[alganet]

Was the Bronze Age Collapse a doomsday event? Mount Toba eruption? I think they were.

I'm not saying anyone predicted those or something. It's just that the notion of doomsday is quite vague.

I'm trying to broaden some notions here. Prediction might not be exactly absolute prediction, and doomsday might not be exactly absolute doomsday.

Perhaps some great threats were averted precisely because someone predicted them (for example, the great leaded gasoline poisoning).