2012? - Page 2

Trueblood · 11-21-2007, 08:21 PM

The people are going to get a little crazy around that time. Is going to be a blast to watch all that may happen.

crucifix · 11-21-2007, 08:58 PM

the world will end, we all will die a glamorous-firey-explosive-thrusted-into-space death. End of discussion.

KontanKarite · 11-21-2007, 09:02 PM

I can't fucking wait for 2012. I love apocalyptic years. They always pan out to be a big joke.

To my knowledge, 2012 is the last big one, so it'll be exciting I think.

gothicusmaximus · 11-21-2007, 10:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Agent17

Well, the Chinese predicted doom at December 2012, and so did Nostradamus, the Mayan calender ends during December 2012, so if the world doesn't end 2012 it never will, or at least not for a long time.

Could you source that Chinese and Nostradamus stuff?

I don't think that's true.

KontanKarite · 11-21-2007, 10:56 PM

Nostradamus was a joke. Didn't over half of his predictions not come to pass?

gothicusmaximus · 11-21-2007, 11:08 PM

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Originally Posted by KontanKarite

Nostradamus was a joke. Didn't over half of his predictions not come to pass?

Total opposite, actually. His predictions are so vague that they can be applied to anything- a football game, your junior year of high school, you name it. They come to pass 50 thousand times a day.

Drake Dun · 11-22-2007, 04:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Nevan

There was this particular pastor around here somewhere in SA that preached to his congregation that they should sell all their earthly belongings and gather at the church at the appropriate hour to await the second coming of Christ.

Apparently quite a number took his advice. Shame. I'm sure it was the end of the world for them when they realized that Jesus didn't come for them afterall.

I am sure they just revised the date, and are still waiting.

Drake

Ulfilas · 11-22-2007, 04:49 AM

In 2012 it's well documented that Bert will break free from the Henson creature shop and rule the universe with a foam rubber fist. All creatures of flesh and blood will be put to death and reainmated by the use of pullies and clever animatronics. Jim Henson will then return from the dead with Bert at his right hand side and all the world will be muppets.

Oh hang on - most of the people who believe this apocalyptic stuff are already muppets... ;0)

A Simple Poet · 11-22-2007, 06:58 AM

If the year we make contact is 2010, then that gives the aliens just enough time to swarm back in 2012 and cook the earth like the Zentraedi did in Robotech.

No. I don't think so. 2012. Ludicrous.

Of course, Hillary will be re-elected by then so it may be a self-fulfilling prophecy.

2013, maybe.

Rorschach Twin · 11-22-2007, 11:07 AM

It reminds me of Y2K, and 6-6-06. Oh, silly moron of a world we live in.

psyches_reflection · 11-22-2007, 11:44 AM

According to my palm-reading, I'm not dying until I'm well into my seventies, so this 2012 stuff is phooey :P Unless only I survive...

The human mind is programmed to find patterns and meanings. Even if the Mayans, the Chinese and Nostradamus predicted the end of days in 2012, what does that really say? And what really indicated that 2012 would be the end, and not, say, a good year for flying a kite? It seems such a random conclusion.

The whole 06/06/06 thing amused me greatly: why would the world end just because the date in ONE of the many calendar systems correlates to a number assigned to a ficticious entity from ONE belief system? Human arrogance is astounding!

Methadrine · 11-22-2007, 11:53 AM

*starts to sing to the tunes of 2525*

In the year 2007, gothic.net started preaching
about a doom that would come from heaven,
but they may find...

In the year 2008, noone cares anymore
we've lost our faith
Everything you thought and said
probably has failed, anyway..

In the year 2012,
we didn't seem to go to hell
you won't find a thing to post
since Gnet lost it's host

etc...

Drake Dun · 11-22-2007, 06:39 PM

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Originally Posted by psyches_reflection

According to my palm-reading, I'm not dying until I'm well into my seventies, so this 2012 stuff is phooey :P Unless only I survive...

...why would the world end just because the date in ONE of the many calendar systems correlates to a number assigned to a ficticious entity from ONE belief system? Human arrogance is astounding!

Maybe by virtue of the same mysterious powers that can make some old lady on the street able to tell when you are going to die by looking at your hand?

Drake

psyches_reflection · 11-23-2007, 10:57 AM

Sorry, I forgot the sarcasm tags. How careless of me!

Drake Dun · 11-23-2007, 04:54 PM

Lol. I failed to pick up on it.

Drake

Stormtrooper of Death · 11-23-2007, 07:39 PM

2112 is better. Its a good Rush album.

le_revenant · 11-29-2007, 03:34 PM

Hell yeah on the Rush album!

Anyhoo, Christendom went & hid under its collective bed when the year 1000 approached, figuring Christ would finally make his Elvis-like comeback 1000 years after his birth.
In 1666, Christendom figured "oh crap, its the year of the Anti-Christ! Everbody hide!!"
In each so-called apopcalytic case, not much happened.
I'd heard tell some figured The End would go down in 1914.
We had World War One that year, but humanity got thru that & got to see the sequel.
Everybody remember 2000??!? I just remember trying to go shop at the local grocery store on January 1, 2000 and finding entire swaths of aisles empty of food & water.
Yep, the world and all its problems were still here and they probably will be too on January 1, 2013.

Sad to say some folks will buy into end-of-the-world cults & off themselves prematurely.
Ah well, "Darwinism" I suppose...

dreamydancer · 11-29-2007, 06:36 PM

Oh gawd, not one of these questions again. Takes me right back to 1999 when everyone was being a damn jackass and going gaw-gaw over the end of the world.

I have a strange feeling nothing will happen for another several thousand years.

Cen0bite · 11-29-2007, 07:01 PM

the church where i went had "night watch" services.(just guess what they were watching for.) it's so laughable.
i spent last new years at a party at the youth pastors house. it was sooo funny cause near midnight they just all sit around and as the ball drops they look around as if they're gonna be "raptured".
and it's even more funny because NOTHING happens!
i can only imagine what they're gonna do when 2012 comes around.

Spike the Decadent · 11-30-2007, 06:10 AM

My best friend is like all about 2012. We are kinda hoping everything gets knocked back into the stone age. Hope you got your Bauhaus and Sisters of Mercy on 12". You might just be listening to them with a sewing needle and a piece of paper taped into a cone Mr. Wizard style.

Methadrine · 11-30-2007, 06:53 AM

I will be listening to TSOM on my steam-powered clockwork MethPod after all the hell broke loose.

Delkaetre · 11-30-2007, 07:15 AM

I'll be grinning because all my favourite bands will be doing live acoustic sets.

Beneath the Shadows · 01-01-2008, 09:39 AM

I just ("just" meaning like two days ago) realized something... In the Futurama episode where Fry finds his dog from the 20th century fossilized... When he was frozen, the dog was about three years old. When they started the cloning process, they learned that it was 15 years old. Which means that it was flash-fossilized in the year... yep, you guessed it... 2012.

Pretty nifty.

clockworkcoffin · 01-02-2008, 02:59 AM

i think it will end in 2012 regardless of the whole mayan thing.

HumanePain · 01-02-2008, 03:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Spike the Decadent

My best friend is like all about 2012. We are kinda hoping everything gets knocked back into the stone age. Hope you got your Bauhaus and Sisters of Mercy on 12". You might just be listening to them with a sewing needle and a piece of paper taped into a cone Mr. Wizard style.

Somehow I find that construct appealing! You have a scientist's imagination!

And we will all be communicating with USENET on SunOS 3.6 and Windows 3.1.
And typing on teletypes.