Poll: Doomsday 2012: Are you a believer?

[TIMESWORDSMAN]

If the world ended as much as like a billion people throughout history have said it would we'd be in pretty deep shit by now.

The world will end someday and by then most of us will probably have moved away save some scientists and leftover evacuees waiting for the last ship.

 

[Darth_Dude]

December 22 is my birthday
If this is true its gonna be very akward...

 

[a big stupid idiot]

You know, if the world was supposed to end all the times people said it would we would have been wiped out at least 6 times in my life span alone, and thats not very long.

 

[Zephirius]

My opinion on the end of the world? Eventually. No sense trying to plan for it, nobody's gonna see it coming.

This is an interesting idea: All the scientists waking up one morning, looking outside, and saying, "BY THE BLOOD OF DARWIN THERE'S A FREAKING ASTER-"
Warms my heart, that does - as does the idea of a rogue asteroid sneaking up on earth...

It would take a sneaking penalty due to its size, though.

 

[Joubert]

apparently the Mayan calender lead many to think that the world would end on 2012 due to yet another issue of mis-translation, or rather mis-interpretation.
The end date and something along the lines of "time-ending" brought many fearful individuals to go "oh shit" the seers have foreseen the end of time! But it wasn't time that was ending, it was our current perception of time that was to change.
The seers saw 2012 as being an end to humanity's perception of time as linear. Linear, meaning events happen in a strict sequence and we shouldn't be able to foresee events with intuition because only the present time really exists... "the future" is just a concept and future events aren't fated or destined to happen, or in any way real.

the Mayan seers saw that by 2012 humans would have a certain level of awareness of their own power of intuition and the nature of time and destiny. Perhaps that awareness would come in the form of most people having an innate awareness of the invisible forces helping them along and the powerful forces of destiny making important "chance encounters" and life-changing opportunities all the more accessible and possible.

I still don't get if they thought we wouldn't need calenders anymore or something, their reasons for ending the calender on that date still remain a mystery to me. (maybe they wanted to get our attention, LOL)

 

[Korolev]

There have been HUNDREDS if not THOUSANDS of "End-of-the-world" predictions. NONE have come true. 2012 will pass, and the World will not end. Some of these 2012ers (who call themselves Planet X-ers who believe that a planet X will collide with Earth) actually first predicted the world would end in May 2003 and guess what? IT DIDN'T HAPPEN! These losers will have egg all over their face when 2013 rolls around, just like those idiots in that cave in Russia who predicted the World would end in May this year. Guess what? I'M STILL AROUND!

Idiots who buy into this stuff deserve to have their lives ruined. There should be a price for BEING THAT STUPID. 2012 will not be the end of the world. 2000 wasn't, and neither will 2012.

Go ahead 2012ers. Sell all your stuff. Quit your jobs. Build shelters. Go around telling us that the end is nigh. These people have about as much dignity, credibility and respectability as those homeless dementia patients who wear signs around their neck saying "The End is Near". They are about as sane as those rambling street "prophets" who get up on boxes telling people "The End is Nigh!" They are jokes. The whole lot of them are jokes.

 

[Limasol]

The magnetic pole wont switch in our lifetime, but when it does (estimated around 2600-3000) we will be in trouble, earthquakes, storms, tidal waves are going to abound for a few decandes before it settles back down. However it only happens around every 30,000 years at the shortest estimate so it may be much further away, and it wont be the end of the world unless you count your internet disconnecting as the apocalypse.

 

[Zephirius]

Wow, a lot of people here are repeating exactly what has been said in this thread many times before. You could just read and realize your post is redundant.. Myself, I'd like to think the theory is true, not so much end of the world as in destruction, but rather end of the world as we know it. Like others have said, something such as a sudden influx of intelligence and talent or some other major event causing a change in global society. It's probably not going to happen, but hey, a man can dream.

 

[crimson5pheonix]

and it wont be the end of the world unless you count your internet disconnecting as the apocalypse.

Oh no.... THE END IS NIGH, RUN FOR THE HILLS BOREDOM WILL KILL US ALL!!

 

[Johnn Johnston]

To all the people saying "Nostradamus was right a lot of the time", that's laregly because everything he predicted was so vague that it could mean millions of things, and he had the whole future of human history for them to occur.

 

[Murphy666]

The fact of doomsday happening is a little bit insane. But at the same time somebody could go back to the fact of the war. One of these days somebody is going to finally snap and shot off a nuke and if that happens it will be doomsday because everbody will be shooting off nukes

 

[Sethran]

I don't recall the Mayans specifically saying "The world will end Dec 12th 2012."

They didn't use months or years as we did, so I'm fairly certain that this is just interpretation and as we all know interpretation is different for every person.

They could have meant that the world did end and was reborn 2012 B.C., they could have meant that they killed 2012 people in 12 days, they could have meant any number of things that involve the numbers 2012 and 12. Hell, it could have been 20 babies were born in 12 days.

As for all other theories, for some reason I don't see the aliens coming to greet us as the end of the world so how is that a doomsday theory? Really, it doesn't matter. Murphy's law ensures that whatever can go wrong, will go wrong, so just expect the worst and be surprised when good things happen.

 

[The Blue Mongoose]

honestly i think nothing will happen...

even if it does... i'm in Australia, in Adelaide... we're not affected by anything!

 

[Catballs]

There is a good saying for this.

"Shit Happens"

 

[kutuup]

I like the meteor one the best, we get to do FFVII for real this time! Yay! Who's coming to the Northern Cave with me?

 

[Jumplion]

I personally think that nothing is going to happen.

Techincally at Y2K the world allready spun around the sun a billion times or so. Y2K was just the Earth spinning around the Sun 2000 times in the calander, and 12/21/12 is just going to be the Earth almost spining 2012 times.

Besides, the world is supposed to seize to exist at 2140, that's the year 6000 in Jewish calander. So is the world going to end at 2140? No, it's just going to stop existing because technology will become so great that we'll all be slaves to Virtual Porn.

 

[Cpt. Sarcastic]

i swear im 20 IQ points dumber by reading these posts. I wont bother to point out the thousands of other doomsday predictions, mostly because you all have mentioned them for me. oh, I dont know if 6/6/06 was mentioned, but all christians were saying the antichrist was gonna come and start enslaving everything, and nothing happened. but let me put it this way, the same time the mayans (polytheists, and NOT christian, so dont bring up god) predicted this, other people were saying the world was flat and the center of the universe. when 2012 ends, and 2013 starts, im going to be standing there laughing at everyone walking out of some D-Day bunker. if all the matter that was here suddenly decided to defy the laws of physics and cease to exist, then whoopdeefuckingdoo. lifes over. we either stop existing too, and it doesnt matter if we prepared, or we go to either heaven or hell or some other afterlife and get extremely bored after a million years because we have met everyone and ran out of things to do. (remember, material things dont follow into the afterlife, so no video games, internet, or clothes or chairs). so this talk is rather pointless. go out, get a blow job, go to work, and go have a good time instead of fucking around on here about the end of the world.

 

[Limasol]

I don't recall the Mayans specifically saying "The world will end Dec 12th 2012."

They didn't use months or years as we did, so I'm fairly certain that this is just interpretation and as we all know interpretation is different for every person.

They could have meant that the world did end and was reborn 2012 B.C., they could have meant that they killed 2012 people in 12 days, they could have meant any number of things that involve the numbers 2012 and 12. Hell, it could have been 20 babies were born in 12 days.

As for all other theories, for some reason I don't see the aliens coming to greet us as the end of the world so how is that a doomsday theory? Really, it doesn't matter. Murphy's law ensures that whatever can go wrong, will go wrong, so just expect the worst and be surprised when good things happen.

Read my long spiel to get the reason why people believe this. In short The mayan calendar ends in 2012. But they could have simply stopped carving after 13 thinking that someone else would continue when the time was closer. Instead people came along and thought the world was due to end. FOR F*CKS SAKE how were they supposed to know, i seriously think the populace at large has got stupider since Mayan times.

I trust what people who do science and testing and observation say today rather than some peasants a couple of thousand years ago. The world wont end, end of.

and if it does i wont be around for you to point this out....because none of us will be.

As for repeating earlier posts, that's what happens when people don't read back and then make half arsed arguments of their own which have to be re-thrashed out.

 

[lewa nua]

The only holy book which doesn't give a certain doom date is the bible in the book of revelations, and to translate it into normal english. It sais that an evil leader will rise and strip us of our rights and bear the mark of the devil on his forehead and We shall be identified by this number (Tax number anyone?) A war will be raged against him and infer the wrath of the good. The seas will boil Yadda Yadda Yadda (Neclear warfare and radiation) Really it sounds like our own undoing is our doom to normal people.

 

[HSIAMetalKing]

The word "theory" is being thrown around rather loosely here, I think. The connotation is a bit misleading, especially considering all of these "theories" were dreamed up by people who were obviously batshit insane.