The world is ending 201120 and Joe Bloggs suicides on 191120...Why?

[Serioli]

I just don't understand the mentality of suiciding because the world is ending.
We had it in the past on set dates, with the 'LHC is gonna make a black hole!' headlines,we will inevitably get it around 2012 (or 2011 if you're a runner). Why? You're going to die anyway and history has shown plenty of times that the world doesn't end when they say it will.
I know if I could be bothered to set up a cult it would be a party cult. 'If it's true we die out of our heads, if it's false we've just got a hangover!'

The only reason I could reasonably think would be fear of the collapse of civilisation. (I'm guessing being beaten to death by looters probably hurts more than doing your wrists say...)

Thoughts on reasons and what sort of doomsday cult you'd set up?

 

[Cabisco]

Right, this is my entire thought process when it comes to people who predit the end of the world, every year put in a handy conversation form.


"DUDE, 2012 will happen"
"You honestly believe that?"
"yeah, we are all going to die, you'll see that i'm right"
"Well, enjoy your hollow victory, I get to be right for the rest of my life, you get 10 seconds before our arses come shooting through our eyeballs".

 

[Doodlebox]

Right, this is my entire thought process when it comes to people who predit the end of the world, every year put in a handy conversation form.


"DUDE, 2012 will happen"
"You honestly believe that?"
"yeah, we are all going to die, you'll see that i'm right"
"Well, enjoy your hollow victory, I get to be right for the rest of my life, you get 10 seconds before our arses come shooting through our eyeballs".

I laffed.

 

[Joe Deadman]

Heh people are just silly like that. Personally I like to remind them of all the other times the world ended. The world sure likes ending a lot.
It's a wonder we ever get anything done.

 

[Cabisco]

Right, this is my entire thought process when it comes to people who predit the end of the world, every year put in a handy conversation form.


"DUDE, 2012 will happen"
"You honestly believe that?"
"yeah, we are all going to die, you'll see that i'm right"
"Well, enjoy your hollow victory, I get to be right for the rest of my life, you get 10 seconds before our arses come shooting through our eyeballs".

I laffed.

Good, as was my intention. I just find that people who predict the end of the world really arn't going to get much out of being right.

Also, as a friendly suggestion you might want to try and beef up your comments as people can be quite harsh around here and report you for two word answers. I mean, all i wanted to put then was 'Thank you' but I just beef it up to appease the crazy people we have lurking here with report buttons.

 

[demoman_chaos]

2012 will happen, so will 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, etc.

People will go nutz on the 11th and 12th, then feel rather silly on the 13th

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

that date will come but the big tragedy will not...it's just a scare tactic is all and nothing else. Don't believe what the psychics tell you

 

[historybuff]

Nu-uh! The world is ending tomorrow! TOMORROW!

 

[Addendum_Forthcoming]

You know, there have been 'Doomsday' cults in the past. I believe there was an English theological society that ran amok believing the second coming of Christ was going to hit in 1666 or whenever or whatever the hell their rabies infected minds came up with.

Christ was supposedly bringing some friends down to Earth to kick all kinds of mortal arse from Sussex to Calcutta.

Point is that you CANT understand these doomsday theorists ... because they're nutjobs ... you just hope you don't get on their bad side otherwise they'll kill you before the 'apocalypse' happens.

Perhaps doomday cultists like to believe in an 'official' end of the World because it gives them a twisted reason to act like dicks and think of everybody as 'small minded' sycophants of modernity.

If alot of these people *truly* believes in a World destruction at a specific time and place, then they'd do one of two things .... Be really nice to oneanother, or commit all sorts of whacky behaviour because its been their lifelong dream to drive a tank, and because the world is ending, there's no point in worrying about being shot trying to steal one.

Personally I like the idea of Chirst and his mates putting the smack down on everybody.

The visualization of a robe wearing, benevolent looking person putting his sandal clad foot up Michael Atkinson's rectum would be a suitable last wish before I got my head cut off by a lonsword-wielding angel.

So I'm going with celestial rampage across the planet in 2015.

 

[Wardnath]

And if it's proven false, they have a backup plan....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99942_Apophis

 

[Caiti Voltaire]

People like to believe they are right. The cognitive leaps they will make to explain for discrepancies in their logic because they do not want to admit they are wrong are really astounding.

 

[inglioti]

i'm of the opinion that if the world undergoes even a billion suicides, it will be the stupid ones and thus not a problem.

 

[klakkat]

And if it's proven false, they have a backup plan....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99942_Apophis

This, essentially, illustrates why I hate all these Doomsday prophesies. They distract from the real threats* and encourages people to live wastefully.

*I realize that particular asteroid isn't likely a threat, but things along that line