Thread: The crisis in Syria

Originally Posted by Юрка

Америка воюет в основном дистанционно. Дорого, но без человеческих жертв в своей армии. Поэтому большого антивоенного движения внутри США не будет.

No, we continue to protest! The problem is that no one listens to our protests these days.

А что касается Сирии, то есть предсказания Ванги о третьей мровой войне. Вроде всё идёт по плану.

Я не понимаю точно. Что означает слово "Ванги"?

Originally Posted by Deborski

Я не понимаю точно. Что означает слово "Ванги"?

Ванга was a Bulgarian soothsayer. She was quite famous in Russia. As far as I know, she was blind, very old, and she died just a few years ago. There were many stories about her mystic abilities.

Hmm well, I found it. Here you are: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_Vanga.

Originally Posted by Deborski

Я не понимаю точно. Что означает слово "Ванги"?

Это бабушка Ванга, болгарская ясновидящая. Ей приписывают пророчества о третьей мировой войне. Но скорее всего она их не делала.

Originally Posted by Юрка

Это бабушка Ванга, болгарская ясновидящая. Ей приписывают пророчества о третьей мировой войне. Но скорее всего она их не делала.

I tend to be distrustful of so-called "mystics" who make predictions. This may be because my own uncle - an American televangelist and religious leader - made several prophesies about when the world would end. He first predicted that the "End" would be in 1975. But the apocalypse didn't happen that year, so he changed his prophesy to 1976, and so on.

I also remember all the soothsayers claiming the world would end in 2000 (Y2K). Everyone was so convinced that there would be mass rioting, and since I was a TV reporter at the time, I was ordered to sit in a cold newsroom on New Year's eve 1999 and to be ready to cover all the mayhem which was supposed to occur. Nothing happened. I spent the night playing poker and freezing my butt off.

Then everyone got freaked out about 2012. The world was supposed to end in December, 2012. But - here we all still are.

I have no doubt that humans will manage to start World War Three eventually. Even Syria might be the "last straw." But I'm more inclined to listen to geopolitical experts and analysts whose predictions are based on broad knowledge of what is going on, than so-called mystics who claim to have some kind of magic or divine powers of divination.

Originally Posted by Deborski

I tend to be distrustful of so-called "mystics" who make predictions. This may be because my own uncle - an American televangelist and religious leader - made several prophesies about when the world would end. He first predicted that the "End" would be in 1975. Then, when the world didn't end, he prophesied that it would end in 1976, and so on.

I also remember all the soothsayers claiming the world would end in 2000 (Y2K). Everyone was so convinced that there would be mass rioting, and since I was a TV reporter at the time, I was ordered to sit in a cold newsroom on New Year's eve 1999 and to be ready to cover all the mayhem which was supposed to occur. Nothing happened. I spent the night playing poker and freezing my butt off.

Then everyone got freaked out about 2012. The world was supposed to end in December, 2012. But - here we all still are.

I have no doubt that humans will manage to start World War Three eventually. Even Syria might be the "last straw." But I'm more inclined to listen to geopolitical experts and analysts whose predictions are based on broad knowledge of what is going on, than so-called mystics who claim to have some kind of magic or divine powers of divination.

One man (not sure exactly who he was) said, "I'm not sure what weapons will be involved in WW3, but there's no doubt it will be sticks and axes for WW4"; I totally agree about this, and think with the current progress made by humanity, WW3 is a real threat to its very existence; THOUGH, I truly doubt countries like Syria have ability to trigger any events of that kind, because assuming that would be equal to assuming that either everyone in the world is Syrian, or the IQ of an average human being has dropped by something about a 100 points.

Originally Posted by Eric C.

One man (not sure exactly who he was) said, "I'm not sure what weapons will be involved in WW3, but there's no doubt it will be sticks and axes for WW4"

It was Einstein who said that.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. -- Albert Einstein

U.S. military "ready" to attack Syria, Hagel says - CBS News

The latest news in America - troops and missiles are ready for deployment. They are just waiting for Obama to give the word.