December 21, 2012 Doomsday Fear and Y2K Scare Compared.
We are in a remarkably similar situation to the Y2K computer bug scare in the early days of the Internet, 1997. That was the “good old days” of the Internet. That was also before the age of Spam.
This computer bug was an issue that was almost entirely debated and studied on this newfound medium. While there were many unknown variables as to the seriousness of the problem of Y2K, many were convinced that this could or would be a societal disaster if not taken seriously and the worst-case scenarios featured a shutdown of the power grid and critical infrastructure due to the embedded chip problem.
The issue was the simultaneity of potential breakdowns, cascading upon each other. But again, no one knew the reality of what we would face at the 2000 rollover. At the time, the macro-implications were not well understood, but those who studied the problem in depth came to the conclusion that it would at least cause widespread disruptions and a recession.
At first it was ridiculed, then it was violently attacked, then was held to be self-evident; then it was solved.
In 1997 and 1998 (when I first began writing publicly and covering Y2K and the economy) there was widespread denial and wishful thinking as to what we faced when the computers rolled over to 00. This was the first time in history we had an accurate date for a potential crisis.
Many of the most popular doom sayers, alarmists, pessimistic analysts and programmers were giving dire assessments. But most people laughed at the concept and anyone who would dare say we were facing a serious problem. My website provided a dire but well-presented argument for a potential collapse, based on the best and most respected “evidence” we at the time possessed. The evidence seemed to be overwhelming and quite convincing to those who actually studied the problem.
However, as we all know it turned out that many of these gurus and programmers were left flabbergasted that virtually NOTHING happened at the rollover: no bank runs, no stock market collapse, no recession and no power failures. Many of these Y2K experts and gurus were then derided, ridiculed and written off and fell from the public radarscope, tail between legs, never to be heard from again.
Many who studied the scope and complexity of the problem still look back at those days, disillusioned or flabbergasted that nothing happened. The vast majority of the population never actually took Y2K seriously, (“that dang YK thang!”) even when it increasingly made headlines and lengthy articles in the mainstream press, such as Time, Newsweek and the Wall Street Journal.
Some still resent the fact that they invested for a stock market collapse by 1999, or in gold, or stored food and water against seemingly certain disruptions. Some still ask themselves, was it all just hype by profit-meisters about a non-serious problem, or was it also due to the fact that Government and corporations finally took the threat seriously, and threw money at it (an estimated half a trillion dollars worldwide)? It was probably a combination; not quite as serious as first thought, AND that the dire warnings were heeded.
I was an embryonic “messenger” at that time. Little did I realize I was engaging in classic prophecy in the truest sense of the word: Issuing warning and stating the obvious, with the unstated goal of actually altering the future! Yet consciously I was just another schmuck who made it a full-time obsession.
True prophecy (as opposed to merely “making predictions”) is about issuing a warning to people who will listen which is also intended for political and economic leaders.
“Doomsayer!”
“Daniel, come on, why do you keep bringing up Y2K? That was more than 10 long years ago! Quit living in the past!”
The fact that we live in a fragile, overly complex society never changed. And the warning of the fiat-money-based house-of-cards debt and bubble-based economy, which has shifted to real estate in the past few years, stands firm. We will suffer in the coming years to a degree presently perceived as unimaginable.
Yes, Y2K turned out to be a non-event in the end, and those who are not enlightened to the nature of true prophecy will likewise NOT understand the lessons and meaning behind this pre-2000 situation. Again, most people mistakenly imagine that true prophecy is about “making accurate predictions that come true.”
In retrospect, looking back in time, most who studied or followed the Y2K computer bug scare did not “panic” or do much to prepare, even if they were convinced there was to be a complete societal collapse including a shut down of the electrical power-grid nationwide in the continental USA.
Some stored food and water and other supplies, but perhaps only a few months’ worth. A select few sold everything, moved to a survivalist safe location complete with a farmhouse with solar panels, hand-driven water well and mules to plow fields, waiting for what they thought was certain societal collapse.
It is my contention that those who took the “safe location” or survivalist route were those who already had survivalist leanings. The Y2K scare was just a trigger to get them off their duff and take action. It was a fearful time for many and at times I even scared myself silly with my own writings. As a messenger I no longer am afraid, as I’ve conquered fear, including that of a possible societal collapse, and the prospect of death by starvation.
This time around, as this is written more than a decade later, we have another dire situation approaching and the similarity to events and consequences preceding Y2K are strikingly similar.
This article is written May of 2011, which is almost a year and a half before the said date of December 21, 2012 when some are predicting doomsday or Armageddon of some sort.
I began first writing about the Y2K computer bug scare about a year and a half before the year 2000 rollover on a popular website. Of course, like in the Y2K era, interest in the year 2012 phenomenon is skyrocketing exponentially, exactly as was the case in 1997, 1998 and 1999 with thousands of websites devoted to this future issue.
I vividly recall an incredible spoke in attention being paid to the computer bug in the final month or two previously to the said date of potential crisis.
The exact same thing is certain to occur again in the final months before 12-21-2012. Time will tell as to whether anything will or will not occur on that precise day. The odds and chances that something dramatic will occur on this exact day are, of course, very slim.
For some time now, pessimistic doomsayers and survivalists aware of an impending crisis and beginning to prepare. It is not just the December 2012 scare either. Many survivalists are seriously concerned about a coming total economic collapse with riots in the streets right here in America.
In many ways, this economic Armaggedon has already begun in the USA, starting in 2008.
This was the case prior to the year 2000 rollover, where many hunkered down and headed for the hills and many bought stored food.
You see, many have very poor memories and as a result history tends to repeat itself. Laughingly it has only been a decade since the last potential societal, civilizational collapse (called The End Of The World As We Know It – or TEOTWAWKI) with a given, set date of reckoning which only came and went without any difficulty. A total non-event.
I am not suggesting we be complacent and ignore warnings of future disasters and put our head in the sand. I am suggesting we approach the coming December 21, 2012 calendar date with a grain of salt and use caution this time around. It is not as if this hasn’t happen before, after all.
Even IF it were to suddenly be the End of the World as we know it and the poles shift catastrophically, or nuclear war brakes out, or a massive asteroid smashes into Earth, resulting in a mass extinction level event, what could we all realistically do to prepare of that magnitude?
Actually I do not think I would imagine actually wanting to live in such a post-apocalyptic world!
Therefore, I say to simply not worry and stress, filling one’s self with fear and paranoia over the future.
Unfortunately the Powers-That-Be desire to keep us all in a perpetual state of fear. It is easier to control us that way.
Now, I should stress that all ancient prophecies and future date-setting aside, I will give the reader wisdom and insight and give hope for the long term future for the inhabitants of the world.
On August 3, 2000 I had a vision of what was the most incredible and powerful event any human could ever witness.
This may seem difficult to believe and hard to imagine, especially for a materialistic or scientifically-minded skeptic, but on that day I was physically transported into the future (time unknown – “could” be 2012) to witness, in person and while awake, the last 5 minutes of life on our whole globe and our bodies and souls ascended from the 3rd dimension to the 5th dimension.
This was the merger of Heaven and Earth. Some of the Bible prophets have tried to tell of this event, briefly, called the “great and terrible Day of the Lord.”
I witnessed this event first-hand and returned to tell about it!
These whole vision is far too much to describe in writing in a short article so visit the author’s website to read the whole vision in depth, or watch the 10 minute video where this vision is described. See you there.
Http://www.endtimeprophet2012.com
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