Comments on: MSNBC interview: 2012, the year the Earth doesn't end. Again.

By: Catalyst

Catalyst — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 18:22:08 +0000

Holy crap! Check it out @1:50. It’s Bobak!

j/k

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 23:54:54 +0000

Phil says this has been going on forever..2000 blah blah blah..this guy sounds like hes 5,000 years old…he may be in his 40′s, so who is he to give advice? 40 yrs on this earth is not even close to forever there buddy.

By: Jeffersonian

Jeffersonian — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:45:58 +0000

I already had to straighten out a relative who said “Did you know the Aztecs knew the Earth was ending this year”? Aside from confusing Mayans with Aztecs, I explained that their calendar ending was more akin to their subscription running out or the calendar-maker suddenly dying rather than suggesting a demise prediction.

@12, Jazz
Since I can’t calculate how many invisible pink unicorns are in my backyard I must know nothing, have no wisdom, and be full of it.

@17
Don’t what brought that up, but, the “vision from god” has been shown to be highly similar to the hallucinations that modern manic-depressives have, showing that this malady hasn’t changed much since the 1st (or 5th, counting Roman rewrites and added verses) century.

By: Hevach

Hevach — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 13:52:17 +0000

I have to agree with Bill. There’s some people you can only really say exist, you can’t really address them. I’ve never seen anyone nearly as extreme as the people on that show, but I’ve had people of the same mindset come into my work (computer shop) demanding some kind of protection against everything from government surveillance to terrorist EMP weapons. Even playing along (telling them that if there is an EMP attack, protecting your X-box saves is the least of your worries or showing them information on law enforcement spy programs like Narus and why if they are being watched, there’s literally nothing they can do about it) doesn’t really work – they’ve bought into a fantasy so whole heartedly that they’ve stopped living in the real word.

Ultimately, all I can do is do a full security overhaul on their computer or refer them to an electrician I know who can build them a Faraday cage at probably fantastic expense, and know that if the terrorists really do attack, it probably won’t work and I’ll get sued.

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:06:57 +0000

If somebody has dedicated the extreme time and financial commitments that these preppers have, no amount of reasoning or evidence will sway their beliefs (sadly). From watching this show, many seem to revel in the admiration that they’ll receive when their “event” comes to pass and they are sitting pretty on their massive cache of stuff. Unfortunately they’ll just get overrun by hungry and desperate mobs

By: MoMan

MoMan — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:53:39 +0000

While the rest of you are busy making great scientific discoveries, and so on and so forth, I have been wasting time….just a little…watching this show about “preppers” (on National Geographic, of all places), the paranoid of the paranoid. These people are spending six figures in many cases on food, weapons,and bunkers. Each one has a different reason…the economy, an asteroid, Yellowstone exploding…but they are all deadly serious. But in many cases, when you look at how unhealthy they are, you realize how inconsistent they are, being more worried about some unlikely event than they are about being killed by a drunk running a redlight, or their own diets. So, Phil, are you going to get a chance to address the concerns of the people on this show? It needs someone to say that these people are floating through the atmosphere, and really should come back to earth. Hey, I’m a former survival instructor. I believe in being prepared, but these people are the perfect examples of Thoreau’s statement that most men lead lives of quiet desperation. They just ain’t all that quiet.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:31:25 +0000

The Mayans NEVER said the world would end on Dec. 21, 2012. We have studied with indigenous Maya teachers and elders. My husband, Jim Papp was asked to write about this by our Mayan teachers in 1999. Now he has updated that article: http://bit.ly/AnXxzt Get the truth…not the fear-based misinformation and deception.

By: Regner Trampedach

Regner Trampedach — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 23:51:57 +0000

vic @ 19:: “OK, I don’t believe that the Mayans (or anyone else) had the miraculous ability to determine the end of the world and built their calendar around it.”
Don’t worry – the Mayans don’t either (there are still many around).
And they are pretty pissed at having their culture so awfully hijacked.
Cheers, Regner

By: vic

vic — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 20:56:25 +0000

OK, I don’t believe that the Mayans (or anyone else) had the miraculous ability to determine the end of the world and built their calendar around it.

But, if that doesn’t work, my alternate belief is that the Mayans did in fact design their calendar based on when they believed the world would end, or more correctly, when their world would end; but they were off by 700 years.

By: Blargh

Blargh — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 19:56:51 +0000

“your video is loading”

Lies!
(Seriously, I can’t get it to work. It starts by displaying an annoying interstitial ad, then goes into “your video is loading” mode, then pops into a video selection menu with a “return to video” button, gloatingly insinuating that you’ve actually gotten to see anything)