... hmmmm ....
Posted on 12/20/2012 10:06:02 AM PST by Perseverando
THE problem - as Mayan apocalypse expert Robert Bast puts it - is that if you build it, they will come.
And that's why the man who wrote the book on the impending end of the world - due either tomorrow or Saturday Australia time, depending on which time zone you believe it will strike in first - won't show you his doomsday bunker.
Asked to take us to the safe house he and his wife and three children will be fleeing to on Friday, he was adamant that its location had to remain secret.
''I've turned down every request for a visit,'' he said.
''One of the fundamentals of prepping is you don't let anyone know what you've got or why you've got it.''
The reason for the secrecy has less to do with paranoia and more to do avoiding awkward situations, he said.
Usually preppers only stock enough for them and their family.
''It would be horrible having people come up to the place begging,'' he said.
''It's an intolerable situation so you just don't let anyone know.''
Mr Bast said he's been stocking up for years on supplies like water, canned goods, equipment and medical supplies even though he can't say for sure what is going to happen on Friday.
A giant solar storm that could blow up transformers, knock out power grids and leave humanity in darkness and in financial ruin is the most likely scenario, Mr Bast said.
''It would be a real end of the world as we know it for Western society as we rely on electricity for everything, our banking systems, hospitals, pumping water to our homes, sewage away from our homes, filling cars with fuel, for communications,'' he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at heraldsun.com.au ...
the end of a particular era in time and the beginning of a new era in time.
Yes we knew that, but a little dark humor is good in
these times.
Maybe it marks the end of the Obamaschina and the beginning
of a new era.
One can hope for that.
I’m looking so very forward to tomorrow so all these morons can eat the feces they’ve been expelling out their mouths.
Prepping for a natural disaster is one thing. Prepping for a Mayan prophecy based on a calender that was translated incorrectly (and never mind the other one that was found that DID continue to the next cycle).
I encourage everyone who believes this to give me your money for safe keeping. You won’t need it since the world is ending. I’d also like to encourage all the women with huge boobs who believe this to come to my house for an end of the world orgy.
If there are any True Believers in this Mayan stuff, I think they should prove their faith my emailing me their bank account and PIN. See y’all on the flip side, bye.
So, is it “the end of the world”, or just “TEOTWAEKI”? No sense prepping for the former (except for praying, perhaps).
Message to all doomsday date setters: if you really believe what you are saying, deed all your property to me today because it won’t be worth anything the day after.
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How about the explosion of the Yellowstone Caldera followed a nanosecond later by a 12.0 earthquake along the New Madrid fault line?
A doomsday bunker won’t do you any good on THE LAST DAY. To survive the LAST day means it wasn’t the end after all.
The Mayans got the date wrong. TEOTWAWKI happened four years ago on election day.
On the plus side, I've got "I want a hippopotomus for Christmas" stuck in my head, so the relief will be great if the end does come.
/johnny
What time does the apocalypse start? I have to get some gas and pick up a few items at the store.
/johnny
Meseolith Time
/johnny
/johnny
What time zone were the Mayans? CST? Daylight Savings?
It’s central time zone - I was there and didn’t have to change my watch but I just checked it to be sure and the Yucatan is central time zone - our Texas time.
There is a live thread going now for the end of the world, look for it, I didn’t think to ping you to that.
I’ll be driving past Yellowstone around midnight. If it goes BOOM, I’ll be going airborne like Woody Harrelson.
LOL Good one Johnny. Hope to see all my prepper friends next week. Merry Christmas!
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