so, are you buying this 2012 end of the world stuff?

[carlyhippy]

I am watching the History International channel, and it's been Nostradamus' new found book with pictures predicting 2012 as the end of the world, the Mayan calendar ends 12-21-12, shift in earth' axis, the antichrist, meteors, and flooding along with famine all occuring at once.....what do you think will happen 12-21-12?

Carly

[av8rdave]

1. On 12-21-2012...

I'll be in my usual annual panic, trying to get the Christmas shopping done.

My conspiracy theory friend has been talking this one up a lot. However, he's been dead wrong on the other 4 or 5 ends of the world that have happened in the years I've known him.

I don't buy it.

[carlyhippy]

5. haha, talk about a christmas rush on 12-22-12

no one will be buying xmas presents because they think it's the end of the world, why bother....when the sun rises the next day it will probably be the biggest shopping day in history.

[rcrush]

2. Meh just means you get to wander the wasteland with a shotgun

to hunt your own food. I'll start my own radio station.

[carlyhippy]

3. cool! I will be tuning in....I am stocking up on batteries

Carly

[jeff30997]

51. What will be the name of your radio station ?

Galaxy News Radio maybe ? Helloo children! This is Three Dog aaah-ooooooooooooooh!:)

[rcrush]

67. No I'm the OTHER radio station.

Bow down before me!

[Haole Girl]

4. If I'm still working for an airline on that day...

I'm taking the red-eye to Vegas! lol

Oh, btw, that is a NO.

[carlyhippy]

6. LOL good idea

I was thinking of being on a cruise ship, but if the earth axis messes up, may not be such a good idea.

[av8rdave]

7. I'll probably be working it!

[Haole Girl]

9. I missed a wide-open flight on 12-31-1999

Not gonna do it again! lol

[av8rdave]

12. I was in Puerto Vallarta at the time

If I weren't on vacation, I would have bid a trip just to see if the computers really went haywire at midnight.

Obviously, I wasn't too worried about it.

[Haole Girl]

14. We had a party instead that night...

heated our swimming pool, too. It was cool to see the steam rise off of it.

[av8rdave]

17. Sounds like it was fun

When midnight hit in Mexico and the electricity stayed on, I thought, "well, if it's not a problem here, I'm guessing the rest of the world is safe."

Y2K....what a scam!

[carlyhippy]

It will be on a Friday

3 day weekend I foresee.

[sammythecat]

34. What! Work all week and THEN the freakin' world ends.

That really sucks.

[PaddyBlueEyes]

8. Im still waiting on Y2K

I hear its making a comeback... :rofl:

[carlyhippy]

10. oh yeah haha

I still have the crank handle can opener and the emergency candles from Y2K, I guess they will finally be useful....
Carly

[jmm]

24. This summer my job updated to Windows 2003

Included our email categories was one for Y2K. I use it when contacting our IT dept. Maybe they'll eventually get the clue.

[leftyclimber]

26. Oh, lord. During the whole Y2K hysteria

I had a boss who swore that those of us who knew DOS should keep up on it because it would be just as useful as COBOL was for those of us computer folks who could retire doing COBOL programming because of the Y2K panic.

While I'm sure I could get back to remembering DOS on the fly, I have no illusions that I'll ever get rich off it.

OTOH, too bad I was slightly too young to have learned COBOL for any practical reason. I might be posting from some island in the Bahamas instead of a shitty one-bedroom apartment in West Virginia. :rofl:

[leftyclimber]

11. No.

I owe Sallie Mae too much for "her" to let the world end.

[carlyhippy]

16. haha we do too, with more to come yet

Carly

[CaliforniaPeggy]

13. My dear carlyhippy!

This stuff gets revived every so often, and it's just BS!

I do NOT buy it!

[carlyhippy]

18. with the economy and global warming, it must be why this is such a hot issue

what would the history channel international do without these shows.....:)

[Jamastiene]

15. Nope. I have concrete solid proof that's bullshit.

I don't even have to bother to look at what the latest bullshit is about the "end of the world," because it's all bullshit.

Why?

Because I am immortal. I will never die. I will outlive the cockroaches. The worst part is that those lucky little bastards aren't expected to be pleasant and friendly when everyone hates them. The world will never end. It's not going to happen. Y'all are stuck here with my sorry loser ass. Welcome to Hell. :evilfrown:

[Chan790]

45. J.P. Sartre did say "Hell is other people."

I've argued before that life on Earth is nothing more than one staging of No Exit on a massive scale.

Nothing is happening on 12/21/2012 for a simpler reason...the Mayans viewed "ends of the world" as cyclical as opposed to permanent events. It's not like the world is ending for the first time here. Think epoch-change not Armageddon.

[WinkyDink]

52. I thought "cyclical" meant "ages of human civilization", not literally "the world".

[Ptah]

19. The Mayan calendar doesn't end, it reboots.

[Myrina]

22. Exactly. It marks the end of the "Great Year" of the Precession ...

... and the Dawn of the Age of Aquarius, to folks not familiar with things Cosmological.

I've always had a hard time explaining it, but google 'Precessesion of the Equinox' and you should get some hits that explain it. Here's the Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precession_(astronomy)

What fascinates me is how so many ancient societies knew about it without having "advanced" astronomical/ cosmological tools.

[Ptah]

29. Age of Aquarius

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EegRh8Z4H-o

[carlyhippy]

31. didn't the dawn of the age of aquarius actually begin on this Valentines Day?

I thought I read something about it here on DU... Thanks, now I have this song as an earworm. Our class sang this song at a music concert when I was in the 3rd grade.

[Myrina]

55. LOL!

Too bad I'm not capable of recreating that particular wardrobe ...


:hi:

[carlyhippy]

23. the Mayan Calendar is quite interesting

so accurate. I figured that the calendar makers got tired of making calendars and decided on a stopping place on 12-21-12

[Ptah]

30. Not a stopping place, a mark of restart

[RoyGBiv]

61. So it runs on Windows?

:evilgrin:

[Urban Prairie]

20. Santa Monica (Watch The World Die) Everclear:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uij4aMltziw

I am still living with your ghost
lonely and dreaming of the west coast
I don't want to be your down time
I don't want to be your stupid game
with my big black boots and an old suitcase
I do believe I'll find myself a new place
I don't want to be the bad guy
I don't want to do your sleepwalk dance anymore
I just want to see some palm trees
I will try to shake away this disease

We can live beside the ocean
Linger far behind
Swim out past the breakers and
Watch the world die x

I am still dreaming of your face
hungry and hollow from the pain you took away
I don't want to be your good time
I don't want to be your fallback crutch anymore
Walk right up you brand new day
your same horizon in my own wearedway
I don't want to be the bad guy
I don't want to do your sleepwalk dance anymore
I just want to feel some downside
I just want to find some place to be alone

We can live beside the ocean
Linger far behind
Swim out past the breakers and
Watch the world die x4

Ooh! yeah, watch the world die!
Yeah, yeah watch the world die!
Wooah, yeah, watch the world die!
Yeah...watch the world die!!!!

[Fire Walk With Me]

21. The inexplicable election of Obama should be evidence that -something- extraordinary occurring.

The Republicans did just about all their normal tricks, and somehow, even after directly rigging two previous elections, it "worked" this time.

What is it called in the Greek tragedies when the gods come down at the last minute and rescue the hero?

[SallyMander]

57. Deus ex machina

:hi:

[Fire Walk With Me]

65. Thankee!

[FarLeftRage]

25. Something will happen....

I really think that no one is certain as to what will happen.
We just have to wait and see.

As for myself, I think the Mayans used up all of the space for their calendar and therefore said that it is the end of it... the calendar.

[Xipe Totec]

27. No, I'm waiting for 2021; the 500th anniversary of the fall of Tenochtitlan n/t

[RagAss]

28. I'm still waiting for the world to begin. Isn't this just the overture?

[Fire Walk With Me]

32. A Møøse ønce bit my sister.

[Jamastiene]

35. This can be all there is to it.

This has to be either an overture or punishment because we did it wrong.

[sammythecat]

33. Totally.

But I'll be raptured before that, so I don't care.

[WCGreen]

36. All it means is that the Myans calender calculated at tat time

ran out at 12-21-12...

They never got around to continuing it before they vanished from the earth....

[Xipe Totec]

37. The cycle begins again

For the Mayans and the Aztecs.

Years are reckoned in bundles, not cycles.

And each year bundle is roughly 492 years, corresponding to a cycle between the Earth, Venus, and the Sun.

The end of the last bundle was 1520, the fall of Tenochtitlan.

[WCGreen]

38. People want to believe in Omens and Talismans and all that other

stuff. They would do better to pay attention to probability, although that sure didn't help the geniuses on Wall Street with their risk analysis.

[Xipe Totec]

39. Probability of what?

Please, do tell...

BTW, I have a major in Math, minor in statistics... :hi:

[WCGreen]

40. They set up all these risk analysis based on historic data...

The problem is they were only looking at probable outcomes with in the standard deviation. No one was looking at, what they called, the Black Swan. As in what are the chances of a Black Swan. They rated their portfolios based on this matrix and would analyze it by the hour.

A few weeks back, the NYT Sunday Magazine did a great article about the whole way Wall Street managed risk. It's a great article.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/magazine/04risk-t.html?_r=1&scp=11&sq=RISK&st=cse

[WinkyDink]

53. Since Mayans still exist,......

[csziggy]

41. To keep up to date on all the end of the world scenarios since the beginning of time

Check out "It's the End of the world as we know it...AGAIN" website - http://www.geocities.com/Athens/oracle/9941/ . It is one of my favorite sites and lists most if not all the various prophecies of the end of the world and what became of those failures to be accurate.

Fun site with a lot of interesting info on nutjobs!

[Lucian]

42. It'll be the first day of Winter?

It'll snow and be cold (in Minnesota)?

That's pretty much it.

[carlyhippy]

49. That is one thing that can be predicted with all certainty

It will definitely be cold and snowy on 12-21-12 in Minnesota, probably about time to plug in the vehicles...hopefully it won't be a long a winter as it has been this year oy.

[RebelOne]

43. One word: Nothing. n/t

[TZ]

44. Everyone said Nostradamus predicted the end of the world in 2000

Now its 2012? What bs.
So if the Mayans could predict the end of the world how come they couldn't predict the end of their society?

[hobbit709]

46. Like all the idiots that panicked over the millennium in 2000

The Millennium came and went a 1000 years ago-nothing happened. This was the SECOND millennium. Every age has its "the world's going to hell in a handbasket and will end because of this" chicken littles.

[Callalily]

47. Another end of the

world date? I'll mark my calendar. :rofl:

[tigereye]

48. right- the world has been about to end since the beginning of time...

[HughBeaumont]

50. Hell, looking at GD, I would think it'd be sooner.

Some of these people are having the soon-to-be-ex middle class eating grubs from the woods, sleeping by dumpsters and in soup lines by the end of the year.

[jeff30997]

54. Nope.

But the end of the world is booked for the next 1000 years so one of those "predictions"

could eventually be accurate.The only valid scenario is that the sun will run out of fuel in about

4.5 billion years but IMHO humanity will be long gone by then.

[PVnRT]

56. Nah, a few hundred human sacrifices will ensure that the sun continues to rise

[Deep13]

58. Well, sure. The Mayans are right about everything.

I even have "watch world end in 2012" on my bucket list.

[mnhtnbb]

59. I think it will probably have the same excitement that 1/1/00 did. Lots of hype

and nothing different than normal.

[Strong Atheist]

60. It's all a load...

:eyes:

[geardaddy]

62. Nope.

[blogslut]

63. The World will End in 8661

We're very sorry we transposed the date. Obviously, the world did not come to a flaming finish in 1998. We accidentally had it turned upside down. http://www.subgenius.com/pam1/pamphlet.html">Praise Bob.

[TK421]

64. I've been teased with this end of the world crap before.....

so I have to say no, I'm not buying this for a second

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

66. It's just promotional material for that new disaster movie.

Some people are such chumps.

[Sultana]

68. I hope it happens

At the moment I fucking hate this world. x(