that the facts are quite practical.. many people did become more spiritual recently...even in the west. But he uses multi national company to represent wealth means that the author is somehow working for a MNC or just hoping to work for one.