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This whole 2012 end of the world crap

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OBIO

Retired SOH Admin
Does anyone else remember the whole Mellinium bug that was touted as being the possible end of civilization as we know it? On January 1, 2000, due to an overlooked coding problem with the way computers handled dates, every computer on the face of the earth was supposed to stop working, airliners were supposed to fall out of the sky, atomic weapons were supposed to fire themselves at every bowling alley and 7-11 around the world, Walmart was supposed to stop selling American made items and begin selling nothing but cheap Chinese made crap. Nothing happened...other than Walmart stopped selling American made products and now sells nothing but cheaply made Chinese crap.

The only thing that happened as a result of the Mellinium Bug was that a lot of hype was paid to it, a lot of people made a lot of money that normally wouldn't have made as much money, people spent a lot of money stocking up on guns, ammo, survival food and fall out shelters.

The same thing is happening over this 2012 crap. People as getting freaked out because someone who has a couple of letters after their name said that the Mayan calender says that the end of the world is coming. Hollywood is pumping out two movies based on the 2012 doomsday event, won't be long before gun stores and military surplus stores begin having End of the World sales.

Are we as humans so collectively STUPID? People have been screaming about the end of the world since the beginning of the world.

If I wake up on 12-21-2012 and the world really is ending, then I will get on here and do a "OOPS, I was wrong" post, but I don't think I will have to.

OBIO
 
Take it from Mr. Spock, Y2K is no joke:
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yawns......................:173go1:when it comes it comes no stopping it so why worry about it? no one is going to forecast it.
 
Obio,

If the world does end on 12-21-2012, I'll be in bed on 12-20-2012 at 11:59pm with my wife and a bottle of wine so I can go out with a wink and a smile. :d
 
The Y2K bug was very real, though I'm sure a few of its potential effects were exaggerated. It wasn't a disaster because tens of thousands of IT professionals all around the world, including many who came out of retirement, worked their butts off for several years, editing code to make all those computers recognize four-digit dates. Some computers weren't updated and they went awry in just the ways that were predicted, but it didn't do any real harm because all the ones that mattered were fixed in time.

This 2012 stuff is just movie hype (and it looks to be quite a flick if you go for that sort of thing; the trailers look spectacular.) The Mayan calendar does not, in fact, predict that time will end in 2012. Ask any Mayan; they'll tell you. Some of them seem to be getting rather annoyed about all the hoopla.

(Yes, the Mayan empire and culture are long gone, but there are still some ethnic Mayans around down in Latin America, where they are not getting ready for the end of the world.)
 
Every time they say the world is going to end it does not! Can you believe they are actually going to make a TV show about 2012??? :sleep::sleep::sleep:
 
I believe the Bible passage "No man knows the day or the hour..." not only applies to the second coming of Christ but also these other "doomsday" prophecies like 2012.
In 1971 Jean Dixon predicted that my ship, the USS Midway, would be lost at sea with nearly all hands. Midway's retired in San Diego, I'm retired here in Norfolk. Bad call on that one, Jean. :icon_lol:
 
OBIO said:
Does anyone else remember the whole Mellinium bug that was touted as being the possible end of civilization as we know it? On January 1, 2000, due to an overlooked coding problem with the way computers handled dates, every computer on the face of the earth was supposed to stop working, airliners were supposed to fall out of the sky, atomic weapons were supposed to fire themselves at every bowling alley and 7-11 around the world, Walmart was supposed to stop selling American made items and begin selling nothing but cheap Chinese made crap. Nothing happened...other than Walmart stopped selling American made products and now sells nothing but cheaply made Chinese crap.

The only thing that happened as a result of the Mellinium Bug was that a lot of hype was paid to it, a lot of people made a lot of money that normally wouldn't have made as much money, people spent a lot of money stocking up on guns, ammo, survival food and fall out shelters.

The same thing is happening over this 2012 crap. People as getting freaked out because someone who has a couple of letters after their name said that the Mayan calender says that the end of the world is coming. Hollywood is pumping out two movies based on the 2012 doomsday event, won't be long before gun stores and military surplus stores begin having End of the World sales.

Are we as humans so collectively STUPID? People have been screaming about the end of the world since the beginning of the world.

If I wake up on 12-21-2012 and the world really is ending, then I will get on here and do a "OOPS, I was wrong" post, but I don't think I will have to.

OBIO
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Uh. . . yep.
 
Oh no...we're not going to self destruct again are we ?, I only just caught up to speed on the last one.
 
Since this '2012' thing is based on a carved stone tablet, my theory is they simply got tired of carving. I bet one Mayan said to the other, "I think this about covers it. I'm tired. Let's grab a [insert favorite alcoholic Mayan beverage name here]."

Just my tuppence worth, anyway. :icon_lol:
 
You can make a lot of money by scaring the crap out of people. Been going on for a long time.
 
Rami said:
Obio,

If the world does end on 12-21-2012, I'll be in bed on 12-20-2012 at 11:59pm with my wife and a bottle of wine so I can go out with a wink and a smile. :d
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WHAT???? It can't end then!!!! That is fours days before my 65th birthday. Do you know how many years I have been paying into Social Security!

Who do I need to talk to about this? Somebody is going to catch hell!

:kilroy:
 
I was recently driving from Memphis to St. Louis late one night, listening to the Art Bell show on an AM station. I don’t know why I like listening to that stuff, because I know it’s all BS, but still I listen. Turns out the radio station was re-playing an episode from 1999 (1999?? I guess that station isn’t doing so well these days)
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So Art’s interviewing this guy, Richard Kieninger. He said that in the year 2001, the Earth’s crust was going to “invert” and most life on the planet was going to be wiped out. It was God’s way of “wiping the slate clean”, so to speak, and starting over. This has happened several times over the past hundred thousdand years or so. Every time God decides that his human experiment has gon arwy (again) he starts over, see?<o:p></o:p>
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Since it was 2009, eight years after we’re all supposed to ge gone, I’d like to find this guy and ask him “hey, what gives?” Oh, and he also predicted huge Tsumanis, but not the one that actually happened in 2004…
 
jmig said:
WHAT???? It can't end then!!!! That is fours days before my 65th birthday. Do you know how many years I have been paying into Social Security!

Who do I need to talk to about this? Somebody is going to catch hell!

:kilroy:
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It's a little guy named Julio Uxmal, who lives in a little town in the Yucatan peninsula called Tulum. He's got the keys to the calendar box but he doesn't take calls anymore and his website's down. . . so, I guess we're SOL -


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