Dude, we jump off this cliff we're going to die!
See, that's the sort of negative crap I don't need to hear. Tell me a funny story instead.
Love to - just as soon as you stop considering jumping off.
There you go again! Always harping about jumping off and we're all going to die and boo-hoo! You're just guessing, anyway.
Those are sharp, jagged rocks waiting to mangle us. Just look and see!
Why should I look when I can disparage you instead? Like you are the Decider Of Reality or something. Besides, there's a new Angry Birds version out.
Just look, that's all I'm asking! Don't take my word for it. Look and you'll see we'll die.
Oh, pooh-pooh. Like you know anything! How do you know we'll die? Are you a frickin' scientist?
I don't have to be a scientist to know this.
Oh, how convenient! Just make up facts. If you don't know everything then you don't know anything.
Do you want to win the argument or win your life?
The argument is my life! Besides, there's nothing we can't do if we set our minds to it. We'll be just fine jumping off.
Don't you have any more faith in life that that??
All I know is you're just trying to make me feel bad and distract me from my smart phone - something I care about. Your frickin' philosophy don't mean jack to me.
Look, we need to get down there but we're going to have to take the long rocky road back down. It's the only way!
More philosophy...
You're impossible!
I'm winning! I just read an online poll where 85% of people agree with me. Dude, you're in trouble now!
"Dear God, can I please chain You to this self-absorbed idiot detached from reality whom You've deemed to bind my life to? Can you please put my life in my own hands?"
There is no God, dummy.
Spare me your philosophy.
It's not philosophy! I'm a realist, you douche.
Oh, like you're the Decider Of Reality or something.
You know what, man, you live in fucking fantasy land! You just tell yourself whatever lies make you feel good regardless of the consequences to anyone else. You're a freaking nightmare to live with!
HAHAHAHAHA!
What's so damn funny?
I was holding up a mirror just then. It was yourself you were speaking to! Too funny! HAHAHAHA!
Then a shot rang out in the Memphis sky, one man dead, the other still vowing to jump.
After all, if I don't jump now after all I've said and done I'll look like an idiot. No way am I backing down so people can make fun of me for the rest of my life! I am a person of conviction, that's all that matters! Hallowed be my name!
And then there were none.
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Mankind's first banker
Richard Duncan, formerly of the World Bank and chief economist at Blackhorse Asset Mgmt., says America's $16 trillion federal debt has escalated into a "death spiral," as he told CNBC.
And it could result in a depression so severe that he doesn't "think our civilization could survive it."
And Duncan is not alone in warning that the U.S. economy may go into a "death spiral."
Since the recession, noted economists including Laurence Kotlikoff, a former member of President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers, have come to similar conclusions.
Kotlikoff estimates the true fiscal gap is $211 trillion when unfunded entitlements like Social Security and Medicare are included.
However, while the debt crisis numbers are well known to most Americans, the economy hasn't suffered a major correction for almost 4 years.
So the questions remain: Is the threat of collapse for real? And if so, when?
A team of scientists, economists, and geopolitical analysts believes they have proof that the threat is indeed real - and the danger imminent.
One member of this team, Chris Martenson, a pathologist and former VP of a Fortune 300 company, explains their findings:
"We found an identical pattern in our debt, total credit market, and money supply that guarantees they're going to fail. This pattern is nearly the same as in any pyramid scheme, one that escalates exponentially fast before it collapses. Governments around the globe are chiefly responsible.
Your average voter
"And what's really disturbing about these findings is that the pattern isn't limited to our economy. We found the same catastrophic pattern in our energy, food, and water systems as well."
According to Martenson: "These systems could all implode at the same time. Food, water, energy, money. Everything."
Another member of this team, Keith Fitz-Gerald, the president of The Fitz-Gerald Group, went on to explain their discoveries.
"What this pattern represents is a dangerous countdown clock that's quickly approaching zero. And when it does, the resulting chaos is going to crush Americans," Fitz-Gerald says.
Dr. Kent Moors, an adviser to 16 world governments on energy issues as well as a member of two U.S. State Department task forces on energy also voiced concerns over what he and his colleagues uncovered.
"Most frightening of all is how this exact same pattern keeps appearing in virtually every system critical to our society and way of life," Dr. Moors stated.
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You're going to miss this guy!
Jesus left the temple and was walking away when his disciples came up to him to call his attention to its buildings. “Do you see all these things?” he asked. “Truly I tell you, not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.”
As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately. “Tell us,” they said, “when will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?”
Jesus answered: “Watch out that no one deceives you. For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and will deceive many. You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of birth pains.
“Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me. At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
“So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination that causes desolation,’ spoken of through the prophet Daniel — let the reader understand — then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let no one on the housetop go down to take anything out of the house. Let no one in the field go back to get their cloak. How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! Pray that your flight will not take place in winter or on the Sabbath. For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now—and never to be equaled again.
“If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened. At that time if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Messiah!’ or, ‘There he is!’ do not believe it. For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. See, I have told you ahead of time.
“So if anyone tells you, ‘There he is, out in the wilderness,’ do not go out; or, ‘Here he is, in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it. For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures will gather.
“Immediately after the distress of those days
“‘the sun will be darkened,
and the moon will not give its light;
the stars will fall from the sky,
and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.’
and the moon will not give its light;
the stars will fall from the sky,
and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.’
“Then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. And then all the peoples of the earth will mourn when they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory. And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.
“Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it is near, right at the door. Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened. Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.
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