The End Is Nigh!

Didn't Odin have one eye?

That's Thor

I think I did something last night...

, That's Thor in the picture. Odin did have only one eye

Odin plucked out his one eye, because with two, everybody was way too afraid to look him in the face.

That's Thor talking about Odin.

"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."

Don't worry, it's not the end of the world.

—R.J.

@Blue: No, Odin plucked out his eye in exchange for being able to know everything. It's now sitting at the bottom of a well somewhere.

edited 22nd May '11 10:34:55 AM by DrunkGirlfriend

"I don't know how I do it. I'm like the Mr. Bean of sex." -Drunkscriblerian

Well, actually I heard it was stolen by a bunch of gargoyles.

I'm sorry that some people got the rug pulled from under their feet, but when you really think about this, if you focus on the adults who got screwed (since the kids are the responsibility of the adults, not themselves), you gotta ask yourself: who's to blame? Who's to blame if you sacrifice everything on a scam that you could easily disprove if you bothered to look around and stop to think?

Stupid people should not be abused, but if you're ignorant and lazy enough to not bother to check what BS someone's pulling on you before you sell everything, it's kinda hard to justify blaming anyone but yourself unless you're mentally disabled. One of the most important principles that Western civilization is based on is critical thinking. Why do millions neglect that whenever they're dealing with something that's, you know, actually really important?

I'm not saying that this fraud shouldn't be punished; he totally deserves jail time and to lose all of his profits from this scam to repay at least some of the damages, but for each functional adult that lost everything, this Camping guy is not the person most guilty of their loss. For the kids whose parents wasted everything, they should be taken by social services and adopted into families that can actually take care of them.

edited 11th Oct '11 11:13:52 PM by BestOf

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A man cannot be fooled by anyone but himself.

Can't be arsed googling who said that originally.

The sad and really scary bit is that in order to believe a scam, you've got to want it to be true - which means that there's a large number of people who want to believe that they will be rewarded and that everyone else is going to be horrifically punished.

I'll leave you all to draw your own conclusions about that mentality...

People actually sold all their shit for this? My my, humanity I've over estimated you once again.

Is using "Julian Assange is a Hillary butt plug" an acceptable signature quote?

Personally, I find it kinda hard to believe that anyone would take something as staggeringly silly as this absolutely seriously and as a consequence lose all their shit, but at the same time I totally believe there really are people that dumb and that this stuff really happened. I wouldn't believe it otherwise, but I've seen articles...

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What's the general response from Camping's camp? I understand the man himself is holed up in his home.

They're sad because they're out of smores.

UN JOUR JE SERAI DE RETOUR PRÈS DE TOI

My personal theory is that the Rapture really did happen yesterday, but everyone is a bad Christian, so no one was actually taken.

Which, of course, makes a very good philosophical debate: if the Rapture happened, but took nobody, and is therefore indistinguishable from it not having happened at all...

Of course, the earthquakes, volcanoes, plagues, and the Earth exploding in a ball of fire will be rather difficult to miss.

edited 22nd May '11 3:46:43 PM by Fighteer

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

I keep telling you, you have to account for everybody. There might be ONE chosen person.

"Hey, didn't you disappear in the Rapture? I went by your house Sunday and you were nowhere to be seen."

"I got better."

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

I thought the guy has disappeared?

In fact, I think he flew over our house a couple of hours ago. The plane had speakers that were broadcasting what the sole passenger was saying. Amid loads and loads of laughter, I made out "How much is $80 million in Rubles?" and "Hookers and blow, here I come!"

(I just checked; it's about 2.25 billion Russian rubles. If you divide the money equally between hookers and blow, you'll get 315 metric tonnes of coke and about 146 years with 5 hookers every night*

in Russia.)

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@Blue: Pointless. If the rapture did happen, then when the world starts going to absolute hell it'll be pretty obvious.

Depends on where you live

Either this guy fled the country afraid of the angry mobs or he offed himself. Or in a fit of Irony died and has to answer for what he has done.

Who watches the watchmen?

Or, as I suggested, he's currently immersed in 315 tonnes of coke with 5 hookers.

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See Fled the Country.

Who watches the watchmen?

Yeah, I actually meant to write my post as expanding on the suggestion that he fled, but the sub-clause required to specify this fled my mind somewhere between clicking "add a post" and writing it.

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