Related? Not in any meaningful way:

 

- Volcano in Alaska
- Earthquake in Russia
- China says thanks for helping after an earthquake
- Earthquake in Greece (which, according to whatsisname, is a news story that hasn't hit the mass media, but he links to CNN)
- Link to a 3 year old article that seems to be about Russia selling arms to Iran and Syria, but which then starts going on about "Zionist oligarchs" and alliances between Brazil, Russia and God I lost all interest.

 

Now, I can see the way the earthquakes and volcanoes are related, but where does the conspiracy-laden rant come into it? He certainly seems to think so, considering he said "A techy would post 2 links on surprising natural events, and another on a (now) known important political manouvre, and leave the lads here to make up their own minds." Is he saying that the Zionists have got an earthquake-ray and are planning to take over the world by shaking it to bits?

Read all that and tell me he's not talking bollocks.

That sort of post won't get you very far on this forum. You're listing lots of unconnected things and implying by your tone that they add up to a point. But you're leaving the point to the readers' imagination (in order to avoid being argued down) and suggesting that you will be proved right by future events.

That kinda stuff works on stupid people. Unfortunately this forum has a disgustingly high proportion of smart people. So unless you talk about specifics and actually set forth a reasoned argument, you're fucked.

So here are some questions for you. Please answer in normal English.

• What have sunken cities got to do with anything?
• What have civilisations and planets got to do with anything?
• What have the Mayans got to do with anything? (with the sort of foreknowledge people attribute to the Mayans you'd kinda expect they'd have put up a better fight really)
• What 'races' are 'lost'?
• Which extinct beings do you mean?
• By what mechanism was Nostradamus able to know the future?

Ok, now that's interesting. I agree that a lot of mythic writing tends to point to something different to our current understanding of world history and I wouldn't be surprised if something closer to the mythic turns out to be true.

It's fairly established now that the human population was reduced to a few thousand a long time ago which kinda explains the gap where the indo-european culture/language is supposed to be. Or explains why all our stuff has common roots, rather. I wouldn't be surprised if those shared myths are talking about real events.

They're all apocalyptic events - big natural disasters and the increase of war.
It's all the build-up to Armageddon, or might be (but probably isn't).

And he's now expanded onto a more general scope of [future] extinctions, not just the one from the Bible.

Whether or not it's bollocks isn't relevant to whether it's interesting.

I rather like the theory that Atlantis was destroyed by Santorini.

Yes, fine. But you can only see that connection now that he's started explaining himself. Before that, it was a load of unconnected links. Which was my point.

No, the connection came with the (original) thread's title, "53's Horseman Thread" (as in the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse) and was confirmed with the first couple of URLs.


Anyway, I'm not going to continue going on about this; if you want to, may I recommend using a lemon. :)

You should try Zattoo, it gives you all sorts of crazy TV channels that you wouldn't normally see. I particularly like Russia Today

now he's expanded a bit it's very interesting, which is all we were asking for

we have a bit of a history here of not responding well to uncommented links

and I actually think that's a good thing, I don't have the inclination to look at the latest youtube offering or most 'humorous' links

Not that I necessarily agree with Patch's assertions on thread/post structure, you seem to have a weird idea that he's some pro-bush anti-free speech American type. He's British currently living in Australia (I think?). And he hasn't disagreed with you or your ideas, just asked you to present them in a slightly more accessible form.

When I saw this thread I clicked on the first few links and my thoughts where as follows:

 

Earthquakes.
China
Russia selling arms to Iran? No shit they've been doing that for decades.
Close thread read something more interesting.

 

I think Patch's point was that while 1 random link might draw interest a thread full of them is quickly dismissed as random crap not worth any attention.