Survivalist Robert Bast is preparing for the end of the world and has written a book on survival.
Picture: Mike Keating Source: News Limited
Note: From Melbourne, Australia
Posted on 12/20/2012 10:06:02 AM PST by Perseverando
THE problem - as Mayan apocalypse expert Robert Bast puts it - is that if you build it, they will come.
And that's why the man who wrote the book on the impending end of the world - due either tomorrow or Saturday Australia time, depending on which time zone you believe it will strike in first - won't show you his doomsday bunker.
Asked to take us to the safe house he and his wife and three children will be fleeing to on Friday, he was adamant that its location had to remain secret.
''I've turned down every request for a visit,'' he said.
''One of the fundamentals of prepping is you don't let anyone know what you've got or why you've got it.''
The reason for the secrecy has less to do with paranoia and more to do avoiding awkward situations, he said.
Usually preppers only stock enough for them and their family.
''It would be horrible having people come up to the place begging,'' he said.
''It's an intolerable situation so you just don't let anyone know.''
Mr Bast said he's been stocking up for years on supplies like water, canned goods, equipment and medical supplies even though he can't say for sure what is going to happen on Friday.
A giant solar storm that could blow up transformers, knock out power grids and leave humanity in darkness and in financial ruin is the most likely scenario, Mr Bast said.
''It would be a real end of the world as we know it for Western society as we rely on electricity for everything, our banking systems, hospitals, pumping water to our homes, sewage away from our homes, filling cars with fuel, for communications,'' he said.
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Note: From Melbourne, Australia
Mmmm, Basmati rice...it’s the best.
I would be interested in buying up a couple surplus underground bunkers next January for the back 40.
Remember, the Mayans didn’t say it was the end of the
world.
Just the end of time.
So at least we have that going for us...
We’re down to a very limited number of catastrophes that could be global in scale without a gradual increase over months weeks or days.
Crossing the galactic equator is out because we’d have been feeling that approach for a looong time.
An asteroid seems unlikely because astronomers would have spotted it by now and the fact that Obama is continuing his attack on America unabated seems to indicate he expects the world to continue past tomorrow.
Its gonna have to be a gamma ray burst or something similar.
Not worried about the Mayan calendar but I’d be amazed if we make it through the next four years without some major SHTF event occcuring. I believe our generation will be witnesses to the end times.
If that means I stop getting older I'm all for it! Just wish it had happened about 30 years ago!
Maybe if I put the brass calendar over my head tomorrow, nothing will happen to me but the rest of you will go down a dark hole as the world collapses.
I'm a “hoarding” prepper so no way is anyone sharing this brass calendar with me. :o)
Yay! April 15 will never arrive. Cool! On the other hand, Obama will be frozen in as President for eternity....not cool at all....:(
It is really cool that the Mayans were so smart as to be able to build pyramids and figure out how to track the passage of time. The fact that their calendar ends at all is purely arbitrary and there is nothing supernatural about it. It was a great big round thing and like all circles it ends where it begins. It just ran out of room. Big deal.
It really is a waste of time to even talk about it. I am wasting my time commenting on this charlatan who has enough food in the picture to last maybe two months. That food supply is basically one trip to Costco. He may live longer than that, but only if he eats his wife and kids. He will have to eat Mom first because the kids are more likely to go along with that plan than Mom is to eat the kids, but I digress.
As for his reason for not showing his hidden bunker, it is because it doesn’t exist. He knows full well that the world is not going to “end”. He is making money off of the stupid and is not so stupid himself as to spend that money on some ridiculous shelter with a year’s supply of food. More likely, he has invested in some property far away from the people who will be pointing and laughing at him on the 22nd.
Is there a galactic equivalent to the Shellback ceremony for crossing the equator?
Don't covet another mans rice.
Time was God’s way of preventing everything from happening at once.
If that ends, we’re gonna be busier than ever.
One of our sons sent his Christmas card reading: “If the world ends 12-21-12, this seems a waste of time. If not, Love you and Merry Christmas!”
It was not the end of time, but rather the end of a particular era in time and the beginning of a new era in time.
“I’m a “hoarding” prepper so no way is anyone sharing this brass calendar with me. :o)”
LOL!
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