Poll: 2012, true insanity

[Jinx_Dragon]

For those who drink the coolaid it is going to be the end of the world. For the rest of us we will do what the Mayans said to do in 2012. PAAAARTY!

I plan to hold my celebrations on the temple in Tikal, well, if they don't kick us off there for the human sacrifice I also have planned for that night. Hey, when in Rome....

PS: I'm getting tired of pointing out it is the nut cases who have hijacked 2012, a date with some really nifty astrological events and nothing more, from the Mayans. They did so for the 'long dead ancient race prophecy' angle while cutting out the important fact and injecting their own 'end of the world theory.' That fact? That the 'prophecy' involved where just astrological predictions and nothing more!

So please, no more 2012 threads at least until 2012!

 

[Jinx_Dragon]

/snip

I disagree.

The Mayans have plotted holy days far past the 'end of the world date.' Not useful if the world is to end, even if it is being remade, but they did so believing they would be around as a people to witness it. No, they knew what a calendar was for... they had what three?... and the long is meant to restart at day 1 like any calendar does.

 

[DrScoobs]

all mayans know when the world will end. they are psychics or something, just like bruce lee, he was like a shaman or something. (I do love my LK references)

 

[Prometherion]

I love the fact that the Mayans could accurately predict the end of the world but not the Aztec/Spanish buttfuck which wiped them out. Its like asking if Nostradamus could predict the lottery numbers, but he cant because specific predictions are always wrong and facepalms for everyone who believes this bollocks.

 

[TyrantGanado]

The Mayan long count calender resets in 2012, it doesn't end. Anyone who Didn't Do The Research and believes the hysteria is a fool and helps prove my point that humans are ignorant as a mass and thus highly dangerous to themselves. Above that, years and dates are arbitrary labels we give to mark our passage through time. We could have adopted a totally different calender and then 2012 would mean shit to us. Granted we could measure it against the Mayans' one and that the Mayans probably didn't used the figures "2 0 1 2" on their calenders, but you get my drift. Time is a dimension we move through, not the bringer of doom. Physical objects, physics, chemistry, biology...these can bring doom. Calenders and prophecies cannot.

 

[SilentHunter7]

Will it end? I have no idea.

CAN it end? Certainly.

Is there an equal chance of the world ending in 2012, as it does every other year? Most definitely.

 

[historybuff]

And people flipped out about Y2K too.

If they're really going to kill themselves, then I guess I can't stop them.

I don't really care.

 

[Nouw]

The world might be ended by insane people who are driven so mad, they want this to happen for 1 free pizza from the 'hut.

OT: Cold War was bs. 2000 was bs. 2012 is bs. See the pattern my friend? See it? Huh? Huh? *Starts shoving picture of pattern onto guys face.

 

[MrSnugglesworth]

I got yelled at in class for saying that the suicide rate is going to sky rocket around/at 2012.

 

[zehydra]

Will it end? I have no idea.

CAN it end? Certainly.

Is there an equal chance of the world ending in 2012, as it does every other year? Most definitely.

Definitely, I agree.

 

[orangeapples]

The Mayans didn't predict anything. Their calendar was created around year 12 and they never bothered to count past 2000.

Now, what you do have to worry about it the super volcanos, the mega earthquakes, the meteor storm and the giant hurricanes all scheduled between 2012 and 2014.

If you don't know you need to watch more discovery and science channel.

Not to mention the Ouija board said that I'm going to die August 24 2014. Which sucks because that's my friend's 24th birthday

 

[p3t3r]

you forgot the "it's fucking bullshit" option on your poll there buddy

 

[Marcus Dubious]

Gimme £20 a 'at......come n get 'em
ROLL UP, ROLL UP. don't ya know, the world?s gonna end in 2012!!!
Do ya wanna die? bet ya don't
Got the only fing ta save ya life 'ere love, you needs a tin-foil 'at
buy these tin-foil 'ats. £20 each get em while the're 'ot.
Tin-foil 2012 'ats, come n get 'em!!!
Gimme a T, gimme an I,,,,,, gimme a tin-foil 'at
Gimme £20 a 'at......come n get 'em

 

[Blazsy]

Dr. Insano can do everything... With SCIENCE!!!!

 

[Chrissyluky]

well thankfully i have relatives in the army and we pretty much have an armory in my attic so its all cool when the looters come round.(currently we have an m16 a tmp and i believe a certain type of sniper rifle im not sure what it is. and theyre all LEGAL)

 

[IanBrazen]

SPOILER(kinda),So by now everyone has seen at least some of what the movie 2012 is gonna look like how the main character has insight on government plans for evacuation in 2012 end of the world bs. Looks like a cool movie, until nut jobs start mainling in to nasa that they want to know the truth about when the world is gonna end.

I was watching cnn and they were talking with a scientist about the fears, concerns, and threats from people concerning 2012. Nasa even bothered to putin a section on their website just to inform people about all the 2012 shit that is actually gonna happen. Ther real kicker in some of these letters people say they are gonna kill themselves before 2012 so they don't have to see the end of the world. http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/ask-an-astrobiologist/intro/nibiru-and-doomsday-2012-questions-and-answers


I'd kinda like to know does anybody on this site perscribe to this? If the end of the world was somehow proved to be soon would you rather kill yourself before it happened? And astrobiologist does that sound like the coolest job or what?

Btw if someone does believe the world is gonna end don't give em grief.

Here is my opinion on the matter.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.152703?page=1
it gets kinda silly at the end.

 

[Marcus Dubious]

Here is my opinion on the matter.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.152703?page=1
it gets kinda silly at the end.

Can I borrow that thread, It would be like having an extra life in the forums where you dont actually have to say anything.

 

[GrandAm]

I'm just going to buy an M4, just to keep looters and nut cases away.

I bought mine and all the ammo I need a year before the Obama rush. I got a great deal. May I suggest the Bushmaster brand. That is what I have and it functions flawlessly. It is the A2 model, not the A3. The A3 is easier to adopt optics. But a M4 is a short/medium range weapon. Iron sights are fine. They also don't break from impact as easily as optics.