Poll: Do You Think The End Is Upon Us? (12/21/12)

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With December 21st drawing closer and closer, I just felt like seeing how many Escapists believe in the Mayan Calender stuff. Personally I've always thought that whoever was chisling that giant wheel got to the year 2012 and said "We're in what, year 6? Honestly, if we make it to and beyond 2012 just have my decendant finish this because I'm fucking DONE with the chisling!" :p

I can't deny, though, that it always does linger in the back of my mind. "What if..."
 

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Well, put it this way, the calendar I bought from WHSmith last year ran out at the end of 2011, did the world end then?
 

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Please don't start this doomsday stuff again... I'm so sick of the last year of "omg, 2012 end of the world"-talk.
 

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Without a doubt, yes. I mean, it would be logically wrong to assume the world would keep going, right? =D
 

RJ 17

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Quaxar said:
Please don't start this doomsday stuff again... I'm so sick of the last year of "omg, 2012 end of the world"-talk.
:p As I mentioned in my OP, I do believe that it's a load of hogwash. Really I'm just wanting to see how many supersticiouis Escapists are out there that 100% believe in this stuff. I know at the place I work there's at least 2 people who are terrified of 12/21/12, so I was wanting to see if such fear exists around here as well.
 

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You know, I've done lots of research on the subject. I've studied ancient Mayan legends, folklore, history, and even touched on psychology and anatomy/biology to see what makes them tick. I've also gone and looked up a whole range of scientific materials on the subject from a wide range of sources. I was preparing to answer this one question all this time. But I thought my preparation was insufficient, so I dove into even more materials, which may be unconventional, but I thought could prove insightful - astrology, numerology, gnosticism, hermeticism and a few others. I even used some tools, and I'm using the term somewhat loosely here, in pursuit of an answer. Among what I tried were crystal balls, tarot cards, contacting the spirits of the dead, chanting, prayers, meditation.

So, in short, I think I am the most qualified person to answer that question. And I do have an answer. Just to reiterate - I've spent very large amount of time and effort to reach this answer and I've checked, double checked, triple checked and many-other-checked it using a wide variety of tools methods and techniques, so I am absolutely sure it is correct.

And here it is: the world will either end or not. It is a 50/50 chance. All the sources agree.

As a side note, a somewhat interesting observation - the same chance crops up for every other date I checked.
 

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Nobody with enough intelligence to operate a computer and an open enough mind to visit forums not dedicated to their own specific brand of crazy actually believes this, so it's a bit of a pointless question.
 

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Were you guys aware that they found the rest of the Mayan calender? It never ends. The conspiracy nuts have even less of a leg to stand on than normal.

In fact, a date for a specific predicted event has been discovered. That date will not occur for another ~4 x 10^28 years in the future, about 3 quintillion times the current accepted age of the universe
 

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it amazes me that people pick and choose things completely out of context just to mostly scare others and to make money from it.

for starters the mayans didnt have a concept of linear time to them it was cyclical. the same patterns would repeat like each year you would still have winter and cold weather even if the individual details were different. yet people aparently took their concept of the long count calander comming full circle and decided thats the end of the world.

not even the mayans believed it would be the end of everything at most it was the end of the 5th world and the start of the sixth a time of transformation to be celebrated not feared.

it frustrates me to be honest. ive always had an interest in the mayans, their art, writing and calender but thanks to all this crap its next to impossible to find info on the net these days thanks to the end of the world BS.
Yeah, I've heard before that the calender is meant to mark the end of a cycle, not the world. The "Believers", though, would argue that the end of a cycle means a great cataclysm to wipe the world clean, a literal getting knocked back to the stone-age type of thing, thus starting a new cycle of humanity. I still don't believe it though.

The main reason I don't believe it is because, according to a National Geographic documentary I watched (clearly a VERY reliable source /sarcasm) the way the Mayans made their predictions on the calender, they would have a shaman perform a special ritual.

This ritual would have the shaman starve and deprive himself of sleep for 3 or 4 days. He would then smoke a hallucinagenic and using a spike, he would stab his penis, collecting the blood from the wound on a special leafy. He'd then burn the bloody leaf and stare at the smoke, which would whisper to him the words of the ancestors and it was they who told the shaman of the future.

Do you have any idea if that's true? Because I've honestly thought the whole thing sounded ridiculous, but according to NatGeo that's how it went.
 

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I hope not, as I start my holiday on that exact morning and the apocalypse would make it slightly harder to enjoy.

Either way, people are going to drink like it's the end of the world, and at least some people are going to kill others or injure themselves.
 

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Rowan93 said:
Nobody with enough intelligence to operate a computer and an open enough mind to visit forums not dedicated to their own specific brand of crazy actually believes this, so it's a bit of a pointless question.
You know what? That's actually a fantastic point. :p
 

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Esotera said:
I hope not, as I start my holiday on that exact morning and the apocalypse would make it slightly harder to enjoy.

Either way, people are going to drink like it's the end of the world, and at least some people are going to kill others or injure themselves.
Isn't the Christian apocalypse a usually drawn out affair?

I figure at the very least I should be able to pick up a sympathy fuck from someone. The world is ending, so lets get it on!
 

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RJ 17 said:
With December 21st drawing closer and closer, I just felt like seeing how many Escapists believe in the Mayan Calender stuff. Personally I've always thought that whoever was chisling that giant wheel got to the year 2012 and said "We're in what, year 6? Honestly, if we make it to and beyond 2012 just have my decendant finish this because I'm fucking DONE with the chisling!" :p

I can't deny, though, that it always does linger in the back of my mind. "What if..."
Well, we'll know on 12/12 for sure. That's when the sign will appear if the end is truly upon us...
 

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It would kind of suck if it did. My 21st birthday is literally the next day. For the non-Americans out there, that's our legal drinking age.
 

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I'll just point out that the last day of Autumn is December 20th. The next day?

Winter is coming.
 

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Yes, it is official that the end of the world is happening in 2012 and I state this because hostess (the maker of twinkies) is going out of business. Without twinkies we will not be able to fight against the zombie apocalypse that EVERYBODY knows is going to start on December 21st, therefor the end of the world is eminent.


(Just in case my sarcasm was too well hidden, I don't expect the world to end anytime soon)
 

MammothBlade

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Not really, but I'm going along with it just for the heck of it anyway. Better celebrate christmas early...
 

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Bravo Company said:
Without twinkies we will not be able to fight against the zombie apocalypse that EVERYBODY knows is going to start on December 21st, therefor the end of the world is eminent.
Interestingly enough, I saw a poll that asked a bunch of people how they think the world will end. There was the asteroid impact, the super virus, the super-colliders creating a particle that devours all matter...or a black hole, and renegade robots. But the #1 answer by a wide margin was "Zombie Apocolypse".