2012

[Pac-Fish]

For a while now people have believed that the world will end in 2012. Apparently the "Mayan" calander will run out (just print a new one?). Many people have predicted things from apocalypse to judjement day. A movie was even made called 2012 describing to us this "horror scene".

Then again people said the world would end in 2000, making me wonder if people thought the world would end in 1000. hey were probably not, as they were too worried about feudalism and the pope . Peple also believed the world would end this year at the beginning of this summer (I remember my friend was joking around b/c it was very windy + dark that paticular day)

So if u must, say what you want here and do as you please b/c in 2012, it wont really matter . And if this "doomsday" doesn't happen, well then at least what you said stays in this forum .

[Cranialwizard]

I think the Mayans just ran outta room on the rock and said "There that's the end of it"

[Pac-Fish]

I think the Mayans just ran outta room on the rock and said "There that's the end of it"

LOL Maybe they ran outta ink in their printer and they didnt want to buy more  . Ancient printers with birds pecking letters

[neosdark]

Well I was reading an article about how they recently looked more closely at that calender and it turns out that the end of the next Bak'tan (I think that's what its called) cycle is somewhere around 2057. So yea, the calendar isn't really the end yet, and I think that we killed them off too fast so they couldn't make anymore of them, or the conquistadors blew them up.

Plus in the US millenialism occurred around the early-mid 1800s, they thought Christ would come back yada yada yada.... (I'm Jewish by the way)
So we been screaming end of the world for a while. Plus its not like Catastrophes haven't occurred for 1000 years and suddenly we are experiencing them all at once. Its because of the availability of TV and other such modern tech that we know about everything at once.

[Pac-Fish]

You must admit though, the weather has been awfully weird this past year, especially on the east coast of the US compared to the rest of the US) . And around the world there have been lots of floods, earthquakes, and other crap

[neosdark]

I blame the Chilean Earthquake for that. It shifted our axis of by a good measure and that might be the cause of the weather related problems.

[Pac-Fish]

LOL our problems eminate from the Chilean miners? Well, I've heard worse .

[neosdark]

Lulz not that bro, the thing with the giant 9.0 (or so) earthquake like a year ago. Maybe it wasn't Chile, but Peru (I'm going crazy)

[Pac-Fish]

Oh I know what you are talking about. Yeah there was a bad earth quake in Peru near the mountainous region or something like that and it caused major damage but not too many casualties. LOL the focal point of our maladies

[neosdark]

Yurp that there is our problem

[Tankbuster]

I just want to kill conscripts with landsers before the world ends. Is that too much to ask?*starts sobbing*



So how do propose to save yourselves. I read that people all over the world are paying like crazy for bunkers as they think the world will end.

[Max 'DonXavi' von B.]

Plus its not like Catastrophes haven't occurred for 1000 years and suddenly we are experiencing them all at once. Its because of the availability of TV and other such modern tech that we know about everything at once.

+9999. Mass media and its power..

[cephalos]

2012 is one big lie, same as global warming. <secret mode on> it's a way that governments try to raise non-existing threat to get more power < secret mode off> 

[GodlikeDennis]

People will always look at current disasters and think they are the worst ever because of media propagation and the fact people will always recall recent events with more clarity than old events. Colossal events have happened in the past (Tunguska event, Krakatoa explosion) that were far worse yet most people these days won't even know what they are. Events that were greater still happened before history was even being written.

The fact is that people like to sensationalise things to make everything seem important. The reality is that the Mayan calendar runs out (maybe?) and just starts again because Mayan timekeeping is cyclic. People also reference Nostradamus because he got a few things right if you interpret his words in a very specific way. Realistically, saying enough things in a vague enough manner and people will look into it to find a connection. He probably just had too much Opium and went on rants that were later called "predictions" because of a random coincidence.

There are a lot of coincidences that go into these predictions too which people read too much into. There will be a solar maximum this year where the Sun's activity will be at it's peak but this happens every 10 years or something. There will also be the galactic alignment, where the Sun, Earth and galactic plane will line up perfectly. To some this is seen as a sign when considering the Mayan calendar but the calendar is actually based on this alignment. The end of the calendar just means the galaxy will line up before beginning again at the start of the calendar.

That being said, if there is a doomsday I hope it's a zombie apocalypse. I fancy my chances with that a lot more than against a solar flare or alien invasion. It'd be a little more fun too.

[Pac-Fish]

Well if it was Zombes than it would at least be possible to fight them back But I'd suck to get eaten by one

2012 is one big lie, same as global warming. <secret mode on> it's a way that governments try to raise non-existing threat to get more power < secret mode off> 

I dont really think Global warming is a lie. Im not a meterologist so I cant really debate this but still, what we are doing to Earth isn't exactly great