Posted: Feb 22, 2014 10:37 am
UndercoverElephant wrote:Thommo wrote:UndercoverElephant wrote:As I said before, I know somebody who was studying for a doctorate in economics when I introduced her to these ideas, and it was news to her. She was shocked.
I was pretty shocked that time you linked it the world ending in, when was it 2012? It must be several years later now and shock has faded to bemusement.
Ha! I never claimed the world would end in 2012 (I could say plenty more about that topic, but this is certainly not the right thread and probably not the right board.) I did say that the economic meltdown of 2008 was the beginning of the end of western civilisation though.
Yes, that was your revised position come 2013 as I recall. Even in 2010 you were still predicting that 2012 would be "an unusual year" in terms of the end of civilisation.
http://www.rationalskepticism.org/gener ... 12#p119360
The earlier predictions going back to the RDF were even less measured, although digging them out now with the archive not being directly searchable would be a huge pain.
But I don't want to debate this, I just think that other members deserve a heads up as to how deep this rabbit hole goes, because it probably isn't readily apparent that your view of banking is intertwined with your supernaturalism and belief that civilisation has already collapsed in line with a Mayan prophecy, at least to the casual observer.