(10-16-2011, 03:19 AM)knaumov Wrote: Pickle, this quotation triggers my BS detector. Seems like the info has been distorted to create fear. I no longer trust anything which makes me afraid.
Actually almost any quotations (just think in the old texts for that matter) may trigger our detector. First example that comes to mi mind: the ancients said/thought/wrote that Alexander the Great faced "palaces flying" and "chariots spitting fire" when he tried to conquest India. Well, I thing most people around here know better what were those... I think that, in some cases (like this one), is not about BS as much as interpretation from a scarce, inexact writer-vocabulary to a richer, sophisticated readers-vocabulary.
The most intense "threat" for, specifically, the US right now is the very people living there (I'm not happy with the government in the country I live, but, if I get sick here, I don't have to think in terms of No money = No doctor, as many people is forced to over there, for one example). Now add to it that just 10% of what Benji and Wilcock say would be/is accurate... I don`t think anything is going to be destroyed or punished by nukes.
knaumov, do you remember that the forecasts were like "Oct. 16, 17. Elenin closest to Earth. Possible earthquakes and more shift of the axis, meteor showers and partial eclipse."? Now, which of these has (horribly) happenend?
I think the fear-mongering literature is rather modern (current!) than old. So there's another side of it, as Pickle points out: all the weird info that has been officially published, for weeks now, especially by NASA. How convenient to prepare people to expect just regular stuff falling down the sky precisely these days... "No big deal, folks. It happens all the time, as we told you. It's nothing of special".