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sarisataka

(18,651 posts)
Fri Dec 21, 2012, 03:03 PM Dec 2012

So the Myans were right

-Plan "B" Fails
-A Dem President is willing to cut SS
-the NRA will create an armed force to guard schools
-weathers shuts down a large area of the county--again
-Syria is dropping cluster bombs and launching SCUDs at its own people
--->>>

It is the end of the world. They just didn't tell us it would be a slow death

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sarisataka

(18,651 posts)
2. I am tongue in cheek (mostly)
Fri Dec 21, 2012, 03:10 PM
Dec 2012

but it is intriguing that everything is happening all on this day.

Do you know how to eat an elephant?... having a bunch of people helps

The Wielding Truth

(11,415 posts)
5. Yea,I see what you mean. This elephant needs to be whittled down. I would like to see it turn on
Fri Dec 21, 2012, 04:04 PM
Dec 2012

its own ridiculous rouge temperament.

 

BlueStreak

(8,377 posts)
4. A little known fact about the Mayans ...
Fri Dec 21, 2012, 03:31 PM
Dec 2012

They were masters of speaking metaphorically.

As in "you will witness the end of society as you know it."

It is interesting that we do seem to be reaching a major turning point -- the end of the "Reagan Era", if you will.

Pendulum shift is not an apt metaphor. The pendulum never returns to its original place. I am not sure that the end of the Reagan Era is necessarily a better place.

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