So the eclipse is a sign

[DavidDvorkin]

Of something. According to a post in GD.

[trotsky]

1. Oh it definitely is.

Of something indeed.

Or at least it will be, after they've had a chance to sift through everything that happened from last night through to... oh I dunno... until they find an event special enough to retrofit their prophecy and claim they predicted it all along.

[charlie]

2. Isn't that the truth

I don't know how many times I've seen that happen here. Some bold soul will start prophesizing: something big and ugly coming on date XX. Others will concur. They had the foreboding, now they've been given a date, yay. It'll swell into a cataclysm, history will be split into before and after the event.

Then the day passes.

I've never seen them say, well, we were wrong. Maybe next time.

No, it's always a big fishing expedition to find what blipped their psychic radar. Eventually, someone will find a terrible bus accident in Uzbekistan and they'll decide yeah, that's what they "saw".

Skeptics are always told they have no humility. Penn Gillette at his grating worst couldn't match that kind of egoism.

[trotsky]

3. LOL

Like the time in the woo group when someone said they felt an earthquake coming - in the Pacific Northwest or on the west coast. (Yeah, I know, go out on a limb there - an earthquake in California? What are the odds?) But then within a couple of days the big Haitian earthquake hit and OF COURSE that was what their premonition was about, despite being oh, 6000 miles off?

[charlie]

14. Haw! I didn't see that one

It's a glimpse of the "balance" missing from the human condition. In a world that acknowledges our non-materialist, non-local underpinnings, the Secretary of Woo would be grilled in congressional hearings about why he deployed all our first responders to Pomona before Port au Prince imploded.

[beam me up scottie]

4. It caused the earthquake near Japan's Bonin Islands too.

Childhood need never end when you can make shit up and your playpals have to go along with it.

Either you agree with everyone else's wooage or you can take your crystal balls and go home.

Dem's da rulz.



Hi'ya boys! :hi:

[DavidDvorkin]

7. That makes sense!

Because the moon almost faded away, so its gravity decreased, so the earth relaxed away from it, so that caused an earthquake!

[beam me up scottie]

8. there was a link to blog comments on the "cascade of earthquakes" caused when NASA bombed the moon

Bomb the moon ONE time and they never let you forget it...

Teh stoopid is like teh tides.

[DavidDvorkin]

9. Sigh.

[trotsky]

10. No, no, no bms.

Teh stoopid is nothing like the tides.

We can harness the tides' energy for good. :)

[beam me up scottie]

12. True, but imagine if we could harness the energy generated by teh stoopid.

A infinite resource much more reliable than wind or solar...:)

[HuckleB]

5. Friggin' eclipse! It made my 4-year-old throw a tantrum at the store yesterday.

Ugh.

[trotsky]

11. No, that was Eros in retrograde with Uranus. n/t

[onager]

6. A sign of THIS, non-believing scum!

Rapture to occur on May 21, 2011. It must be true, down here in the Buy-bull Belt they're already putting up the billboards:

http://ebiblefellowship.com/may21/index.html

This is yet another tired-ass prophecy from Harold Camping, the walking oral methane generator who's made a career out of this nonsense.

One of his predictions back in 1994 had some idiots selling their property and fleeing to the hills. Or somewhere. AFAIK, none of my relatives did that. But some of their neighbors did, here locally. After a few days they came back, flat broke, homeless and looking very sheepish.

[Odin2005]

13. That was a really dumb post.