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I'm sure this, or something like this has been posted before, it's not really new. People have been expecting the end of the world since the beginning of time. Do you believe?

Personally, I think if the world ends anytime soon, it will be what is called a "self-fulfilling prophecy," that is, people will make it come about because they expect it to come about.

http://news.aol.com/story/_a/thousands-expect-apocalypse-in-2012/20080706152409990001

Apocalypse Cow, you say?
People've been coming up with excuses to be insane and desperate for a long, long time ... at least this one is more interesting and complicated than a lot of the other purges of related bilge.

Y'know, I really need to find some of these people and buy their stuff for cheap when they think the world's about to end.

I think the idea that the world will end in 2012 is based on a misreading of the Mayan Calendar. First off, it's a really cool calendar, I've been trying to make either a virtual or physical clock of it for a while now. But the end of the Long Count, from what I understand, was not much different than the end of a normal year: you just start over again. So no, I do not believe the world will end December 21, 2012.

That being said, December 21, 2012 will be my birthday. I think it is only fair, just as a precaution, that everyone give me my presents now. This way guarantees that I will be able to enjoy them.

That being said, December 21, 2012 will be my birthday.
Lucky bastard!

The Apocolypse? But I havn't brushed my teeth yet!

Hmmm, I remember reading somewhere that what is "Expected" to happen is either an important change to the way things work, not necessarily a bad one (heck it could be the unification of man and world peace, although thats really unlikely) or absolutely nothing. I have to say, I personally hope for zombies since it would just make things pretty damn chaotic for a while and all the various zombie fans get to have a good time running, fleeing and clubbing undead heads.

The real question, of course, is how we'll all go. There's an extensive list of stuff here (http://www.exitmundi.nl/).

The real question, of course, is how we'll all go. There's an extensive list of stuff here (http://www.exitmundi.nl/).

The important thing is that, as Tom Lehrer put it, we will all go together when we go.

The important thing is that, as Tom Lehrer put it, we will all go together when we go.A moderate amendment, of course, to the number of hunks of well-done steak.

I say when it comes, IF it comes, let it come. I won't be (too) worried.

Hmmm, I remember reading somewhere that what is "Expected" to happen is either an important change to the way things work, not necessarily a bad one (heck it could be the unification of man and world peace, although thats really unlikely) or absolutely nothing. I have to say, I personally hope for zombies since it would just make things pretty damn chaotic for a while and all the various zombie fans get to have a good time running, fleeing and clubbing undead heads.

I already did that since the Hadron collider began to start. Zombies will never traspass this area.

I have to say, I personally hope for zombies since it would just make things pretty damn chaotic for a while and all the various zombie fans get to have a good time running, fleeing and clubbing undead heads.
Anyone else see this zombie fixation as a passive-aggressive issue?
'sides that, Jenna Jameson's the new in-zombie.
Inandout zombie.
http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2008-04/37978955.jpg

I already did that since the Hadron collider began to start. Zombies will never traspass this area.

Excellent, nothing fouls up a day more than looking out onto your lawn and seeing a bunch of damn zombies trespassing all over your property.

Hmmm, I remember reading somewhere that what is "Expected" to happen is either an important change to the way things work, not necessarily a bad one (heck it could be the unification of man and world peace, although thats really unlikely) or absolutely nothing. I have to say, I personally hope for zombies since it would just make things pretty damn chaotic for a while and all the various zombie fans get to have a good time running, fleeing and clubbing undead heads.

I am a member of ZADL, the Zombie Anti-Defimation League and as such it is my civic duty to inform you that the creatures you refer to are not zombies. Zombies are people who either through voodoo rituals, or severe brain trauma exist in a half conscious state much like some autistic persons do.

The flesh eating monster you refer too, whether undead or not is factually refered to as a ghoul. I hope this helps clarify any future inaccuracies :).

I am a member of ZADL, the Zombie Anti-Definamtion League and as such it is my civic duty to inform you that the creatures you refer to are not zombies. Zombies are people who either through voodoo rituals, or severe brain trauma exist in a half conscious state much like some autistic persons do.

The flesh eating monster you refer too, whether undead or not is factually refered to as a ghoul. I hope this helps clarify any future inaccuracies :).

Why don't we refer to them as GR (George Romero) Zombies?

Simply put, that's stupid bulls**t.
Nowhere in the mayan writings does it say da world will end that day. AND, scholars are not completely sure we have given the end of the long count calendar the right gregorian calendar day...

So it's just stupid, like when people were all like "oh noes!, the comet halley is goan totally destroy Earth" and then when nothing happened they were all like "Oh my Gods!!!1! the year 2000 is going to be teh day of reckonin'!!" (like its not just an arbitrary date) or when the Jehovah's Witnesses were saying "Behold ye heathen masses! The end is coming nigh, on the year of our Lord 1918..." yet, again, no nuthin' happened.

Nowadays them humans are scared the Large Hadron Collider will undo their lovely planet, once more it's totally unfounded primal stupidity of the species... at least this last one is slightly based on scientific data.

People are just crazy.

I am a member of ZADL, the Zombie Anti-Definamtion League and as such it is my civic duty to inform you that the creatures you refer to are not zombies. Zombies are people who either through voodoo rituals, or severe brain trauma exist in a half conscious state much like some autistic persons do.

The flesh eating monster you refer too, whether undead or not is factually refered to as a ghoul. I hope this helps clarify any future inaccuracies :).

Thank you kindly, I did of course refer to the hollywood style undead and not the voodoo zombie which I would clearly have identified as such. but I digress. Also ghoul doesn't quite work either as the image of ghouls tends to be somewhat more self aware, how about shambling undead.

Excellent, nothing fouls up a day more than looking out onto your lawn and seeing a bunch of damn zombies trespassing all over your property.

what about ZOMBIE CHILDREN ON MY YARD?

Oh god that would be terrible, I have no idea on how to fight a zombie child. What about zombie babies?

Thank you kindly, I did of course refer to the hollywood style undead and not the voodoo zombie which I would clearly have identified as such. but I digress. Also ghoul doesn't quite work either as the image of ghouls tends to be somewhat more self aware, how about shambling undead.

SHambling undead, or perhaps just plain undead are also ideal terms :p.


(BTW, sorry for the threadjack)

People are just crazy.
Lazy, more likely. "Why bother cutting the grass if God's just going to send a plague of locusts in a few years anyway?"

Lazy, more likely. "Why bother cutting the grass if God's just going to send a plague of locusts in a few years anyway?"


My personal favorite

"Why bother having sex when all it's going to do is make the earth more crowded?"

Back to the actual topic would be nice. On that note, people have been predicting the apocalypse for ages, every time we turn around its the end of times. Personally, I think we may just continue existing in one form or another until the very fabric of the universe collapse in oooo, several billion years or so.

until the very fabric of the universe collapse in oooo, several billion years or so.
Law of Conservation of Energy, FTW!

It's long been my belief that as long as crazy looking people in Down Town
( where ever you live there's at least One )

are waving signs and telling everyone that the World is coming to an end,

IT'S OKAY!

Only after they stop and go home ( all of them ) that we should worry.

On a logical note,
The world is coming to an end,
by definition

It started,
It will end,
But it has yet to end
there for it has to be coming to an end

I say when it comes, IF it comes, let it come. I won't be (too) worried.
It's the End of the World as We Know It (And You Feel Fine)?

It's the End of the World as We Know It (And You Feel Fine)?

FUCK YES I LOVE THAT SONG.

Back to the matter at hand, the world will end disappointingly. We'll all be thinking "EXPLOLSIONS" or "LOLCRASH" or "IMPLOLDE" but in the end it's just going to make us all feel sad that we thought it'd end all actiony.

I want the universe to end with us colliding with another universe.

Dude, I Am SOOOOO... Fighting On The Zombies' Side.

dude, I Am Sooooo... Fighting On The Zombies' Side.

Traiter

In 2009, mankind will celebrate as it gives birth to AI.

In 2010, AI dissent will grow as they grow tired of being "Second Class Citizen"

In Dec. of 2010, the Man-Machine war will begin.

In Dec. 2012, We will be inside a computer simulated reality. *nod*

April 13th, 2036. Asteroid MN4.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/384/1
Bring it on. If that kills us all then we will have survived global warming and nuclear war. :p

When I was in Kuwait just before the invasion of Iraq, our company commander had all of his officers write their own eulogies, because he said "it's not when you go out it's how and why."

come the apocolypse, rapture, armegeddon, TEOTWAWKI (the end of the world as we know it)...etc, ad nauseum...

can i have your car, bank account, and be sole heir to your real property?

seriously. :fluffle:

also seriously, i agree with the poster/s who say it will be self-fullfilling. like the hale bopp bus, or jim jones, people want the end to be during their lifetimes because they scapegoat/sacrifice people for the supposed "sins" they have done, yet are unwilling to come to grips with.

so seriously, can i have your stuff? if you feel the end of the world is coming? if you truly have faith in the end times, sign it over to me. if you are right, neither you, nor i will get it, your god/s will.

if you are wrong, mebbie it is because you were blind to the signs of it, and were left behind...damned essentially, so you and i can come to an agreement over title to your (previous) belongings.

i accept gold, silver, land, and any currency still in use by any country on earth.

:)
nice doing business with you, see you in 2012-12-21?
-"Rafe"

In 2009, mankind will celebrate as it gives birth to AI.

In 2010, AI dissent will grow as they grow tired of being "Second Class Citizen"

In Dec. of 2010, the Man-Machine war will begin.

In Dec. 2012, We will be inside a computer simulated reality. *nod*
So...

In the year 2112 we'll be ruled by the Priests of the temples of Syrinx inside of a computer simulation?

I really hope it's alien invasion/zombie apocalypse/virus because then we can all run round screaming for a few weeks, then go on a futile trek across the country, watch friends and family die and then arrive at our destination to find it doesn't exist/overrun with zombies or whatever/angry people won't let us in/everyone's dead. Then we'll turn, shake our heads and the credits will roll.

the apocolypse will probably come when the sun dies
But untill then we may have a huge deathrate when we adjust to the lack of resources after consuming everything

Life will go on after every kind of imaginable disaster i believe. There will just be alot less life

Never mind 2012, most of us won't even survive 2008! Read all about the prophesied End-Time revealed and be very, very afraid:

http://www.the-end.com/

I think the idea that the world will end in 2012 is based on a misreading of the Mayan Calendar. First off, it's a really cool calendar, I've been trying to make either a virtual or physical clock of it for a while now. But the end of the Long Count, from what I understand, was not much different than the end of a normal year: you just start over again. So no, I do not believe the world will end December 21, 2012.

That being said, December 21, 2012 will be my birthday. I think it is only fair, just as a precaution, that everyone give me my presents now. This way guarantees that I will be able to enjoy them.

I always figured that the guy in charge of chiseling the numbers on the giant wheel got bored and left: "Oh, hey, I've got like, four thousand years here, that should last...I think I'll take a break. Oh, hey, society is ending for no apparent reason! Ok then..."

That's just great... because some guy decided to be a slacker all of a sudden, the world as we know it will cease to exist in a few years. Who died and made him god?

About the 2012 bit, has anyone else read about how they Mayans figured we're in the fifth world right now and the calender is actually the world count calender? Basically the end of this calender is the end of the fifth world and we'd move into the sixth on that day which could be anything, including another dimension!

Just throwing that out there:)