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Why, WHY do people insist that doomsday is coming on 21/12/2012? So what if it's the end of the Mayan calender? They didn't say that the end of a calender meant doomsday, but rather just the end of a cycle. It's nothing more than a clock chiming the hour.

This article is sensibly written to disprove the scaremongers. For crying out loud people, how many times has doomsday supposedly occurred now? First it was in 1955 (Einstein predicted that!), then 6/6/66, then 1997, then 2000, then 6/6/06, now this! I am just sick and tired of people being manipulated by false fear. Yes, I believe that 2012 will be a significant year, but not in a destructive way. It will be the year in which humanity starts to realise its mistakes and start moving along the proper path.

And let's keep this thread sensible. The last thread on this degenerated into silly comments.

(By the way, read the comments on that article. A lot of it is crazy, but some people have posted sensible proof to support the article.)

I like when people set dates for stuff.

Like Christ's birth, his resurrection, Halloween (pagan stuff I guess), the 4th of July. People have a lot of dates for good stuff to happen. We need some bad stuff days, and we keep making them up because we don't have many annual ones except Hitler's b-day and terrorism events. We also love to predict the end of the world.

But no matter the date, I just go to work like always.

maybe the mayans got lazy I mean they made it all the way to 2012 thats pretty impressive. But maybe one mayan guy got pissed and said thats enough and stopped the calender there? Anyways that's my opinion on the matter.

It's odd how all these doomsday theories end up selling a book.

Anyway, history shows us that humanity is tough. We've been through terrible, terrible things. Wars, natural disasters, starvation, and worse. But we've always won through. I tell you, I am leaving my fate with God and I promise to the world that I will be alive on December 22, 2012, crying with joy, eating my breakfast, and praying.

thedarkside69 wrote:maybe the mayans got lazy I mean they made it all the way to 2012 thats pretty impressive. But maybe one mayan guy got pissed and said thats enough and stopped the calender there? Anyways that's my opinion on the matter.

I think stuff like that sometimes too.

You can't make a calender infinite, especially when it is so huge.

Maybe they planned to ring in the near year of 2013 with their new and improved calender. Too bad they didn't make it. Maybe after the Mayans sealed their civilization underground they started working on the new calender. The last twelve Mayans left are super pumped for the big unveiling in 2013. It's when they will finally break the seals on their vault and make a big comeback.

I heard the world was going to end in 2000. Given this insight I purchased a load of stuff (most of which I didn't need) with buy now pay 2001 offers thinking I'd never have to pay them off.

Of course we all know how it turned out, much to my chagrin the world did not end and I was stuck with tons of debt. Learn from my mistakes!

MADNESS! The world won´t end in 2012 but on 2038 when the milenium bug redux will hit us making the machines rise against us.
You´ll see, you´ll see...

M.

Uh, the millenium bug is meant to short out our computers, hurr durr.

It is nice that we get three big calender resets in short proximity to each other, Millenium (1999-2000), Real Millenium (2000-2001) and Long Count (2012) its another excuse for a extra big party.

You have a New Years Party that stretches 13 years? Dude, I want YOUR wallet!

I did say keep it serious. Do you or do you not believe in doomsday 2012?

Jesus Christ. Does anybody believe in the gods the Mayans did?

How many people believe that the sky is held up by four trees? How many believe in human sacrifice? How many worship corn?

This 2012 thing is ridiculous. If you don't believe in the Mayan gods or the Mayan view of how the world works, why the feth would you even care if their religious calender is about to end?

Even if the Mayans did give a rat's ass about their calender running out, which they may well not have.

Watch out you guys, I hear The Ragnarok is coming in 2013. Look out for giants!

They had the foresight to predict the end of the world but they didnt see themselves being wiped off the map?

yea lets trust the Mayans

Actually, they didn't predict the end of the world, which is my point. It's just like a really long year ending.

Cheese Elemental wrote:I did say keep it serious. Do you or do you not believe in doomsday 2012?

My comment before was serious and to clarify my answer I don't believe in doomsday. I refuse to conform to mass hysteria every time something like this happens.

Saw an hour program on this watched it and well spent the rest of the afternoon laughing at the scientists who support the theory.I belive that there will someday be a day when humanity will die out,depending on what theory you subscribe to its either going to happen soon or in like a hundred thousand years.


Well you know maybe its their hobby,we paint and play with plastic people.Others spend their time worring about how near the end is.

By the way, have you noticed every doomsday theory ends up selling a book and a movie?

Which reminds me I think we have the next script for National treasure 3.


Nicolas cage is forced to save the world from Mayan doomsday,


But on an on topic note,I also by fanatical cults and there mass slaughter of themselves to proclaim the end of the world.

Cheese Elemental wrote:I did say keep it serious. Do you or do you not believe in doomsday 2012?

Of course I do, doesn't everyone? You'd have to be an idiot to believe otherwise.

Stop it! I'm being serial! Serially guys!

Could we get this locked now? It was just a quick opinion thread, and I've been reassured that this doomsday is a lot of hype, like 1955, 1997, and 2000. I tend to get paranoid about media hype...

You're only paranoid if you're wrong. What if you're right? What if this really is it? It could fit you know. the flu mutates into the killer bug. Decepticons finally have enough energon to retake Cybertron. Viking outrage at losing to samurai reaches critical mass as Norway declares war on Japan, leading to Vikign and Japanese fisherman going mano O mano-beating each other with flapping fish.

Remember, everything has happened before and will happen again. After all the machines have a plan.

Modq

Modquisition on: Closing at original poster's request.



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