Meh, I'm in the mood to write. A lot…
This site seems more like a thinly veiled cover to attack Mr. Geryl.
Only thinly veiled? Huh. No, course not, we'll attack his ideas until there is nothing left of them, as you should attack our ideas. The minute either sides arguments are aimed at the speaker not the claim, is the minute that side loses the argument. Let's see if you've got any claims or if you're just going to shout at us.
Your gaggle of "experts"
Oh, looks like you're going to shout then.
have no more credentials than he does.
And yet somehow you take his words above those of known science…
At least he has been published.
Yes. At a bookstore. Rather than through scientific peer-reviewed literature.
all your credentials are most unimpressive. Just answering in this way puts your little group in suspect.
I'm taking this off topic, but I'm getting the strange feeling of you as the almighty Galactic Empire and we as the Rebel scum. Bizarre. Anyway, back to the point.
I would rather prepare for the worse and pray for the best rather than listen to a bunch of self admitted "amateurs" who think they are the only ones who know what's going to happen and attack all those who oppose them.
Are you preparing for each and every proposed threat, or just the ones you like the sounds of? Preparing for an Earthquake when you live near a fault line is a darned good idea. Preparing for something which you cannot even scientifically find evidence for is pushing it, really. Why are you spending time preparing for something that has chances of happening that are equivalent to 0, rather than preparing for events with more favourable statistics. Like your car being broken into.
You people are delusional.
Ekki-Ekki-Ekki-Ekki-PTANG. Zoom-Boing. Z'nourrwringmm. Prove it.
I'm wondering how many of your group is secretly preparing for the same thing you say won't happen?
I have a good feeling I'll completely forget the winter solstice is on the 21st Dec 2012, far too busy thinking about what's on TV over that week or something. I even forgot about it last year, when there was a darned lunar eclipse on the same day. How could I forget that? Because it just. Wasn't. Significant.
But your kind exist everywhere in every walk of life and field.
Geez, we're a kind now? Some type of horrid off-shoot from Humanity?
You make some kind of outrageous claim or buck the system in hopes that someday you'll be right and can hold that moment up for all to see and say. "SEE! I WAS RIGHT ALL ALONG!!" If it doesn't turn our for you, you all slink away into obscurity and look for something else to "Know what you're talking about."
Or in this case, be wiped from the face of the Earth from an unavoidable Mayan death prophecy oh no wait, that's the whole reason this site exists, yeah, that whole lack of proof for your beliefs slipped my mind there…
It's plain and simple good planning to store goods for an emergency. What you're attempting to do here is talk people out of preparing for a possible emergency based on a bunch of "know-it-all" amateurs.
As I said above, plan away, but it's like you're planning for the Earth to become a singularity, rather than preparing for a rainy day. Rain happens, buy an umbrella, you'll thank me. Planets don't collapse into singularities, no amount of prayer is even needed, you hate me for daring to suggest anything opposed to your view. Cool.
Since you are obviously all young,
Depends on how you look at life, really. I'm a quarter of the way through my life expectancy. Less than half, sure, but still. I think I'm digressing here.
prepare yourselves to live a long time with the thought of many people who died because they took your advice.
How many times have members of this forum given advice for people to seek medical help? And how many stories have returned from people who did seek that help and are better for it? You know, I forget how many times I've read that happening… Of course, we could take Geryl's advice instead… you know, to give him a ton of money to build a bunker that isn't needed.
I'm sure you've talked many family members into believing you who might die with your words of reassurance echoing through their head.
My family couldn't give a rodents rectum about 2012. In fact, they aren't even thinking of it in terms of doomsday, because like rational human beings, there simply isn't a need to think of it as a doomsday, but just as another year on this ball of rocks circling the Sun.
This convergence of events has never presented itself in modern times and will soon pass, no matter what the consequences. You can always eat previously stored food.
Unless it's passed it's expiration date.
But this time things are different.
How? Show us, where's your evidence?
Lives are on the line, not just a consensus or nations economy you can easily slink away from.
And what, lives aren't on the line in any other situation on this planet? Dude, you can't drive that bus, lives are on the line. Whoa, hey, no, don't smoke that, lives are on the line. You're letting your telomeres do what now? Alright, the last one's a stretch, but I fail to see exactly where you're coming from here. It seems to be "Play it safe", which in today's world might as well be "Hi, welcome to Life on planet Earth, good luck during your ever so brief spell here." Am I looking at this the wrong way here? I'm not going to let the ill-informed, scientifically illiterate idiots tell people there is no hope unless you give them tons of money.
This time, if YOU are wrong, YOU will die.
You mean ME? Trying to tell me I'M going to die? Death and taxes springs to mind here. What's the point here? If I die, I won't even know I'm dead. Damn weird thought, but until someone proves otherwise, that's where I stand. Of course, you think it will happen on a designated date according to the butchering of a dubious (read: practically nonexistent) ancient prophecy shoehorned into bad science in order to sell a few books, well, you're going to need to do an awful lot more than capitalize the word 'you' in order to get my attention.
If you were my next door neighbor I listened and did nothing to prepare, you would be in my cross hairs as I ransacked your house for food and supplies.
Land of the free, home of the brave… Thank the God(s) I don't believe in that we only share the same planet, as oppose to the same street name.
Do you even realize you've have all bet your very lives on this one event? If things turn for the worse, you yourselves will not have to worry about earthly calamities because you won't survive the repercussions of your words.
Whereas in 2013, you'll be awaiting the next grand failure, perhaps scheduled for a more distant date, the 2040s perhaps, just to justify your position. I'd love to pack all this in, I'd love to live in a world where idiots cannot influence the lives of the ill-informed, but we simply don't, and most likely never will, so while there are people abusing science, history, whatever for the sake of misery and money, I'm just going to be here calling them out on it. That currently happens to include a Mr. P. Geryl.
dave (guest) 21 Jan 2011 18:34
