Doesn't it seem like these end of the world quacks are getting more common?

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SphinxnihpS

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Come to me children, our Alien Overlords have anointed me as your Agent to Salvation from the coming Doooom. Spread the Word and oh, take these pamphlets, chocolates, and flowers to sell to the Lost. Carry the Holy Nikes everywhere you go, but do not wear them until the Appointed Hour.

Love. :cool:


Hippie:colbert:
 

Nemesis 1

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Come to me children, our Alien Overlords have anointed me as your Agent to Salvation from the coming Doooom. Spread the Word and oh, take these pamphlets, chocolates, and flowers to sell to the Lost. Carry the Holy Nikes everywhere you go, but do not wear them until the Appointed Hour.

Love. :cool:

As this civilization dies they laughed and danced in the streets saying chiken little says the sky is falling .

You guys are way out of touch . Not even the scientist are laughing. Lieing yes Laughing Not happening.
 

davmat787

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Don't you think encouraging people to burn out their eyeballs is immoral?

DON'T DO IT NEMESIS 1, IT'S A TRAP!!!

You know what, your right. Use some high quality binoculars instead, much safer that way. This might even qualify as a ProTip© too! :biggrin:
 

Nemesis 1

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I'm pretty sure Nemesis 1 is being ironic, guys :p


I, for one, believe in the brown dwarf and that it is the home planet of the lizard people who used the Masons to infiltrate the Bush White House and plan 9/11, and who forged Obama's birth certificate.

I am pretty sure you shouldn't take bets on this. The ironic part that is.
 

Nemesis 1

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You know what, your right. Use some high quality binoculars instead, much safer that way. This might even qualify as a ProTip© too! :biggrin:

Oh man don't use other peoples material . OH wait . You have to as in your lifetime you have never had an orginal thought
 

Nemesis 1

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As for the brown dwarf possibly orbiting the Sun.... so what?
It's basically just like a warm Jupiter, maybe a few of them.

What's the doomsday discussion on this brown dwarf? Having a brown dwarf orbiting a larger star and sharing our solar system is not all that special. Well, kind of cool actually, to have one that's basically in our cosmic backyard. It's not like brown dwarfs have a history of breaking the laws of physics and divebombing planets after deciding to drop out of a perfectly good orbit, and short of that, what kind of doomsday scenario would a brown dwarf play into?

If there's a brown dwarf in our solar system, it's lukewarm at best (compared to other Brown Dwarfs, at least), and probably not much larger than Jupiter.

Keep in mind a brown dwarf was discovered recently, with an overage thermal output hovering around a balmy 100ºC.

OH my you know jupitor. Gosh my life is full of New events . Beings You know jupitor Mind telling us all what happened to the Red spot it once had . Its gone now . Recently she left the solar system
 

manimal

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I was just a boy...

First time I was in New York City-late 74- there were nuts on almost every street corner with signs about the end of the world and guys with bullhorns screaming some shit about baby jesus...


The funny thing is it actually looked like the end times....NYC was a SHITHOLE...
 

sandorski

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As this civilization dies they laughed and danced in the streets saying chiken little says the sky is falling .

You guys are way out of touch . Not even the scientist are laughing. Lieing yes Laughing Not happening.

Negative.
 

sportage

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Memo to the quacks...
WHat if the world should never end... ever!
I see it more like a society from BACK TO THE FUTURE II movie.
Crime, like that in Mexico, rampant in the US.
Drugs and gangs rampant. Controlling every city. Police out armed and helpless.
Streets patrolled by the military, also out armed and corrupt. Owned.
So many killings and death, the news cannot keep up. And no one really pays attention anyway.
A government so corrupt, the gangs and drug lords own every official.
A incredible gap between rich and poor.
The rich protected by walls of stone and steel. And always hidden from view.
No social services at all. None! Nothing.
Unsafe food. Unsafe drinking water. Few schools. No services.
Massive unemployment. Few stores. Polluted air. Streets full of trash and rats.
And then... people will wish the world would come to an end. But it won't.
Naturally, everyone will own a gun. And use it daily. And often. Or die!
In other words... the republicans wet dream...
 
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I mean we have those nutballs down in Florida, pretty much the entire religious right including Glenn Beck, that idiot Rush Limbagh, the Mayan calendar loons, and now Britney Spears releases 'Till the World Ends' video.

Really when have no many big quacks happen so close together

It is money making on an unethical way. People want/fear something to happen and that is used. It is simple lies of marketing.


There will always be a sucker who will fall for some kind of scheme, that is to bad but it is the way it is. But how about the responsibility from the scheme creators ?
Without scruples, life is easy. But not for those with scruples.
 

jjzelinski

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocentrism

Drives me fucking nuts listening to people talk about the "end of the world." Haven't we all agreed that there's this giant fucking thing out there called the UNIVERSE that couldn't give two fucks about whether or not we accepted jesus as our lord an savior? I don't get it. It's like we're all still behaving in a way that suggests we still believe the earth is flat.

And it's not a benign problem, either. This end of the world non-sense truly effects the way believers think about their environments which in turn adversely effects their behavior. When you exist in a world you "know" is not only temporary, but beneath you (since you've got your sights set on "heaven") then you start behaving in a way that treats the world around you like its disposable.

This is it folks. All you see before you is what you get, no more, no less. Make the fucking most of it and stop shitting where you eat.