NationStates Jolt Archive

So, we've had disappointments in the past, New England Patriots losing the Super Bowl after having an almost perfect season, Bush winning the 2000 election, Y2K. Whatever the disappointment may be, it was big, and it sucked for alot of people. However, the suckage express is still going on with cars loaded with more disappointments. So what disappointments do y'all see on the horizon?

1. People will discover that Obama is *gasp* just another politician and not some magical candy man who promised change and hope in the primaries and election.

2. Dec. 21, 2012 will be the biggest disappointments of all. Prophecies from the Bible Code, psychics, John Titor, Nostradamus, and whoever George Noorey has on Coast to Coast AM will be shown to be utter fakes as nothing significant happens on Dec. 21, 2012. People will then wonder why they didn't learn anything from Y2K or the other millions of end world prophecies that never panned out.

Meh...

I never thought Obama was the Messiah anyway....I voted for him...but only because I thought he was by and large better than John McCain...In the end, however, im naturally distrustful of Politicians, and anyone with power, in general...Although fat lot of good my vote did...McCain won my state by a good 60% or so....


And, my dadll be disappointed, he believes Jesus is coming in 2012...always talkin about it when i come by...crazy....ill be lmao however, lol...

1. People will discover that Obama is *gasp* just another politician and not some magical candy man who promised change and hope in the primaries and election.

Funny...I don't have to "discover" that. I knew it before I voted for the man.

2. Dec. 21, 2012 will be the biggest disappointments of all. Prophecies from the Bible Code, psychics, John Titor, Nostradamus, and whoever George Noorey has on Coast to Coast AM will be shown to be utter fakes as nothing significant happens on Dec. 21, 2012. People will then wonder why they didn't learn anything from Y2K or the other millions of end world prophecies that never panned out.

I can't wait to point and laugh at those who buy into these "prophecies"...it will be quite satisfying.

My prediction...people will be dissapointed when it is discovered that Osama Bin Laden was killed in 2003 by a wild boar.

Funny...I don't have to "discover" that. I knew it before I voted for the man.


Yeah, i think most people did...I think that view was propagated by a few fanatics and largely by the media trying to get better ratings...

I had mine tonight when I spent 2 hours waiting for someone who practically begged for me to go out with them.

And, my dadll be disappointed, he believes Jesus is coming in 2012...always talkin about it when i come by...crazy....ill be lmao however, lol...

Can I please dress up as Jesus and come to your dad's house on Dec 21, 2012?

I predict economic recovery and ruin, not necessarily in that order. I also predict that the earth will spin several times, quite possibly more than that!

I had mine tonight when I spent 2 hours waiting for someone who practically begged for me to go out with them.

Why does this sound like you're exaggerating a bit? The whole begging part I mean.

Can I please dress up as Jesus and come to your dad's house on Dec 21, 2012?

Yeah sure why not? lol...

Me and some of my friends toyed with the idea of dressing up as roman soldiers in April...

They had this big display on the front yard of this church, where they literally had three real men stringed up on crosses...

We were just gonna walk up and go "So you finally got him, eh?" lol...

Never went through with it of course..., but itda been funny...

Why does this sound like you're exaggerating a bit? The whole begging part I mean.

Because your cynical?

Because your cynical?

Well it's just that in the past when I hear people talk about how people "beg" them to go out on a date, they think that they're God's gift to men/women.

Those people annoy me.

Well it's just that in the past when I hear people talk about how people "beg" them to go out on a date, they think that they're God's gift to men/women.

Those people annoy me.

I don't think I'm god's gift to anything. I'm not going to try to make you believe or disbelieve anything though. Hell, if anything I'm at one of my lowest points when it comes to self confidence these days.

That was currently the biggest disappointment I could think of though; you covered all the future ones.

I don't think I'm god's gift to anything. I'm not going to try to make you believe or disbelieve anything though. Hell, if anything I'm at one of my lowest points when it comes to self confidence these days.

That was currently the biggest disappointment I could think of though; you covered all the future ones.

Yea, I know what you mean. I have a self image problem. I hate mirrors....

So, we've had disappointments in the past, New England Patriots losing the Super Bowl after having an almost perfect season, Bush winning the 2000 election, Y2K.

How were those disappointments?

2. Dec. 21, 2012 will be the biggest disappointments of all. Prophecies from the Bible Code, psychics, John Titor, Nostradamus, and whoever George Noorey has on Coast to Coast AM will be shown to be utter fakes as nothing significant happens on Dec. 21, 2012. People will then wonder why they didn't learn anything from Y2K or the other millions of end world prophecies that never panned out.

What will be more disappointing is the large numbers of people who consider the non-occurence of the apocalypse as a disappointment.

Christmas

Why does this sound like you're exaggerating a bit? The whole begging part I mean.
Why? My girlfriend used to beg to go out with me. Of course, I always had to say, "No, silly. If you go outside people might see you and realize that you're still alive. Then they'll start looking for you again. So get back in the basement, please."

2. Dec. 21, 2012 will be the biggest disappointments of all. Prophecies from the Bible Code, psychics, John Titor, Nostradamus, and whoever George Noorey has on Coast to Coast AM will be shown to be utter fakes as nothing significant happens on Dec. 21, 2012. People will then wonder why they didn't learn anything from Y2K or the other millions of end world prophecies that never panned out.

I can't wait...I'm going to find someone who actually believes in that and freak out about how the day is only going to get longer...and the northern hemisphere of the Earth is only going to get hotter for months and how we're eventually all doomed to boiling away because of the planets axial tilt :)

2. Dec. 21, 2012 will be the biggest disappointments of all. Prophecies from the Bible Code, psychics, John Titor, Nostradamus, and whoever George Noorey has on Coast to Coast AM will be shown to be utter fakes as nothing significant happens on Dec. 21, 2012. People will then wonder why they didn't learn anything from Y2K or the other millions of end world prophecies that never panned out.

So....the world not coming to an end is a disappointment now?

Hillary Clinton will successfully lead a coup for the presidency after pointing out that all of their people are running the government anyway.

There will be no mass produced flying cars for everybody.

There will be no mass produced flying cars for everybody.

Or robot butlers.

I had mine tonight when I spent 2 hours waiting for someone who practically begged for me to go out with them.

Oh fuck, was that me? *re-checks a certain thread* I'm sorry, that was a misunderstanding! I thought the plan was for you to come here, and I thought that all activity undertaken was to be indoors; no going out involved. Sorry.
In all seriousness: I'm really sorry you experienced that.

I predict that NSG will be shut down one day!

I predict that NSG will be shit down one day!

Love your spelling

Love your spelling

Whoops.

2012 won't end the world. This is pretty gutting, as my student loan is going to be pretty big.

I expect that the 10 model year will show that the big three learned not a damn thing about the fuel price fiasco and the financial crisis.

Still waiting for fusion power... and waiting.... and waiting....

2012 won't end the world. This is pretty gutting, as my student loan is going to be pretty big.
My solution: be a student forever.

Big Correction:

December 21, 2012 will be the end of "the world's goind to end in 2012" world.

:P

How were those disappointments?

Some jerks on the east coast were actually rooting for the Patriots.

My solution: be a student forever.
Might try to get a Sabb. post at the union I suppose.

i will of course be disappoint because some people will continue to worship the automobile of course. but i do see those three major existing trends to continue existing, and if one or more of them haven't reached some kind of critical mass, i won't be so much dissappointed as perhapse a wee bit surprised.

as for those poor bastards expecting the return of christ, well christ himself was the 'return' of every channeler of big, friendly and invissible that came before HIM, and the've missed their chance three times since (mohammid, the bab, and baha'u'llah), the latter two in the mid 1800s. and since these only come along once every thousand years or so, if they want to wait for the next one, that means at least another 850years.

by then we will almost certainly have learned about other messia's having appeared to alien people on other worlds. (there IS a 'rest of the universe' out there after all, collective human egotism notwithstanding!)

oil depletion, global climate chainge, and instability of the concept of symbolic value aren't going to go away by then, not by any means, whether they will have converged to all reach some sort of critical mass or not, but whatever does happen with them, i seriously don't expect to see anything all that dramatic on any one day.

the most that ever happens in a single day, is some politician gives a speach claiming credit for some trend everyone else has already participated in anyway. and then politically motivated 'historians', once everyone who was actually there has either died or forgotten, give the silly politician credit anyway.

2012 is just a year i hope to live long enough and still be sane enough to see and appreciate. like any and every other year, not everything i would like to see happen will have, perhapse, with any luck, not everything i would like not to see will have either.

i do believe there is a real hope, even probability, for a measurable trend toward cleaner energy and transportation. i'd love to see population peek too, but i'm not holding my breath on that one.

- "Reality Shows" will continue to be a cheap, mindless source of ratings for networks.

- The Bush Administration will never be held accountable for their abuses, and in fact will be enshrined in the Presidential Library at SMU.

- Sarah "Caribou Barbie" Palin will be the Republican Presidential nominee, thus proving to the nation that Bushevism is still controlling the GOP.

- Alternate Energy will continue to lag behind in the United States as opposed to the rest of the world. Petroleum-fertilized corn-based ethanol will still be the "alternate fuel" of choice.

- Gay Rights will continue at a plodding pace.

Oh fuck, was that me? *re-checks a certain thread* I'm sorry, that was a misunderstanding! I thought the plan was for you to come here, and I thought that all activity undertaken was to be indoors; no going out involved. Sorry.
In all seriousness: I'm really sorry you experienced that.

Lol, no I was blown off by someone closer to home. You and me are still on though ;)