As for asking myself why so many people think something will happen - Well I
have two responses.
1. If 50 million people believe a foolish thing, it is still foolish
2. There is no doubt a great deal of memetic and capitalistic clout on the
line for the year 2000. Fearmongers can reap great rewards for making stuff
up that inspires fear, or gains devotees. Also, The pyramids are pretty and
all, but I have seen many an Engineer who is not so impressed with the
pyramids of Cheops or the Myan pyramids. People often think the things are
amazing, unfortunately, all the failed pyramids that came first are
conveniently ignored. The pyramids are a result of trial and error as much as
anything else. And so far, they have yet to predict anything that I am aware
of.
Sodom
Bill Roh
The light at the end of the tunnel - a very short tunnel.
George S Waksman wrote:
> Personally I don't believe in these mystic ideas, however, there is the
> fact that the Mayans (or the Aztecs, I can never remember) and the
> Egyptians and Early Christians, and the list goes on and on, believed
> that something big would happen around the year 2000. I think that their
> basis is wrong, which is that some god will destroy us or return or some
> other magical thing will happen, but there must be something there. It is
> too much of a coincidence that so many peoples, isolated of each other,
> would prophesize something happening in the year 2000. And there are many
> things that the Mayans (or Aztecs) and Egyptians did that we don't
> understand. The Egyptians were more accurate in their measuring and new a
> lot of math, and the Mayans (Aztecs) guessed the start of the world
> pretty accurately. So basically, what I'm saying is, don't immediately
> count it out, but rather, ask yourselves why so many people think
> something will happen.
>
> GSW13
> George Waksman
>
> Sodom wrote:
>
> >It cant take too much work to debunk this guy, especially if he is
> >convinced of MU. You know, they keep the Sacred Chao in the library of
> >MuMu. Besides, we have had alignments recently of that nature and
> >nothing happened, I wonder why? Are you actually gonna go to all the
> >work of debunking this guy? Wow, if you come by a good refrence, pass
> >it
> >along please.
> >
> >Also, from a geological perspective, so what if the ice slips, I mean,
> >to really matter they would need to slip many, many miles while
> >dealing
> >with the friction (regardless of its "toothpaste" consistency). Even
> >though I am not a geophysicist, I can guess that the rock is not flat
> >or
> >even, and that the caps are going to have to gouge out huge areas to
> >"slide" significantly. As the Gravity of this planet at the surface is
> >millions of times stronger than the force we get from all the other
> >planets combined, and as for the Sol and Luna, they line up all the
> >time.
> >
> >Nonetheless, to prove my openmindedness, Ill look into the book and
> >try
> >to get a better idea of where this guy's marbles went to.
> >
> >Sodom
> >Bill Roh
> >Bringer of the light
> >
> >C.A. Cook wrote:
> >
> >> Anyone feeling up to be branded as a Millennialist today? I am
> >> currently reading Richard W. Noone's "5/5/2000". According
> >> to this book, rigorous mathematical inspection of the Great
> >> Pyramid reveal a warning of global calamity on this date. The
> >> nature of the calamity is massive polar ice slippage, caused
> >> by the alignment of six heavenly bodies. The slight change in
> >> gravitational forces will cause the ice caps to slide on the
> >> pulverized rock that has been crushed "to a consistency of
> >> toothpaste" by the immense weight on it.
> >>
> >> The book is also full of poppycock such as the continent of Mu,
> >> the cometary origin of Venus, and "psychic reverberations"
> >> (whatever _that_ is). I am currently researching the books
> >> contained in the bibliography, but it will be several days before
> >> the first one will arrive. Has anyone else debunked this yet?
> >>
> >> One of the things mentioned in this book is the city of Steele,
> >> Illinois. According to Mr. Noone, this city was founded by
> >> the author of "The Ultimate Frontier", another Millennialist
> >> publication, to help man survive the coming disaster.
> >> According to a Wall Street Journal article quoted in "5/5/2000",
> >> the founder was chosen by "a secret, ancient organization" to
> >> build this city.
> >>
> >> Anyone heard of this?
> >>
> >> CA Cook, LF
> >> coreycook12@email.msn.com
> >>
> >> The One Universal Truth:
> >> Sometimes, you're wrong.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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