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Question:
I believe that the world will end in 2012 because, well just look at whats happening with the weather and stuff, hurricanes, tsunami’s, earthquakes. None of that stuff ever happened in the past not at this rate and force. And look at the celebrity’s I mean ‘The Expendables’ movie looks to me like too much of a coincidence that ALL of the action star’s are in this movie. I think that they want to go out with a bang cause they know whats going on and they are planning to go under ground or something. They are adopting like crazy and they never adopt white Caucasian kids. They adopt for a reason and that reason is to repopulate. I believe that they know whats going on and they can not tell anyone because they’re not enough room, just enough room for the rich and personally selected. How many of you out there think that something big is going on in hollywood? Will the world end? I believe so.
Our Response:
Okay, seriously? I can’t tell if this is a troll “question” or what. First off, it’s barely a question. There’s an assertion that the world is going to end in 2012, and two supposed pieces of evidence offered. We’ll get into those in a moment. The only question we do get at the end is the author asking if people agree with his ludicrous claims. Honestly, I hope this question WAS contrived by a troll.
First off, we have an “escalation” in natural disasters cited as evidence that the world is ending, with the implication that these things have never happened this often before. This is just historically absurd. Anybody who lives in a hurricane risk state, (Texas, the Gulf Coast, Florida, the South East Coast of the US) knows that hurricanes happen “frequently.” It is true that they are happening “more frequently than previously recorded” but this is disingenuous at best. We honestly haven’t been recording, accurately, on a global level natural disasters, or their frequency for more than maybe 100 or so years at best. In the thousands of years of human history, it is almost certain that hurricane seasons have been more and less intense than what we have seen.
The second evidence presented by the author, is, of all things, the behavior of celebrities. He cites the crossover blockbuster the Expendables as some kind of, I don’t know, last ditch effort by Hollywood’s A-List (and apparently B, C, and D list, if you saw that film) to get paycheck with which to gild their survival shelters. He points out the trend of celebrities adopting disadvantaged children from the third world as a shrewd move to insure a wide enough gene pool for repopulating the Earth after the vast majority of people die. I wish I had the drugs it would take to make this idea sound plausible.
So, when you ultimately get down to the author’s questions, do you think these paranoias and conspiracy theories are proof that the world is ending, how would you answer it? I of course would answer with a resounding no, and I am confident the majority of our readers would as well. – Carl
