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To France.

P.S. You can keep 'em!

Really, France?.

FTA: A mountain looming over a French commune with a population of just 200 is being touted as a modern Noah's Ark when doomsday arrives - supposedly less than nine months from now.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's what the article says.

... Ah.

Oh dear lord. Sounds like Harry Campings kind of people

When are they going to stop calling these people "New Agers", since they've been around for decades and they're pretty much all the same?

Mugato: When are they going to stop calling these people "New Agers", since they've been around for decades and they're pretty much all the same?

It's 'cause they're waiting for the "New Age" and it hasn't started yet, or some damn thing.

All I know, the node of the vernal equinox doesn't cross into Aquarius until 2600 or so.

theorellior: Mugato: When are they going to stop calling these people "New Agers", since they've been around for decades and they're pretty much all the same?

It's 'cause they're waiting for the "New Age" and it hasn't started yet, or some damn thing.

All I know, the node of the vernal equinox doesn't cross into Aquarius until 2600 or so.


I just realized my post sounded like a bad Seinfeld joke. I mean my post sounded like a Seinfeld joke.

I grew up in the 60s and 70s. The 'Gloom and Doom' end of the world scenarios are nothing new to me.

The only difference is that they get wider coverage these days because of our 'new' communications technology. That, naturally, opens the door for every crackpot to have a say.

Another difference is that, curiously enough, in the current poor economy, so MANY folks seem to have the money to buy or build bunkers, stock them with over priced survival rations, buy enough weapons to supply a small army and join rather costly groups teaching survival skills.

I watched a program last night where this guy bought an old Cold War Nuclear Missile Silo, for a few million, then spent a few more million gutting it out to turn it into a luxurious bunker/home. His main worry is if the 'END' comes, rogue bikers might try and crash through his chain link gates.

That made me wonder why, with all of his millions, he just didn't repair/restore the blast proof original entrance to the silo.

I'm Christian, so somewhere in my teens it dawned on me that the Biblical End of the World was scheduled for 2000. I thought that was a dirty trick, especially since I had discovered girls and was quite willing to investigate other 'sins' that would probably make me a questionable candidate for the Rapture.

Later, I developed my own Christian philosophy, but was a tad apprehensive as 2000 approached -- though more so because of the Y2K bit, where computer designers had screwed up and had not rigged the programs to automatically switch from the 1900's to the 2000's. Everyone predicted the subsequent technological melt down would throw the world into chaos. Financial ruin, wars, plague, pestilence and basically something like the old Australian 'Mad Max' movies.

2000 came and went.

Then, a lot of embarrassed preachers, leaders and such decided that, over the ages, the calendar was a tad off. The computer companies, however, breathed a sigh of relief and promptly corrected their omission. So, 2001 was declared the new and improved End Of The World.

2001 came and went with barely a peep.

A bunch of money grubbing religious cults crashed and burned. Suppliers of freeze dried and dehydrated foods got ready to start crying as the demand for their over priced goods started to fall. War surplus suppliers got irritated as the demand for their grossly over priced goods started dropping also.

THEN someone remembered the Mayan Calendar, which wasn't fully understood anyhow, and the entire Survivalist Industry cheered as the media spread new hope for the end of the world and sales of goods not only shot upwards, but whole new businesses popped up.

When this one comes and goes leaving a bunch of embarrassed folks behind as the world clicks on normally, I wonder if there are any other 'Ends of the World' scenarios that lay forgotten in the dusty historical records that can be resurrected to send idiots into a panic and keep the massive Survivalist Industry rolling?

There probably will be.

Rik01: THEN someone remembered the Mayan Calendar, which wasn't fully understood anyhow, and the entire Survivalist Industry cheered as the media spread new hope for the end of the world and sales of goods not only shot upwards, but whole new businesses popped up.

Except the Y2K wasn't Biblical in nature to some people so stocking up on supplies and guns in case of a global computer meltdown made sense in a paranoid delusional way. But if you believe in the Mayan thing, that means the literal end of the world so I don't see how that would make those people feel the need to stock up on anything.

Mugato: Rik01: THEN someone remembered the Mayan Calendar, which wasn't fully understood anyhow, and the entire Survivalist Industry cheered as the media spread new hope for the end of the world and sales of goods not only shot upwards, but whole new businesses popped up.

Except the Y2K wasn't Biblical in nature to some people so stocking up on supplies and guns in case of a global computer meltdown made sense in a paranoid delusional way. But if you believe in the Mayan thing, that means the literal end of the world so I don't see how that would make those people feel the need to stock up on anything.

So it's OK to over-react to one manufactured crisis but not another.....

Trance750: So it's OK to over-react to one manufactured crisis but not another.....

No, my point was that the Y2K scare was that our infrastructure would collapse and we'd wind up in a Mad Max world. This Mayan bullshiat, people think there will be NO world. So the crazies who believe that don't really need to stock up because there will be like, no world.

A couple megachurches have a larger congregation than this group.

Mugato: Trance750: So it's OK to over-react to one manufactured crisis but not another.....

No, my point was that the Y2K scare was that our infrastructure would collapse and we'd wind up in a Mad Max world. This Mayan bullshiat, people think there will be NO world. So the crazies who believe that don't really need to stock up because there will be like, no world.

Y2K honestly gets a bad rap, I think. A lot of bad shiat would have actually gone down if not for armies of programmers that worked for years to patch millions of lines of old computer code. A lot of effort went into making New Year's 2000 so uneventful.

Pharmdawg: borg: Trance750: Sometimes I wish they would all disappear, and help raise the collective IQ for those still here

I was just watching some show on discovery channel about building bunkers I think the IQ only goes up if those loons disappear.

When they emerge from the bunkers though, there will probably be more of them on the way, bunkers being on the whole pretty dull.

Bringing a whole new meaning to the term "bunker buster", eh?

Mad_Radhu: A lot of effort went into making New Year's 2000 so uneventful.

I know, I was part of it. A very, very, very minor part. Like Peter in Office Space.

Mad_Radhu: Mugato: Trance750: So it's OK to over-react to one manufactured crisis but not another.....

No, my point was that the Y2K scare was that our infrastructure would collapse and we'd wind up in a Mad Max world. This Mayan bullshiat, people think there will be NO world. So the crazies who believe that don't really need to stock up because there will be like, no world.

Y2K honestly gets a bad rap, I think. A lot of bad shiat would have actually gone down if not for armies of programmers that worked for years to patch millions of lines of old computer code. A lot of effort went into making New Year's 2000 so uneventful.

Especially in locations where no effort went into it at all, and yet nothing still happened.

Mugato: When are they going to stop calling these people "New Agers", since they've been around for decades and they're pretty much all the same?



Doing a little investigation into the relevant literature might serve you well (new window).

/studies New Age religion
//getting a real kick out of these replies

linuxpyro: //Neat setting the time appropriately and watching it roll back to 1970

What the hell weirdo system was that? When you roll over past the end of the Epoch, time_t should go negative, which should yield a time sometime in 1901, not back at the start of the Epoch in 1970...

Somacandra: Doing a little investigation into the relevant literature might serve you well (new window).

On my Wish List now.

Jon iz teh kewl: ones who use Prodigy! Chat to pick up minors

Does that work?