Apocaholics

[LogikAndReazon]

Global poverty, famine, expanding deserts, plagues, water wars, peak oil, commodity shortages, ozone depletion, acid rain, mad cow disease, y2k, nuclear winter, global warming, ocean acidification, asteroids, swine flu, population density and now the mayan calendar.................

What to do with these Hysterical Doomsday Pessimists ???

 

[waltky]

Granny says, "Dat's right - we all gonna die, den Jesus gonna put all dem lefty lib'rals an' godless commies, an' Mooslamic terrorists inna fiery hot place...

1 in 7 think end of the world is near
Wednesday 2nd May, 2012 - Nearly 15 percent of people worldwide believe the world will end during their lifetime and 10 percent think the Mayan calendar could signify it will happen in 2012.

This is the result of a new poll conducted by Ipsos Global Public Affairs for a news agency. The end of the Mayan calendar, which spans about 5 125 years, on December 21, 2012 has sparked interpretations and suggestions that it marks the end of the world. "Whether they think it will come to an end through the hands of God, or a natural disaster or a political event, whatever the reason, one in seven thinks the end of the world is coming," News 24 quoted Keren Gottfried, research manager at Ipsos Global Public Affairs, as saying. "Perhaps it is because of the media attention coming from one interpretation of the Mayan prophecy that states the world 'ends' in our calendar year 2012," Gottfried said, adding that some Mayan scholars have disputed the interpretation.

Responses to the international poll of 16 262 people in more than 20 countries varied widely with only six percent of French residents believing in an impending Armageddon in their lifetime, compared to 22 percent in Turkey and the United States and slightly less in South Africa and Argentina. But only seven percent in Belgium and eight percent in Great Britain feared an end to the world during their lives. About one in 10 people globally also said they were experiencing fear or anxiety about the impending end of the world in 2012.

The greatest numbers were in Russia and Poland, the fewest in Great Britain. Gottfried also said that people with lower education or household income levels, as well as those under 35 years old, were more likely to believe in an apocalypse during their lifetime or in 2012, or have anxiety over the prospect. "Perhaps those who are older have lived long enough to not be as concerned with what happens to their future," she explained.

1 in 7 think end of the world is near

 

[Ringel05]

Global poverty, famine, expanding deserts, plagues, water wars, peak oil, commodity shortages, ozone depletion, acid rain, mad cow disease, y2k, nuclear winter, global warming, ocean acidification, asteroids, swine flu, population density and now the mayan calendar.................

What to do with these Hysterical Doomsday Pessimists ???

Buy stock in tin foil.........

 

[Douger]

The world already ended. You just didn't notice.

 

[editec]

Global poverty, famine, expanding deserts, plagues, water wars, peak oil, commodity shortages, ozone depletion, acid rain, mad cow disease, y2k, nuclear winter, global warming, ocean acidification, asteroids, swine flu, population density and now the mayan calendar.................

What to do with these Hysterical Doomsday Pessimists ???

What "logic or reason" convinced you we have to do anything with them at all?

"LogikAndReazon" Yeah...right

 

[Two Thumbs]

Global poverty, famine, expanding deserts, plagues, water wars, peak oil, commodity shortages, ozone depletion, acid rain, mad cow disease, y2k, nuclear winter, global warming, ocean acidification, asteroids, swine flu, population density and now the mayan calendar.................

What to do with these Hysterical Doomsday Pessimists ???

you forgot bird flu

or did you?

 

[RoadVirus]

What to do with these Hysterical Doomsday Pessimists ???

Leave them be in their doomsday shelters.

 

[g5000]

Global poverty, famine, expanding deserts, plagues, water wars, peak oil, commodity shortages, ozone depletion, acid rain, mad cow disease, y2k, nuclear winter, global warming, ocean acidification, asteroids, swine flu, population density and now the mayan calendar.................

What to do with these Hysterical Doomsday Pessimists ???

Ask them to give you all their stuff since the world is ending. Sell them rice and water for their bomb shelter at a high markup.


I had a close friend who was into all that end of the world crap. As Y2K approached, her hysteria rose.

The day after the world didn't end, I phoned her. I freely admit I was in a gloating mood.

She was not deterred in the slightest. She was already fixated on a date a few years in the future in which all the planets would be lined up. THAT was going to be the end, for sure!

What an amazing mental defect that is. Right out of Orwell from the perspective of forgetting the immediate past and believing whatever comes out of the mouths of the prophets next.

That's some scary human shit right there.

 

[g5000]

Here's the thing.

The End is Nigh bunch can't WAIT for the world to end. They are mighty upset with their pathetic little lives and are angry at some of their fellow human beings, and their only desire is to see those bastards get their comeuppance.

The doomers see themselves as having box seats overseeing their fellow Earthlings roasting and screaming and apologizing for being so wrong about everything. This fantasy gives doomers little mini orgasms every time they think about it.

These are some sick people.

 

[Skull Pilot]

TS Eliot - The Hollow Men

A penny for the Old Guy

I

We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar

Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;

Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom
Remember us - if at all - not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.


II

Eyes I dare not meet in dreams
In death's dream kingdom
These do not appear:
There, the eyes are
Sunlight on a broken column
There, is a tree swinging
And voices are
In the wind's singing
More distant and more solemn
Than a fading star.

Let me be no nearer
In death's dream kingdom
Let me also wear
Such deliberate disguises
Rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves
In a field
Behaving as the wind behaves
No nearer -

Not that final meeting
In the twilight kingdom


III

This is the dead land
This is cactus land
Here the stone images
Are raised, here they receive
The supplication of a dead man's hand
Under the twinkle of a fading star.

Is it like this
In death's other kingdom
Waking alone
At the hour when we are
Trembling with tenderness
Lips that would kiss
Form prayers to broken stone.


IV

The eyes are not here
There are no eyes here
In this valley of dying stars
In this hollow valley
This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms
In this last of meeting places
We grope together
And avoid speech
Gathered on this beach of the tumid river

Sightless, unless
The eyes reappear
As the perpetual star
Multifoliate rose
Of death's twilight kingdom
The hope only
Of empty men.


V

Here we go round the prickly pear
Prickly pear prickly pear
Here we go round the prickly pear
At five o'clock in the morning.
Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom
Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow
Life is very long
Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom
For Thine is
Life is
For Thine is the

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

 

[Paulie]

Global poverty, famine, expanding deserts, plagues, water wars, peak oil, commodity shortages, ozone depletion, acid rain, mad cow disease, y2k, nuclear winter, global warming, ocean acidification, asteroids, swine flu, population density and now the mayan calendar.................

What to do with these Hysterical Doomsday Pessimists ???

Buy stock in tin foil.........

Haven't heard THAT one on the internet yet today

 

[waltky]

Granny says, "Dat's right -we all gonna die...

Storms threatening ozone covering over US
Jul 28, 2012, WASHINGTON: Ozone layer depletion triggered by climate change could adversely affect human health, scientists have warned.

Researchers from Harvard University who studied the ozone layer over the United States found that thunderstorms send water vapour into the stratosphere which is normally drier than a desert and pose a threat to the protective ozone layer, The New York Times reported. Thinning of the ozone layer over the US during summers could mean an increase in ultraviolet exposure for millions of people and a rise in the incidence of skin cancer. "It's the union between ozone loss and climate change that is really at the heart of this," said James G Anderson, an atmospheric scientist and the lead author of the study.

For years, Anderson said, he and other atmospheric scientists were careful to keep the two concepts separate . "Now, they're intimately connected ," he said. Ozone helps shield people, animals and crops from damaging ultraviolet rays from the sun. Much of the concern about the ozone layer has focused on Antarctica , where thinning, has been seen for two decades.

While there is conclusive evidence that strong warm-weather storms have sent water vapour as high as 12 miles and while climate scientists say one effect of global warming is an increase in the intensity and frequency of storms, it is not yet clear whether the number of such injection events will rise.

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