Poll: Apocalypse... SERIOUSLY?!

[Legion]

Congratulations, you're one of the few people alive with 'common sense.' Please bare with those without it while you coast through life and try to ignore them.

I'd have thought common sense would dictate using the search bar to see if this has been done before.

No, I've always been under the impression that common sense would dictate contributing to a thread first and foremost.

Very clever use of 'first and foremost' to exempt your last post from criticism, you might also try lightening up.

 

[Ickorus]

My theory is that the guy that was writing the calander looked outside one day and saw all his friends having fun and thought 'Fuck it' and joined them.

 

[Striker501]

I find this whole thing to be quite amusing and a bit sad that so many people believe in this.

 

[delet]

Congratulations, you're one of the few people alive with 'common sense.' Please bare with those without it while you coast through life and try to ignore them.

I'd have thought common sense would dictate using the search bar to see if this has been done before.

No, I've always been under the impression that common sense would dictate contributing to a thread first and foremost.

Very clever use of 'first and foremost' to exempt your last post from criticism, you might also try lightening up.

It's not like I've said you can't ever be even a little bit off topic ever, I'm just saying that instead of posting something like 'use the search bar' and that alone in you first post on a topic, you're not helping one way or the other. It'd simply be best to put in your two cents on the topic, then mention the need to use the searchbar as more of a sidenote.

 

[bushwhacker2k]

I doubt anyone really thinks that Mayans found out that an asteroid of doom would hit us at precisely that date but it's just something to think about.

 

[Julianking93]

The last year I was in school, I remember tons of kids talking about that and how "We're all gonna die"

Are people really that stupid?

Wait, why is this surprising? They are that stupid.

 

[TheMonkeySlayer]

It's quite fun to pretending to actually believe this nonsense.
Also: MØØ!

 

[sdafdfhrye3245]

The search function is cool

 

[silver wolf009]

No the world wont end then. There are people who will believe that any amount of mombo jumbo will spell the end of days.

 

[CloggedDonkey]

As Pen put it:

"It says nowhere that the world ends. The calender doesn't say 'we are all fucked now', it just stops."

I just have a fealing that people will flip their shit when "the end of days" comes, everyone is fine, and then everyone that didn't show up for work get's fired, clearing up the spaces for people with common sense who don't believe in this.

Spoiler: I go on for a while, spoilering it for only people who want to read it.

I also just think that the guy making the calenders was working on them, got to the date at the end, and then this happened:

Friend of calender maker guy: "Hey, Steve, how long have you been doing this?"
Steve/Calender maker guy: "Four years and ten months, why?"
Friend of calender maker guy: "Come on, get up, you've been working way to long. We're getting you a few beers, a hooker, and some of the finest River People nose candy feathers can buy."
Steve/Calender maker guy: "Okay, just let me finish up here..."
Cortez: "I am Cortez. I come from the mighty Spanish empire, surrender your gold, Godless heathens!"
Steve/Calender maker guy: "Okay, just let me *cough* get the *cough* Ho nos, I have Spanish flu I need *dies*"
Friend of calender maker guy: "No, now Steve can never finish the calender! Now future generations will think that the end of days is then, when really it's *get's shot by Cortez*"

 

[HigherTomorrow]

It's not that they predicted the world ending, it's just...well, to put it simply, they ran out of room on the stone for the calendar.

 

[PHOENIXRIDER57]

2012 coincides with the Earths rotation from facing one way to face another. You know the horoscope signs, libra and scorpio, Earth rotates to face a different one every, 1300 years? And 2012 is the next change. Supposed to knock out electricity and change weather, but nit the end of the world. Can't remember where I heard this, I think it's from a history channel special.

 

[Entropyutd]

Guys I go to a weird school. Even though I am currently out of school I still see some people from it. Lot's of people at my school talk about "2012" and "WE ARE ALL GONNA DIE ANYWAY!" which annoys the hell outta me. The mayan calender is ending, that does not mean that WE WILL DIE! What are your thoughts about the "2012" talk?

My calendar ends January 2011.
I'm just happy we get another year.

OT:- The Mayans do not and never have had a myth about the world ending in 2012, They still exist and some genius thought "Hey, lets ask them."

Every generation has been convinced they were in or close to end times, throwing 2012 out there just means a lot of clever people can sell books to a lot of idiots.
Same shit as 2000, different decade.

 

[Pegghead]

In the case of 2012 I remember something my father said to me.

"People have been saying the world will come to an end since the world began, so why should *insert doomsday theory here* be any more justified?".

 

[Penguinness]

Heh, I sometimes joke about it. Usually something like "ah well, we'll all be dead in 2 years".

Some people seem to take it seriously though.. in the centre of york stood a homeless looking man with a giant cardboard sign "The end of the world is soon.." and I can't remember what else was on it.