A los que decís que "no será en Octubre" (lo del pinchazo de la burbuja), recordaros que la predicción de tochovista no se refería a que fuese a haber un bajón en la economía o en los precios, sino a que habría un punto de inflexión en los medios de comunicación y en los políticos (y no sé si también dijo en la mentalidad de la gente). Y el caso es que tal vez sí pueda decirse (habría que analizar los artículos que se han ido publicando, ver si ha habido muchos más que en meses anteriores, etc.).

Es asombroso esta trivialización de todo en la que vivimos (un estudio presumiblemente serio se convierte en una broma al añadirle la tontería "probablemente un 31 de octubre, halloween").

Every 2.4-2.5 million years there was a small extinction, and on top of this, every 1 million years came a die-off too.

But, adds Barnosky, the effects may still not be global: an Earth wobble that killed in Spain may have spared life in Utah. "One of the problems is that people like tidy answers," says Prothero. "But really there are a lot of loose ends that haven't been tied up yet."

Por partes.

El innombrable no ha hecho ninguna predicción, ha ido soltando tonterías sin más.

Si en algún lugar ha dicho que sería un punto de inflexión, también ha dicho todo lo contrario (la palabra "petardazo" creo que es bastante explícita). Buena forma de profetizar, dices una cosa y la contraria y te aseguras el acierto.

Efectivamente, hay artículos publicados con anterioridad bastante contundentes. Y cada vez habrá más, pero ciertas cosas no pasan de un día para otro.

Personalmente creo que la burbuja se pinchó hace meses, es cuestión de tiempo. Estoy un poco cansado de que se de pie a que se siga con la tontería de octubre, parece que algunos lo tienen en el subconsciente y no hacen más que buscar el indicio que lo corrobore. Y parece que no soy el único.

Apocalypse now set for October
irishtimes.com - Last Updated: Tuesday, May 24, 2011, 09:10


Harold Camping (89), the California evangelical broadcaster who predicts judgment day will come on Ocotober 21st after May 21st passed without incident. Photograph: Reuters

The evangelical Christian broadcaster whose much-ballyhooed judgment day prophecy went conspicuously unfulfilled on Saturday has a simple explanation for what went wrong - he miscalculated.

Instead of the world physically coming to an end on May 21st with a great, cataclysmic earthquake, as he had predicted, Harold Camping (89) said he now believes his forecast is playing out "spiritually," with the actual apocalypse set to occur five months later, on October 21st.

Mr Camping, who launched a doomsday countdown in which some followers spent their life's savings in anticipation of being swept into heaven in "Rapture", issued his correction during an appearance on his Open Forum radio show from Oakland, California.

The headquarters of Camping's Family Radio network of 66 US stations had been shuttered over the weekend with a sign on the door that read: "This Office is Closed. Sorry we missed you!"

During a sometimes rambling, 90-minute discourse that included a question-and-answer session with reporters, Camping said he felt bad that Saturday had come and gone without the rapture he had felt so certain would take place.

Reflecting on ******ure afterward, Mr Camping said it "dawned" on him that a "merciful and compassionate God" would spare humanity from "hell on Earth for five months" by compressing the physical apocalypse into a shorter time frame.

But he insisted October 21st has always been the end-point of his own End Times chronology, or at least, his latest chronology.

The tall, gaunt former civil engineer with a deep voice and prominent ears has been wrong before. More than two decades ago, he publicly acknowledged a failed 1994 prophecy of Christ's return to Earth.

To publicise his latest pronouncement, the Family Radio network posted over 2,000 billboards around the country declaring that Judgment Day was at hand, and believers carried the message on placards in shopping malls and street corners.

Asked what advice he would give to followers who gave up much or all of their worldly possessions in the belief that his Judgment Day forecast would come true, Mr Camping drew a comparison to the nation's recent economic slump.

"We just had a great recession. There's lots of people who lost their jobs, lots of people who lost their houses . . . and somehow they all survived," he said. "People cope," he added.

"We're not in the business of giving any financial advice. We're in the business of telling people maybe there is someone you can talk to, and that's God."

Reuters