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Mayans say world not ending in 2012

HMTKSteveHMTKSteve
edited October 2009 in Everything Else
2012 isn't the end of the world, Mayans insist

The funniest part of the article:
"It's too bad that we're getting e-mails from fourth-graders who are saying that they're too young to die," Martin said. "We had a mother of two young children who was afraid she wouldn't live to see them grow up."

Comments

  • GreyHugeGreyHuge
    I hate that whole 2012 is the end of the world schtick, just because a calendar made by people several thousand years ago runs out doesn't mean that the world is going to end. MY CALENDAR RUNS OUT EVERY TWELVE MONTHS. WORLD. STILL HERE. NINETEEN YEARS AND COUNTING.
  • CremlianCremlian
    Damn and they just made a movie around that too.
  • George PatchesGeorge Patches
    I've laughed at the people who said the world would end in 2012 because that's when the Mayan calendar ended. Assuming that's true (which it's not it seems) did it never occur to anyone that 2012 was just as far as they wrote the damn thing? Writing 1000 years into the future is excessive even today.
  • Kate MonsterKate Monster
    MY CALENDAR RUNS OUT EVERY TWELVE MONTHS. WORLD. STILL HERE. NINETEEN YEARS AND COUNTING.
    You are full of actual win!
  • George PatchesGeorge Patches
    MY CALENDAR RUNS OUT EVERY TWELVE MONTHS. WORLD. STILL HERE. NINETEEN YEARS AND COUNTING.
    You are full of actual win!
    That is pretty freaking hilarious.
  • LyddiLyddi
    Obviously all of us here are sane and know the 2012 stuff is just downright silly. I do remember first hearing about it in elementary school. Freaking elementary school science teacher telling kids that the Mayan's predicted the end of the world... and of course we all believed her, but then forgot about it later like most other things we learned.

    Anyway, does anyone think the crazy people will be a major problem when the date comes near? I remember for the Y2K scare people were stocking up tons of water and food and stuff causing stores to run out of stuff for the normal people.
  • NukerjsrNukerjsr
    MY CALENDAR RUNS OUT EVERY TWELVE MONTHS. WORLD. STILL HERE. NINETEEN YEARS AND COUNTING.
    You are full of actual win!
    That is pretty freaking hilarious.
  • ......
    MY CALENDAR RUNS OUT EVERY TWELVE MONTHS. WORLD. STILL HERE. NINETEEN YEARS AND COUNTING.
    Curse time zones, I could've beaten you making that comment if not for timezones. RAWR!
  • AtheriShadowAtheriShadow
    MY CALENDAR RUNS OUT EVERY TWELVE MONTHS. WORLD. STILL HERE. NINETEEN YEARS AND COUNTING.
    I tried to make this same point to some friends earlier but my version was not nearly as awesome as this.
  • George PatchesGeorge Patches
    Anyway, does anyone think the crazy people will be a major problem when the date comes near? I remember for the Y2K scare people were stocking up tons of water and food and stuff causing stores to run out of stuff for the normal people.
    And so what if they do take everything? I only need so many cans of beans at a time and I have water from the tap.
  • JasonJason
    Anyway, does anyone think the crazy people will be a major problem when the date comes near? I remember for the Y2K scare people were stocking up tons of water and food and stuff causing stores to run out of stuff for the normal people.
    And so what if they do take everything? I only need so many cans of beans at a time and I have water from the tap.
    That kind of purchasing trend would be good for the economy.
  • AndrewAndrew
    This is only going to get worse once this movie comes out:
  • AprecheApreche
    Obviously I would prefer it if the world did not end while I still live, unless that end involves something nice, like moving to a newer better world. However, it would be awesome to see if enough people believed the world was ending, just to see what they would do. It would be good for psychology.
  • OmnutiaOmnutia
    I do hope the majority of the populous can realise that the Mayans were a primitive society who lived a long time ago so not bothering to add dates after 2012 would make quite a bit of sense.
  • Kate MonsterKate Monster
    I do hope the majority of the populous can realise that the Mayans were a primitive society who lived a long time ago so not bothering to add dates after 2012 would make quite a bit of sense.
    I think the majority of society is well aware that the Mayan Calendar threat is BS.
    The people that make me concerned are the end time rapture believers that not only believe the "end times" are near, but they actively want to make them come sooner rather than later and have skewed this into a desire to start a nuclear war in Israel.
  • George PatchesGeorge Patches
    Not gonna lie, as entertainment that movie doesn't look half bad, might go see it.
  • RochelleRochelle
    edited October 2009
    Not gonna lie, as entertainment that movie doesn't look half bad, might go see it.
    It's your typical Roland Emmerich apocalyptic movie or long CG animated scenes of shit collapsing or blowing up. He needs to stop with this same old shit and restart making cool things like Stargate or The Patriot.
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  • VigaViga
    edited October 2009
    Not gonna lie, as entertainment that movie doesn't look half bad, might go see it.
    Watch the trailer. Everything you want out of a movie like this is in the trailer.
    Obviously I would prefer it if the world did not end while I still live, unless that end involves something nice, like moving to a newer better world.
    Heck yeah.
    However, it would be awesome to see if enough people believed the world was ending, just to see what they would do. It would be good for psychology.
    I actually liked seeing how people acted during Y2K. I wondered, asked questions and thought the populace was crazy. I got to talk to a lot of people with different views on it.

    Seriously, I think the 2012 thing is BS. Like those Nostradamus tabloids every year.
    Post edited by Viga on
  • George PatchesGeorge Patches
    Not gonna lie, as entertainment that movie doesn't look half bad, might go see it.
    It's your typical Roland Emmerich apocalyptic movie or long CG animated scenes of shit collapsing or blowing up. He needs to stop with this same old shit and restart making cool things like Stargate or The Patriot.
    And what if I'm in the mood to see awesome CG of stuff getting destroyed? Sometimes I just like a good destruction flick.
  • RochelleRochelle
    And what if I'm in the mood to see awesome CG of stuff getting destroyed? Sometimes I just like a good destruction flick.
    I understand. I'm the same way, however I'm not paying full price for this one. I'm either waiting for the $2 theater or Boo Ray.
  • CremlianCremlian
    And what if I'm in the mood to see awesome CG of stuff getting destroyed? Sometimes I just like a good destruction flick.
    I understand. I'm the same way, however I'm not paying full price for this one. I'm either waiting for the $2 theater or Boo Ray.
    Yea, disaster porn is always awesome.
  • AndrewAndrew
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  • DiddgeryDiddgery
    Bizarro's great. It's probably the best single-panel newspaper comic since The Far Side ended.
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