--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "hugheshugo" > <richardhughes103@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "hugheshugo" > > > <richardhughes103@> wrote: >> > Not if you're a true True Believer. There is a classic > work of religious sociology called "When Prophecy Fails," > by Leon Festinger. He studied a modern spiritual group > that predicted the end of the world on a certain date, > and what became of them when it didn't happen. Utterly > fascinating. >
That sounds like my cup of tea. I'd never heard of this one though I shall look up a copy though as it got excellent reviews on amazon, and besides Festinger's the guy who gave us the idea of "cognitive dissonance" with thinking like that it must be worth a read. > > > Meteors, schmeteors...one good mutant virus could wipe > > > out all human life on the planet in less than a month. > > > Change is the reality of the relative. But it's unset- > > > tling for many people to *live* with the idea of change > > > as the only predictable thing in the universe, and so > > > they (IMO) glom onto those who claim to be able to > > > predict the *nature* of that change. > > > > Call me weird but I would love to witness a huge meteor impact > > it must be quite a spectacle. > > As pay-per-view goes, however, if it's a big one > it would be rather a short-lived phenomenon. They > tend to explode with the force of several nuclear > blasts. > Yeah, there wouldn't be enough time to get the photos developed. Did you know they found rocks blown all the way from mexico in southern europe from the dinosaur wipe out? There might be one in your back garden, that must have been a humdinger. > > We know it's going to happen sooner or later as there are so > > many things out there that could hit us. And it's not like > > it hasn't happened before several times, we wouldn't even be > > here if the dinosaurs hadn't been wiped out. Hmm there's a > > thought that puts it all into perspective. > > We might still be here, but we'd probably still be > the dinosaurs' idea of junk food. :-) > > > I agree, let's stick with the mystery, unless tanhlxns friend > > can foretell next weeks lottery numbers in which case I predict > > my life will change quite a bit. > > You forget the predictors' "out" -- "Oh, I couldn't > use my ability to 'see' for *that*; that would be > adharmic." :-) > I know, it sounds a tad "convenient" to me. I can remember someone in the TMO telling me about the "cosmic computer" just wish for something and you will get it apparently. I mentioned a large lottery win wouldn't go amiss and he said "No it doesn't work for money". So I told him just to leave the time machine in my office when it arrives. He said he would, bless him.
