Poll: Do you think we're all gonna die in December?

[plugav]

Yes. Because someone didn't bother to add a few extra thousands of years in their callendar. Damn you Mayans! Your laziness ended the world(whatever that means)!

In their defence, I don't think they had computers to aid them back then.

Wait a second! What if we quickly add those missing millenia to the Mayan calendar? That still counts, right?

 

[Ziggy]

I think we will be posting about this silliness in 2013 and laughing at the mooks who actually sold everything and hunkered down for the end.

If we follow the Mayan calendar, we are in 2013, it does not count leap years

 

[lRookiel]

No.

I believe in this thing called 'science'.


You may of heard of it.

Pretty much this.

1. We aren't going to die.
2. We should be smarter than this by 2012.
3. Facebook is gonna go nuts.

And this.

No, the mutant super-soldiers aren't going to be ready until October next year.

Ah, I still have time to prepare then, excellent.

 

[snagli]

Of course this isn't the end of the world, it's the end of a calendar. That´s it, though I suspect there to a be a lot of people who are going to freak out, maybe even riot for the heck of it.

 

[RagTagBand]

Lol Nope.jpg

I've got a brain, you see.

 

[Tipsy Giant]

Who the hell believes this twaddle? jesus tap dancing christ

 

[Vegan_Doodler]

No, because something that a lot of people don't seem to understand is that when it is said (by people who know what they are talking about) that the world will end on DEC,21, 2012, that in no way means that everyone is going to die.

 

[UrieHusky]

Yeah, essentially you're assuming that we've looked at the calendar, and said 'it takes us through to this day, divide that into years and you get this date'. it's not how it works... what the calendar said was 'when the stars/moon/etc. are aligned in this position (which corresponded to the dating system at the time) the calendar ends' which corresponds (accounting for leap years) to december 2012. you can't think of the mayan calendar as a big list of days, that's not really how it works (from what I hear). it's a calendar in the most traditional sense, in that it charts astronomical phenomena, and this doesn't really fit to a calendar in the sense that we see it today, so the leap year thing doesn't matter.

I explained that appallingly, but I hope you'll get the gist of what i'm saying...

Hmm.. The more you know.
I understand a lot better now, I mean it's still rubbish but I think I'm going to do a bit more research into this so thanks for giving me a reason to look into it further, I kinda came the the conclusion of the leap year argument and left it there but now that's been negated.

I have a special place in my heart for popping the dream bubbles of people hoping for an apocalypse

 

[Brandon237]

No.

I believe in this thing called 'science'.


You may of heard of it.

I hereby grant you the highest honour and privilege one can receive for epic and quotable quote: 1 free internet.

After all these years of doomsday predictions and hoping to see us end in a massive fireball ending up in nothing, you would think people would be a little smarter by now. You would think. I mean seriously? How does this crap still fly? Is human stupidity the greatest source of (crap) propelling energy on the planet?

Ah well, I will get to laugh my head off at least

 

[Daystar Clarion]

No.

I believe in this thing called 'science'.


You may of heard of it.

I hereby grant you the highest honour and privilege one can receive for epic and quotable quote: 1 free internet.

After all these years of doomsday predictions and hoping to see us end in a massive fireball ending up in nothing, you would think people would be a little smarter by now. You would think. I mean seriously? How does this crap still fly? Is human stupidity the greatest source of (crap) propelling energy on the planet?

Ah well, I will get to laugh my head off at least

Fuck man, if we could harness human stupidity as a power source, we'd win the bloody Nobel Peace Prize.

 

[Brandon237]

No.

I believe in this thing called 'science'.


You may of heard of it.

I hereby grant you the highest honour and privilege one can receive for epic and quotable quote: 1 free internet.

After all these years of doomsday predictions and hoping to see us end in a massive fireball ending up in nothing, you would think people would be a little smarter by now. You would think. I mean seriously? How does this crap still fly? Is human stupidity the greatest source of (crap) propelling energy on the planet?

Ah well, I will get to laugh my head off at least

Fuck man, if we could harness human stupidity as a power source, we'd win the bloody Nobel Peace Prize.

And every other tangentially related prize too. Twice annually. For the next ten years.

Between this, climate change deniers and people who think that George Bush was a good idea (The second time just proved that they were hell-bent on STAYING stupid) I think we might have a little TOO much power on our hands >.<

 

[Drenaje1]

No, nothing's going to happen. And then I'm going to have the funnest Saturday of my life, relentlessly teasing every single last person who believed this garbage.

 

[waj9876]

No, it doesn't matter if I believed in this or not, just no.

The Mayans didn't account for leap years, so the world should have ended about seven months ago. Probably.

 

[Xenowolf]

Oh god, not this nonsense again...

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Of course not. You'd think by this point we'd be past believing in superstitious nonsense.

 

[Bvenged]

anyway if you don't know the Mayan Calendar ends in (i think) September 20th and that has a lot of people thinking that we're going to die on that day
Basically what i'm asking is if you think we are?

EDIT: OK so i got the date wrong...does it really matter that much? this is a stupid topic to begin with and apparently people are taking this as a serious topic which surprises me even more.
and this is why i left this site. you make one little error and everyone jumps on its like no tomorrow

I've been reading the comments and nobody's insulted you or even been aggressive over it. You made a simple mistake for something that's been circulating media continuously for the past year and a half so it would have taken a lot of people by surprise that you aren't completely aware of the rambling nonsense of the superstitious.

Looking at your poll shows nobody on this site takes this subject as a reality (pinch of salt for the odd "believers"), but as for our seriousness? Considering there ARE a fair few people who actually believe in the doomsday event, who aren't on this site to answer the poll, you have to get serious to oppose them, as ridiculing or mocking them gets everybody nowhere, fast.

See; Religion - ridiculing it get nowhere fast.

 

[imnot]

The people who voted yes.
I will hunt you down and make sure you die in december...

 

[Zhadramekel]

It almost seems like the world is going to end every five years.

Now what will be the next one, the coming of the Reapers?

Nope it'll be the asteroid predicted to collide with the planet in February 2013.