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China Joins End of World Fear Wagon
by Zen Gardner
Here it comes folks. Y2K on steroids for the uninformed. Climate of fear ripe to freak some unwary folks out, thanks to flame-fanning state media and belief-blinded religious types.
Stay on your toes. It’s not a time to worry. Enjoy the changes, they’re vibrational and we’re in it for the long haul - and it’s all good – with a few bumps along the way, like earth changes and a war mongering cypotcracy trying muzzle and control us. Ha!
China fears end of the world is nigh
“China’s most famous book of prophecies, the 7th century Tui Bei Tu, makes no direct mention of the end of the world.
But in Sichuan province, panic buying of candles has swept through two counties in the fear that an ancient Mayan prediction that the world will end on December 21 proves to be true.
“Candles are selling by the hundreds, with buyers constantly coming to the market. Many stores have run out,” said Huang Zhaoli, a shopper at the Neijing Wholesale Market, to the West China City Daily newspaper.
Mr Li, the owner of the Guangfa grocery store in Chengdu, added: “Lots of people have been buying candles recently. At first, we had no idea why. But then we heard someone muttering about the continuous darkness”.
The source of the panic was traced to a post on Sina Weibo, China’s version of Twitter, predicting that there will be three days of darkness when the apocalypse arrives.
Since the beginning of December, the word “Mayans” has trended on Weibo as millions of normally phlegmatic Chinese speculate that the end is nigh. “If the Mayans are right, I won’t pay my credit card bill,” was one popular post.
In Shanghai, the police have had to issue a public warning about doomsday. “The end of the world is a rumour,” the police said, in an internet post. “Do not believe it and do not be swindled”.
A spokesman said they had handled 25 apocalypse-related cases in one 24-hour stretch. Most of the scam artists took advantage of credulous pensioners, encouraging them to hand over their savings for one last act of charity.
In Nanjing, a 54-year-old university professor’s wife took out a £100,000 mortgage on her £300,000 home, saying she would donate the money to underprivileged children, saying she hoped to “do something meaningful before the world ended”.
Last month, a man in the far west province of Xinjiang made news when he spent his life savings of £100,000 to build an ark for 20 people.
Lu Zhenghai began building the 65ft ship in 2010. “When the time comes, everyone can take refuge in it.” However, as the deadline approaches, Mr Lu has reportedly run out of cash to finish the boat.
He said if the apocalypse failed to materialise, he would use the boat to take tourists on sightseeing tours.
In Chengdu, a web company has given its workers a tongue-in-cheek two-day break on Dec 19 and 20. “We suggest you take advantage of this ‘final’ time to spend more time with your closest family. We wish everyone a meaningful doomsday,” it said.
China has no history of preoccupation with the apocalypse, and the current wave of paranoia can be traced to the 2009 Hollywood disaster film “2012″. While the movie received a tepid welcome elsewhere, it was a smash hit in China, as viewers were seduced by a plot that saw the Chinese military build arks to save humanity.
Lu Jiehua, a professor with the Department of Sociology at Peking University, told the Global Times, meanwhile, that the paranoia reflects a general anxiety running through Chinese society. MORE
‘China thinks the end of the world is nigh’
Oh, so the country of china now has a brain and can think like a human being. That’s a great stepforward for the transhumanists then. more fearmongering BS.
Zen Gardner is a fake, although his name is supposed to connote a peaceful old man gardening, someone we can all trust. yeah right, ‘Zen’.
Funny how so many alternative sites these days are anonymous. I wonder why that would be?? Maybe they are scared to show themselves, because they are up to no good. Like Zen, I am ‘Just Wondering’.
“Zen Gardner” is not real.He is featured on Uber Shill/fear mongerer Jeff grey mullet Rense.Rense also has no real photo,for about a decade.I have him pegeed as an Intel Op. ie. controlled disinfo.Zen is just a psy-op to garner the aging hippie crowd that follow rense.com
Very astute of you Chief, that’s what i noticed too. I am somewhat of an expert on these issues. Just like A J bullshits he snuck into Bohemian Grove most likely he was the party boy in cabin #6 with his pants around his ankles. I can talk like that too AJ with gravel in my voice to sound tough .. want to hear me. He is a caricature of himself.
Illinois’ Lottery drew 666 the day after Obama’s election.
That’s the mark of thebeast aka the Antichrist; which is marking Obama.
Spread this good news of revealing the Apocalypse even to the Far East and China.
On Dember 21st, I’m going to write a nice article about how stupid you are, Shamwow. Suck it!
King of nutjobs please stop you 666 non sense,we get it! You’re a moron…..go away.
I guess the yellow race is not as satupid as I thought.
Meanwhile, Chinese eat ground up rhino horns, an endangered species, and buy illegal ivory of endangered elephants, so when some minor percentage worries about some inane, single Mayan stone that was mistranslated, remember…