Y2k Pro May Be Gone for Good. If so, Thank God.

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Y2K Pro, (Whose real email is y2kpro1@hotmail.com) may be gone for good. If so, thank God.

He had the stupidity to post the following thread, for which he was summarily whacked, as he should have been.

One suspects he has been "outed" as a college student, tucked his tail between his legs and gone into hiding. One can only hope.

The point is this: If this guy ever shows up again, he needs to be challenged regarding why he originated the following post. Stupid beyond belief.

More details at:

http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=0016gP

-- history (contains@plenty.oflessons), July 20, 1999

Answers

Challenge him????? He's been stupid beyond belief ever since he showed up. Do you think he'll be too humiliated to come back? Never stopped him before.

Can't get much more humiliating than to be a brain in a test tube, hooked up to a computer, living in a dark basement in Bolivia someplace. geeeeeeese. Poor little organ....trying to impress us with that Burger King employee tale.

-- Will continue (farming@home.com), July 20, 1999.


History,

Thanks for the great post about Pre-Nazi Germany.(in the other thread) It is an era that has been in my thoughts a lot in relation to Y2k. Realizing that many of those who suffered and died could have gotten out is depressing and reassuring at the same time. It offers hope for us GIs as well as despair over the blindness of those unwilling to see what is coming down the pike. Even if it is Hitler. Aaaargh

I would love to see a whole thread devoted to such historical lessons. Can you think of anymore examples?

I realize I didn't mention Y2k"Pro" here at all. It is simply because he (?) is not really worth mentioning. I am glad to see he finally got enough rope to hang himself with. What a doofus.

-- R (riversoma@aol.com), July 20, 1999.


What a relief! But there's nothing to stop it returning under another free e-mail. I trust a TOS complaint was made to its ISP to discourage any renewed activity.

-- Old Git (anon@spamproblems.com), July 20, 1999.

"summarily whacked?"

Tis to laugh. Seems the mouth-breathing Doomer crowd got all excited when Dr. Patricia Hines a psychologist said this:

"The people who see Y2K as a possible end of the world are people who may feel disenfranchised, who want to be survivors. They want to feel that they see something that the rest of us don't. This ties in with some fundamentalist Christian beliefs. These people on the fringes of society may have big fantasies about people getting what they deserve."

Look in the mirror Doomies, does this sound familiar?

-- Y2K Pro (y2kpro1@hotmail.com), July 20, 1999.


eieio

-- farmer (EI@ei.eio), July 20, 1999.


eieio

...and on that farm he had Y2K Pro.

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With a YUCK-YUCK here, a YUCK-YUCK there. Here a YUCK, there a YUCK Everywhere a YUCK-YUCK.

Old McDonald had a farm.

eieio

-- Anonymous99 (Anonymous99@Anonymous99.xxx), July 20, 1999.


"The people who see Y2K as a possible end of the world are people who may feel disenfranchised, who want to be survivors. They want to feel that they see something that the rest of us don't. This ties in with some fundamentalist Christian beliefs. These people on the fringes of society may have big fantasies about people getting what they deserve."

Yeah, exactly.

" Oh Great Y2K, I beg for your justice! Please get me out of miserable life, for I cannot do it alone, as I am weak, and outnumbered by people who I don't like. I will stock up on rice, beans and water in your name, O Great Y2K, and with your blessings I shall inherit the Earth, for my kind are as meek as they come ".

-- (doomers@suck.com), July 20, 1999.


Y2K Pro said (quoting psychologist Dr. Patricia Hines):

"The people who see Y2K as a possible end of the world are people who may feel disenfranchised, who want to be survivors. They want to feel that they see something that the rest of us don't. This ties in with some fundamentalist Christian beliefs. These people on the fringes of society may have big fantasies about people getting what they deserve."

Could it be that she's just like everyone else - sees Y2K from her perspective and how she can gain from it. Nothing wrong with that - just human nature. My problem is the same as I have with anyone on the entire Polly/Doomer scale - when someone states with authority and conviction what will (not could, but will) happen. As soon as someone says what will happen, they lose all credibility.

Now to attack the quote line by line:

Of course we want to be survivors (who doesn't) and some of us may even feel disenfranchised (look around at the world today), but "The people who see Y2K as a possible end of the world are people who" --> see a demonstrated design flaw in the interconnected systems that run the world.

"They want to feel that they see something that the rest of us don't" --> and have those that don't see it yet (DGI) do their own research and make up their minds based on the evidence instead of simply dismissing it out of hand because they don't like what they hear.

"This ties in with some fundamentalist Christian beliefs." I won't even address those who still equate the technology problem with "fundamentalist Christian beliefs."

"These people on the fringes of society may have big fantasies about people getting what they deserve." --> but not in the beginning. GI's have tried and tried to get others to listen and do their own research, but they were just blown off and laughed at. Some of us are ready to reverse the trend - immature as it may be. Revenge can be a powerful force, and although I don't condone it, it can't be dismissed just like any of the other emotions can't (denial, anger, fear, etc.)

Just my 2 cents.

-- Jim (x@x.x), July 20, 1999.


Jews in Germany.

As I heard it, after a certain amount of Jewish emigration, the remaining Jewish professionals had more business than they could handle.

As one dentist put it, "Why should I leave? Business has never been better!"

His brother, however, had gotten to America several years before, and was persistent in bringing family members out of Germany.

Fortunately, he succeeded, and the dentist became the grandfather of my friend Peter, born in America and today a doctor in Boston.

Gaewd! -- and I've posted this on a thread about our own little Hitler jugend, Pro! Forgive me, those who I am remembering! They would reply: "It doesn't matter HOW you learn, as long as you LEARN!"

"NEVER AGAIN" means many things to many people, including receptive goyim.

-- jor-el (jor-el@krypton.uni), July 20, 1999.


Only a complete mouth-breathing Doomer twit would compare the inhumanity of the Holocaust with the tempest in the teacup known as Y2K. I shall take great pleasure in reminding you next year of your appalling lack of judgement and arrogance.

-- Y2K Pro (y2kpro1@hotmail.com), July 20, 1999.


Y2Kpro,

I'm pretty sure that if y2k turns out to be nothing, we'll have a lot of better things to do than listen to you.

-- d (dgi2@hotmail.com), July 20, 1999.


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