Topic: Doomsday Hippies Gathering

[trapeze]

A mountain looming over a French commune with a population of just 200 is being touted as a modern Noah's Ark when doomsday arrives – supposedly less than nine months from now.

A rapidly increasing stream of New Age believers – or esoterics, as locals call them – have descended in their camper van-loads on the usually picturesque and tranquil Pyrenean village of Bugarach. They believe that when apocalypse strikes on 21 December this year, the aliens waiting in their spacecraft inside Pic de Bugarach will save all the humans near by and beam them off to the next age.

As the cataclysmic date – which, according to eschatological beliefs and predicted astrological alignments, concludes a 5,125-year cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar – nears, the goings-on around the peak have become more bizarre and ritualistic.

For decades, there has been a belief that Pic de Bugarach, which, at 1,230 metres, is the highest in the Corbières mountain range, possesses an eery power. Often called the "upside-down mountain" – geologists think that it exploded after its formation and the top landed the wrong way up – it is thought to have inspired Jules Verne's Journey to the Centre of the Earth and Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Since the 1960s, it has attracted New Agers, who insist that it emits special magnetic waves.

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[Glock32]

Have they bought their matching Nikes yet?  The males been castrated?  That's what the Heaven's Gate morons did anyway.

[trapeze]

I think that it would be pretty cool. They are all up on the mountain. Nothing happens. They wait around for a few days and, as hippies do, they wander down from the mountain in search of food, drugs and a place to sleep. All their VW micro-buses have been towed away and sold to cover their parking fines. No one wants to have anything to do with them. Suddenly France has hundreds or maybe oven thousands of hippies wandering the landscape looking for food and shelter.

We need to loan them some all of our OWS people.

[Sectionhand]

Modern day "Millerites" .

[Libertas]

I need to start marketing purple shrouds!

[Predator Don]

I think that it would be pretty cool. They are all up on the mountain. Nothing happens. They wait around for a few days and, as hippies do, they wander down from the mountain in search of food, drugs and a place to sleep. All their VW micro-buses have been towed away and sold to cover their parking fines. No one wants to have anything to do with them. Suddenly France has hundreds or maybe oven thousands of hippies wandering the landscape looking for food and shelter.

We need to loan them some all of our OWS people.

Or maybe...if we are fortunate.....an alien craft will shoot the "Independence Day" ray down on thier collective asses.