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Lillith wrote:

Jack Skellington wrote:I don't trust Nostradamus' predictions either. I read in a paper after 9/11 that he apparently predicted that too!

These kind of stories will never go away though. There will always be people saying the world is gunna end on a certain date.

I agree. All we can do is hope for the best.

That is true.

If the world does end, then with some of the predictions that have been thrown about, we wouldn't know much about it anyway! It would all happen pretty quickly, especially the black-hole prediction!

Pumpkin_Man wrote: Some one, at some point may actualy guess right, but I'm not going to worry about it.

Mike

Yes that's true. I won't worry about it either. If it happens, it happens!

Jack Skellington wrote:I guess by now you've all heard about the NASA satellite falling towards earth where it will crash? (Depending on what's left of it after coming through the atmosphere).

In George A. Romero's 'Dead' franchise, wasn't radiation from a crashed satellite one of the fan theories for the outbreak?

Just saying!

That would be cool.

As you probably heard from last May, a month from now the world is supposed to, you guessed it, end. I aint worried though, I should meet a buncha cool people in Hell!

Jack the ripper here I come!

Well, we'd all be in Hell. The world was destroyed and we didn't believe Mr. Campings doomsday prediction. So, we all get to meet our favorite bad guys!

Albert Fish, here I come!

Jack Skellington wrote:That is true.

I would just ask some of them what made them do their awful crimes. That's what i'ld ask the Serial Killers anyway. I wouldn't wanna try & get inside their minds though like a psychologist - it'll be too scary!

Oh, you can bet I would! I'd even join them in gutting Hitler.

Rising Dead Man wrote:

Jack Skellington wrote:That is true.

I would just ask some of them what made them do their awful crimes. That's what i'ld ask the Serial Killers anyway. I wouldn't wanna try & get inside their minds though like a psychologist - it'll be too scary!

Oh, you can bet I would! I'd even join them in gutting Hitler.

Ahh yes. Gutting Hitler & subjecting him to torture would be on everyone's list i'ld imagine!

Jack Skellington wrote:Do you believe something is going to happen NeverMore?

Most definitely. Will it happen in my lifetime? I almost hope so. Every day I see people being so mean spirited toward each other, makes me think this world needs a cleansing. Though I would feel sorry for all my friends and acquaintances who have kids.

How will it happen? Collapse of the USA? Asteroid whacking the Earth? I don't know, but I like to keep an open mind about things. Is that an artificial satellite that's about to crash into the Earth, or is it an alien craft that NASA has been tracking? I don't always believe the official story. Yeah, I'm watching 'Ancient Aliens' on History Channel right now.

For the longest time people thought the Earth was flat. It was the rebels with the open minds that changed that belief. For the last hundred years or so we thought nothing could go faster than light, turns out Einstein was wrong. Is the world going to end? Yes. Definitely. Maybe tomorrow, maybe four billion years from now.

I know one thing for sure, I'd rather be prepared for the collapse of our society and be wrong, than not be prepared and have it happen. Even then, I'm not a tinfoil hat wearing nut. I'm not going to move to Montana and buy a bunch of guns. Hopefully my bugout bag will serve me fine. In fact, it came in real handy a couple weeks ago during the blackout.

I learned something new though. First thing I did after I found out the electricity was going to be out for a while was go buy some ice. By the time I found an open store they had no change left. The guy in front of me only had a ten spot to buy a $5.23 bag of ice. He had to let them keep the change since he really wanted the ice. I've always kept a stack of $100 bills in the house in case the ATMs went down. Now I'm adding stacks of $1, $5 & $10 bills to my stash. No! I'm not telling you guys where I hide it.

Interesting thought about the various denominations of money. It's not a bad idea to keep some on hand for emergencies.

About the "flat-earthers"--I don't think very many people in antiquity actually believed the earth was flat. For many centuries, educated people believed in the Ptolemaic view of the cosmos--the earth was the center of everything, but it was round, encased in a number of spheres, where all the planets and stars were fixed and circling the earth all the time. Anyone who lived near a harbor knew that ships would appear first by their masts, or disappear last by their masts. Since people could come back to harbor after they had sailed out, most people probably "got it" that the ship was only seeming to disappear because of the curvature of the earth.

What caused the uproar back in the 16th or 17th century wasn't the idea that the earth was round, but that it was not the center of the universe. That was a tough battle.

I've studied many centuries of Western literature, so I always defend the intelligence of people who lived centuries ago. They were not very different from us, and they were plenty smart.

You might not meet anybody at all. In Christian theology, Hell is the separation from God. I sometimes think that a person might just be alone in the dark, forever.