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Cerebrium wrote:I won't believe it until David Icke says it.

(Kidding, obviously.)

You laugh now.

Wait until the Zionist Lizard People vaccinate you to death.

Slightly off topic but still tin hat worthy...and current

Guys, this whole 2012 apocalypse thing can be easily explained. The mayans knew when the world was going to end because they were actually.....

What he said! Tinfoil hats aren't gonna save us this time!

KingCracker wrote:

daedalus wrote:Dec 21st, 2012 does mark an amazing occasion however. It marks the day that numerology and psuedo-science can finally become exposed for what it is, and perhaps afterwards, if we're lucky, we can cast aside all of the reality shows long enough to finally get some real science and innovation done.

Nope, it wont prove anything to fruit baskets like that. They will simply come up with a new date. Ive lived through......3-5 supposed end of the world dates in my 27 years that I can rememberish. Soooooo either Im incredibly lucky (yea tell that to the Lotto tickets I buy) or its just another day

In my lifetime, we've got:

October or November 1982: Pat Robertson says God told him the world would end, starting in 82 and ending in 89
October 2, 1984: Jehovah's Witnesses claim the world is going to end (for the 9th time)
August 16-17, 1987: The Harmonic Convergence planned to welcome the rebirth of the serpent god of peace
May 21, 1988: Harold Camping predicts the end of the world based on Biblical numerology
September 11-13, 1988: Edgar C. Whisenant predicts the end of the world in 88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Be in 1988
September 28, 1992: Rollen Stewart (aka Rainbow Man) predicts the end of the world based on being crazy
September 6, 1994: Harold Camping predicts the end of the world based on Biblical numerology, again
sometime in 1995: David Koresh, claiming to be Jesus reborn, predicts the end of the world
Mar 31, 1995: Harold Camping predicts the end of the world based on Biblical numerology, yet again
March 26, 1997: Heaven's Gate cult commits mass suicide in order to use a passing comet to escape the world ending
March 31, 1998: Chen Tao cult from Taiwan predicts the end of the world, moving to Texas to prepare for it
December 21, 1999: Nostradamus prediction interpreted to show this would be the start of a the "War of Wars"
sometime in 2000: The world is going to end, because 2000 divided by 3 is all 6's (the devil's number)
January 1, 2000: Y2K
May 5, 2000: Richard Noone uses astrology and Egyptology to realize the world was going to plunge into a new ice age
May 28, 2001: Marilyn Agee predicts end of world
July 19, 2002: Marilyn Agee predicts end of world, again
September 29, 2004: Arnie Stanton used moon phases and other stuff to figure out the day Jesus is going to return
April 29, 2007: Pat Robertson, again
April 17, 2008: Ronald Weinland leads a group to Israel to watch the Revelation
March 30, 2010: Large Hadron Collider used for first time, predicted to cause a black hole to swallow Earth
May 21, 2011: Harold Camping predicts the end of the world based on Biblical numerology, yet again
October 21, 2011: Harold Camping predicts the end of the world based on Biblical numerology, can't fault his never-give-up attitude


And, there's a ton of others

National Geographic is cashing in on the crazy, they have a new show about Doomsday Preppers that I plan to check out in a couple weeks.

There's been so many end of the world stories for as long as I can remember.. but who knows, this could really be the one! Or, maybe the old mayan stone carver guy just ran out of room on his rock....

Necros wrote:National Geographic is cashing in on the crazy, they have a new show about Doomsday Preppers that I plan to check out in a couple weeks.

There's been so many end of the world stories for as long as I can remember.. but who knows, this could really be the one! Or, maybe the old mayan stone carver guy just ran out of room on his rock....

Sounds like Hoarders : )

daedalus wrote:Dec 21st, 2012 does mark an amazing occasion however. It marks the day that numerology and psuedo-science can finally become exposed for what it is, and perhaps afterwards, if we're lucky, we can cast aside all of the reality shows long enough to finally get some real science and innovation done.

The Jehovah's Witnesses were originally formed around preachings that the world was going to end any day now. It didn't. Not only did the world not ending stop people believing in end of the world prophecies, it didn't even stop them being Jehovah's Witnesses.