A website has been set up to de-bunk 2012 "End of the World" predictions, 2012 Hoax.org.
Sad stories are emerging in the media about young girls, similar to those the BKs target, committing suicide because of 'End of the World' fears linked to the many December 21st 2012 "End of the World" predictions circulating around the media and New Age. Even the BKs are promoting the idea of 2012 (as usual) as it confirms their faith and desire for "Destruction" (the 'End of the World').
In the UK, a teenager was seemingly one of the many who believed the world would come an end on December 21, and had even begun to remark on it to her family committing suicide before she could have known that archaeologists would discover an extension to the Mayan calendar, proving that the Mayans intended their calendar to stretch many thousands of years beyond December 21. The coroner ruled cause of death suicide while Isabel Taylor's mind was in a state of imbalance.
Similarly, from The Daily Telegraph, in India another teenage girl killed herself after being traumatised by media reports that the activation of the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland could spark a "Big Bang" that would destroy the world, her Father said. The 16-year old girl from the central state of Madhya Pradesh drank pesticide and was rushed to the hospital but later died, police said. Her Father, identified on local television as Biharilal, said that his daughter, Chayya, killed herself after watching doomsday predictions made on Indian news programmes.
These stories are proven facts, there are doubtless more in other languages I am unaware of.
One question ... if other predictions of the 'End of the World' creates such a sense of futility and nihilism within individuals, even young individuals with everything to live for ... young, vulnerable individuals ... how can we assume that the BK's relentless drumming on about Destruction does not have a similar effect on other young individuals within their organization?
Even if it does not push them over the top to suicide ... how much of a negative effect has it upon them and how much does it change their behaviour, and in what manner?
The BKs are not mental health practitioners. They are not even qualified psychologists or therapists. Indeed, most of them have absolutely no training in such fields whatsoever ... and yet they are left and allow to dabble with young and vulnerable people's minds and direct their lives.
Something has to be wrong about that.
The Brahma Kumari response? Such people are just "weak bricks" than explode in the "furnace" of their religions unable to bear the pressure.
Sad stories are emerging in the media about young girls, similar to those the BKs target, committing suicide because of 'End of the World' fears linked to the many December 21st 2012 "End of the World" predictions circulating around the media and New Age. Even the BKs are promoting the idea of 2012 (as usual) as it confirms their faith and desire for "Destruction" (the 'End of the World').
In the UK, a teenager was seemingly one of the many who believed the world would come an end on December 21, and had even begun to remark on it to her family committing suicide before she could have known that archaeologists would discover an extension to the Mayan calendar, proving that the Mayans intended their calendar to stretch many thousands of years beyond December 21. The coroner ruled cause of death suicide while Isabel Taylor's mind was in a state of imbalance.
Girl, 16, kills herself after researching doomsday disasters and becoming convinced the world was about to end
Isabel Taylor, 16, thought civilisation would end in 2012 after researching nuclear meltdowns.
A teenager hanged herself after becoming convinced the world would end in 2012 after researching doomsday scenarios on the internet, an inquest heard. Schoolgirl Isabel Taylor, 16, turned to Buddhism after becoming fed up with the 'complications and injustice' of the modern world. But while searching for answers she began researching doomsday scenarios - becoming convinced a nuclear reactor meltdown would end civilisation in the coming months.
Similarly, from The Daily Telegraph, in India another teenage girl killed herself after being traumatised by media reports that the activation of the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland could spark a "Big Bang" that would destroy the world, her Father said. The 16-year old girl from the central state of Madhya Pradesh drank pesticide and was rushed to the hospital but later died, police said. Her Father, identified on local television as Biharilal, said that his daughter, Chayya, killed herself after watching doomsday predictions made on Indian news programmes.
"In the past two days, Chayya had asked me and other relatives about the world coming to an end on Sept. 10," Biharilal was quoted as saying. "We tried to divert her attention and told her she should not worry about such things, but to no avail," he said.
These stories are proven facts, there are doubtless more in other languages I am unaware of.
One question ... if other predictions of the 'End of the World' creates such a sense of futility and nihilism within individuals, even young individuals with everything to live for ... young, vulnerable individuals ... how can we assume that the BK's relentless drumming on about Destruction does not have a similar effect on other young individuals within their organization?
Even if it does not push them over the top to suicide ... how much of a negative effect has it upon them and how much does it change their behaviour, and in what manner?
The BKs are not mental health practitioners. They are not even qualified psychologists or therapists. Indeed, most of them have absolutely no training in such fields whatsoever ... and yet they are left and allow to dabble with young and vulnerable people's minds and direct their lives.
Something has to be wrong about that.
The Brahma Kumari response? Such people are just "weak bricks" than explode in the "furnace" of their religions unable to bear the pressure.
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