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Apocalypse now: Doomsdayers warn stock up, bunker down
The Herald Sun ^ | December 21, 2012 | Claire Connelly

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at heraldsun.com.au ...


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: apocalypse; december21; doomsday; mayancalendar; preppers; shtf
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To: JRandomFreeper

I only steal the best.


41 posted on 12/20/2012 12:45:30 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: JRandomFreeper

It’s when the continents were connected. Just one zone


42 posted on 12/20/2012 12:47:34 PM PST by morphing libertarian
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To: meadsjn
Wave as you fly over.

/johnny

43 posted on 12/20/2012 12:48:40 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Marcella
our Texas time.

Technically, while I do live in Texas, I'm on unix time. It's 1356036383 or so, as far as I'm concerned.

/johnny

44 posted on 12/20/2012 12:52:02 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper

i’ve been told its the first minute of winter

6:12 AM eastern time, Friday, Dec. 21


45 posted on 12/20/2012 1:41:30 PM PST by George from New England (escaped CT in 2006, now living north of Tampa)
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To: morphing libertarian
Don't forget to buy ripe bananas! I just came from Aldis with a bunch. Pull up a piece of ground ... THE FAR SIDE           by Gary Larson, "You know, Sid, I really like bananas... I mean, I know that's not profound or nothin'... Heck! We ALL do... But for me, I think it goes much more beyond that."
46 posted on 12/20/2012 1:48:01 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives. "A long train of abuses and usurpations.")
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To: George from New England
6:12 AM eastern time, Friday, Dec. 21

Likely that I'll miss it, then. I'm generally still in the latrine around that time of day.

But if the end of the world has to happen then, that's ok. Beats 1400 naptime.

/johnny

47 posted on 12/20/2012 1:49:28 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Darksheare; Borax Queen
Somehow this is Darks fault.

And no, you can't come to my dungeonum, er, bunker.........

48 posted on 12/20/2012 1:59:35 PM PST by Lakeshark (!)
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To: TexasRepublic

A lot of it feels like a redo of Y2K.
I was more afraid of the 11/5/2012 election than Maya crap.


49 posted on 12/20/2012 3:01:13 PM PST by tbw2
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To: Lakeshark; Darksheare

LOL, we’d never make it that far... we’ve got Plan B and C a little closer :0)


50 posted on 12/20/2012 4:14:24 PM PST by Borax Queen
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To: Lakeshark; Darksheare
p.s. Sharky, what pervo thing did you say on the Texas thread yesterday to get it pulled.... fotflol
51 posted on 12/20/2012 4:19:12 PM PST by Borax Queen
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To: Borax Queen
Twas all innocent.

Something about manacles and dungeons....

I thought you had agreed and they shut the thread down.

:-)

52 posted on 12/20/2012 4:46:26 PM PST by Lakeshark (!)
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To: webheart
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.

I actually have more food on my shelves right now than that guy in the picture and I don't consider myself a prepper at all. I just like to buy in bulk when it comes to long shelf items like canned foods, batteries, nuts, bottled water, and yes, even tin foil.

I have no illusions that this would save me in a TEOTWAWKI event. No amount of food and supplies would save you because eventually, other people will figure out what you have and they will be beating a path to your door. They will ask nicely at first but if you refuse them, they will eventually come back at night with torches. And for those "yahoos" who brag on their guns and ammo, sure, you might be able to hold out a little longer but eventually you are going to run out of bullets or fall asleep and an angry mob will eventually climb over the dead bodies and they will be ANGRY. The ending will not be pretty.

My opinion is that the true survivors of a TEOTWAKWI event will be those who have skills to barter. Those who know carpentry, dentistry, doctoring, engineering skills, etc., will become the elite of the emerging society. Others with no skills to offer, and that includes the idle rich, will just be seen as useless mouths to feed. They will have the most to fear.

53 posted on 12/20/2012 5:05:50 PM PST by SamAdams76
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To: Lakeshark
Hahhaha, I missed whatever you said, they shut it down too fast. At least we're not banned... :0) Hhaha, j/k, it wasn't our fault; we were good!
54 posted on 12/20/2012 6:46:43 PM PST by Borax Queen
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To: tbw2
That Mayans were an incredibly intelligent civilization. How else would they know that Obama would be president in 2012. Uhhhh.... Hello......Hello!! Anybody out there? Am I and Mrs. P all that's left? Oh NOoooooooo!!!!!!!!! </sarc>
55 posted on 12/21/2012 4:10:59 AM PST by Perseverando (Gun control? It's really not about gun control is it? It's really about PEOPLE CONTROL!)
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To: Borax Queen; Lakeshark

The People’s Socialist Workers Republic of Nueva Yorke will never let it’s citizens go!
Everyone in Nueva Yorke is happy and productive!
We have no dissidents in Nueva Yorke!

*cough*

Sharky, did Detroit get washed away by the storm last night?


56 posted on 12/21/2012 5:54:06 AM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
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To: Perseverando

Waiting for the end;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hJQ18S6aag


57 posted on 12/21/2012 6:11:13 AM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: Slings and Arrows
The Firesign Theatre sez:

Give me immortality or give me death!

58 posted on 12/21/2012 7:29:41 AM PST by Erasmus (Zwischen des Teufels und des tiefen, blauen Meers)
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To: Borax Queen; Darksheare
Yeah, you were being a bit, how do I say, excitable about those whips and chains, good thing the thread went down the drain so fast...........

:-)

It was so bad, so *ahem* controversial my computer started aflame and we lost power at our home for the past two days. To say the least I was worried.

Okay, okay, it was a snowstorm......all north and west though Darks, no white stuff in Detroit. Somehow, it WAS your fault.........

59 posted on 12/23/2012 10:23:43 AM PST by Lakeshark (!)
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To: Lakeshark; Borax Queen

Detroit didn’t get flushed?!
That’s horrible, what manner of eldritch fiend would dump snow everywhere else but leave Detroit unmlested b winter crap?


60 posted on 12/23/2012 10:34:21 AM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
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