Silverleaf

i've to a plan to sell tinfoil hats to protect from intergalactic mayan martian meteorite x-rays from venus. come twenty-twelve. five hundred clams a pop. 5% discount for pre-orders, cuz i gotta buy some reynolds wrap.

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flappy

I agree with Center. When you're in the Spiritual Smoke Room you should be talking about how to fuck the other guy. This is real, yo !

verklingen

hey man different strokes

personally i think taking advantage of people is like a dog chasing it's own tail. whatev

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Center

I'm just trying to make a point. So many people out their believe and put actual stock in crazy shit happening and I think it's mostly nonsense.

And when I say I will take advantage of people I mean their natural inclination to buy consumer products that relate to whatever stupid shit your average consumer is attracted to at any given time. In this case 2012, and I guarentee, literally , that tons of people will at least think about it enough to make a small purchase.

Taking advantage of someone or something doesn't have to be bad.

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Zzyx

Maybe nothing horrible will happen, some amazing spiritual think like a few moments of collective consciousness would be cool.

Mydriasis

We were supposed to see nibiru or whatever the junk like last year. Guess what, we didn't...

Also this really just is Y2K all over again. I'm so sick of reading about people thinking the world is going to end. If it does it does. What are YOU going to do about it aside from wasting your time thinking about it. Enjoy life, don't be scared. If it's human's time to go, then let us go. Kicking and screaming wouldn't help.

If we're going to become one with everything great. All I have to say is don't get your hopes up kiddos.

However, I don't believe in this stuff, I really don't.

Isn't there already like 8 of these threads?

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Please read this whole page as to get an understanding of where a lot of this has spawned from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zecharia_Sitchin

Also try finding a valid resource pointing to the existence of planet Nibiru. I'd be interested...
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_Planet_Nibiru

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ionlylooklazy

if we believed everything we read, we'd all be christians. but it is fun to speculate

flappy

Here,s my thoughts,Center. There won't be anyone left with money to buy any product or service you're selling by 2012.
Of course there will be a thin layer of educrats,technocrats and law enforcement with some extra cash, but the great middle class will be trying to stay out of the homeless shelter.
By the way, what are you selling?

verklingen

flappy i don't know how old you are but i know you've been around a lot longer than me. you've seen and lived through a lot of things and situations that were very dire and supposed to spell the end of a comfortable life for the masses. through all that time, have you noticed how it never happened but is still always just around the corner? not long ago i realized all that worry seems needless looking back. . . so why not get a jump on it and just enjoy life without the worry? that's what i asked myself and i haven't looked back

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Center

motha fuckin foil hats biach.

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flappy

I don't confuse worry with being prepared. I hope the party keeps going on for you and mydriasis and even the guy that likes to make tin foil hats.
I'll just keep a few food reserves stocked up, just in case. I guess we really have nothing to worry about, unless it's those welfare bums about to get foreclosed on. After all, what could happen to such a proud and noble nation like ours with the best and most honorable leadership known to man.
Thinking there are consequences to our actions, whether as an individual or a nation is just what a dumb hillbilly would think.
Case closed and give me some of that Chronic !

Mydriasis

Lol, but for real. Your gonna stock up on food?

If some crazy shit went down that would end the human race and/or earth. Stocking up on food isn't going to help you lol. What I'm trying to say is chill out. If we're all gonna blow up and shit just let is be. It's not like there's anything in our control to stop it. So why worry about it? Just ride it out until the end and make the best of things.

I don't believe in this crazy shit though. But if you do, why worry yourself to death if your already gonna die?

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JcP

/does a double take.

This sentence makes my nose bleed.

In all seriousness Center, you reap what you sow. I have found over the past decade or so of young adulthood that while cheaters and people who "take advantage" of others for their own well-being might have more in the short term, I know I can wake up every morning and not feel that small pang of guilt or, perhaps in your case, the need to justify my actions to myself.
Whether you know it now or not, you're going to regret your actions that harmed others (intentionally or otherwise). And there's no take-backsies in this life.

It is a personal choice which path you choose, but I would rather die poorer and with as clean a conscience as humanly possible that rich and knowing I was never accountable for my actions in the greater image of human kind.

You asked why it always has to be love and good feelings around here, because that's not real life...it's not real life because people like you give in and continue the cycle.
Just because something is does not mean it has to be...nor does it mean it's acceptable for you to do it.
Since you show that you KNOW your intended actions are "taking advantage" of others, why in God's name would you ever do that? Why would you behave in a way you don't want others behaving?

Frustrating. Sorry to dramatize a semi-humorous thread, as I doubt you actually intend to sell tinfoil hats, but there you go.

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Just look out around us, people fightin their wars...
They think they'll be happy when they've settled their scores...
Let's lay down our weapons
and hold us apart
be still for just a minute
try to open our hearts
MORE LOVE.

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Originally Posted by The Rev It's not what you see, it's that you're looking.

verklingen

prepare all you want man, i've simply realized that preparing for things out of worry needlessly removes my attention from the moment and causes me to miss life as it happens for what i suppose, in fear, may be happening. to each his own, hope it suits you and provides a fulfilling life

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hijabihippie

What you put out, comes back to you, 3 times over.
-wicca/pagan belief, I think

What goes around, comes around.
-traditional African-American expression

flappy

What is this " crazy shit " you keep referring to ?
This thread is called 2012 : End of the 13th Baktun. Why are you here, cause that must sound real crazy.
I'm talking about common sense that real people do all the time; keeping a few weeks food on hand. I had no power for three days due to an ice storm last winter. How about Katrina ? You must remember that. Maybe you're too good or too spiritual for any unpleasant things ever to enter your life or you can predict the future that gives you guarantees. To me that's "crazy shit " but you still have the right to think that without being attacked.
Stock up on a few extra twinkies, how can it hurt? You don't have to tell anyone.

Mydriasis

You act like hurricanes and natural disasters are new. Ever wonder what happened to the lost city of Atlantis? Tidal wave. Or the dinosaurs?(well that I can't speak the truth of but it's pretty assumable).

Sorry to hear about you losing power and the like. Keeping extra food around is a good idea in your case.

But what does 2012/13th bakton have to do with your ice-storm?
And what does that have to do with keeping food on hand?
in this thread about 2012?

The crazy shit I'm talking about is people freaking out about 2012, and claiming it's an inevitable demise of human kind.

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flappy

You're "crazy shit" may be someone elses road to god consciousness. Calm down and maybe learn from the thread. You can't see the future any more than a Mayan priest so it's no use getting upset.

katerrssx3

Agreed! I'm not going to waste my time hideing out and preparing for something that might not even happen!

Mydriasis

First it's the New World Order and your gonna buy some extra food, now your going to transcend and obtain a god consciousness.

I'm just gonna go with the Rev and add on to it and say it's profitable. Shit my poor little brother saw some bullshit commercial about it and flipped his lid. Yes they have commercials for it lol.

I'm really just sick of all the hypes, and conspiracy theories. If you believe you'd obtain a god consciousness on 2012, then why do you imply that I would not as well? Is it like Santa Claus it only comes to people who believe?

I'm really not upset lol. I'm just trying to better understand where your coming from. Maybe you can get me to wear a bathrobe and drink the punch too.

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