This fact has been haunting me since last night.

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if it helps, Pope John Paul II died in 2005, which did not have a world war iii

The market did crash two years later though

BDFL of Quilibrium, Eng @ Farcaster, ex-Coinbase, always opinionated, never hydrated

/quilibrium

Missed opportunity though. How perfect would WWIII have been once Pope Palpatine XVI was appointed?

(I don’t think he was a bad dude, and respect his stepping down. I just like how he looked)

But the next  year did have the date 6/6/06

…that we know about. 

(only part kidding?)