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Farewell Thumb Knuckle / Prepper Declared Insane

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Doomsday Preppers (currently screening on NatGeo in the USA) is reality TV, so of course it includes some drama. And what happened to Tim Ralston certainly wasn’t scripted:

Meanwhile, David Sarti, who also appeared on the show, has been declared insane. Yet it might all come down to his SHTF beliefs.
He visited a cardiologist and after refusing treatment ended up being kept in a psychiatric unit for evaluation – seemingly because the cardiologist felt Sarti was suicidal. You’d like to think a cardiologist wouldn’t be allowed to make such a call! Sarti was consequently released, with no further action taken, except for one very cruel twist: due to his brief stay at a psych facility, he has been deemed by the Tennessee state to be mentally defective and unfit to own a gun. Yet he is a survivalist… ironic.
Here’s Sarti telling his story:

In the second video he makes it clear that …

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2012 Movie: Geryl, Suicide & the Chinese

Submitted by Robert Bast on November 27, 2009 – 12:50 pm7 Comments
Most major newspapers had an article on the new 2012 movie when it opened recently. The Spectator ends their review with something I found amusing & strangely prophetic:

When the remnant of humanity — and a Noah’s ark sampling of animals — has to be herded into movie’s own, apocalypse-proof arks, it’s Chinese engineering, not American, that proves equal to the task. “Leave it to the Chinese,” says somebody. “I didn’t think we could do it in the time available.” That sounds to me like a self-fulfilling prophecy. For a start, all our best technical talent has given up working on military hardware and is now concentrating on computer-generated imagery.

Suicide
More serious now, the idea of 2012-related suicide. Tens of millions of people will enjoy the movie for what it is – popcorn entertainment. A few will unfortunately consider it to be an accurate adepiction of an event that will certainly occur, and decide that it will be all too terrible to deal with. Or they’re already suicidal and the 2012 movie is the tip of the iceberg. Either way, it is almost guaranteed that, sadly, some people will take their lives due to seeing the blockbuster film.
“Two years ago, I got a question a week about it,” said NASA scientist David Morrison, who hosts a website called Ask an Astrobiologist. “Now I’m getting a dozen a day. Two teenagers said they didn’t want to see the end of the world so they were thinking of ending their lives.”
At 2012 Forum a Spanish member recently related how a close friend attempted suicide after watching the 2012 movie:

He saw no way out and now way of saving himself. He decided after he went to the movie why wait to feel the pain or stand in line at the pearly gates when there will be alot of people dieing. … He was in a coma for 3 days and now recovering very well and a group of us has talked to him. He made some points tho.. he said why would you want to try to survive if it will be a nuclear Holocaust.

Geryl
In a plot summary, where Wikipedia describes the end of the 2012 movie, it accurately says:

When the floodwater from the worldwide tsunamis eventually recedes, satellite data shows that Africa rose in relation to sea level, and its Drakensberg mountains are now the highest on the planet.

In my opinion, the plot of 2012 owes a lot to the ideas of Belgian author Patrick Geryl. Not only did he originally advocate the Drakensberg mountains as the best place to survive, he is adamant that a sun-driven pole shift in 2012 will create a tsunami beyond imagination (although his suggestion of a 2km high tsunami is substantially short of Mt Everest…), and that the best way to survive is an indestructible yacht. For more on these ideas, check out his book How To Survive 2012 (no relation to my site, aside from the same desire to survive).
Others agree. Bruce Fenton over at 2012 Rising says:

The most vocal modern researcher of the theory is Patrick Geryl who insists that the Maya and Egyptians new of this phenomenon and predicted it for 21-12-2012. Actually an enormous chunk of the 2012 movie seems to be lifted from his work. For those not familiar with him he states that the safest place on Earth will be the Drakensburg Mountains of South Africa. It is no coincidence then that the closing scenes of the film have the survivors on course for that precise location!

At 2012 Pro, a blog with close connections to Geryl, they say:

What astonished me the most is that the storyline throughout the movie and in very much detail, aligns entirely with the books from Patrick Geryl. Especially The Orion Prophecy and the World Cataclysm in 2012, but also How To Survive 2012 are beyond any doubt the basis for the movie directed my Roland Emmerich. Latest news on this subject is that Geryl is filing a major lawsuit against the Movie Studio and the Director. I’ll certainly keep you posted as soon as news becomes available.

Unfortunately, you can’t copyright ideas. Hollywood can steal ideas from any non-fiction book they like.
While we are on this topic, I reckon the story for 2012 originated in this sequence:
- they heard of 2012 and thought “end of the world”, brilliant!
- they did a Google search
- they found Survive 2012, and the idea of a pole shift (not a stretch, there were few sites on this topic back then, and mine was pretty much the only one to mention a pole shift in 2012)
- they bought some books, including Geryl’s
Good on them.

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7 Comments »

  • NOW&ZEN says:

    The movie is just another atempt by Follywood to flease us of our money. It is al BS and just comes from the list of sure money makers. How much sincerity have we seen from Follywood lately just a steady stream of there jaded afairs and drug taking. These people are loosers living off illusions of there publisity agents misrepresentations of there caracter. Some can actually act and our decent people but the tug of big money overwhelms there need for integrity as there job becomes a reminder of the work of our politicians.

  • The Endlight Event - 2012 says:

    Sensible and interesting views on the psychology of entering and experiencing a possible ELE. The disaster aspect of the 2012 movie does not however really agree with the Mayan prediction of what will actually transpire on 12/21/2012 written on their Monument 6. That glyphic message should not inspire suicide or other self-destructive actions. Oh, NOW&ZEN get a dictionary. You've got at least 9 spelling and grammatical errors in that short comment. Grow a spellchecker.

  • Tom says:

    Perhaps my expectations were too high, but the movie was so disappointing, the plot is so poor, that not even sparse references to the mayas or to the reasons of all the destruction, not even the great special effects were enough to make me like it.
    It was a waste of time, another hollywood movie made to get our money, inconsequential and non-sense.

  • voice of reason says:

    i think people are trying to take too much out of this movie. besides the mayans didn’t put on their calendar “this is the end”. only that different astronomical events are supposed to happen around that time. its just a movie enjoy it.

    just throwing this out there but is the whole neurons from the sun thing even plausible?

  • Ethericplane says:

    Let me say that hollywood ripped me off with the movie called “Blindspot”.

    I had sent in a screenplay with that very title and a better story line, but they stole the love theme out of my screenplay and made it the leading theme while they omitted my lead theme all together. This how they stole and ruined my screenplay called Blindspot.

    They are canabals and I hope Geryl wins. Go Geryl. take their money and let them drown in their tsunami.

  • fran says:

    as ‘the voice of reason’ points out the mayan’s have not said its the end of the world as we know it…………as for the film, roland emmerich has made some awesome films, and always delivers, for those not sure of him, go out buy a copy of the day after tomorrow and watch it with roland’s commentary….the guy is a funny genius indeed and a joy to watch , his films are meant to be entertaining and i think he would be horrified to think people have believed he is showing an adaptation of whats to come in 2012…..chill everyone, have we all forgotten the hype of 1999????? oh and would you believe we are all still here and typing on the internet lol!!!!!!

  • Russell Schaner says:

    I will be hitting on the suicides here. If people are weak enough to kill their selves based on a movie, so be it. Survival of the fittest needs to be brought into our society.

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