Just in case anyone hadn't seen this and were still getting their tin foil hats ready. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/...-2012-doomsday-calendar-end-of-world-science/ So I'll see everyone in the 22nd of December as normal.
People thinking the world will end in 2012 because of the Mayan calendar must also think the world will end every year on December 31st, too.
The word ends every year and begins anew. They should just starting printing it on calendars. Here's a question... whatever happened to those people (idiots) who sold all their shit and quit their jobs and relocated their families because some jackass religious leader told them to a couple of years ago? That was some gut-wrenching stuff and also raised the bar forever for people just generally being supermorons. I mean, it's high comedy that some well-to-do adults did that but to royally fuck up their children's lives based on dogmatic idealistic nonsense is sad beyond words.
A hippie told me the other day that it is not the end, it's a cosmic shift in our consciousness. Which sounds exhausting.
Good point! Plus: neither the Mayas nor Revelation mention fog in connection with the end of the world. So as long as we have this dreadful weather, we'll be absolutely safe In Bavaria, we're having a drizzly fog/foggy drizzle for almost 2 weeks now - looks like we're an especially safe place. (But then we are anyway, as rumours state Bavaria was made of the bits god had left when he created paradise. So we're not really a part of Earth, technically, and hence won't have an Armageddon.)
can't believe anyones dumb enough to go for this 'end of the world' bullshit nowadays. but they still exist, and statistically they're most likely to be americans. which isn't a surprise. no offense to the many sane, intelligent americans out there, but your country seems to have a surplus of foolishness.
Without meaning to offend the Americans, I wholeheartedly agree. Just think of all these creationists, for example. I'm a biologist - my job is to watch evolution at work. Creationism being actually taught at schools makes me want to scream. At a time where it has been confirmed that even the universe has its borders, it seems that human stupidity is the only absolutely infinite item.
Americans do seem more end times obsessed. Even the Rapture is an American invention and the vocal churches there seem to focus far more on their being an end time, Revelations, judgement etc.. than churches in Australia or the UK. Of course the Americans have also come up with lots of great science fiction so maybe this predisposition has its advantages.
It's a way of controlling the masses. Be good and you'll survive the end of days. Same goes for Christmas, be good or Santa won't come.
hmm, is Santa even political correct, nowadays? An old overweight Kaukasian male, dressed in ancient costume with fur trimmings who has kids sit on his lap and gives them sweets - the true miracle of Christmas is that neither African Americans nor Hispanics, Asians or Native Americans, animal rights activists and child protection officials, dentists and healthcare services haven't tried to abolish him yet. Not to mention the women's rights front and the non-christian religious groups in the US.
I remember thinking the world was ending whilst watching the movie 2012, if only because it was so godawful
What, you mean the world's NOT going to end on my 30th birthday? (And yes, 21 Dec 2012 IS my 30th birthday.)
I'm ready for the Apocralypse. But only if it involves robots, zombies, ninjas or alien lizard infiltrators.
Lovably bizarre, I'd say Must be all these Britons among your ancestors and their spleen-genes As a member of The Four Horsepersons Of The Internet I can assure you that we won't ride on Dec 21st. We'll be way too busy writing Christmas cards, icing cookies and doing last minute shopping.
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