Ran across this article today... Any Thoughts?
Charter Member of a Canadian Minority... White, Male and in my 50's!!!!
He says the world will not end on December 21st, 2012. Others say that it will. They both can't be right! Actually neither of them know, that is a fact. However the odds are overwhelmingly in favor that he is correct. December 21st, 2012 is just another day on the Calendar.
Eventually the word will come to an end, everything does. Right up to that day people will be saying "the world isn't coming to an end" that is until it actually does and then there will be nobody to hear them.
I though this statement was interesting... shows how hard it is for some people to accept the truth:-
“Most of the astronomical claims are easily dismissed, but a lot of our visitors have apparent anxiety issues, and the 2012 rumors set those off,” Hudson said. “So they realize intellectually that it is bunk, but emotionally they struggle to get past it.”
For example one woman has written in for the past few years in a constant up and down cycle of first feeling fears for herself and her child, then feeling calm when reading information on the 2012Hoax site, but then falling back into fear if she watches a new You Tube video hyping doomsday, or if she sees a big star in the sky she thinks she hasn’t seen before (it usually end up being Venus.)
Unfortunately, Hudson said, there are more people like this, who just can’t get past their fears.
Charter Member of a Canadian Minority... White, Male and in my 50's!!!!
... shows how hard it is for some people to accept the truth:-
What truth are you referring to? The only truth I see here is that some people are anxious over the end of the Mayan calendar and the seeming fulfillment of a number of prophecies written a long time ago.
Fair enough.
Is 12.21.12 the reason some people prep? Maybe... but if it is, who cares?
Maybe the folks writing all the "intellectual" papers on the irrationality of other peoples fears are actually writing to calm their own fears.
Who knows?
I would never laugh and point fingers at anyone one way or the other. I personally prep to ease anxiety, but I wouldn't say that my anxiety is focused on any specific event, more of a general feeling that things are not good, and not going to get better. Are my feeling rational? Who knows.
Hello Greenguy
I certainly didn't mean to come across as "laughing at peoples fears".. If I did I Appologize. 🙁
I just find Human Nature with these situations Interesting... The truth Is most ,know it's "Bunk" but some still allow panic to take over and can become quite irrational. Could be we still don't know how to deal with our own Mortality???
Charter Member of a Canadian Minority... White, Male and in my 50's!!!!
Perhaps it is simply an effort to regain some manner of control in and of our lives. In the not too distant past we were Masters of our fates. People lived and died based to a very larger extent on their own abilities. Recently as a society we have developed that we will be taken care of and pretty well no one need die as a result of no resources. With that sadly has come the downside of giving up a large part of our independance and freedom. With prepping you regain both. Just something to think about.
This reminds me of the term "doomers" as used to refer of people predicting and or preparing for impending disaster.
There is a mindset out there that allows people, mainly non-preppers, to put people concerned with disaster into a box, so as to explain the worry and concern displayed by "doomers" and alleviate any need for concern on their part. Wild predictions based on religion, historical text, or whatnot, kinda make up the corrugated cardboard of this box. I think it's actually non-preppers that are more obsessed with stories of 2012, than actual preppers and doomers. The latter, usually have a much better reason, including knowledge of Environmental degradation, a debt based monetary system, peak energy, etc.