New article in The Trib. These fanatics are just plain whacked.


http://www.sltrib.com/lifestyle/faith/2935776-155/some-mormons-stocking-up-amid-fears

Throw rocks at the ones who see very bad times comming need also to look at Fiat economy & the history of Fiat economies. 40 years or so and then a terrible Crash. We are over due. You start printing money out of thin air with no backing and you are looking for disaster. This is just one of many items. Believe what you want that is your priviledge. We will all know very soon the truth! You need to be prepared for some of these possibilites. IF YOU DO NOT WELL IT WAS GOOD TO KNOW YOU.

Wow.

Should I install a concrete bunker, or just stock up on tinned food?

Would appreciate your advice on this.

Also confused as it's not 40 years since the last bad crash, I make it 7 years. IIRC I had quite a lot of tinned food in the cupboard at the time. Didn't seem to help much.



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finnan haddie Wrote:
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> Wow.
>
> Should I install a concrete bunker, or just stock
> up on tinned food?

Just keep track of where the Mormons live. A gun might come in handy too.

DR B. BUZZARD BAIT Wrote:
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> IF YOU DO NOT WELL

If I do not well?

> IT WAS GOOD TO KNOW YOU.

You don't know me.

And naturally, she has a book for sale.

But, I thought the end of the world happened when Pres. Obama
took office?!

Amazing to me that Mormon apocaphiles (yes, that's now a word because I just made it one) ignore their own leaders so they can indulge their fantasies.

I'm not saying emergency preparedness is bad (it's obviously not), but the level of conspiracy conflation going on in that article just makes me laugh -- and it all seems centered around a vengeful God obsessed with punishing Americans for their "wickedness" (rather than, you know, maybe healing the sick, helping the poor, stopping war, or inspiring people on how to help heal the sick, help the poor, and stop war).

Maybe Julie Rowe should do some research about things like blood moons (which are regarded as favorable signs of prosperity and harvest by quite a few cultures).

To steal a bit from Bill Maher:

New Rule: doomsday nuts can say, AFTER their imagined doomsday happens, "I told you so." Until then, they need to stop bugging the rest of us with a new and false doomsday every few months.

Bill Maher actually said something sensible. Wonders never cease.

I've been hearing these gloom and doom forecasts since the 1960s. It is basically Bircher porn. I imagine ETB used to masturbate to it.

These sorts of fantasies certainly sell well. There's a whole movie genre dedicated to dystopian futures. And banking nearly did collapse in some countries in 2007. In some countries, notably Canada, it was hardly a blip. Gold prices peaked in 1977, and have yet to come anywhere near that peak in inflation-adjusted dollars. Yep, gold has been a mediocre investment for half a century now. If the right start and stop dates were picked, it's done ok. Pick the wrong ones, and it has done abysmally. Overall, it has way underperformed major stock indices. This has not discouraged the doomers.

And a lot of food storage has ended up in land fills or second rate meals. I had to rent a dumpster to get rid of my parents accumulated inedibles. A waste of time, space and money.

Let's call it "Doomsday Porn" and start decrying it far and wide. Maybe then it will go away.

This stuff seems to have been going on since the dawn of mankind. St makes me very angry.

Not because a major disaster is impossible or even that improbably (heaven knows they happen often enough). Not because the predictions are based on illogic, pseudoscience and bad theology (all 3 are too common to get worked up about).

No, this is what riles me up about apocalypse-mongering: it's this attitude: "oh, God's going to punish the world with a natural disaster/financial crash/political meltdown, so I'll buy up as much stuff as I can, build myself a Bunker, and stock up on weapons so I can shoot down the starving hordes who are after MY stuff, and then I'll sit here in comfort and watch the whole world go to Hell."

The fact is, the apocalypse is happening RIGHT NOW for a lot of people. We can argue all we like about whether Hell exists in the afterlife, but the undeniable fact is that a lot of people are LIVING it, HERE AND NOW. Those wars, famines, diseases and natural disasters you get off on fantasising about are already happening. They've always been happening. What, it's not real because it's not happening to you?

If the idea of an apocalypse gets you all excited, get off your bahookie and do something about the disasters that are already happening. Sell that stored food and those stored guns and lend a flipping hand before it's too late for all those people who are right in the thick of the stuff you're "prophesying". And then, if it ever comes to be your turn, maybe they'll help you.

Save us from those who think nothing is real unless it's happening to them.

'And "Gadianton robbers" of Book of Mormon infamy, meaning secret and corrupt leaders, are "already here."'

Yeah...and guess what organization they're running? (Hint, hint...).

Do you remember the woman who wrote the book on food storage - the one that said it was so important that you should/could make your furniture in your living room out of those big tins?

When I sold my house in Alpine, she bought it. She moved in her lovely French Provincial antique furniture. She could afford this stuff because her doomsday book was so popular, but she herself did not have one padded tin as so much as a footstool in her living room.

It's all about making money out of fear, something we see around us everywhere (esp in politics)


Kathleen

If you you do not do well, It was good to know you. This means if you do not understand you have to take reasonable precautions for real events and ignore them - It can be so serious you may no longer be around. If you discard high probabilities of a disaster then you could possibly not survive it. Straight forward this is what it Means!

Make you a deal Dr. Bait:

Give me a drop-dead date for your predicted doomsday. If said doomsday then fails to materialize on said date, promise me that you'll don a scottish kilt, and dance an irish jig, for at least 2 minutes, and post the results on youtube, for all to see. If however, your doomsday does materialize, and I'm not dead afterwhich, and the internet is still functional, I'll put on the kilt, and dance the jig, and post it to youtube, for all to have a merry giggle.

Sound good?

What?

No date?

Please...

Pretty please...

If you lose, you'd probably have to scratch an image of you doing the jig on the face of a burnt piece of rubble and walk it over to him.

;-)

I notice not a peep from the stone...

What gets me, like other posters have stated, is that we live in the year 2015. The inter-tubes are everywhere. Exactly how are so many people caught up in a scam of this magnitude?

(And that includes my stepmonster and my dad. BTW.)

"January 1, 2000 -- Is This The End?"

http://blog.thephoenix.com/blogs/blogs/phlog/Rapture_WWNEWS_Cover_480.jpg


"All of this has happened before and will happen again"



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The salt lake basin is so densely populated that if there were a disaster, they would turn into a tank of rats eating each other.

The best thing any prepper could do is to get their name off the ward list.

Lol...wouldn't even be enough "manna" to go around.

This is why ghawd gave us the .223 cartridge.

From the article:
"Thus, they believe, starting Sept. 13, the beginning of the Jewish High Holy Days, there will be another, even larger financial crisis, based on the United States' "wickedness."


So did an even larger financial crisis begin yesterday or did so many Americans go to church that the crisis was averted?

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> So did an even larger financial crisis begin
> yesterday or did so many Americans go to church
> that the crisis was averted?

Well, the DJIA was down 0.38% today. Almost half of one percent.
If that is an "even larger financial crisis," then I'll eat my garmies :)

Rowe's not the first, and she won't be the last:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events

I've heard of people using food storage during periods of unemployment but a healthy savings account would be more prudent in those situations.


What event(s) would have to happen before someone needed a year supply of food? You would need a continuous year long disruption to the transport, production, or trade of food and goods. More over, the implicit strategy of storing that much food is that you will be 'sheltering in place' for the duration.


You're looking at some kind of doomsday prepper wet dream scenerio where your house is magically protected from destruction and you sit in your basement for a year eating wheat paste.



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And here's the thing - if Jesus is coming, why do they need supplies? They'll be outa here!

No they won't. That's why they hord supplies. Even "if" jebus is Cumming.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/mormon-apocalypse-prediction-has-people-stocking-up-on-food/ar-AAehz

It's now on MSN.

COAST to Coast AM - http://www.coasttocoastam.com - just mentioned this on the broadcast.

It's everywhere - crazy funny



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