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Knowing an upcoming disaster, what to do?

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Hyroglyphx
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06-19-2009 9:23 PM 		Reply to: Message 1 by Taz
06-18-2009 5:53 PM

You have now stepped in to the Twilight Zone...
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All right, fine, I'll be serious...
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This brings me to the crux of the matter. The last date shown on the message is 2 days from now. There's no number of death and there's no GPS coordinates. I have to assume that this upcoming disaster will happen everywhere and that it will affect everyone.
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When I was about 20, I turned into an atheist after spending all my life as a devout fundamentalist christian. Now that I am faced with my own mortality as well as the mortality of every other human being on Earth, should I turn back to god or should I continue to deny god's existence? Will "Judgement Day" be a planned event meant as a wakeup call for all of us or will it just be an event, one of many in the universe?
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What are the dates? If you say December 21 2012, you might even freak me out.
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First things first... Do you have any way to find out who wrote down the series of numbers? If they are still alive (they'd probably be about 60 yrs old) you can interview them and have them recollect what the significance of the numbers were to them.
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Start with the simplest explanations and work your way out, systematically ruling certain things out while giving way to the possibility of others.
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Are you able to accomplish this?
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"The problem with Socialism is you eventually run out of other people's money." --Margaret Thatcher--
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Hyroglyphx
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06-19-2009 9:43 PM 		Reply to: Message 5 by Taz
06-18-2009 9:13 PM

Onward to oblivion
My deepest condolences for your loss. I've lost a few myself over the years, some ironically to gun shot wounds. The older I get the more real my own mortality comes. I have been sort of battling a mid-life crisis about that. I'm coming up to the acceptance phase, but it is still a ways off.
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I too have also been very conflicted between the whole God/no God thing. I just don't know for sure. And that is just going to have to be acceptable for the time being. I don't feel like I need to side with any one. I hope you don't either.
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I think I can say this with some certainty: You or I or anyone here is not going to unravel every one of life's mysteries in our lifetime. You may go through a series of many disappointments, moments of despair, and moments of jubilation.
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Just keep fighting the good fight and remember that while life has a lot of pain, there are a lot of good moments in it. Go forth in to oblivion with a happy heart! I know, easier said than done.
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"The problem with Socialism is you eventually run out of other people's money." --Margaret Thatcher--
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