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Jean
Feb 20, 2011, 4:58:03 AM2/20/11
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> From: Evelyn <evely...@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: The REAL story about December, 2012
> Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 12:23:59 -0500
> Newsgroups: soc.retirement
> Message-ID: <fuuvl6t4llf35sp9h...@4ax.com>
>
> On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 09:19:52 -0500, Old...@webtv.net (Olly Mensch)
> wrote:
>
> >Evelyn -NormaK -
> >Evelyn had posted an article written by a Mayan Elder,regarding the
> >Mayan prophecy about what will happen in 2012.!!!
> >Lovely!!!! However, sadly enouh, I find it liteally "out of this world"
> >- and can only comment: "Ho-Hum"!!!
> >For a more realistic -and, who knows - perhaps never to be achieved
> >(just like the Mayan nonsense) I would refer people to Time magazine, of
> >Febuay 21st, page 43 titled:
> >sin-gu-lar- i-ty
> >n: the moment when technological change becomes so rapid and profound,
> >it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history."
> >Time also wraps it all up by quoting:"
> >"Man and MACHINE"
> >Futurist Ray Kurzweil heralds the Singularity, the moment when the
> >future overtakes us. It is closer than you think."
> >The "gist' of the article and the projections, is that man will be a
> >machine - a computer- (a la "Watson") with untold, unknown and
> >unimaginable potentials.
> >I find both projections into the unknown difficult to accept, but
> >reserve judgment for the latter, since it is based upon science, and not
> >the philosophical nonsense of the former.
> >Olly
>
>
>
> I agree with you Olly, and that is why I place no stock in such
> doomsday prophecies. However, on the history channel (or was it
> NatGeo?) there was a show about doomsday scenarios which involved top
> notch experts and scientists of various kinds. Some said that
> terrorists could bring about a doomsday scenario, some said epidemics
> or plagues, some said natural disasters, etc. But the one which was
> given the most credibility was the lack of clean potable water. Water
> or rather the lack of it, has the greatest potential to bring about
> the end of mankind. If it comes on again, I would advise everyone to
> watch it. It was a really well done, thought provoking show.
>
> Evelyn
What could spoil the water?
> Subject: Re: The REAL story about December, 2012
> Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 12:23:59 -0500
> Newsgroups: soc.retirement
> Message-ID: <fuuvl6t4llf35sp9h...@4ax.com>
>
> On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 09:19:52 -0500, Old...@webtv.net (Olly Mensch)
> wrote:
>
> >Evelyn -NormaK -
> >Evelyn had posted an article written by a Mayan Elder,regarding the
> >Mayan prophecy about what will happen in 2012.!!!
> >Lovely!!!! However, sadly enouh, I find it liteally "out of this world"
> >- and can only comment: "Ho-Hum"!!!
> >For a more realistic -and, who knows - perhaps never to be achieved
> >(just like the Mayan nonsense) I would refer people to Time magazine, of
> >Febuay 21st, page 43 titled:
> >sin-gu-lar- i-ty
> >n: the moment when technological change becomes so rapid and profound,
> >it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history."
> >Time also wraps it all up by quoting:"
> >"Man and MACHINE"
> >Futurist Ray Kurzweil heralds the Singularity, the moment when the
> >future overtakes us. It is closer than you think."
> >The "gist' of the article and the projections, is that man will be a
> >machine - a computer- (a la "Watson") with untold, unknown and
> >unimaginable potentials.
> >I find both projections into the unknown difficult to accept, but
> >reserve judgment for the latter, since it is based upon science, and not
> >the philosophical nonsense of the former.
> >Olly
>
>
>
> I agree with you Olly, and that is why I place no stock in such
> doomsday prophecies. However, on the history channel (or was it
> NatGeo?) there was a show about doomsday scenarios which involved top
> notch experts and scientists of various kinds. Some said that
> terrorists could bring about a doomsday scenario, some said epidemics
> or plagues, some said natural disasters, etc. But the one which was
> given the most credibility was the lack of clean potable water. Water
> or rather the lack of it, has the greatest potential to bring about
> the end of mankind. If it comes on again, I would advise everyone to
> watch it. It was a really well done, thought provoking show.
>
> Evelyn
What could spoil the water?
--
http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2011/02/mccarter_stallworth_bemoans_la.html
http://www.alldeaf.com/our-pets/69016-dont-eat-me-pwetty-pwease.html
Ol Guy with Hat Channel http://www.linktv.org/mosaic http://www.freespeech.org
Wyoming Politics http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmYbAU_HvIM
G
Apr 15, 2011, 9:49:35 PM4/15/11
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On Feb 20, 5:58 am, Jean <goterm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > From: Evelyn <evelyn.r...@gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: The REAL story about December, 2012
> > Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 12:23:59 -0500
> > Newsgroups: soc.retirement
> > Message-ID: <fuuvl6t4llf35sp9hc1uf9ajf29von6...@4ax.com>
>
> > On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 09:19:52 -0500, Oldi...@webtv.net (Olly Mensch)> http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2011/02/mccarter_stallworth_bemoan...http://www.alldeaf.com/our-pets/69016-dont-eat-me-pwetty-pwease.html
> Ol Guy with Hat Channelhttp://www.linktv.org/mosaichttp://www.freespeech.org
> Wyoming Politicshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmYbAU_HvIM
> > From: Evelyn <evelyn.r...@gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: The REAL story about December, 2012
> > Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 12:23:59 -0500
> > Newsgroups: soc.retirement
>
> > On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 09:19:52 -0500, Oldi...@webtv.net (Olly Mensch)
> Ol Guy with Hat Channelhttp://www.linktv.org/mosaichttp://www.freespeech.org
> Wyoming Politicshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmYbAU_HvIM
If you have no electricity, you have no flow!!
Greg
G
Apr 15, 2011, 9:53:21 PM4/15/11
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> > Ol Guy with Hat Channelhttp://www.linktv.org/mosaichttp://www.freespeech.org
> > Wyoming Politicshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmYbAU_HvIM
>
> If you have no electricity, you have no flow!!
>
> Greg
> > Wyoming Politicshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmYbAU_HvIM
>
> If you have no electricity, you have no flow!!
>
> Greg
No electricity, no gas, oil, food, no transportation. One good solar
flare. Did I say no tv or communication, except for amateur radio
people who have prepared, and CB.
Greg
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