It's the end of the world as we know it.

[Puzz3D]

Will the world end on December 21, 2012?!!! What do you think?

I'm going to continue doing what I do every day whether or not it's going to end. In other words, it makes no difference.

[The Stranger]

it might bring an end to the world as we know it... it may also be that a comet will hit peru or anyhow south america and will kill the world as they knew it... but i doubt it... i do think that religious fanatic ghosts will attempt to crash silhouet planes into phantom towers, and a dead tolkien will write a book about it!!!

[The Stranger]

I'm going to continue doing what I do every day whether or not it's going to end. In other words, it makes no difference.

don't lie, we all know you would start to rape murder and thieve like a madman, getting high and drunk in the process and slam yourself into a wall, actually believing the world has come to an end... and it has... for you... dont lie... were onto you!

[The Stranger]

you know whats funny... people only tend to look at the number of RIGHT predictions when looking at the credibility of a seer or someone who predicts... They forget about the 21,192,245,111 wrong predictions they made, while only 17 were right... quite odd isnt it, because would i be someone else, lets say a footballplayer and I'd say, ive lost 21,192,245,111 games but i've won 17 though, nobody is going to pat me on the back and say, youre one heck of a player. its easy, i could sit and make predictions for the rest of my life and have a few hit as well.

another obscure thing is that those predictions are always what u see in them, if im right the delphi oracly was ALWAYS ambiguous, and proud of it. Ofcourse, you can see in a prediction whatever you want most of the time, so when someone said a great man is going to conquer the world, everyone nowadays is immediatly, great? omg alexander!!! conquer the world? oh well, the world as they knew it... but actually it never happened...

and what about the possibilty that, because i know alexander attended the oracle, his conquerings were only carried through because he believed in the oracle, had the oracle said you are a GREAT loser, a crybaby and gay and will never accomplish anything, he might have gone home crying. and the oracle would have been right as well... and there i guess lies its strength and weakness, you have to believe in order for it to be true, come true.

[Motep]

you know whats funny... people only tend to look at the number of RIGHT predictions when looking at the credibility of a seer or someone who predicts... They forget about the 21,192,245,111 wrong predictions they made, while only 17 were right... quite odd isnt it, because would i be someone else, lets say a footballplayer and I'd say, ive lost 21,192,245,111 games but i've won 17 though, nobody is going to pat me on the back and say, youre one heck of a player. its easy, i could sit and make predictions for the rest of my life and have a few hit as well.

another obscure thing is that those predictions are always what u see in them, if im right the delphi oracly was ALWAYS ambiguous, and proud of it. Ofcourse, you can see in a prediction whatever you want most of the time, so when someone said a great man is going to conquer the world, everyone nowadays is immediatly, great? omg alexander!!! conquer the world? oh well, the world as they knew it... but actually it never happened...

and what about the possibilty that, because i know alexander attended the oracle, his conquerings were only carried through because he believed in the oracle, had the oracle said you are a GREAT loser, a crybaby and gay and will never accomplish anything, he might have gone home crying. and the oracle would have been right as well... and there i guess lies its strength and weakness, you have to believe in order for it to be true, come true.

Good point...and a highly entertaining one

[Kagemusha]

Any day could be the last day, so why bother with something one cannot effect at all.

[Craterus]

and what about the possibilty that, because i know alexander attended the oracle, his conquerings were only carried through because he believed in the oracle, had the oracle said you are a GREAT loser, a crybaby and gay and will never accomplish anything, he might have gone home crying. and the oracle would have been right as well... and there i guess lies its strength and weakness, you have to believe in order for it to be true, come true.

Hilarious.

However, as a defender of sexuality, I've gotta take issue with your suggestion that gays can't achieve anything.

[Hax]

Shut up, Crate :P Though the comment itself is indeed a bit off.

Also about the Oracle. The Oracle of Delphi did inhale gas Ethylene (also called Ethene), which made her a bit crazy to say the least. However she would utter nothing sensible and comprehensible. Priests than "translated" the nonsense she uttered. These Priest weren't the stupidest of men, and usually said something contra dictive and vague. Something that usually could be poly interpretable. And when they were clear about something, it was when it was something that was pretty sure to happen/or couldn't be checked. A famous example is when Croesus went to Delphi, the priests told him: 'if you're going to cross the river of Halys, you'll destroy a mighty empire'. History tells us he lost his empire. However the priests who had it wrong had covered themselves nicely. Who is to say that they didn't mean Croesuses empire would fall? When it came to war, the golden rule was to side with the one appearing to be the strongest.

To add to this, the priests were well informed of the business going on in the world. A lot of people came to Delphi and talked about the latest rumours there. The modern-day oracles would be Char and people like that. Saying vague and double things.

[Moros]

Shut up, Crate :P Though the comment itself is indeed a bit off.



To add to this, the priests were well informed of the business going on in the world. A lot of people came to Delphi and talked about the latest rumours there. The modern-day oracles would be Char and people like that. Saying vague and double things.

Ah this is what you get if EB members ( and ex-members) run into each other.

[cmacq]

To add to this, the priests were well informed of the business going on in the world. A lot of people came to Delphi and talked about the latest rumours there. The modern-day oracles would be Char and people like that. Saying vague and double things.

Hax

You took that as a collage of several Disaster Channel programs. I’ve seen the same programs, and what was claimed. Are you really saying you believe that collection of [self edited] because you saw it on the Disaster Channel?


CmacQ

[Hax]

What?

No, I didn't.

Seriously, stop acting so paranoid. I never even stated I got it from the Disaster Channel or something of the liking. Relax, really.

[The Stranger]

Hilarious.

However, as a defender of sexuality, I've gotta take issue with your suggestion that gays can't achieve anything.

ah booboo, have I offended little cratieboys feelings???

[cmacq]

I can't believe the History Channel has provoked a discussion of anything, as if there was a basis for whatever? Next I can’t believe the History Channel has provoked a discussion of institutionalized prophetic pronouncement as propagandized and presented by the History Channel? The History Channel must die!!! It must die here; it must die now!!!

[Caius]

The History Channel must die!!!

How do you come with such a conclussion?

[Craterus]

ah booboo, have I offended little cratieboys feelings???

Not at all old friend. You carry on.