Well...we're doomed

[buzzausa]

I don't know if this is the right place to talk about it but....

what about the world ending in 2012? I was watching this show on the discovery channel last night and apparently all "experts" agree: get ready 'cause 3 years from now we will be no more.
They even have a supercomputer (that apparently predicted 9/11 3 months before it happened) that predicted that the Mayans were right: no point in extending the calendar past 2012, we'll all be dead by then.

Your thoughts?

 

[PuppetXeno]

Complete bollocks. Predicting a terrorist attack 9/11 scale wasn't hard and many people were not surprised when it finally happened. Shocked and apalled yes, but not surprised. A supercomputer predicting this? Never heard that one before, it must have been dubbed Nostradamus for sure.

And I love to see what else this supercomputer is predicting, or did they pull the plug?

Look, the Mayan calendar runs out because they ran out of room on the stone where it was first carved onto. Well, probably not, but they made a long term calendar designed to cough up unique dates for a long long time so that their civilization would never have to experience the same date twice. Maybe rooted in some superstition... Who knows. It's going to run out forgood now and nothing will happen.

My wristwatch runs out every 12 hours and repeats, and repeats. Nothing happens when it starts over. The annual calendar runs out every 12 months and repeats. We celebrate the new year with fireworks, unfortunately for some people that does spell their end, but that's quite their personal problem and surely does not affect the world's existance as a whole.

The only thing of relative significance in the near future are the pass-by events of the Apophis asteroid, but that won't be in 2012.

 

[MachineSp1rit]

i defiantly wanna live more than three years )) at least fifteen

so *sigh* first of all

They even have a supercomputer (that apparently predicted 9/11 3 months before it happened) that predicted that the Mayans were right: no point in extending the calendar past 2012, we'll all be dead by then.

this sounds simply stupid. besides, so far i didn't see anybody say anything about end of the world in 12.12.2012. that was supported by more than just a Mayan calendar. anybody here got any useful tube links?

 

[Ozymandyus]

It's the same analysis that was done in the 60's and 70's - there were multiple scientists who claimed we had a 90% chance+ of destroying the earth within 10-20 years. This sort of ridiculousness pops up at least once every decade, for the last 2000 years. We were said to be living in the end of days for the last 2000 years, and so many people believe that Christ is going to be coming and rapturing us all up any minute now...

The only thing that will happen in 2012 is that some nutters will take it as an excuse to increase terrorist activity, increase revolutionary talk and action... etc.

The mayan calender that makes people take this date seriously is just based on astronomical cycles and is (as someone else pointed out) similar to saying that in the year 2000 we're all going to die (I seem to remember several million people strongly believing that one too.

 

[Mapp]

Why is it that these so-called predictions are only revealed as such after the fact? A computer predicted 9/11? Well that should be fairly easy to check. Is there a date-stamped file or digital record that says, "On September 11th, 2001 Al Qaeda terrorists will hijack 4 passenger jets and crash them into various landmarks around the United States." Such a thing would utterly revolutionize the world, and no doubt win several Nobel Prizes. Of course there isn't, because it's only after these events happen the meaningless prophecies that charlatans churn out are torturously re-worked to fit the facts. For example, just look how many times Nostradamus and the so-called Bible code has been used to predict the end of the world? How many said that Nostradamus predicted Hitler only after World War II? I have a book on my shelf proclaiming Mikail Gorbachev as the anti-christ who would end the world in the mid-80s.

2012 is based on the Mayan calender. So we're going to take it on authority that the world is going to end from a group of people who regularly performed human sacrifice to appease their gods? Is that who you want to take predictions from, someone that feels the need to murder children to protect themselves from divine wrath? If your standard of credibility is so thin, then I'm sure you'll find Charles Manson's predictions of Helter-Skelter quite compelling. If the Mayans were so hot at predicting things, you'd think they might have predicted the conquistadors ravaging their civilizations with plague and the sword and prepared accordingly.

I'll make a prediction for you, and this one is based on observed evidence from other millenarian during my lifetime. Just like after January 1st, 2000, in December of 2012, a lot of sheepish, confused and disillusioned nutcases are going to emerge from their shelters, and do one of two things: realize that their fatalist apocalyptic death wish was lunacy, or run feverishly back to their cabins and immediately make new predictions from the same source.

 

[ImprobableJoe]

I don't know if this is the right place to talk about it but....

what about the world ending in 2012? I was watching this show on the discovery channel last night and apparently all "experts" agree: get ready 'cause 3 years from now we will be no more.
They even have a supercomputer (that apparently predicted 9/11 3 months before it happened) that predicted that the Mayans were right: no point in extending the calendar past 2012, we'll all be dead by then.

Your thoughts?

You're having a go at us, aren't you? April Fool's Day was at the beginning of the month, you might want to plan a little earlier next year!

 

[Finger]

The Mayans did not predict the end of the world. Their calendar doesn't even end. It just begins again in a new era or millennium or whatever you want to call it. Yes, its true that December 2012 coincides with some astronomical alignments, but its nothing they would need magic or a supercomputer to predict. The alignment could be calculated using basic astronomy. Every 2012 conspiracy theory is based on this initial misinterpretation of the Mayan calender. Planet X, the polar shift, Aliens... Even fundamentalist Christians think the Apocalypse will happen in 2012 now.

I don't know about any of you, but on January 1st, 2013, I plan on doing what I did on January 1st, 2000. Laughing my ass off.

 

[JRBendixen]

It,´s all white noise.

 

[buzzausa]

Thank you all guys for your input.
I read all your comments and I just want to make something really clear: I also do not believe any of this nonsense and it sounded like some of you thought that I did. Again I DO NOT, and Finger, January 1st 2013 I'll be right there laughing with you :lol:

I just wanted to start this conversation to see if any of you had any more insight on this latest doomsday prophecy...and clearly you did. Thank you

 

[orpiment99]

When you've lived through the end of the world three times, it gets hard to take it seriously.

 

[Jotto999]

I don't think it is going to end, mainly because as previously mentioned, the Mayans didn't actually think the world would end, they thought it would be a new era. Not the end of time, maybe the end of this time though.

Anyways, if this event did happen to take pace, it's going to be kinda funny for me. It supposedly would have been on the night of the winter solstice, which just so happens to be my birthday.

Hehehe, apocalypse on my birthday. Awesome.

My apocalypse is near...near...near....\m/

 

[Whisperelmwood]

The only thing I dread in 2021, are the suicide cultists. Because there WILL be a few. You'd think people would have learned from the Y2K fiasco.

 

[ImprobableJoe]

The only thing I dread in 2021, are the suicide cultists. Because there WILL be a few. You'd think people would have learned from the Y2K fiasco.

Heck, some of the crazier folks probably have reinforced their "anti-end of the world" bunkers since then, and have five times as much ammo. The only thing I'm worried about is nutters with guns thinking it is OK to shoot other people because they think the end of the world is coming.

 

[Jotto999]

Heck, some of the crazier folks probably have reinforced their "anti-end of the world" bunkers since then, and have five times as much ammo. The only thing I'm worried about is nutters with guns thinking it is OK to shoot other people because they think the end of the world is coming.

Yeah. When the "ZOMG END OF WORLD" people simply hide away, then there is no harm done. But when they interfere with what other people are doing, then that's where the problem with them is for me.

 

[ImprobableJoe]

Yeah. When the "ZOMG END OF WORLD" people simply hide away, then there is no harm done. But when they interfere with what other people are doing, then that's where the problem with them is for me.

Most of them DO hide away. The problem is the tiny percentage who don't keep to themselves end up murdering people or blowing up buildings.

 

[Th1sWasATriumph]

I don't know if this is the right place to talk about it but....
what about the world ending in 2012?
Your thoughts?

You're kidding. There is no right place to talk about such unadulterated fuckwittage. It is all complete baloney.

If the "experts" agree, why aren't they out gambling and settling scores and living dangerously if they're certain they have only three years left to go? Because they're not sure. Because. It's. Shite.

Speak of it no more.

 

[Anonymous]

I think this video sums up the notion of 2012 being the end of the world quite nicely...



RT

 

[Daealis]

From just the info that 2012 is the year where the mayan calendar ends, I dismissed everything I've heard about this doomsday. At least in 2000 we had a genuine issue with several computer clocks in a risk of flipping and possibly crashing systems globally. As it turned out, barely any systems even flinched to that. Some planet is going to hit us then? It would already be seen with the naked eye, so quite impossible to cover it up. Some galactic allignment? Depending on where you stand, I bet those happen on hourly basis to some planets. It doesn't change a thing on them. It's just as ridiculous as believing that you can judge a persons character by calculating the positions of some dozens of objects in the nightsky and ignore the remaining billions.

I bulk all the doomsday scenarios under the label "proof of GTFO", tucked in there real nice with auras, psychics, gods, miracles and the James Randi Challenge contenders.

 

[JBeukema]

The world will end in 2175, when, upon awaking from my homemade cryogenic chamber, I sell this single dollar as a relic from an ancient civilization, long replaced by other powers. using that money I shall buy an ancient Soviet nuclear bomb and, placing it firmly betwixt the fatty cheeks of the buttocks of the nearest delusional 'end is neigh', detonate the device so that he may meet his beloved deity and enter into paradise

I should clarify that this only ends the world from the perspective of nearby casualties

 

[buzzausa]

You're kidding. There is no right place to talk about such unadulterated fuckwittage. It is all complete baloney.



Speak of it no more.

As I said before, I am just as appalled as you are by this, and like you I believe this to be crap in its purest form. I just thought it would be fun to hear what people thought about it