Will the World End in 2012?

How 'bout "I have no fucking idea, but am pretty sure the chances are no better for 2012 than for any random future year."

VOTE YES ON PROP 2012

(and cross yer fingers.)

If the Mayans were so smart, they'd still be around ruling the Western world.

What's Going To Happen in 2012?

^^^ UHF was funny when I was 14. I saw it about a year ago on a Saturday afternoon, and it didn't quite hold up.

hey thanks for the spoiler on my link, guy

oops.

Poll Closing Date: Saturday, December 31, 2011 6:00 PM

really?

How will this affect my stock portfolio?

Poll Closing Date: Saturday, December 31, 2011 6:00 PM

Technically this should be December 21, 2012

i'm not voting, but i hope yes.
unless i win the lottery, then no.

There's going to be an awful lot of bad hangovers on December 22

heads up, it let me vote again. is there some time limit to it storing your vote cast ?

anyway. 2012 will be significant in the death of analogue TV in UK. RIP my friend.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/noodle_vague/2007051803574942005-0420-8621.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW2qxFkcLM0

http://www.familyradio.com/index2.html :

http://www.familyradio.com/images/rotate/End_of_the_World.gif

here's hopin'

It's May 21 = Judgment day, October 21 = end of world. Scientific proof: http://www.ebiblefellowship.com/may21/

i hope it's like the end of Knowing, pretty but quick.

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great, could someone fix that?

Wow, it even destroyed your link!

If the Mayans were so smart, they'd still be around ruling the Western world.

What's the point of ruling the world if you know it's just going to end soon anyway?

http://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_ePwDySjVdyo/TX3EeVdjihI/AAAAAAAAAis/5LLXjKE_8Pk/pattontweet.jpg

Except for the face that quake/tsunami happened on 3/11/11 local Japan time, this is some pretty airtight math. I'M CONVINCED. ha

face=fact

Haha, my initial reaction to the thread title was also "here's hopin'"

i've been counting down since reading Terrence McKenna in the mid-90s. it's not that the world will end but the world As We Know It will end, total paradigm shift, eschaton's be immanentizin

i've been counting down since reading Terrence McKenna in the mid-90s. it's not that the world will end but the world As We Know It will end, total paradigm shift, eschaton's be immanentizin

― herbal bert (herb albert)

But you could pretty much say that about each passing year.

you got like 2 weeks

http://priuschat.com/forums/attachments/freds-house-pancakes/27420d1294108847-may-21-2011-date-rapture-rapture.jpg

Those children are so happy as the world burns at their feet!

i've always figured that whenever anyone dies, the whole world ends. like, no one ever dies of age or disease or accident. instead, each life ends in the annihilation of all life in the world, perhaps the universe. so the apocalypse is no big deal, really. happens every day.

Some of these people are spending all their money because there won't be a May 22nd:

http://www.npr.org/2011/05/07/136053462/is-the-end-nigh-well-know-soon-enough

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_end_times_prediction

We should listen to the guy in the npr link as he's an actuary, clearly knows what he's talking about.

I want to know how the "world" is gonna "end" exactly. Whole planet splodes? We all become zombies? Internet becomes sentient?

The end is clearly going to follow the date line and respect the time zones.

People who quit their jobs, alienate their families, and spend all of their money waiting for the end of the world get exactly what they deserve. Feel bad for that one idiot couple's kids, though.

No, but it will become a bit more difficult for suburbanites.

http://www.crudeoilpeak.com/wp-content/gallery/megaprojects/megaprojects_skrebowski_aspo_usa_2007_2015.jpg

The true Christian believers — he hopes he's one of them — will be "raptured": They'll fly upward to heaven. And for the rest?

"It's just the horror of horror stories," he says, "and on top of all that, there's no more salvation at that point. And then the Bible says it will be 153 days later that the entire universe and planet Earth will be destroyed forever."

Wow, they must really thing god is a complete cunt.

well, tbf, history's kinda with them on that one

Hope they have the decency to fill their pockets with rocks and wade into a river on the 22nd.

I do wonder how people like this must feel when this stuff doesnt end up happening. Are they disappointed? Embarrased? In denial?

the world ended... IN MY MIND

yes,
no,
kinda impossible to be anything else really

man, forks post reminds me of an ex or two tbh ;_;

Oh shit, my jury duty was postponed until the 23rd! There went my last chance to be on a jury.

I do wonder how people like this must feel when this stuff doesnt end up happening. Are they disappointed? Embarrased? In denial?

I looked at some survivalist/apocalypse-is-nigh usenet stuff in January 2001 or maybe it was early blogs I don't remember, people were coming in to go DON'T YOU FEEL LIKE A BUNCH OF DUMBASSES NOW and there was something sad & moving about how these guys just weren't about to say "yeah I feel a little dumb." They were very, look, I was ready in case something had happened, that's what matters, I feel proud that I was prepared to provide for myself & my family etc etc etc

that will be these dudes' take when nothing goes down

maybe you'll be needed for judgement day, which would be p sweet tbf

boy wouldn't i like to run into aforementioned exes in *those* circumstances

"I provided for my family...by giving away everything."

xxp to aero that's how i feel getting home from ikea ffs

people who think the world will end ----- conceptually ----- when they are alive are really selfish, but then again anyone who think that it matters that something like a world ends is pretty stupid

do you lock your car y/n

what if this shit DOES happen and the only thing we did to prepare was talk about it on an internet messageboard
i mean, i'm gonna feel pretty fucking stupid then

sometimes I forget to lock my car

xp that's p much how i feel abt 'the economy'

I forgot if i had a point abt yr car tbh

yeah I think you could probably get a good post in if you could remember the point

yr encouragement is appreciated

I'm serious though when you posted that I was like oh man I left myself wide open for a post

that's why my response was all jokey like

I do wonder how people like this must feel when this stuff doesnt end up happening. Are they disappointed? Embarrased? In denial?

i plan on insisting that the world did in fact end, and that everyone is dead

"Sorry boss not coming into work, well I mean yr all dead right, whats the point?"

I do wonder how people like this must feel when this stuff doesnt end up happening. Are they disappointed? Embarrased? In denial?

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41NhuEf8s3L._SS500_.jpg

the answer acc to the book btw: they dig in deeper, find explanations for why it didn't come to pass, invent new calculations, and some of them drift off from the cult and never return sometimes finding other things to believe

or they say they made a mathematical error (15)

(http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/01/03/national/main7208264.shtml)

Hah yeah I remember that.

Exley says she hopes more people will check the Bible verses themselves.

She says: "If you still want to say we're crazy, go ahead. But it doesn't hurt to look into it."

So its just sneaky viral marketing for the bibble!

ding a ding ding

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THE MAYAN CALENDAR DOES NOT END IN 2012

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THE MAYAN CALENDAR DOES NOT END IN 2012

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THE MAYAN CALENDAR DOES NOT END IN 2012

is there an image macro to express the tedium of pedantry?

No animated .gif smileys found with that name, unfortunately.

The world seems to have lots of end dates
http://www.religioustolerance.org/end_wrl2.htm
http://www.religioustolerance.org/end_wrld.htm

Matthew 16:28: "...there shall be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom."

Ew, death by Jesus snu snu!

You couldn't make this shit up...

...oh, erm.

There are no rebirths or do-overs. The world is not going to 'end'. If you are deluded enough to think otherwise, it is because you are fucking stupid enough to think the world revolves around you and others like you, and arrogant enough to believe that there is a supreme being that cares more about you and yours than any other of the 6.5 billion skinbags who also live here.

my world ended when the Psychedelic Furs third album came out and it sucked so bad compared to the first two but it got really successful and then years later people repped for it like it was even fit to lick Talk Talk Talk's boots

that was the end of the world for me

the jaded goatman of the apocalypse

So this guy says The Chosen (3% of the planet) get evacuated on May 21st but the rest of the world is destroyed on Oct 21st. If he is still around post-May 21st doesn't that mean by his own definition he is a tool of Satan?

no, it'll mean God "has a special plan for him" that miraculously doesn't get mentioned in Scripture

he'll be Satan's cock ring

no, even better, God's cock ring

"God says, 'Do you love husband or wife over me? Do you love son or daughter over me?' There is a test. There is a trial here that the believers are going through. It's a fiery trial."

So why on Earth have you not renounced all your worldly possessions in favor of a life of helping the poor and advocating non-violence and Universal Christly Love? You really think renouncing your family and TV set in the final hours is going to fool an omnipresent and omniscient deity?

Some religious folk came to the door last night, i said i was busy and could they come back on the 22nd.

They said sure (without flinching) and walked away writing in a little notebook.

Hmmm.

Those were either Jehovah's Witnesses or LDS, and in either case, they will be back on the 22nd.

We should listen to the guy in the npr link as he's an actuary

I wonder if he has factored the imminent end of the world into his insurance premium tables. (Haven't listened so apologies if this is in fact addressed)

I do wonder how people like this must feel when this stuff doesnt end up happening.

Was reading somewhere (probably a New Yorker/NYT article linked from ILX but I can't find it now) about end-of-world cults after the non-event, and instead of being embarrassed or disillusioned the members were very happy to go "well, it WOULD have ended, but thanks to the fervent prayers and message-spreading of our little group, God has seen that his chosen ones are active and spared the world for a while longer, so it's all very important we stay in this thing" etc

When July 5, 1998 arrived and no alien fleet appeared in the sky, members of the Church began citing a large number of conspiracy theories to explain why the predicted end of the world did not take place. The manual page of the ddate program claims that the Church "declared that it had got the year upside down" and that X-Day will actually take place in 8661. The most popular explanation for the failure of the prophecy in the Church is usually summarized with the statement, "the calendar is wrong and July 5th, 1998 has not really arrived yet." Because of this, the Church has held annual gatherings around July 5 of each year since 1998 to celebrate X-Day and greet the arrival of the anticipated alien "Sex Goddesses." No flying saucer rendezvous has been confirmed as of 2010, but members of the Church have been undaunted. A more recent theory suggests that the X-ists did indeed come to Earth on July 5, 1998 as foretold by "Bob," but through one of the most pervasive Conspiracy coverups, Earth and Mars were switched, and the "Earth" we know is actually Mars. And thus, as there was nobody on the True Earth at the time of their arrival, there was nobody there to witness the Rupture.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Day_%28Church_of_the_SubGenius%29

You really think renouncing your family and TV set in the final hours is going to fool an omnipresent and omniscient deity?

pretty sure this is explicitly confirmed in the catholic tradition at least fyi, what a result.

it's almost like they saw some advantage in getting a lot of wordly goods from old rich dudes.

pretty sure this is explicitly confirmed in the catholic tradition at least fyi, what a result.

Knowing it's your final hour is the trick though innit? I once saw a sign outside a church that said "Those who think they can turn to God at the eleventh hour often die at half past nine"

anyone being able to give you last rites gives you a p good chance tbh

Bit convenient that the world ends on a weekend, hey.

2 days to go!

http://twitter.com/#!/craigary/status/70877215574867968

i wonder how long it would take new yorkers to notice if the rapture went down? we'd basically all still be here.

Really getting tired of seeing my friends zinging this lunatic on fb.

maybe the rapture already went down and we're allllll still here... serves us right imo

Hello New Zealand, are you still there?

Hello?

:-(

Really getting tired of seeing my friends zinging this lunatic on fb.

Well, I'm sort of mystified as to why he has gotten so much attention in the first place. I'm pretty sure there wasn't this much attention paid to his prediction the first time around. I don't see how his methodology is any different from a whole slew of internet kooks who mess around with the bible and numerology and come up with similar dumbass predictions.

Also, it is mystifying to me that he has ANY followers whatsoever. If you've ever heard him on the radio he is soooooooo boring. It seems like most other similarly insufferable fundamentalist preachers at least have a little personality.

between 2012 and tomorrow's rapture, I plan to con hella people out their possessions.....

what if you get run over by a car tomorrow and die? what if everyone gets run over by a car tomorrow and dies?

um, yea if the cars are driving themselves maybe

the driver crashes through the windscreen and gets run over by another car.

cars are fucked up man.

xpost 40 billion times?

Well, I'm sort of mystified as to why he has gotten so much attention in the first place.

I suppose because he has spent a lot of money publicising it? Isn't he worth $25m or something?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLT66yJBYbA

\(^o^)/

isn't that a section in Steppenwolf iirc? man vs cars

he/his followers took it viral w/ billboards everywhere, right? if it was only on the radio nobody would care

it's the the weekly Meme, all those people buying smartphones need shit to tweet and the Rapture fits right into the global weirding going on. plus everyone knows that the world's supposed to end in 2012 so it's an easy zing

I'm waiting for the first person on my friend's list to talk about how people should respect "others beliefs".

OK, so I was about $60m out there...

http://au.christiantoday.com/article/evangelist-challenges-camping-to-donate-net-worth-to-them-by-may-20/11097.htm

how will people know if the Rapture happened, does heaven have a newsletter

Go out to the parking lot
And you get in your car and you drive real far
And you drive all night and then you see a light
And it comes right down and lands on the ground
And out comes a man from Mars
And you try to run but he's got a gun
And he shoots you dead and he eats your head
And then you're in the man from Mars
You go out at night, eatin' cars
You eat Cadillacs, Lincolns too
Mercuries and Subarus
And you don't stop, you keep on eatin' cars
Then, when there's no more cars

Debbie Harry, prophecy

if i'm raptured tomorrow plz post i miss you 4 me homies ;_;

if I see Christopher Walken walking around tomorrow I'm shooting that motherbitch square between the eyes, no questions asked...

Dominique Strauss-Kahn totally miscalculated and misunderstood this whole rapeture thing, didn't he?

http://rlv.zcache.com/o_o_wtf_tshirt-p235087516927217414tr1k_400.jpg

I'm sort of mystified as to why he has gotten so much attention in the first place

Has anyone registered www.Lookatitthisfuckingchristian.com yet?

everyone knows that the world's supposed to end in 2012 so it's an easy zing

One year off it's the ultimate in doomsday kitsch .

see you all in the afterlife i guess

no need to panic, it's just like when only the sandbox was available

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355 to go

yeah I fucked up the end of the poll should've been 20/12/2012 which is actually my birthday! I'm throwing an end of the world party this year.

I beg to differ. The chosen end date guaranteed the poll's results would be available when they were needed.

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/352972/20120616/black-death-bubonic-plague-oregon-man-cat.htm

seo hall of fame

I'm pretty sure if the world was going to end tomorrow, I wouldn't go crazy or party or anything, I'd just lay down and get the nicest sleep of my life.

everything about that story is fucked up but

The unidentified man, who is currently in his 50s, had tried to pry a dead mouse from a stray cat's mouth on June 2 when the cat attacked him.

4 days left... so, bump?

I hope I get a flight refund if the world ends before I take off. Wouldn't be very sporting otherwise now would it?

http://www.cultureslap.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/1.jpeg

are there any good resources chronicling intra-mayan/believer preparation/behaviour for all of this? it's so interesting i think but i haven't been following it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrence_mckenna#Novelty_theory

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timewave_zero#Timewave_zero_and_the_I_Ching

It was originally calculated to be November and then revised to match up w the Mayan calendar. Looking up Terrence McKenna on youtube will get you plenty of silly lectures superimposed with 90s psychedelic screensavers and barely audible beneath techo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibiru_cataclysm

Pretty much all the doomsday theories are your standard end-of-the-world stuff given credence by being arbitrarily connected to the Mayan thing.

You could make a killing selling psychedelic mushrooms this week fwiw

ty adam! it's like the internet rabbit-hole that will occupy my holidays is all mapped out

like, fingers crossed

http://rr-bb.com/forum.php

http://rr-bb.com/images/icons/yeah.gif

'2 – No one really knows how the ancient Mayans got such accurate information that they could construct such a calendar without the modern observational equipment we have today. But we Christians mostly believe it had to be some kind of satanic or demonic influence."

crossmaker
December 15th, 2012, 07:03 PM
What would the Rapture feel/look like?
Is it like a flashlight, cameras that flash at your eyes without notice?
And feel our Heart make a "Vibrate Trumpet" like a cell phone?

wynnsmom
December 15th, 2012, 07:59 PM
My guess - We'll hear a trumpet and an irresistable call to "come on up" and whoosh we are excellerating heavenward. We will know exactly what is happening. It will seem like the most natural thing (as in not shocking that it is happening) thing. I suspect your thought will be, "I'm going home!"

I like "excellerating".

I'm flying to Australia on Friday. See you on the other side!

OpenOffice Calc-ing

Yeah it would probably be just like a Bugs Bunny cartoon.

http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc6/188164_382703435149893_2047386305_n.jpg

http://rr-bb.com/images/smilies/Rapture%20Smiley.gif

poll: Gog v. Magog

v. OMG

keep thinking this is a thread for The World Ends With You when it bumps my bookmarks

Hi

it did, didn't it?

in december two oh one two
it felt like the world would go foom
with goyte, carly rae, and obama

In retrospective… yeah it did