The world's revolting

**MisterD** · 22nd February 2011, 08:21

Originally Posted by Edbear

Well, the former Soviet Block was a union of countries with their own local governments who seceeded from the Union. What we have here are individual countries breaking down within themselves, rather more precarious.

It wasn't just the USSR, it was other supported and aligned countries...and it was the fact that the Kremlin didn't or couldn't stop communist regimes in places like East Germany and Czechoslovakia folding that gave people in places like Georgia and Estonia the confidence to take on their own governments.

That's is how it's similar, people see what their neighbours have acheived and it gives them the confidence that they can do it to. "Unprecedented" it is not.

Of course my thoughts are that this situation has been very accurately foretold and is of little surprise to me.

Of course my thoughts are that it's a very easy thing to predict will happen at some point (Wars! Earthquakes! Rising Milk Prices!) and when the Roman empire was breaking up your equivalents were probably proclaiming it as fulfillment of exactly the same prophecies...

**Indiana_Jones** · 22nd February 2011, 08:25

Sharif don't like it...

-Indy

**Edbear** · 22nd February 2011, 08:28

Originally Posted by MisterD

It wasn't just the USSR, it was other supported and aligned countries...and it was the fact that the Kremlin didn't or couldn't stop communist regimes in places like East Germany and Czechoslovakia folding that gave people in places like Georgia and Estonia the confidence to take on their own governments.

That's is how it's similar, people see what their neighbours have acheived and it gives them the confidence that they can do it to. "Unprecedented" it is not.

Of course my thoughts are that it's a very easy thing to predict will happen at some point (Wars! Earthquakes! Rising Milk Prices!) and when the Roman empire was breaking up your equivalents were probably proclaiming it as fulfillment of exactly the same prophecies...

Notwithstanding that, the simple fact is that it was very accurately and in some detail foretold a long time before the world was even structured as it is. It's easy in hindsight to say, "Oh, yes, anyone could have predicted that at some point!" But the fact is, no-one else did and the events have taken everyone by surprise. I'd challenge you to predict even three years ahead, let alone three thousand, which is the case here. And that it's happening at the time it was said to happen as well.

Could anyone, accurately predict even the next ten years?

**MisterD** · 22nd February 2011, 08:39

Originally Posted by Edbear

Notwithstanding that, the simple fact is that it was very accurately and in some detail foretold a long time before the world was even structured as it is.

Come on then, money where mouth is time, give us a reference to these oh-so-accurate prophecies and we can all have a laugh to take our minds off the Libyans currently being strafed by their own airforce.

**Edbear** · 22nd February 2011, 08:41

Originally Posted by MisterD

Come on then, money where mouth is time, give us a reference to these oh-so-accurate prophecies and we can all have a laugh to take our minds off the Libyans currently being strafed by their own airforce.

Happy to, but you know what will happen immediately if I do that here...

The purpose of this thread is to get everyone else's thoughts on the situation and where people think it will lead.

**MisterD** · 22nd February 2011, 08:42

Originally Posted by Edbear

Happy to, but you know what will happen immediately if I do that here...

So post it *there* yourself.

**Edbear** · 22nd February 2011, 08:43

Originally Posted by MisterD

So post it *there* yourself.

Will do, I had a thought to post "there" anyway about something similar.

**oldrider** · 22nd February 2011, 11:22

Worldwide civil disorder may soon prove to be more destructive than the entire arsenal of atomic weapons set off at once!

A destructive chain reaction, once set in motion may prove unstoppable!

**superman** · 22nd February 2011, 11:27

Originally Posted by Edbear

I'd challenge you to predict even three years ahead, let alone three thousand, which is the case here. And that it's happening at the time it was said to happen as well.

Could anyone, accurately predict even the next ten years?

Hmm if I made a prediction would it be more likely to come true in a few years or a few thousand?...

**marie_speeds** · 22nd February 2011, 11:28

Originally Posted by oldrider

Worldwide civil disorder may soon prove to be more destructive than the entire arsenal of atomic weapons set off at once!

A destructive chain reaction, once set in motion may prove unstoppable!

That's why I feed all the stray cats I come across....never know when they may come in handy

**Edbear** · 22nd February 2011, 11:59

Originally Posted by marie_speeds

That's why I feed all the stray cats I come across....never know when they may come in handy

LOL!!! Never thought of it that way...

**mashman** · 22nd February 2011, 12:31

Originally Posted by oldrider

Worldwide civil disorder may soon prove to be more destructive than the entire arsenal of atomic weapons set off at once!

A destructive chain reaction, once set in motion may prove unstoppable!

Unless you're on an Island that gets its shit together pretty fookin quickly

and figures out that money is useless at that point in time.