Has anyone noticed that there have been A LOT of world events happening lately?

Idk if anyone else noticed this but i feel as if A LOT of monumental world events have been going on recently. 2011 seems like a really busy year so far for the news.

First it was the oil price boom, then the Tunisian revolution, then the Egyptian revolution and Hosni Mubarak's resignation, then Libya's revolution, then the Muslim radicalization hearings, and now Japan's earthquake/tsunami? Is it just me or does 2011 seem like a really revolutionary year for the world?

Blame it on the Moon.

Brah these things have been going on forever. A few hundred years ago when things were less stable, politically, socially etc there were revolutiions every 5 seconds, but back then you also had massive armies marching on foot around the place, and there have always been natural disasters. It only appears so bad now because we have the means to hear about global events as they are happening and fear mongering generates viewership and money/fad crisis'.

Anyone remember the earthquake in Christchuch? Or the floods and storms in Queensland before that? No of course not, they are old news.

yea its kinda scary but we should be ready for any thing.

No one is really taken by shock. Did you skip history class?

Maybe Japan has a thousand+ recorded earthquakes a year? Maybe people revolt when someone remains their leader for extended periods and assigns his son next in line?

Yes...it's hard to miss that I wonder how many comments will blame all that stuff on 2012 >_>Darthkaiser

How ****ing ignorant can people be?

No one is really taken by shock. Did you skip history class?

Maybe Japan has a thousand+ recorded earthquakes a year? Maybe people revolt when someone remains their leader for extended periods and assigns his son next in line?

CattiJack

It's the apocalypse, no other explanation.

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No one is really taken by shock. Did you skip history class?

Maybe Japan has a thousand+ recorded earthquakes a year? Maybe people revolt when someone remains their leader for extended periods and assigns his son next in line?

butteman12

Natural disasters and human strife occuring along with the first three months of 2011 are coherent and meaningful to you? Uh, wat?

What is your concept of development and time I wonder?

Take a history lesson and have your mind blown.

I'm starting to get the impression you are just naive.

Seems normal to me.

Every year there are at least one or more things that are terriblely bad. Just seems like that because it's only March. People felt the same last year, the other year, and the previous year before that, and so on.

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No one is really taken by shock. Did you skip history class?

Maybe Japan has a thousand+ recorded earthquakes a year? Maybe people revolt when someone remains their leader for extended periods and assigns his son next in line?

butteman12

Well of course, this is more recent in your memory. People thought it was the end of the world during the Influenza of 1913 and a WORLD WAR was occuring too.

Far worse has happened.

Let's not overthink it here. You could say that about any year. But still, makes me think...

Im just curious to see what happens when 2013 kicks over.Filipino_Rambo

I kind in this thread expecting to see OP say 2012 is true or something. I was wrong.

The 60's had a lot of world events too.

[QUOTE="Darthkaiser"]Yes...it's hard to miss that I wonder how many comments will blame all that stuff on 2012 >_>DigitalExile

How ****ing ignorant can people be?

These disasters are all signs of 2012! THE WORLD IS GOING TO END!!!1111111!11!!!!!!ELEVEN!!11TheArGaia

Don't forget the deadly earthquake in Christchurch, NZ just last month. This has indeed been a very tumultuous and deadly year so far. People will try to say that it's all normal, and that the only thing changing in the level of media coverage. I've been watching the news since the early 1990's, and the media coverage today isn't that much different. There's a lot of crap going down right now.

Idk if anyone else noticed this but i feel as if A LOT of monumental world events have been going on recently. 2011 seems like a really busy year so far for the news.

First it was the oil price boom, then the Tunisian revolution, then the Egyptian revolution and Hosni Mubarak's resignation, then Libya's revolution, then the Muslim radicalization hearings, and now Japan's earthquake/tsunami? Is it just me or does 2011 seem like a really revolutionary year for the world?

butteman12

2012? DUH

It's the apocalypse, no other explanation.

StealthMonkey4

Blame it on the Moon.

ktseymour

I will say that it is odd just HOW MUCH craziness has already happened at the beginning of this year. Yes there is always stuff going on in the world, but there is undoubtedly an unusual amount of VERY BIG change going around just at the beginning of the year.

We have already had multiple, huge revolutions and then a freaking major country got completely descimated by natural disaster to such an extent a collapse of their economy is feared.

2011 has already proven to be a much more impactful year than the any in the last decade (besides 2001) and we are not even halfway through March.

At this point in time, I'm not willing to rule out the end of humanity. It is difficult for me to reconcile these events as merely coincidental. Rather romantic how we've evolved from a species fighting for survival to being docile in the very face of extinction.

Our earth is very geologically active and our global environment is not static. Things earthquakes will happen frequently and unfrequently, plates that move around dictate how much shaking will happen, and how many volcanoes erupt. Also about every 100,000,000 years or so the composition of our atmosphere changes causeing weather changes. Also about every 26,000 years our magnetic field does a 180 polar shift (north becomes south and south becomes north).

I'm gonna just come clean..No more hiding

SuperMoon..Poleshift..ALiens..The mayans..Yeti..NEMESIS and the F******* SUN..They are coming.

OT will save us :)

I read that a NASA worker posted online anonymously that there have been 30 unknown manned spaceflights or I guess top top secret missions. hmm and I ready they have this big super shuttle or space plane, hmm ever seen the movie 2012?

I read that a NASA worker posted online anonymously that there have been 30 unknown manned spaceflights or I guess top top secret missions. hmm and I ready they have this big super shuttle or space plane, hmm ever seen the movie 2012?

ehhwhatever

Well yeah they have..Its the new space shuttle.

And I dont think space will save us if what happened in that movie happens :)

Theres constant destruction. Only difference is today we have the media for coverageplaymynutz

Yup, We need to take these signs and HURRY UP INTO THE NEXT CIVILIZATION. We need to move on from what we are, to where we needed to be 10 years ago. And thats a single race, a single group of people. Not 6 billion individuals, but 1 mass of super minded beings.Lost-Memory

inb4 2012. Oh wait....

I love how people say that we shouldnt rule anything out and to "be prepared". Haha you think a bomb shelter is gonna save you from the end of the world? Better go get a helmet to survive the apocalypse.

Idk if anyone else noticed this but i feel as if A LOT of monumental world events have been going on recently. 2011 seems like a really busy year so far for the news.

First it was the oil price boom, then the Tunisian revolution, then the Egyptian revolution and Hosni Mubarak's resignation, then Libya's revolution, then the Muslim radicalization hearings, and now Japan's earthquake/tsunami? Is it just me or does 2011 seem like a really revolutionary year for the world?

butteman12

You forgot the flooding in Queensland, Australia

These things happen.

People who think it's because of 2012 are seriously freaking stupid.

I'm including you, mother.