WTF? LOOKING TO START PANIC IN THE STREETS?

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Okay we've all heard the 2012 stuff, but this is going overboard. Can we talk about causing widespread panic, a lottery? For your chance at survival! I mean really WTF?

Anyways here is the site, I saw this on a commerical and it was a really armageddon type commercial...

The IHC: The Institute for Human Continuity

Sylvia
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  • Alright, after more research it looks like a viral campaign for the MOVIE as the site is owned by Sony Pictures. I could see this ad campaign going very much the wrong way and causing panic as it doesn't give any indication on the site or the commercial that it is for a movie.

    Sylvia

    EDIT: Okay there is a small little thing at the bottom of the page, but I am sure there are others that would miss it too.
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    • well except that part at the bottom that says 'Explore the 2012 Movie Experience'
  • you know this is for a movie right?
  • Yah well I am sure I am not the only one who would go to that site and miss that part LOL, and on the commercial it didn't mention a movie at all.
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    • It was hard not to see it after you mentioned it, but I can see why it would be over looked if you didn't know.
      In fact I noticed the yellow "This is the End" sign and "Farewell Atlantis" first and still said WTF:confused:
      Having the site on a .org was a good trick by them also
  • Thats probably the point though. To have people posting stuff like yours in various forums when they see it because they didnt see the movie part either. When you first look at it, it looks like a very slick site. too slick for the government.

    Im suprised that someone hasn't come up with a site like this for something similar but it be relatively useless.


    Like 'buy a star' where you can 'purchase' a star to be named after you or a loved one , but really all you get is a nifty little package of paperwork and pictures (for about 90 bucks). Or the guy that is selling acreage on the moon. I'm wondering why someone isnt selling 2012 survival packages or t-shirts that say I SURVIVED 2012 or MAYANS PREDICTED OUR DESTRUCTION but all i got was this lousy t-shirt
  • They did. It was called "The Secret".
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    • 'The Secret' isn't useless, its just a copy of 'The Science of Getting Rich' by wallace wattles which was first printed at the beginning of the century (around 1908 i think). Pretty much every self help 'guru' since that time can pretty much thank wattles for their success. Now that its public domain, anyone that wants to can reprint it and its just as good now as it was then.
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  • Sounds like they have found a clever way of promoting their movie. Reminiscent of Orson Welles' radio broadcast of War of the Worlds. A lot of people believed it was true.

    All the best,
    Michael
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    • That was something wasn't it? Probably the best marketing ever done. People killed themselves over it. I doubt the website in question here -- or anything else ever again will be as effective as Orson was.
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  • They're going all out on this, aren't they.

    I'll watch anything with John Cusack in, so it'll hopefully be pretty good. 'Knowing' was a disappointment - except at the end with that solar flare.

    I like a good disaster movie.....I loved Independance Day!

    Let's hope this one lives up to the hype.
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    • I still watch it every time it's on the tube
      But then I do that with the Matrix and Men in Black also:rolleyes:
  • Orsen Wells was really good at what he did, but that's my point, people died because of it, and I could see the same thing happening.

    And yes I hope it is a better movie than Knowing as well. It was iffy at best.

    Sylvia
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    • Maybe I'm missing something, but I can't find any verifiable deaths due to Well's War Of The World broadcast.
  • There were many as far as documents I've seen. God, please don't ask for links because the documentaries weren't online. I'm sure someone reading this might remember one or two of them. There's been many made because of the impact of Orson's show. What makes me wonder about how deeply gullible people can be is I believe that show aired on Halloween and people still went freako berzerk over it.
  • Yes it was on Halloween. Yes, people then,just as now are very gullible.
    But statements like that need proof to back them up.
    I have read a lot about the broadcast, but never heard anyone say there were deaths atributed to it until this thread.
    I just spent some more time looking and still can't find any.
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    • I dont think people are as gullible today. But you never know. I think that the net would allow people to check a story out before they freak, but then again the technology of today could make a much more believeable 'occurance'
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  • You NEVER know. Frankly, I thought that ad was an ad for some stupid cult until I saw the end. Some "TRUTH" is FAR dumber and stranger than any fiction ever dreamed up. So only volume tends to indicate deception.

    Steve
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    WTF? LOOKING TO START PANIC IN THE STREETS?

    Okay we've all heard the 2012 stuff, but this is going overboard. Can we talk about causing widespread panic, a lottery? For your chance at survival! I mean really WTF? Anyways here is the site, I saw this on a commerical and it was a really armageddon type commercial...