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To think that people that genuinely believe in this end of the world stuff need to get a grip.

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wannaBe · 11/03/2011 10:23

Ultimately, if the world is going to end then you'll be dead so you won't know about it anyway.

But in the meantime:

There are genuine natural disasters happening to people right now, and some will lose their lives, some have lost family and friends, some have lost their homes and their livelyhoods, and their lives have been altered for ever.

So to panic about something that has no proven basis other than the ramblings of some nutters on the internet is just a bit pathetic really.

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altinkum · 11/03/2011 14:24

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CaveMum · 11/03/2011 14:38

Everyone sing along:

That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and
snakes, an aeroplane and Lenny Bruce is not afraid.
Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn - world
serves its own needs, dummy serve your own needs. Feed
it off an aux speak, grunt, no, strength, the Ladder
start to clatter with fear fight down height. Wire
in a fire, representing seven games, and a government
for hire at a combat site. Left of west and coming in
a hurry with the furys breathing down your neck. Team
by team reporters baffled, trumped, tethered cropped.
Look at that low playing. Fine, then. Uh oh,
overflow, population, common food, but it'll do to Save
yourself, serve yourself. World serves its own needs,
listen to your heart bleed dummy with the rapture and
the revered and the right, right. You vitriolic,
patriotic, slam, fight, bright light, feeling pretty
psyched.

It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.

Six o'clock - TV hour. Don't get caught in foreign
towers. Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself
churn. Lock it in, uniforming, book burning, blood
letting. Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate.
Light a candle, light a motive. Step down, step down.
Watch your heel crush, crushed, uh-oh, this means no
fear cavalier. Renegade steer clear! A tournament,
tournament, a tournament of lies. Offer me solutions,
offer me alternatives and I decline.

It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.

The other night I dreamt of knives, continental
drift divide. Mountains sit in a line, Leonard
Bernstein. Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester
Bangs. Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom! You
symbiotic, patriotic, slam bug net, right? Right.

It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel
fine...fine...

Grin
Aseaandthreestars · 11/03/2011 14:51

That's the point. It may be about us. It is about people thousands of miles away.

I don't think that saying how frightened one is of the world ending shows much empathy to people who have lost everything.

wannaBe · 11/03/2011 15:05

loopy yours has not been the first world-is-ending thread though.

And pmsl at that link. Grin what a pile of crap. She even talks like she's on some substance or other.

Saying that being afraid is empathic is an insult to people who have lost everything, when those panicking aren't even anywhere near the things that are happening.

It's not a case of "oh, those poor people," it's a case of "omg, another earth quake what if it happens to me."

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PaperView · 11/03/2011 15:10

Posting panic theories is nothing about empathy and everything about behaving like Chicken Little.

FGS people have lost everything. STop arguing about what did or didn't cause it and show some respect.

altinkum · 11/03/2011 15:21

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SummerRain · 11/03/2011 15:55

Oh wow...I had completely missed all the Elenin hysteria.... that's given me a good half hour of laughter Grin

For what it's worth to the 'anxious' types... a comet would have very little gravitational influence on Earth from the distance shown in the link above. So the alignment is going to mean very little other than that astronomers might get a better look at it in the night sky.

What's far more interesting is Oct 19th (you'll have to scan forwards to that date) when the comet crosses Earths orbit just 2 weeks before Earth passes the same point. Although if you tilt the image you just about can see the orbits aren't on quite the same plane. Should still give us awesome views of it though... I can't wait Grin

ilovesprouts · 11/03/2011 22:03

wannaBeGrin

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