2012 and the Apocalypse: this is going to get annoying, isn't it?

in 2012, the world will end. 2012 is tied to a specific idea - APOCALYPSE - and that means it's going to referenced everywhere, and eventually, if it hasn't already, it's going to get really fucking annoying. by 12/21/12, you'll probably want the world to end just so that you don't have to hear about it anymore. i'm certainly not immune - i started a wdyll sandbox thread earlier today that referenced the end of the world.

anyway, feel free to revive this perpetually fledgling thread whenever you get sick of hearing about the end of the world.

also, i'm kind of hoping that by december there will be a significant number of fools who legitimately believe that the world is about to end. this thread can chronicle their stupidity, and then post-12/21/12, their excuses.

https://twitter.com/#!/search/apocalarious

oh gawd. it was actually a commercial with tina fey and alec baldwin promoting 30 rock that prompted this thread.

I see that "World Ends" is running slightly ahead of "Huntsman Wins Nomination" on Intrade.

Makes sense to me. Similarly, "Huntsman wins nomination" in dead heat with "pigs fly".

I think the level of annoyance is going to be similar to a mix of the Camping Rapture predictions and the Y2k fiasco. Where we first get annoyed with all of the idiots who give the doomsday scenarios any credence, then we realize nobody really does believe in it, but watch as people fall over themselves to mock the end of the world ad nauseam IRL and on social media sites, and when we can't take it anymore, go to the hospital with a gun and demand the doctors put us in a medically induced coma until 2013.

I predict that on 22nd Dec charity shops will be devastated by an avalanche of 2012 books.

congrats to bill callahan for getting out ahead of the curve

I'm 100% in favor of this because the associated imagery is fun to me. I liked the harmonic convergence in (iirc) '87 and I like the Mayan calendar. always err in favor of more new age twinkly-twinkly imo

I think the level of annoyance is going to be similar to a mix of the Camping Rapture predictions and the Y2k fiasco. Where we first get annoyed with all of the idiots who give the doomsday scenarios any credence, then we realize nobody really does believe in it, but watch as people fall over themselves to mock the end of the world ad nauseam IRL and on social media sites, and when we can't take it anymore, go to the hospital with a gun and demand the doctors put us in a medically induced coma until 2013.

― Neanderthal, Monday, January 2, 2012 1:42 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

but with 2012 there really is a strange phenomenon of somewhat normal people believing in it. With Camping it was probably like 100 people or something.

and the Y2K thing actually was a problem, which we mostly fixed in time. Planes weren't ever going to fall from the sky, but it was least an actual thing.

but with 2012 there really is a strange phenomenon of somewhat normal people believing in it.

that's kinda what makes it awesome - these things are an occasional cultural expression of some kind of collective need to embrace/confront/indulge myths from other places - it's almost like the whole point is to indulge some belief you don't actually hold & that isn't compatible with yr other beliefs

"I heard the Mayans said the world was going to end in 2012!" "Yeah? What other Mayan beliefs do you hold?" "They said, though! World was going to end!" I just love something about this sort of dilettante-for-doomsday stance

Im afeared of what violence will be wrought by apocalyptic types who want the end of the world to come.

Some related reading:

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/reality-check/201112/what-you-should-know-about-2012-answers-13-questions

http://www.abhota.info/end1.htm

Now that the election is over, this should start heating up as an overworked meme. May I be the first on ilx to couple "fiscal cliff" and "Mayan apocalypse"? thx!

http://cpc.farnell.com/_/mayclk/mayan-countdown-clock/dp/LH03133?Ntt=mayan+countdown
http://cpc.farnell.com/productimages/farnell/standard/LH03133-40.jpg

Crap, totally forgot about the apocalypse. Shoulda voted Romney.

MR: "Now I'm President, we're going to move America forward! We're going to... hang on, what's that ominous rumbling sound?"

Kicking myself for not figuring out a good way to make $$$ off this ridiculousness.

The funny thing is when i meet people that talk about this end of the world 2012 and at the same time laugh about how stupid Christianity is.

what time does it start?

i looked carefully at my invitation and it didn't say. the whole time zone thing really complicates it.

Can we just make it at 12:21pm?

12:21pm in every time zone. it's a rolling apocalypse.

I wonder if the apocalypse will spend that entire hour meticulously decimating a particular time zone or whether it'll just get it over with as quickly as possible so it has time for a smoke break until the next 12:21 rolls around.

i predict that one of the great mysteries of the apocalypse will be that it destroys time zones secretly, without the other time zones finding out about it. you think everything's fine, it's 11:45am and you haven't heard anything about the apocalypse, and in fact half of the world is already blow to pieces.

Looking forward to it. Sweet, sweet oblivion.

I think it's kinda cool that it is 12/20 2012

Or 20/12/2012 even

xp

even better in eurostylee: 20/12/2012

it's a big day

we should all be making sure that we're doing whatever we think is most valuable here in our final hours on earth

hope this isn't a christian apocalypse, it's gonna suck if i have to swordfight and get bothered by locusts and contend with a terrifying horseman and all of that

it's a good thing i'm here at work reading an email about a bake sale

I'm having trouble figuring out what to wear. There's supposed to be a snowstorm tonight.

will apocalypse get rid of my tinnitus y/n

y

awesome lookin forward to it

The Apocalypse Considered In the Style of a Hallmark Greeting Card

On this, the long-awaited Judgment Day,
I'm sending you this heart-felt card to say
These end times have been colorful, but doleful,
With seas of blood and sorrows by the bowl full,
Dead lambs of God, horsemen apocalyptic,
Nightmarish imagery that's full of gore and cryptic.
Our beastly marks have most of us distressed,
So you should know I'm sending you my best.

I'm sorry if the doctrines of your church
Have let you down and left you in the lurch.
I wish you might survive the plagues and pests
To spend eternity among the blessed,
Instead of tortured with eternal thirst,
Crammed in a lake of fire among the cursed.
But if mistaken faith has proved your ruin,
I want to say I hope you...get well soon!

No more ringing in your ears, I bet you're stoked for it. xp

one thing i'm going to have to mentally prepare myself for is when everyone suddenly lets out a blood curdling scream

I'm troubled by the fact that at 12:21 I probably won't be at home with my loved ones, but we do have an agreed-upon meeting spot so

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJn33jnc0vo

is swordfighting part of a christian apocalypse? it feels v unchristian to me

being totally godly honest does anyone here have doubts in the back of their minds about whether or not the apocalypse will truly be happening v soon. i need to know if everyone feels purely of it. like it must feel like such a guilty, trespassing thought to be amid the hardcore & absentmindedly acknowledging television schedules, envisaging another season of homeland, contemplating expiration dates, contingency plans, the chance that the last good thing you did might have an opportunity for reprisal, thinking of your girlfriend in a i can't wait til we go to california in the summer! sorta way instead of just through morbidly appreciating the finality of your union.

It better not be happening tomorrow, I fly up for my sis's birthday party on Saturday and I'll be pissed if I miss it.

is swordfighting part of a christian apocalypse? it feels v unchristian to me

i have vague memories of the return of christ and of him wielding a big sword. i'm assuming that would provoke everyone to bust out their own swords and then there'd be a big sword fight. you guys ARE sharpening your swords tonight in preparation, right?

oh shit it happened at 12:21 local and i missed it

now i have to wait around for 202012

At least the Steam sale started today so's we can get in some last hours of cheap gaming

isn't it 12:21 am?
you've got time, a little at least

oh ha it isnt 12/21/12 yet is it

i still have a fighting chance to be annihilated

that's what i'm trying to tell you

xpost to schlump

Eh, we all gotta go sometime. I'm perpetually half-aware of that fact and trying to make the most of my time and relationships except that I also forget and spend lots of time doing stuff like looking at Rip Taylor's IMDB page. So my head is somewhere between those two poles today. Maybe leaning more towards the latter.

World can't end soon enough

Remember lingerie?

http://conservativetimes.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/roadwarrior.jpeg

Apocalypse not happening tomorrow, pretty much all the talk is just people trying to make their lives seem more eventful and meaningful. Not that it's a bad thing, but yeah, it's more or less just everyone's ego. Add to that internet globalism/LOL atheism + neo new wave hipster occult fashion + 9/11 Truther + Jay-Z is in the Illuminati etc. Basically it's one big ad to read your doomsday blog, LOL at your animated GIF, go to your End of the World Party.

So, "lingerie" was the name of his dog?

that shoulda been new age instead of new wave. Crystals reiki urban guardans self-styled shamans buying psychedelic drugs and Alex Grey paintings etc

Flying to Australia tomorrow afternoon, foreseeing "Lost"-esque parallel dimension future.

So what IS the next apocalypse after this one, anyway.

power reading on my mac 1:11, i'm resonating to the cosmic power!

Almost 1,000 doomsday cult members arrested in China

"Strong likelihood" that this is it, folks

http://ebible2.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/strong-likelihood-tract2.pdf

I'm prepared. I wore clean underwear today.