Do you believe in the 2012 Apocalypse? (gallon, gasoline, elect, retired)

[Captain Worley]

The people who came up with this just wanted an excuse not to buy Christmas presents for everyone in 2012.

[nightbird47]

The prediction for the end of the world is not quite correct. The whole prediction is the end of the world as we know it. Which means something large and fundamental will change. We will be here. The world will be here (actually it will be here long past us and anything alive until the sun wipes it out). With all the things happening in finances and infrastructure and just general distrust today, 2012 might not be too far off on its prediction.

Every once in a great while the world as we know it does come, and while the Mayan's prophesy may be off by some years, we can be assured that it *will* happen.

[jimboburnsy]

Originally Posted by DBradley

Do you believe December 21, 2012 will be the end of the world?
Saint Malachi predicted it
as did Nostradamus (sometime shortly after the year 2000)
and the Mayan Calendar stops on December 21, 2012.
What do you think??

No and neither should you.

[Pandamonium]

Originally Posted by DBradley

Do you believe December 21, 2012 will be the end of the world?
Saint Malachi predicted it
as did Nostradamus (sometime shortly after the year 2000)
and the Mayan Calendar stops on December 21, 2012.
What do you think??

But it can't end in 2012. The crack-doodle-psychic on some daytime talk show said that we would know the truth about aliens and religion in 2014.

Although, that would be par for course, the truth was in fact revealed unfortunately, there was no one to get the memo.

[Fred314X]

Wouldn't it be funny if it turned out that the predictions were right--except for being a year off in the WRONG DIRECTION and the world was actually going to come to an end in 2011?

(Of course, that depends a lot on how you define "funny.")

[SCGranny]

Had an aquaintance once that said that the reason the aliens were visiting us was to 'tweak' our genes (any one of youse guys touches my jeans I'll bite yer hand off) to prepare us for the coming cataclysm in 2012. They were lifting up many of us - him included - to preserve us to breed a super race afterwards. He knew this because he would be stting in his cubicle and would lose hours - suddenly realize time had passed and he couldn't remember what he was doing.

Unfortunately for him he was in a bad car wreck and was killed instantly several years ago. Now riddle me this - if the aliens could predict that the world was going to end on a certain day, and could predict the types of people who should survive to create a superrace - why couldn't they predict that they were wasting their time with him? Not to mention that he was in his fifties, short, dumpy, ugly, and whiny, and I couldn't imagine anyone wanting to promulgate that set of genes. Although he might've looked good to an alien.

There are a lot of folks who think that the world has already ended; many more who think that it has to end one way or another, and most of 'em are scrounging for ways to be the 'superior race' from all sorts of fantastical inputs, from Rapture through aliens to Mayans. My attitude is to live as hard, as interestingly, and as life-experiencing-aggressively as I can, until I die - then stop. I'm too interested in finding out what new adventures tomorrow holds to worry about what is going to happen in a few years.

And don't the Seventh-Day Adventists believe that the world already HAS come to an end - or is that the Jehovah's Witnesses? I can't keep 'em straight...

[Pandamonium]

Or........doo doo doo.....did they allow it to happen and then just shot the messenger, so to speak.


A year off would be funny.

[TANaples]

Nothing will happen.

[subsound]

Originally Posted by SCGranny

Now riddle me this - if the aliens could predict that the world was going to end on a certain day, and could predict the types of people who should survive to create a superrace - why couldn't they predict that they were wasting their time with him? Not to mention that he was in his fifties, short, dumpy, ugly, and whiny, and I couldn't imagine anyone wanting to promulgate that set of genes. Although he might've looked good to an alien.

*snort* yeah, I would get dragged to sci fi conventions by my room mate and it seems to be a common theme. I guess if they are unhappy where they are now, better to dream some way that would make them feel important.

Originally Posted by SCGranny

And don't the Seventh-Day Adventists believe that the world already HAS come to an end - or is that the Jehovah's Witnesses? I can't keep 'em straight...

Might be some that do, but Jahovah's Witnesses are Calvinists...only about 140,000 people can make it into heaven and who does is predetermined. So no matter what you do, you'll be saved or damned. I never understood that philosphy, because the last thing I would do is go to church functions if no matter what I did I was saved/damned.

[texdav]

No more than i did in Y2K;which was not at all.