I find some of the End of the World nonsense a bit more than nonsensical. For example, the teenager in Japan was on a talk show earlier this month. When the host asked her about preparing for school, she responded:
“There won’t be a time when I enter middle school, so I don’t have to prepare for it. If you look at the Mayan calendar, the changes in the U.S. stock market, and the natural disasters, it all comes to a conclusion that the world will end on December 21st.”
Apparently, the girl and her sister watched online video about Nostradamus three years ago. Since then the sister has been obsessed with the world’s end and has convinced her sister everything will be over on December 21, 2012.
The sister explained: “She always says ‘either way, we’re all gonna die anyway’ and has been living without any thoughts about her future.”
This is exactly the kind of hoo-ha that we have to contend with when True Believers (morons/idiots) run around pronouncing all of their dire doomsday bullshit.
At the same time the young Japanese girls was spilling her guts on national TV about Doomsday, a press release came out from one Igor Purlantov proclaiming that the solar storms that are expected to increase in later this year and into 2013 pose a “threat of global economic harm.”
The release also says: “The potential devastation to the world economy and more importantly the well being of billions of people potentially at risk is something that should not be taken lightly. It is imperative that scientists around the world continue trying to understand and predict space weather events and solar storms with a shared global commitment to improve response and preparedness efforts…This preparedness and reaction time could possibly mean the difference between a few hours of inconvenient power outages and global economic catastrophe, says Igor Purlantov.”
Well, okay, if Igor Purlantov says its so, then it must be true, right? Well, the release calls him an “expert.” In what? I dunno. A Web search revealed that Igor is an “animal advocate.” That’s right, Igor, writes about the calming effects cats and dogs have on people. So, yeah, of course he’s on expert of solar flares and storms and economic doomsday. NOT!!!!!!!
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