Countdown to Dec 21, 2012 - End of the World

[Edward64]

Watching CNBC special on preppers and got me thinking. Anyone sweating this Dec 2012?

I don't believe it but the build up to it will get me thinking about replenishing my emergency supplies anyway.

BTW - I finally watched "The Road" as Fry's had it on special. Depressing as hell. If it was me, I would have let go.

2012 — History.com Articles, Video, Pictures and Facts

There has long been speculation that on December 21, 2012, the world as we know it will end. Some predict that we'll be wiped out by a natural disaster like a giant tidal wave, an Earth-wide earthquake or a tremendous volcanic eruption. Others believe that on that day in December, the Earth will collide with a mysterious "Planet X," causing magnetic pole shifts, gravitational reversals or a black hole so big that our solar system will simply disappear. What's more, believers say that this news is not really news at all; on the contrary, they argue, we have known about the coming apocalypse since the ancient Maya predicted and recorded it on their Long Count calendar more than 2,200 years ago.

[JPhillips]

If the world is going to end there isn't much point in emergency supplies.

[Groundhog]

List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

184 strike outs so far, surely we're due for a homerun!

[Grover]

Originally Posted by Groundhog

List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

184 strike outs so far, surely we're due for a homerun!

You mean Adam Dunn is predicting these things?

[spleen1015]

I've wondered. There seems to have been a lot of natural disasters within the last last couple of years. Winter was mild and we're seeing lots of hot, record breaking weather.

If the world is going to end, there's nothing we can fucking do about it.

[Edward64]

I do want to watch this Steve Carrel movie.

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World Official Trailer #1 - Steve Carell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T43InzvBm-k

[Groundhog]

Originally Posted by Grover

You mean Adam Dunn is predicting these things?

Baseball jokes
^^^^^^^^
Australian people's heads

[Groundhog]

Originally Posted by spleen1015

I've wondered. There seems to have been a lot of natural disasters within the last last couple of years. Winter was mild and we're seeing lots of hot, record breaking weather.

If the world is going to end, there's nothing we can fucking do about it.

There's been some odd natural events and weather - it was a poor summer in Australia and it's been a colder and wetter than normal winter - but at the same time, we just forget about the bad runs different eras have had previously.

Interestingly enough before this thread I'd never heard about this:

1931 China floods - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[NorvTurnerOverdrive]

i first heard the 12/21/12 thing from terrance mckenna's timewave zero stuff. that was late 90's early 00's iirc. then the mayan stuff starts making the rounds.

i forget where i read it but it was some conversation between rfk and secret service during the cuban missile crisis asking him if he wanted his wife and kids moved to a gov't bunker. he said, 'no. that's not a world worth living in.'

[EagleFan]

Get the shotguns ready! Bring on the zombies!!!

[miked]

The Road was the most depressing movie I've seen in a while.

[molson]

Shit will go down someday one way or another, nothing lasts forever, but when it happens or starts to happen has nothing to do with the Mayans.

[EagleFan]

Originally Posted by molson

Shit will go down someday one way or another, nothing lasts forever, but when it happens or starts to happen has nothing to do with the Mayans.

Parade pisser...

[britrock88]

Originally Posted by molson

Shit will go down someday one way or another, nothing lasts forever, but when it happens or starts to happen has nothing to do with the Mayans.

Right; they're not the cause, just the prophets.

[stevew]

Preppers do realize that while other people might starve to death, that the preppers will get murdered for their stockpile of shit. I don't really see the point.

[EagleFan]

Originally Posted by stevew

Preppers do realize that while other people might starve to death, that the preppers will get murdered for their stockpile of shit. I don't really see the point.

Not if they've got a small arsenal to go with it (which they'll need for the zombies anyway).

[Edward64]

Originally Posted by stevew

Preppers do realize that while other people might starve to death, that the preppers will get murdered for their stockpile of shit. I don't really see the point.

I think the serious ones know not to advertise and have plenty of weapons.

[Edward64]

Originally Posted by EagleFan

Not if they've got a small arsenal to go with it (which they'll need for the zombies anyway).

I don't know about zombies ... but definitely cannibals (see The Road).

[stevew]

Originally Posted by Edward64

I think the serious ones know not to advertise and have plenty of weapons.

Those are the people that the cops will kill first.

[NorvTurnerOverdrive]

Originally Posted by stevew

Those are the people that the cops will kill first.

or the atf will set your house on fire and call you a cult leader

[rowech]

I have no belief that that date is the end.

HOWEVER, I've wondered if it not become some sort of self-fulfilling prophecy where so many people convince themselves that it is the end, that they make rash decisions, do stupid stuff, etc. and end up making it the end.

[Neon_Chaos]

The discovery of Higgs Boson will lead us to oblivion!

[britrock88]

Originally Posted by Neon_Chaos

The discovery of Higgs Boson will lead us to oblivion!

This is likelier than anything other theory floating around.

[MizzouRah]

Originally Posted by Edward64

I do want to watch this Steve Carrel movie.

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World Official Trailer #1 - Steve Carell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T43InzvBm-k

I'm a big fan.. knew nothing about this one, thanks.

[RainMaker]

So what happens when we hit 2013 and we're all here? Do these people make up some lame excuse as to why it didn't happen? It's the one thing I never get about conspiracy theorists. How can you keep going on after being wrong so many times?

[Julio Riddols]

They will come out and say it was a miscalculation in our interpretation of the Mayan calendar and that the world is actually supposed to end on 10-25-2015. For realsies this time.

[Groundhog]

see: every other previous end of days prediction.

[LloydLungs]

Originally Posted by Groundhog

List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

184 strike outs so far, surely we're due for a homerun!

I love how they tack on actual science at the end of that long string of crackpot theories. Sure, I'll just bet the world ends in 5 billion years, science! And what happens when we go 5 billion more years and the sun's not a red giant and we're all still here, huh? I know, you made a mistake, right? You meant 5,000,000,001 years? Whatever.

[sterlingice]

Originally Posted by Neon_Chaos

The discovery of Higgs Boson will lead us to oblivion!

No, we'll fade into Bolivian

SI

[sterlingice]

Originally Posted by rowech

I have no belief that that date is the end.

HOWEVER, I've wondered if it not become some sort of self-fulfilling prophecy where so many people convince themselves that it is the end, that they make rash decisions, do stupid stuff, etc. and end up making it the end.

I think there were a lot more people afraid 2000 was a possible end of the world because of the Y2K scare so if we weathered that for the self-fulfilling reason then I think we're safe this year.

SI

[Kodos]

I just want to figure out how to make money off of these idiots.

[Peregrine]

My birthday is on the 29th, so I'm telling people to make sure to send me a gift before they retreat into their basements and bunkers.

[cougarfreak]

If the Mayans were so fucking smart, why are they pretty extinct?

[JPhillips]

Originally Posted by Julio Riddols

They will come out and say it was a miscalculation in our interpretation of the Mayan calendar and that the world is actually supposed to end on 10-25-2015. For realsies this time.

The Mayan calendar doesn't have leap years, so we're already past what would have beeb the end of the world.

[spleen1015]

Originally Posted by JPhillips

The Mayan calendar doesn't have leap years, so we're already past what would have beeb the end of the world.

Mayan Calendar and the Gregorian Leap Year – James Watt

[EagleFan]

Originally Posted by RainMaker

So what happens when we hit 2013 and we're all here? Do these people make up some lame excuse as to why it didn't happen? It's the one thing I never get about conspiracy theorists. How can you keep going on after being wrong so many times?

Conspiracy theorists?

[gstelmack]

Originally Posted by Groundhog

There's been some odd natural events and weather - it was a poor summer in Australia and it's been a colder and wetter than normal winter - but at the same time, we just forget about the bad runs different eras have had previously.

I still remember back in the 80s listening to weather-folks pointing out that we had been through a decade or two of historically mild weather, and that when it returned to normal people would be freaking out over what is actually typical weather.

[EagleFan]

What really sucks is that day is a Friday. Jeez, it could at least have been a Monday.

[Suicane75]

We talking before or after Christmas? Cause I wanna get my presents first.

[Solecismic]

Perhaps the Mayans weren't very good at spelling, and confused Global Warning with Global Warming?

Odd, though, the appeal of various numeralogies. I'm not sure why anyone even pretending to understand science would see relevance in numbers of turns around the sun. Did the Mayans even think the Earth had an orbit? What are the Adventists up to these days?

[Rizon]

..

[sterlingice]

Always liked this guy when I was in Richmond



SI

[CleBrownsfan]

That's awesome!

[sterlingice]

Apparently the backstory is that he left meteorology about a year ago and this was a final broadcast he had put together as a joke but never aired it- just giving it to some friends and family but it leaked out to the internet. Now with the weird weather on the east coast, it's gone viral in the last week a year after it was created.

SI

[molson]

Originally Posted by RainMaker

So what happens when we hit 2013 and we're all here? Do these people make up some lame excuse as to why it didn't happen? It's the one thing I never get about conspiracy theorists. How can you keep going on after being wrong so many times?

2011 end times prediction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You revise the date forward once or twice, then you give up and say, "eh, you got me, I was wrong about the world blowing up thing."

[Chief Rum]

Originally Posted by Suicane75

We talking before or after Christmas? Cause I wanna get my presents first.

December 21st versus Decemebr 25th.

So what day do you normally celebrate Christmas?

[JediKooter]

I'll see everyone here on the 22nd of December this year. Anyone that thinks the Mayan calendar predicts the end of the world are one of two kinds of people: 1. Too stupid to look up the actual facts on how the Mayans kept time or 2. People trying to make a buck off of the people listed in number 1.

[NorvTurnerOverdrive]

'apocalypse' means end of the age. not end of the world. we're moving from pisces to aquarius at some point. idk that there's an official consensus on the date though.

[JediKooter]

I'm waiting to see what is going to happen at the end of the Holocene. I bet we're all screwed then.

[Kodos]

I hope another Dinosaur age sprouts up. Because dinosaurs are awesome.