Poll: We just doomed ourselves

[IanBrazen]

By being obessed with 2012. People are going to cause the end of the world. Millions will be looting,killing and pillaging. We are boned unless we do something! Do anything! The whole goddamn world will end if you don't!

Basically, are we pretty much doomed ourselves by now, or is there a chance we might survive?

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.152703?page=1

here is all you need to know.
this is like the hundredth post about this.
think of something else to be ignorant about.
(ps. if you are being sarcastic i totally apologize.)

 

[skywalkerlion]

Well, I don't disagree there'll be panic (I dunno about mass), but looting is taking it too far..

 

[TheDrunkNinja]

All I expect is that the suicide rate will go up that year, weeding out the weak-minding idiots and retards to make way for a stronger race of humanity to dominate the earth. If anything, this might actually save the world.

 

[Sven und EIN HUND]

Thats what people said about Y2K.

But we KNOW this is going to happen!!!1!!1

They made a movie about itz O.O

It's like Y2K ALL OVER AGAIN, RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN, GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, GET TO THE CHAWPAH. Oh wait...that shit never actually happened, whoops. This is different though as that was just a government fuck-up whereas this is PREDICTED BY TEH MERCILESS GAWDS @.@

 

[KAPTAINmORGANnWo4life]

Naw. 2012 is nothing compared to Y2K. And it's half as plausible. A whole lot of idiots might take the day off school (because let's face it, no self-respecting adult would believe this shit), so maybe the five or six students at your local high school who aren't thicker than Boomer shit, or higher than the camera crew on Snoop Dogg's reality show, will have some peace.

 

[gadafgadaf]

These Mayans couldn't calculate any more star calendars after this date. BIG DEAL! they probably were like "Why the hell are we doing this? we'll never see this anyway. Lets go sacrifice people to create a sea of blood for our gods." and they forgot about it. I welcome crazy people killing themselves, as long as they don't try to take anyone else with them that don't want to.

 

[Numb1lp]

I hate how many people actually take this stuff seriously.

 

[chronobreak]

Damn, Fniff, after all the posts you've had and all the threads you have created, you should know that this has been done to death already. And I've actually found a lot of your posts to be very funny, but come on dude.

2012 - it will either happen or it won't. What's your zombie escape plan?

 

[BonsaiK]

By being obessed with 2012. People are going to cause the end of the world. Millions will be looting,killing and pillaging. We are boned unless we do something! Do anything! The whole goddamn world will end if you don't!

Basically, are we pretty much doomed ourselves by now, or is there a chance we might survive?

I remember people being pretty obseesed with 2001, which ended up being somewhat of an anticilmax. Y2K also passed by with barely a whimper, as did 1981-1982 (many believed WWIII would start during this time, yes I'm old enough to remember this).

If you look back through history, during 1000AD and the years immediately preceeding and following it, there was also a lot of complete bullshit "end times" talk. People always get a little funny whenever digits line up, but it's all very arbitrary - if our numerical system was base 9 instead of base 10 we'd be getting all hot under the collar about completely different years.

Nothing will happen in 2012, expect threads like this will eventually stop appearing. That is, until 2025, the next big "apocalyptic" date, and of course people won't learn from history and will insist that the world will end then too, no doubt making thousands of pointless threads discussing every aspect of it on internet forums around the globe.

 

[starlight2098]

Oh, this is just hilarious. This is like a joke within a joke. Not only do some idiots apparently take this prophecy seriously, but some others are taking them seriously too.

Mass panic? Riots and looting? Oh come on.

Did we have panic on the 31st of December 1999? When nothing but some parties and pantlessness happened that night and 'those in the know' told us that actually we'd better be making our peace by 31st December 2000, nothing significant happened then. When Nostradamus' predicted end-time rolled around, nobody gave a living f**k, except for Channel 4 (UK) who ran a night of programs about it.

I'm sure someone takes these theories too seriously. I doubt their concerns will be noted, nor will any actions be notable when the moment comes and goes without serious incident.

Life will go on, humanity wont self-destruct because we're a tenacious little bunch of survivors when push comes to shove and any mass racial subconscious that may exist will not permit specietal suicide. Pesky macrobacteria are we and nothing short of a complete global radioactive sterilisation or atmospheric burn is going to get every last one of us. That or a picture of a naked Margaret Thatcher projected on the moon to discourage further reproduction. We might have the genetic diversity to survive THAT, but I have my doubts. z: )

 

[Spiner909]

It's the Disney idea- if you believe in something enough, it becomes real.

 

[MrSnugglesworth]

I may be one of the ones looting, but I doubt anything of that magnitude will happen.

 

[Twilight_guy]

One day I'll be watching the news and the anchor will mention that today is the day the mayan long calender rolls over and I'll laugh softly to myself about doomsayers and that will be the end of it.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

We were doomed from the moment Brokencyde got a record deal.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

It's called a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's what caused the Great Depression. Back then, people were told that the stock market would fail so people went out and sold all their stocks. Well, when everyone goes out and sells their stocks at once it's going to cause a crash and that's exactly what happened. People brought this upon themselves and I firmly believe that the world will not end by any natural disaster but by human actions such as the ones surely to come on 2012. Idiots will freak out and end up killing themselves as well as the rest of us. I feel you man, we're pretty much screwed either way.

 

[President Moocow]

Yes, we are doomed.
But not because some old Mayans tell us we are.
Matter of fact, it's already been postponed to 2212, look it up.

We are doomed by simply existing, because we humans are simply selfdestructive.
We don't like something, we bomb the shit out of it.

We're gonna go extinct sooner or later, so all these environmentalists can go stick a tree up their buttocks.

The earth's not gonna notice anyway, we're fucking up the world WE live in, and not the world itself.
Earth's gonna shake it's booty once and it'll be alright.
Seeing as, say, Mars has done quite nicely without human help.
Probably because of the lack of atmosphere, but hey. That's beyond my point.

Conclusion:
Yes, we are doomed.
Because we exist.

I thank you for your time.

What makes this nihilistic negativity any more credible than the Mayans' Calender?

 

[Amnetic]

What makes this nihilistic negativity any more credible than the Mayans' Calender?

It doesn't.
I never claimed it to be truth, it's just my view on this whole thing.

It's asking what makes the Bible anymore credible than scientific proof.
You have to believe in both for it to be true.

Though science is a bit more 21st century.