This whole 2012 end of the world crap

[brad kaste]

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.

I'd say they'd be making either Black Russians or Kahlua Mudslides,...course' a decent Margarita would do to.......

 

[AckAck]

I think, from the ads, it would be Kahlua straight. Which, ... GACK.

Brian

 

[bearcat241]

Its just recycled fodder for Western disaster-mongers. The Mayan calender doesn't predict the end of the world at that date, but rather a major ending of all cycles, a time of transformation and renewal...its just the end of time itself by their calculations. Over the centuries since the discovery, Western thinkers have added the notion of massive polar shifts at that time, resulting in catastrophic earthquakes, tsunamis and climactic changes that result in worldwide mass destruction.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2009-10-10-2012-apocalypse_N.htm?csp=24&RM_Exclude=Juno

And research the originator of this school, Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Etienne_Brasseur_de_Bourbourg

 

[smilo]

granted, I do not have the precise time,
but doesn't the winter solstice usually happen
every year, on or around December 21?

for years, I have thought that New Years Eve
should be celebrated at the time when the Earth's orbit
begins to move back toward the sun.
Winter Solstice
it may be a bit Druid,
but it seems to me, that's a tangible reason to party,
as oppose to some arbitrary date on the Roman Calendar.

as for 2012, who knows, really.
all I know is that I'm getting old
and I want to be around to see what happens,
--------
if anything.

I don't know about you,
but it sure seems like we are living in interesting times.
call me paranoid, but I have a gut feeling that
the s*** could easily hit the fan
soon

so...what am I going to do about it?
well, maybe, I'll fire up FS9
and go for a flight around the Olympic Peninsula.
then go up to the San Juan Islands
and maybe, just maybe, tour around Vancouver Island.

mainly, I'm going to keep on muddling through
and wait to see what happens.

 

[jmig]

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 -

Good one!

 

[Bjoern]

Bring it on...

[YOUTUBE]bDBz_naagJE[/YOUTUBE]

 

[Prowler1111]

From the MAN himself...

Prowler

 

[Prowler1111]

From original Ironhide (Transformers)..

Prowler

 

[Toastmaker]

. . . From Toastmaker. . .

 

[smilo]

somehow, all three remind me of Curly
putting his hand up to block Moe
from poking two fingers in his eyes.
nyuck, nyuck, nyuck.
a wise guy, aye?

 

[Lionheart]

Bjoern Bjoern....

You know if that happens, there's no more virtual tube-liner flights for you... No more ST TNG episodes...


none..

 

[HighGround22]

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

Yes, and moreover,l I'm going to write a letter!
.

 

[Bjoern]

Bjoern Bjoern....

You know if that happens, there's no more virtual tube-liner flights for you...

I think a cold dead post-apocalyptic corpse has other worries than where to take his virtual CRJ next...like, dunno...potential zombiefication or so.

 

[Odie]

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

I prefer to go with Nostradomus' end of the world date of 3792....or rather the day the world will "stop". Back during the Y2K days, IBM had a commercial that followed a man/woman out for a morning jog, and all around them planes were falling out of the sky, cars were crashing, etc....the commercial ended with the phrase, "Y2K...it'll be okay."