Okay, listen up, whiners.

Lots of predictions on here are going to be wrong. You already know that. You know what's more annoying than a prediction that doesn't pan out? Or even more than a couple of months of predictions that don't pan out? The whining about it that always comes afterward.

Every time we pass a large event, like for example the Olympics, we get whiners in numbers equal to or greater than the initiating posts. "I told you nothing would happen!" or "You crazy people are always wasting our time with useless...blah, blah, blah..." or my favourite "You should apologize for being wrong!"

Okay. Back up the self-pity train here, guys. There is NOTHING that you deserve an apology for. NOTHING. Stop asking. Don't just stop asking. Smack down anyone who thinks an apology is in order. Do it. Now. There is nothing worse than a board full of whining jerks trying to be "I'm better than you", and that's exactly where you will push this site if your likes are allowed to continue.

Hands up. Who's here to finally get the upper hand in interpersonal conversations? Who's here to trade potentially important information before it's outlawed? Who wants to be pressed into apologizing so that some guy somewhere can display his smug vanity?

The game is this: speculation. If you're just here to flame or to bitch about how aliens did not invade during the closing ceremonies, or how you haven't been rounded up and sent to the showers yet, then you obviously have no skin in the game. You certainly don't deserve an apology from the people who actually stick their necks out to bring these things -- these possibilities -- to you.

What are you going to do when they're right? Complain that no one told you it would happen on a Thursday?

Here's what I propose. Speculation is good. Great, even. Accolades go to those who stick their heads out. To those who imagine what could come of current events, and of the dangerous people at the core of those current events. To the whiners and the people demanding apologies after they get safely through another day... Nothing but scorn. Your demands for apologies will fall on deaf ears, and be replied to with invitations to take a hike.

This can serve as an example not only of how to conduct yourself on a board of speculative discussion, but in life. There is no change without change. Quit whining and do something useful.

There was a 16-year-old girl this year who killed herself after researching prophesied 2012 doomsday disasters.

There's a very REAL consequence to posting this sort of subject-matter online. You just never know who your audience is going to be. These sorts of scenarios can have a very real and irrevocable impact on an impressionable mind. We're all susceptible to the power of suggestion. So no, I don't take these threads lightly given the possible scope of their influence.

Lately, there's a growing element of mania associated with the prediction threads here on ATS. I've learned to stay away. I really have to call into question the motive for posting one failed prediction after another.

Part of me truly wonders if these "prophets" are merely posting because they want to feel exceptional or unique or important more so than for the purpose of actually warning anyone of some future nonissue.

Just one girl's opinion ...

Regards,

FTE

So loudly "speculating" about bombs while in an airplane or a fire in a packed theatre is ok too?

Words have meaning and stirring a panic, consequences.

Originally posted by followtheevidence
There was a 16-year-old girl this year who killed herself after researching prophesied 2012 doomsday disasters.

There's a very REAL consequence to posting this sort of subject-matter online. You just never know who your audience is going to be. These sorts of scenarios can have a very real and irrevocable impact on an impressionable mind. We're all susceptible to the power of suggestion. So no, I don't take these threads lightly given the possible scope of their influence.

Lately, there's a growing element of mania associated with the prediction threads here on ATS. I've learned to stay away. I really have to call into question the motive for posting one failed prediction after another.

Part of me truly wonders if these "prophets" are merely posting because they want to feel exceptional or unique or important more so than for the purpose of actually warning anyone of some future nonissue.

Just one girl's opinion ...

Regards,

FTE

edit on 14-8-2012 by followtheevidence because: (no reason given)

Fair. Thank you for the response.

I'm not aware of the particular case you mentioned, but can also point you to people who have killed others on orders from the Beatles, or who have talked to the neighbour's dog to get marching orders in their serial killing agenda. I'm not saying [girl in question] was a nutbar... Just saying that the research of doomsday prophecies was unlikely to be the only factor in her suicide. Any research at all would show that these prophecies are nearly as old as we are, and the vast majority of the time are not proven out by time.

You don't have to take it lightly... But don't take it personally, and don't expect anyone to say they're sorry for being wrong.

Originally posted by Snoopy1978
So loudly "speculating" about bombs while in an airplane or a fire in a packed theatre is ok too?

Words have meaning and stirring a panic, consequences.

Really? That's nonsense.

Are you a politician? This is actually a political approach to answering that tries to blow your opponent's statement out of proportion in order to make it seem absurd. I'm afraid the two positions do not mesh.

you guys saved the day eh???
'nothing happened' since the hooplah of the olympics???
well how about these facts:

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U.S. Fatalities in and around Afghanistan Country of Death Fatalities Afghanistan 1916 Bahrain 2 Germany (from wounds in theatre) 28 Indonesia 1 Kuwait 1 Pakistan 15 Qatar 1 Southwest Asia 1 USA (from wounds in theatre) 32 Uzbekistan 1

On July 20, 2012, a mass shooting occurred at a Century movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, during a midnight screening of the film The Dark Knight Rises. A gunman, dressed in tactical clothing, set off tear gas grenades and shot into the audience with multiple firearms, killing 12 people and injuring 58 others. The sole suspect is James Eagan Holmes, who was arrested outside the cinema minutes later.

On August 5, 2012, a mass shooting took place at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, with a single gunman killing six people and wounding four others.[3][4] The gunman, Wade Michael Page, a known white supremacist, shot eight people at the temple, then shot a responding police officer. After being shot in the stomach by another police officer, Page fatally shot himself in the head.

tis is just a few examples of the 'madness' that has been going on leading up to and during the olympics.
just because it didn't happen in london,tptb still got away with a lot of crap in the meantime!
ever think that they wanted you to suspect the olympics,so they can mess around openly behind our backs!???
there are a 1000 more stories i could post,but i think you get the point.
people are still posting about the olympics,but the other stories i listed have been put on the back burner!
just what they wanted!
ya the olympics was a big false flag..... for the people!!!!
you have saved nothing! you fell for the trap so they could do what they wanted while you were distracted by a big nothing!

Actually, I disagree. I think bogus predictions are far worse, and far more annoying than the people who whine about it later.

Now, that being said...

I'm not going to bash people that simply keep an open mind. The folks that speculate and think something is possible aren't really doing anything wrong.

The ones that I absolutely HATE are the people who are SO DAMN sure of themselves that they not only speak as if what they are saying is FACT, but when someone disagrees with them they pull the whole "Blah blah you're a sheep, your asleep, you don't know anything, you'll see after I get proven right"

I hate these people. If you want to keep an open mind and don't want to shut down an idea that's cool. But do NOT go around acting as if you are somehow some enlightened individual that knows more than everybody else because you read a thread on ATS or watched some YouTube video. I see this crap all the time. "I watched this video that says there will be an earthquake tomorrow, it's happening, all of you doubters are stupid sheep that don't know anything"

Then tomorrow comes, nothing happens, and these instigators slink away to whatever dark corner they came from to reappear at a later date with another bogus prediction that they abuse other people for not believing in.

If you want to keep an open mind that's your right, but you have zero right to attack others because they DON'T believe some ridiculous BS that makes zero sense and could be debunked by a mentally disabled 5 year old.

Look, if you're man (or woman) enough to post some "Prophecy" or prediction.. and you're full of crap - and it never comes to fruition, be man (or woman) enough to own it and say "sorry, my bad".

OR

Quit posting attention whoring doomsday threads just because you want sycophants to ask you questions like you some how know "secrets".

*shrugs*