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Speck Tater

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13. People will only become interested in the problem...

Reply to AverageJoe90 (Reply #6)

Sat May 26, 2012, 06:58 PM

May 2012

...AFTER the inevitability of doom is so clear that it can no longer be denied, AND after that doom is DAYS or HOURS away (not years; people don't care about things that are years away), and by then it will be too late.

The reason people don't take it seriously is that there are NOT ENOUGH people screaming out the message of doom and gloom. That's why doom will catch them unaware.

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