# 2012 apocalypse

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## Post 1 by LeoGuardian (You mean there is something outside of this room with my computer in it?) on Tuesday, 27-Nov-2012 12:08:44

OK there was no social network in 1999 before the so-called y2k phenomenon but there was Usenet and plenty of trolling, defiance and pre-apocalyptic mockery on the Newsgroups.
Here I create a board specific for those interested in defiance of the current apocalyptic claims, and those who wish to defend it.
Isn't it just great how in the past few months, they're reducing this supposedly impending doom to some sort of fuzzy-thinking nonfalsifiable "revelation" that is supposed to happen.
For those not old enough to remember it, 1999 had a whole series of countdown dates to the Doomsday of January 1, 2000. They made up some really crazy stuff, including distorting the normal satellite operations where satellites get reset. Of course behind every apocalyptic scheme there are a lot of people waiting to make a buck.
And here we are again, a new crew with the same do.
Let's just wait and see how well they wiggle out of this one December 22 or so.
Have fun.

## Post 2 by OceanDream (An Ocean of Thoughts) on Tuesday, 27-Nov-2012 13:16:23

I think it's funny that people would fret over this. if it's going to happen, there's no stopping it. And if not, life will go on as normal. the people that are going to go drain their bank accounts in preparation for the end of the world really do not have any of my sympathy. Just get out there and enjoy life as you normally would. Life can be short as it is, so why should this be the event that make people understand that grudges are not worth holding?

## Post 3 by Blue Velvet (I've got the platinum golden silver bronze poster award.) on Tuesday, 27-Nov-2012 13:31:49

I guess if you don't want to be bothered with Christmas shopping this year you could use it as an excuse to those who are pissed you didn't get them anything. Just tell them you were sure the world was going to end on December 21. LOL

## Post 4 by Imprecator (The Zone's Spelling Nazi) on Tuesday, 27-Nov-2012 14:34:33

Well, the 2012 thing is a Mayan myth. These guys cut out the hearts of human victims as part of their primitive religion. They did this less than 500 years ago. I don't think we should pay much attention to what these savages said about the future.

## Post 5 by Godzilla-On-Toast (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Tuesday, 27-Nov-2012 21:48:30

Here are my oh-so-doom-laiden predictions:
On December 22, first of all, there actually will be such a thing as a December 22. The earth did not go poof in an instantaneous or decidedly loud and shiny thing did not happen. You and all your friends and enemies and the planet earth are still here and civilization still exists. Yes, you are actually still going to have to interact with and try to get along with your fellow earth residents. There was no great kaboom, no big do-over. and unfortunately no upgrade in human nature. Maybe, later on, you'll go down to the nearby shopping center for some last minute deals.

## Post 6 by LaneKeys (Resident Grungehead) on Wednesday, 28-Nov-2012 5:03:41

I don't know, I'd derive a certain satisfaction if I thought it was going to happen right around Christmas. There ain't no topping that for a present. But then, I guess I'm just bored. At least apocalypses are... interesting.

## Post 7 by bea (I just keep on posting!) on Wednesday, 28-Nov-2012 8:21:03

This end of the world stuff started at the beginning of time, from what little I have read. What was stupid in 2000 was churches went with the idea which surprised me. My friend who is Bible smart said okay, which version of the Bible are they looking at for 2000? I said the most faithful in God were the most off the wall with this stuff. So i guess here we go again. It makes life interesting to watch folks be made fools of. It's sad though to hear about folks who believe in it so much they give up money and everything else.

## Post 8 by Smiling Sunshine (I've now got the bronze prolific poster award! now going for the silver award!) on Wednesday, 28-Nov-2012 8:25:57

I just find it entertaining for the most part. lol
After school that afternoon, my hubby, kiddo and I are going to my folks' house and having an end of the world party. lol
I remember Y2K but only vaguely. I was far too busy living life and laughing at those buying up bottles of water to be concerned with it. I went to my best friend's house and we partied like it was 1999. Oh wait, it was 1999. Yep, we were that corny. lol
As far as 2012, I get all excited with the hub-ub but only for the entertainment value. I don't really believe that the world is going to come to an end. IF it did, I wouldn't want to live past the apocolypse anyway so hopefully me and my family would just all go poof right along with the rest of the world. lol
I have no control over it either way so there ya have it.

## Post 9 by Godzilla-On-Toast (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Wednesday, 28-Nov-2012 13:12:46

Wasn't it all supposed to be publicity for that 2012 movie back in 2009?

## Post 10 by margorp (I've got the gold prolific poster award, now is there a gold cup for me?) on Wednesday, 28-Nov-2012 13:28:39

I have decided that I won't pay any attention to the bullshit that people spew. Next year we are predicted to have a world wide black out.

## Post 11 by SilverLightning (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Wednesday, 28-Nov-2012 14:25:39

Heres an interesting question though. Do you think the people who sell insurance for your dogs and stuff like that for after the ed of the world are jerks? Like the people who said they'd take care of your dog if you were raptured when harold camping said you were going to be, as long as you payed them. Do you think those guys are assholes or geniuses? I personally say genius, if you're going to believe in something stupid, smart people are going to take advantage of you.

## Post 12 by LeoGuardian (You mean there is something outside of this room with my computer in it?) on Wednesday, 28-Nov-2012 14:26:51

I will have to admit that post-apocalyptic literature is always a fixation with me. Someone on Audioboo put it best by saying it's because we're curious to see what happens when the existing establishment overturns, and what would rise to power if anything.
But yeah as whacked out techologically as many of the arguments pre-Y2K phenomenon, it's at least as whacked out to presume there is a planet sailing in which the amateur astronomers the world over have not been able to see, even if you do believe for some odd reason that the government is covering their own discoveries up.
You can't exactly cover up the existence of, uh, well, a planet.
It is good entertainment, though.

## Post 13 by BryanP22 (Novice theriminist) on Wednesday, 28-Nov-2012 15:50:36

Actually from what I've heard and read over the years the Mayans never actually predicted anything specific for 2012. In fact there have apparently been Mayan writings uncovered that predict events as far as another 5000 years from now. I'll be surprised if anything at all happens on December 21 or 22, let alone the end of the world. But there have been people who have quite justifiably earned my GF's wrath by saying that because she was born on December 21, her daughter must inevitably be the Antichrist who's supposed to return before the world ends. ThenI have a friend, although I use the word in the loosest possible sense, who now swears that the world will be ending on December 21, but will, I have absolutely no doubt, be declaring pompously once 2013 rolls around that she always knew nothing was going to happen and that anyone who believed it was was stupid. My only regret when that time comes will be that I had no recorder on me to catch when she was such an eager member of the crowd she'll be criticizing. Needless to say she was one of those who earned Sandra's wrath when she implied that Gracie's seventh birthday or the day after would be the day of her death.

## Post 14 by Imprecator (The Zone's Spelling Nazi) on Wednesday, 28-Nov-2012 16:23:38

Awe, darn. I thought the doggies would disappear into heaven with us.

## Post 15 by BryanP22 (Novice theriminist) on Wednesday, 28-Nov-2012 16:32:03

LOL. Apparently they're too sinful.

## Post 16 by GreenTurtle (Music is life. Love. Vitality.) on Wednesday, 28-Nov-2012 17:03:48

I think a lot of people who hang onto the idea that the world is going to end in 2012, or whenever the next wild prediction is made when this one doesn't come to pass, are so miserable that they would like their pitiful existance to be blown up and obliterated. I have actually known people who were suicidal, but didn't want to end their own lives, so they desperately cling to this hope that they won't have to do it because it will be done for them. It's honestly sad.

## Post 17 by DRUM GODDESS (I can't call it a day til I enter the zone BBS) on Wednesday, 28-Nov-2012 18:25:00

I have heard the world is going to end on this day or that day so many times I just don't even pay attention to that stuff anymore. If it does end there's nothing I can do about it so will not loose any sleep over it at all. I'm quite confident we will still be here after december 21st. All the shows on tv about it right now are pretty entertaining though.

## Post 18 by Imprecator (The Zone's Spelling Nazi) on Wednesday, 28-Nov-2012 20:06:17

When the world ends, I wanna go out with a beer in my hand.

## Post 19 by BryanP22 (Novice theriminist) on Wednesday, 28-Nov-2012 21:56:45

And I'll go out with some Irish tunes playing on my IPod.

## Post 20 by CSection (Out standing in my field.) on Thursday, 29-Nov-2012 10:20:58

We are all going to die. What difference does it make when?
I hope that cheered you all up.

## Post 21 by BryanP22 (Novice theriminist) on Thursday, 29-Nov-2012 11:09:12

Some people are just more impatient for it I guess. But they're also hoping to get a bit of notoriety before they go, so they make up these ridiculous predictions. Like I said I'll be surprised if anything happens, let alone the end of the world. Me, I can't wait to hear the reaction of that acquaintance I mentioned earlier, although I have a feeling I know what it's likely to be. She's most likely going to flip flop her position from the swearing that it's going to happen which is what she's been doing, to swearing that she always knew nothing was going to happen and that anyone who believed in it was stupid. Like I said, I only wish I'd thought to record her when she was going on about how there was no possibility that nothing would happen. Then when she tries to say she never said she believed in it I could whip out the recording and play it for her. LOL.

## Post 22 by Imprecator (The Zone's Spelling Nazi) on Thursday, 29-Nov-2012 11:17:49

As long as I die with a beer in my hand, I don't care. Haha.

## Post 23 by forereel (Just posting.) on Thursday, 29-Nov-2012 11:29:23

The thing no one has said here is there is always a huge group of people planning to survive the end of the world! It started a couple years ago, people moved to places on the planet that are suppose to be safest. They have stocked piled guns, food, and you name it, expecially electronic devices? Smile.
I witnessed the guy back a few months that is still head of that huge Christian organization, I can't even remember his name right now, sitting in his radio studio waiting on his perdiction to come true. Even he had plans for the next day, believe it or not, and he was suppose to have figured it out?
If so, why'd he have plans for the next day, and on his calendar several appointmens for the next few months?
Hope is eternal. Smile.
PS.
Becky, I didn't buy you anything for Christmas, just in case!

## Post 24 by margorp (I've got the gold prolific poster award, now is there a gold cup for me?) on Thursday, 29-Nov-2012 13:42:47

Stock piling stuff? All I will say is this:
Show me a man who acts without any real solid facts and I'll show you a man who walks around in the nude.

## Post 25 by BryanP22 (Novice theriminist) on Thursday, 29-Nov-2012 13:43:00

You mean Harold Camping? I thought he'd resigned his position in the radio side of his church. But yeah, it doesn't make sense to stockpile a bunch of junk. The end of the world means the end of the entire world, not the end of all but a few relatively uninhabited parts.

## Post 26 by Imprecator (The Zone's Spelling Nazi) on Thursday, 29-Nov-2012 14:51:21

Yeah he did retire. Probably was planning it the whole time, raising all that money to buy enough pairs of rubber pants for whatever remains of his geriatric existence.

## Post 27 by Jack Off Jill (why the hell am I posting in the first place?) on Thursday, 29-Nov-2012 15:03:00

Yes like Brian said, the Myans did not predict any such things. People just love the idea of the world ending and joining their God or whom ever they worship. It would be annoying if it ended on that date or the twenty first, I love winter solstice way too much. But it just makes me giggle at all of the people who go through with this crap

## Post 28 by BryanP22 (Novice theriminist) on Thursday, 29-Nov-2012 15:36:12

Well the 21st is my GF's daughter's seventh birthday. So people have told her everything from your daughter's going to die on her birthday to your daughter must be the Antichrist. Needless to say those latter folks almost got their asses kicked.

## Post 29 by Rune Knight (Ancient Demon - Darkness will always conquer Light!) on Thursday, 29-Nov-2012 15:37:15

The world isn't going to end or at least not in our lifetime. I'll still be standing December 22. The only thing you have to worry about are the crazy Doomsday Preppers. That show is insane.

## Post 30 by Imprecator (The Zone's Spelling Nazi) on Thursday, 29-Nov-2012 16:08:53

But we'll end up burning to death if/when the ozone hole gets big enough.

## Post 31 by BryanP22 (Novice theriminist) on Thursday, 29-Nov-2012 16:26:25

I agree. I don't believe the world's going to end anytime in our lifetimes, whatever the religious conservative folks might say.

## Post 32 by LeoGuardian (You mean there is something outside of this room with my computer in it?) on Thursday, 29-Nov-2012 16:45:43

What's interesting is what happens to all that the preppers stockpile when disaster ultimately happens.
Lots and lots and lots of dehydrated food and useless and rusting arms stockpiles underwater during Katrina.
Real preparedness comes from skills acquisitions which you take with you no matter your surroundings, and is a neuroplasticity quite foreign to the American Conservative, or the American Academic Ivory Tower.
The real survivalists from Katrina were those who responded to the situation by evacuating, emigrating to other states, or otherwise depending on themselves to fix their own situation. None of them had hordes of anything, except hordes of self-reliance and either a lot of skills or a propensity to learn new ones. People moved into new areas and opened Cajun food establishments, not all of them had been in the food service industry before.
The Prepper movement while interesting to observe is for the most part technically inaccurate. The interesting thing about real disaster is that at the time it strikes, it's novel: you could not have predicted where it came from.
It was Charles Darwin who said something like: "It's not the strongest species who survive, nor the most intelligent, but the most responsive to change."
And here I'm about to be profoundly politically incorrect and probably get myself into serious trouble:
If you look at the societies who die out, I mean are culturally wiped out, for the most part they had a form of either ancestor worship or some other backwards-looking establishment. If you're primarily backwards-looking, or pining for yesteryear, you just signed your own death warrant.
Concurrent with the modern Prepper movement is the modern Conservatism which bears the same forms of ancestor-worship yesterday-demigod-honoring that the Native Americans of the 19th century had.
On the contrary, the Meiji restoration of the 1860s in Japan was a reversal of hundreds of years of backwards-looking in Japan, which made it possible for Japan to function in the industrial revolution and beyond. Most preoccupations with apocalypse have everything to do with a preoccupation with yesterday. I don't mean those of us who are fascinated by apocalyptic literature or the idea of the rise of the fringes in society, I mean those whose whole aim in life surrounds the apocalypse. Look at that movement, and you see a very primitive demigod-ancestor-worshipping group who is constantly looking backwards. Those and the entitled / cared for are equally the least probable to survive any form of disaster.
Sit back, watch, read your histories outside of modern taboos.

## Post 33 by BryanP22 (Novice theriminist) on Friday, 30-Nov-2012 9:05:53

My sister had a friend whose parents were apparently of that ilk. This was back when the two of them were in High School. This girl's parents firmly believed that a war or some other global disaster was coming within the next few years if not months, weeks or days. Well they had an entire garage stockpiled with dehydrated food and stuff, maybe even weapons. I even heard my sister tellmy folks that her friend's dad claimed also to have a spaceship parked in his garage since according to him the entire earth was going to become uninhabitable in this disaster. I know my mom talked about she and my dad stockpiling canne goods in the months leading up to the Y2K nonevent but I don't know, looking back, how serious she was. I never got the feeling that either of my folks took that particularly seriously.

## Post 34 by Imprecator (The Zone's Spelling Nazi) on Friday, 30-Nov-2012 10:22:10

The idiocy never ceases to amaze.

## Post 35 by Godzilla-On-Toast (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Friday, 30-Nov-2012 12:10:36

I wonder if any makers of standard print calendars make any where December of this year stops at 21. I'd suppose anyone making such has a vastly overpriced book or DVD to sell ya too, just like anyone who thinks they know what time of day and date existence itself is going to go zap. Oh, and BTW, in my view, the words world and planet are synonymous, so when the world ends, that does not mean just anarchy and destruction but the basic planet structure stays put. To me, the end of the world means everything goes, no exception, even the little bacteria and atoms are zapped into so much space dust just like you and I and the cities and the internet. Existence itself ends unless you believe of course in the long dark teatime of the soul called the afterlife.

## Post 36 by forereel (Just posting.) on Friday, 30-Nov-2012 12:44:29

Except my case of good whiskey, and my 50 inch flat screen, or an my iPhone and laptop. Yep, it be annoying indeed if these things won't work after the 21st.
I'll adapt however, and drink beer, and listen to the news on my radio.

## Post 37 by Smiling Sunshine (I've now got the bronze prolific poster award! now going for the silver award!) on Friday, 30-Nov-2012 18:10:16

A space ship in the garage? Did I really hear that correctly? lol
Seems to me that guy might have had a few more issues than just being a prepper.
LMAO!
I guess I'd be one of those idiots yall are laughing at because if I had the cash, I would totally love to live completely off the grid. Well, all except for the internet that is. lol
I'd love to have a well-stocked hideout somewhere but that isn't gunna happen.

## Post 38 by forereel (Just posting.) on Friday, 30-Nov-2012 20:19:50

Wireless and a crank generator. Oh, but wait, there shouldn't be any wireless transimiters right?
Oh, and spaceships can be purchased as kits or models.

## Post 39 by Smiling Sunshine (I've now got the bronze prolific poster award! now going for the silver award!) on Saturday, 01-Dec-2012 12:45:25

Crank generater? Nah, I'd get a solar generater, or 12. lol

## Post 40 by BryanP22 (Novice theriminist) on Saturday, 01-Dec-2012 14:15:38

Always assuming the sun survived. Because to me that would be what the end would mean, not just our planet but the sun as well and possibly the rest of our solar system. So prepping makes no sense to me.

## Post 41 by Godzilla-On-Toast (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Saturday, 01-Dec-2012 15:29:05

Yeah, generators will be useless when you're subatomic particles. Again, you're confusing the end of civilized life with the end of the world, which is it?

## Post 42 by forereel (Just posting.) on Saturday, 01-Dec-2012 23:00:43

Well I'm not sure. Now as I see it the end of the world means the end of the planet.
The second big bang happens and bam we go to Ozz, or something.
Now the end of existants as we know it means some leader some place decides to push the button, don't know what one, but okay we have a big old fight and the survivers with crank generators, and dried up food last and well, will there be sun?
Its all confusing to me.
As I understand it on December 22ND about or around 9:30, sometime, depending on where you live the world will stop due to the Tibetan Calendar having no more days.
Has nobody thought of hiring some Tibetan's to produce more?

## Post 43 by Godzilla-On-Toast (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Saturday, 01-Dec-2012 23:46:32

Wouldn't a nice Braille Mayan calendar look cool on your wall?

## Post 44 by margorp (I've got the gold prolific poster award, now is there a gold cup for me?) on Sunday, 02-Dec-2012 0:01:04

Generator? People don't think about what the end of the world is. Two words:
nuclear winter. The earth, if not vaporized buy the impact of the sun cabooming, will hit absolute 0. Good luck hiding out in your garage.

## Post 45 by BryanP22 (Novice theriminist) on Sunday, 02-Dec-2012 13:49:40

Not only that but people don't seem to realize that maybe the reason the Mayan calendar ends at 2012 is because tey were prevented from or just got tired of continuing to maintain it. So it probably has nothing at all to do with the world ending or some new evolution of humanity, which is what the new wave folks seem to think may happen. As for the 2012 film it was inspired by, not responsible for the end of the world talk.

## Post 46 by margorp (I've got the gold prolific poster award, now is there a gold cup for me?) on Sunday, 02-Dec-2012 14:58:10

The Mayan calendar is a circle. This, of course, means that it will start over. People sure can be dumb.

## Post 47 by synthesizer101 (I just keep on posting!) on Sunday, 02-Dec-2012 15:13:46

There is another possibility. Some guy in Mayan civilization must have said "You know that idiot [his boss]? He wants me to mark all of the suns [days] and moons [months] on this big stone tablet. And I ran out of space. So I got a new tablet. But to tell you the truth, I'm done. I don't care what will happen. So listen to what my ingenious plan was. You know those myths we have about floods and the five worlds and big problems? I just scheduled one for this particular sun [points to a marking on the stone tablet] and showed it to that idiot. He bought it right away. No one else did, but that doesn't really matter. I'm done with this chissel [throws carving implement to the floor]. See you later."

## Post 48 by synthesizer101 (I just keep on posting!) on Sunday, 02-Dec-2012 15:13:48

There is another possibility. Some guy in Mayan civilization must have said "You know that idiot [his boss]? He wants me to mark all of the suns [days] and moons [months] on this big stone tablet. And I ran out of space. So I got a new tablet. But to tell you the truth, I'm done. I don't care what will happen. So listen to what my ingenious plan was. You know those myths we have about floods and the five worlds and big problems? I just scheduled one for this particular sun [points to a marking on the stone tablet] and showed it to that idiot. He bought it right away. No one else did, but that doesn't really matter. I'm done with this chissel [throws carving implement to the floor]. See you later."

## Post 49 by Nicky (And I aprove this message.) on Sunday, 02-Dec-2012 18:18:50

They showed Nasa on the news talking about how it is not going to happen and the guy said that he has been getting loads of emails about it. Even a few people telling him that they are going to kill their kids and then themselves because they are afraid of it.

## Post 50 by BryanP22 (Novice theriminist) on Monday, 03-Dec-2012 15:02:06

Sort of like the lady wo slit her own throat and her daughters' throats after they didn't get raptured up on May 21 last year. Thankfully they all survved and last I heard the mother was in prison for attempted murder.

## Post 51 by LeoGuardian (You mean there is something outside of this room with my computer in it?) on Monday, 03-Dec-2012 18:06:50

@DomesticGoddess not everything the so-called preppers do is misguided: The concept of living off the grid, or hydroponics, or talapia as a protein source, or several other phenomena have sound reasoning in them. However, they have sound reasoning because if you could make the intial investment, you would be able to survive right now. Meaningt you would be able to live like that right now, not just a hoarding away but actually living like that.
But they are no guarantee against a disaster that you could not predict: only your personal skill set is.
I've known people who have done all of these things, and rather than the overweight Southern Frieds pining for yesteryear and the 1950s and the era when they could keep the n*****s in the back of the bus, these people are progressive modern normal people in society. Some of them concealed carry, but then again, they're also in shape and tend to be on the ground during events that actually happen in their own areas. An event can be something as simple as a neighborhood fire or as dire as a flood. The major problem I have with the apocalypse people is they first want to dream up their own apocalypse and then prepare for it, rather than be ready for what is likely to com in their own geographic area. Makes about as much sense as people in Florida hoarding snowplows and snow shovels in the event they will encounter a blizard.

## Post 52 by BryanP22 (Novice theriminist) on Tuesday, 04-Dec-2012 10:00:13

I guess it's just human nature.

## Post 53 by margorp (I've got the gold prolific poster award, now is there a gold cup for me?) on Thursday, 06-Dec-2012 14:13:06

Yes, good good kill each other. Sorry but one less stupid person on the earth is just fine by me.

## Post 54 by BryanP22 (Novice theriminist) on Thursday, 06-Dec-2012 15:19:53

Hence the existence of the Darwin awards, awarded posthumously to those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it. LOL.

## Post 55 by Imprecator (The Zone's Spelling Nazi) on Thursday, 06-Dec-2012 16:18:52

But for every stupid person killed, another is born.

## Post 56 by BryanP22 (Novice theriminist) on Thursday, 06-Dec-2012 20:41:38

That is true. LOL. But then if all the stupid people died there'd be no need for the Darwin Awards or Here's your Sign.

## Post 57 by GreenTurtle (Music is life. Love. Vitality.) on Thursday, 06-Dec-2012 22:47:27

Or the show a Thousand Ways to Die, lol. the ways some people get themselves killed on that show are completely stupid and off the wall.

## Post 58 by BryanP22 (Novice theriminist) on Friday, 07-Dec-2012 11:09:45

I know. I've seen it. LOL. But I had a big argument with tat acquaintance of mine that I may have mentioned. She believes, or at least acts as if she believes, all the nonsense about the world ending on December 21. If I know Lindsey, however, I won't be at all surprised if a few days later she's going on about how she never really believed anything would happen and that anybody who did believe it was stupid. Lindsey claims not to believe in anything, which I can easily believe. My guess is the only real reason she acts like she believes in the 2012 nonsense is so she can start an argument with someone, as arguing is Lindsey's favorite passtime. Don't get me wrong, I like a good, well-reasoned argument but if you want to have an argument with Lindsey you'd better be ready for a reenactment of the argument clinic from Monty Python.

## Post 59 by changedheart421 (I've now got the bronze prolific poster award! now going for the silver award!) on Saturday, 08-Dec-2012 11:46:38

I am a Christian and I believe the world won't end this month smiley. I believe the end is near for Jesus to come for his church but that honestly could happen any day. I really hate though the people that take money and make profit off innocent people. Just my opinion.

## Post 60 by forereel (Just posting.) on Saturday, 08-Dec-2012 11:52:41

So you mean way back some dude or duches creating the calendar just said "fuck it! I quit!"
Look at all the problems a fuck it caused.

## Post 61 by BryanP22 (Novice theriminist) on Saturday, 08-Dec-2012 13:15:29

Either that or they were invaded by another people. But quite frankly I'm not sure I believe the world will ever really end, much less anytime soon.

## Post 62 by synthesizer101 (I just keep on posting!) on Saturday, 08-Dec-2012 16:54:38

You want to volunteer to take a sharp implement and carve thousands of symbols into a big stone tablet? Eventually, you'll get tired! I promise I will remind you that if you stop, everyone else in a few centuries is going to believe that you caused the end of the world. Do you care? I wouldn't. Stupid people do stupid things, and thus stupid things happen to them. Don't be stupid, don't do stupid things, and chances are that stupid things will still happen to you because others didn't take this advice.

## Post 63 by Godzilla-On-Toast (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Saturday, 08-Dec-2012 16:58:06

I notice how it seems that whatever people believe, it seems to be a given, a foregone conclusion that the world will end someday and that it will end while it is still populated. I really have to question this entire belief. Who's to say that the world will not end, or if it does, human life will have been long gone from it and that the ending is an extremely slow process, not like things going poof or some megahuge disaster destroying everything. I will have to reference Stephen King's Dark Tower books here, as it seems the world portrayed in those books is falling apart over a period of thousands of years, least that's how it seems to me.

## Post 64 by Imprecator (The Zone's Spelling Nazi) on Saturday, 08-Dec-2012 17:26:41

Uh yeah, jesus is coming back very soon, blah blah blah. People have been saying that for how many centuries now?

## Post 65 by BryanP22 (Novice theriminist) on Saturday, 08-Dec-2012 19:27:45

Precisely why I take the whole endof the world spiel with a huge grain of salt. In fact in the days leading up to Harry Camping's October prediction last year I repeatedly played R.E.M's End of the World as we Know it to show how not seriously I take that sort of talk. But it seems the most outspokenly religious people are more concerned with some supposed paradise existence after we die, some existence that may not even be there, rather than just enjoying the life we know for sure that do have. I've known plenty of people, Christians and other religious folks I might add, who believe in a god yet don't believe in an afterlife of any kind. My guess is that these end of the world talkers are people who are tired of living but for whatever reason can't bring themselves to end their own lives.

## Post 66 by Godzilla-On-Toast (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Saturday, 08-Dec-2012 19:43:38

I'll bet you guys dollars to doughnuts that Jesus has been coming soon since one second after he split the scene here on earth if he even existed in the first place. And, let's add to that, it's probably been the end times ever since people started measuring time in the first place. Human race, why not put your feet up and chill for a bit instead of expecting the hammer to fall any second.

## Post 67 by Imprecator (The Zone's Spelling Nazi) on Saturday, 08-Dec-2012 20:18:10

Fuck that song. Play Fight Fire With Fire from Metallica instead. Just look at the lyrics. Perfect.

## Post 68 by BryanP22 (Novice theriminist) on Sunday, 09-Dec-2012 15:49:03

I much prefer to make light of it. Hence R.E.M.

## Post 69 by BryanP22 (Novice theriminist) on Wednesday, 12-Dec-2012 15:53:43

And I bet there's going to be lots of flabbergasting when2012 passes with no evidence of the world coming to an end or humanity evolving to the point where we all possess supernatural powers or, if you belong to the school of thought that says we've always had them but were never able to truly tap into them, to the point where we are actually able to tap into them completely. And I can give my acquaintance Lindsey a big fat I told you so. LOL.

## Post 70 by LeoGuardian (You mean there is something outside of this room with my computer in it?) on Wednesday, 12-Dec-2012 16:48:07

!Viva la chupacabra!

## Post 71 by BryanP22 (Novice theriminist) on Friday, 14-Dec-2012 11:46:38

LOL.

## Post 72 by BryanP22 (Novice theriminist) on Sunday, 16-Dec-2012 11:41:20

But what I really want to know is this; even if te world is going to end someday, what makes people think humankind will even still be around by the time that day comes. For all we know we could have beenlong gone by then.

## Post 73 by Rubber Duck (Zone BBS Addict) on Sunday, 16-Dec-2012 12:38:26

I have it on very good authority that the guy who was writing the calendar got writer's cramp and got pissed when nobody would help him, so he went on strike, then he started the rumor of the end of the world in 2012 so he wouldn't have to go back to work and finish that stupid calendar. He never thought his boss would buy it, but here we are. lol!

## Post 74 by forereel (Just posting.) on Sunday, 16-Dec-2012 17:23:25

You know some businesses have put on funny sales pitches with $21 off something until the 21st. Lol

## Post 75 by GreenTurtle (Music is life. Love. Vitality.) on Sunday, 16-Dec-2012 19:55:41

People have been saying to me that the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School are a sure sign that the world is ending, because otherwise, no one would do something like that so close to Christmas, let alone at all. i said that sick fucks are sick fucks, no matter what time of year it is, and has absolutely nothing to do with what won't be happening on the 21st.

## Post 76 by forereel (Just posting.) on Sunday, 16-Dec-2012 22:42:54

Well, you know today it snowed someplace too, and we had that bad storm, and I woke up late.
People are going to use anything. I hate there using that shooting as a pong though.

## Post 77 by GreenTurtle (Music is life. Love. Vitality.) on Monday, 17-Dec-2012 2:57:13

Yeah, me too. That's not cool at all.

## Post 78 by Godzilla-On-Toast (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Monday, 17-Dec-2012 3:49:03

I think there is this general perception that everything's getting worse and falling apart and I'm not sure how much the news media distorts this and milks it. Has it been proven that keeping anxiety levels artificially high is good for business or makes people want to consume more? Lots of people are convinced that it is important to take in the news when most of it is still, thankfully, the freak show on parade, not mundane life. As I keep saying, if reality actually was like the news, we'd all be dead. So has the number of, let's say, natural disasters actually increased in the past, let's say, ten years, or have we just developed tech that will instantly report such things before or as they happen that we didn't have ten years ago, and research says we want to see natural disasters on the news. If you want reality as it really is, turn off the news and open your door and stick your head out or go listen or look out a window. That's reality, the news is a show.

## Post 79 by Rubber Duck (Zone BBS Addict) on Monday, 17-Dec-2012 9:22:27

We have great deals on car leases, if you lease one of our cars, we will beat the price of the Acme auto leasing company down the street, plus, not only that, if the world ends on 12-21-2012, no more payments forever! So rush on down and take one of our cars for a test drive before it's too late, you will be kicking yourself on the 22nd if you don't! haha.

## Post 80 by Rubber Duck (Zone BBS Addict) on Monday, 17-Dec-2012 9:35:20

Nasa, Why the world didn't end yesterday video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFuvJkTKsm4

## Post 81 by BryanP22 (Novice theriminist) on Monday, 17-Dec-2012 12:55:29

That's almost as outrageous as the Westborough Baptist Cult saying that the shooting was god's punishment to America for making strides towards gay equality. I've always had a deep distrust of organized religion in general because of how practically every religion says that if you do this thing or don't do that one you'll be condemned to eternal torment in hell of one kind or another or, at the least, you won't get into the promised land. Regardless of how benevolent they claim their deity is it's still about fear. What the hell's wrong with just being the best person you can find it within yourself to be? But the Westborough Baptist Cult's behavior only reaffirms my distrust of religion in general. Again I do try to respect people with differing religious beliefs from my own, but that ends the moment they try to pressure me to convert or criticize me for my own views and certainly if they start spreading the sort of nonsense that the Cult has been since the shooting. And even if, for the sake of argument, some god was indeed trying to punish those of us who accept homosexuality as a part of life for some and want them to live their lives the way they are without shame, then that is a god that can forget about my worship.

## Post 82 by BryanP22 (Novice theriminist) on Monday, 17-Dec-2012 15:47:40

Oh, and not only will the world not come to an end on Friday, nor will there be some drastic step up in our evolution or a shift or leap in our consciousness or whatever the other school of thought about 2012 is. There won't even be the beginnings of such. So I'm not going to develop the power to see the dead, predict the future, move things with only a thought or any other supposedly paranormal talents, even though I do in fact believe that some people do possess such gifts, at least as far as second sight and things like that.

## Post 83 by Godzilla-On-Toast (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Monday, 17-Dec-2012 20:35:22

I think these Westboro godbots understand exactly what they are doing. They know how to press people's buttons and will use any event even slightly out of the ordinary to push their message of their sky daddy's eternal and unrelenting anger at us for allowing gays to exist or whatever. They know they are hated and they know their message is hated and they feed off of this.

## Post 84 by Smiling Sunshine (I've now got the bronze prolific poster award! now going for the silver award!) on Tuesday, 18-Dec-2012 8:47:11

Well said, post 78.
After the presidential election, we significantly decreased the amount of news programming to which we listen. I can honestly say, I'm happier that way. There's no point in being pissed off all the time about things about which I care deeply but over which I have no control.
I keep abreast as to what's going on but only as a passing interest, kind of like rubber necking at a crash site but I'm no longer all wrapped up in it. Life is too short and there is far too much good going on to dwell so heavily on all the negative.
I'm certainly not burrying my head in the sand but also not getting all caught up in every little drama. The school shooting is obviously a bit different because of the sheer horror of it but other than updates, I'm not watching any of the coverage. I just can't.
Ok, didn't mean to highjack the topic. Sorry.

## Post 85 by synthesizer101 (I just keep on posting!) on Tuesday, 18-Dec-2012 9:12:17

My question is which december 21, 2012 will herald the destruction of the planet. If it affects us once it reaches Tonga,, it could hit in two days. Otherwise, it could be as long as three days when it reaches the Marshall Islands. My hypothesis is that once it hits the Marshalls, the entire world ignites and spews molten random earth material all over the place. That'll be a super bummer, especially to the Martians. What would you do if your neighbor's house exploded and little melted pieces started to fall down and penetrate your windows? Yeah; they'll be really angry at us. I guess we don't care, though, because it is our melted remains that have been breaking the Martian windows. Oh well.

## Post 86 by BryanP22 (Novice theriminist) on Tuesday, 18-Dec-2012 11:29:56

I'm looking forward to all the flabbergastage on Saturday LOL.

## Post 87 by synthesizer101 (I just keep on posting!) on Friday, 21-Dec-2012 17:38:06

It is now officially December 21 in all time zones, and has been for ten and a half hours. It is probably time to lay this idiocy to rest. Who's with me?

## Post 88 by chelslicious (like it or not, I'm gonna say what I mean. all the time.) on Friday, 21-Dec-2012 17:59:15

I would be, but I'm smart enough to know there will always be idiots who claim this sort of thing will really happen, whenever the next time is.

## Post 89 by Rune Knight (Ancient Demon - Darkness will always conquer Light!) on Friday, 21-Dec-2012 22:17:58

There was never any scientific proof that the world was going to end. The Mayan calender is just starting a new cycle much like we do with our calenders at the end of each year. We just get a new one, well it's the same for them. No need to worry our world will be intact for years to come.

## Post 90 by GreenTurtle (Music is life. Love. Vitality.) on Saturday, 22-Dec-2012 0:40:03

It is now officially December 22. It's 12:38 AM eastern time now as I write this. I can't wait to see how much backpedaling people do, and what the next prediction for the exact time and date for the end of the world will be.

## Post 91 by BryanP22 (Novice theriminist) on Saturday, 22-Dec-2012 1:46:14

Yeah really. I read earlier that there were more than a few mass suicides planned for today. But of the ones I read about, te insigator of one was arrested and the location where the other one was planned was closed. LOL.

## Post 92 by Blue Velvet (I've got the platinum golden silver bronze poster award.) on Saturday, 22-Dec-2012 10:51:11

People are so damn stupid and gullible.
There was never any proof that the world was going to end yesterday. It was just the end of a cycle in the Maya calendar and never meant to be interpreted as the end of the world. It's just like our calendar ends every December 31. Can you imagine if people panicked at the end of every calendar year?

## Post 93 by LaneKeys (Resident Grungehead) on Saturday, 22-Dec-2012 17:33:46

Man, the end of time sucked. They could have at least made it loud. This afterlife sucks too--it's just the same damned thing over and over again.

## Post 94 by Remy (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Saturday, 22-Dec-2012 22:21:34

I really wanted my city to cut the power; just for five or ten minutes.

## Post 95 by Reyami (I've broken five thousand! any more awards going?) on Sunday, 23-Dec-2012 5:32:34

Gee, the end of the world sure looks a hell of a lot like my town. Hey cool, wireless internet. being dead isn't so bad ... Oh wait, that's right, it didn't happen. which crackpot's going to try to predict Doomsday next? lol

## Post 96 by BryanP22 (Novice theriminist) on Sunday, 23-Dec-2012 10:07:28

I think the wording was the problem. The Mayans apparently said "end of days" for the end of their calendar, and of course Christians take"end of days" to mean the end of the world. But there's a discussion on another web site I go to (www.audiogames.net), and a few people are acting as though the world's ended in some countries but not others. But I would think that if the world was going to end, whether in response to the command of some mysterious being in the sky or just from our sun going nova, it would go all at once and not in stages.

## Post 97 by LeoGuardian (You mean there is something outside of this room with my computer in it?) on Sunday, 23-Dec-2012 15:23:23

Someone's already claimed they were wrong and it's really gonna be 2013.

## Post 98 by chelslicious (like it or not, I'm gonna say what I mean. all the time.) on Sunday, 23-Dec-2012 17:04:25

and so it will go on and on...

## Post 99 by Remy (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Sunday, 23-Dec-2012 19:33:19

I'm going to just pretend you didn't say that Leo. Doing so allows me to keep believing the next time the world is supposed to end people will be more original about it.

## Post 100 by chelslicious (like it or not, I'm gonna say what I mean. all the time.) on Sunday, 23-Dec-2012 20:10:05

keep dreamin', BG, cause that'll never happen.

## Post 101 by BryanP22 (Novice theriminist) on Sunday, 23-Dec-2012 20:39:53

Nope. Being original is apparently against the rules. LOL.

## Post 102 by synthesizer101 (I just keep on posting!) on Monday, 24-Dec-2012 12:19:20

Bryan, those reports were sarcastic. Of course, the world didn't end in Iran or India. It's still alive then. Also, the sun cannot go supernova in the traditional sense of the word without becoming much much bigger. Anyway, we're talking about six billion years from now. With very very optimistic calculations, humans will have been extinct for 5.7 billion years, so no sun destruction for us. In my opinion, the destruction will come from behavior modification (read "The Lost World" by Michael Chrichten to know what I mean.)

## Post 103 by forereel (Just posting.) on Monday, 24-Dec-2012 12:26:50

I love when people say, and not one, but a bunch of them, that they were wrong, but of course all the money, and such they've collected doesn't get returned.
I really need to get on that end of it in 2013, so I can not have to worry about my world ending, money wise, in 2014. Lol

## Post 104 by BryanP22 (Novice theriminist) on Monday, 24-Dec-2012 13:29:19

I figured you were being sarcastic, but at least make sense LOL. And I know we've got at least a few more billion years left. What gets me though is that humanity ust assumes that it'll even still be around by the time the world's ready to end. It's entirely possible humankind will have been long gone by then. We,that is you and I and everyone else alive today, will never know.

## Post 105 by Rune Knight (Ancient Demon - Darkness will always conquer Light!) on Tuesday, 15-Jan-2013 19:06:15

This board should now be called 2013 Apocalypse
Well we all saw this coming but this soon? WTF! I read an article on Yahoo about another fucking prediction. Here it is if your interested.
End Near? Doomsday Clock Holds at 5 'Til Midnight
The hands of the infamous "Doomsday Clock" will remain firmly in their place at five minutes to midnight — symbolizing humans' destruction — for the year 2013, scientists announced today (Jan. 14).
Keeping their outlook for the future of humanity quite dim, the group of scientists also wrote an open letter to President Barack Obama, urging him to partner with other global leaders to act on climate change.
The clock is a symbol of the threat of humanity's imminent destruction from nuclear or biological weapons, climate change and other human-caused disasters. In making their deliberations about how to update the clock's time this year, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists considered the current state of nuclear arsenals around the globe, the slow and costly recovery from events like Fukushima nuclear meltdown, and extreme weather events that fit in with a pattern of global warming.
"2012 was the hottest year on record in the contiguous United States, marked by devastating drought and brutal storms," the letter says. "These extreme events are exactly what climate models predict for an atmosphere laden with greenhouse gases." [Doom and Gloom: 10 Post-Apocalyptic Worlds]
At the same time, the letter did give a nod to some progress, applauding the president for taking steps to "nudge the country along a more rational energy path," with his support for wind and other renewable energy sources.
"We have as much hope for Obama's second term in office as we did in 2010, when we moved back the hand of the Clock after his first year in office," Robert Socolow, chair of the board that determines the clock's position, said in a statement. "This is the year for U.S. leadership in slowing climate change and setting a path toward a world without nuclear weapons."
The Doomsday Clock came into being in 1947 as a way for atomic scientists to warn the world of the dangers of nuclear weapons. That year, the Bulletin set the time at seven minutes to midnight, with midnight symbolizing humanity's destruction. By 1949, it was at three minutes to midnight as the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union deteriorated. In 1953, after the first test of the hydrogen bomb, the doomsday clock ticked to two minutes until midnight.
The Bulletin was at its most optimistic in 1991, when the Cold War thawed and the United States and Russia began cutting their arsenals. That year, the clock was set at 17 minutes to midnight.
From then until 2010, however, it was a gradual creep back toward destruction, as hopes of total nuclear disarmament vanished and threats of nuclear terrorism and climate change reared their heads. In 2010, the Bulletin found some hope in arms reduction treaties and international climate talks and bumped the minute hand of the Doomsday Clock back to six minutes from midnight from its previous post at five to midnight. But by 2012, the clock was pushed forward another minute.

## Post 106 by Rune Knight (Ancient Demon - Darkness will always conquer Light!) on Tuesday, 15-Jan-2013 19:20:52

Right I suppose I'll be the first to say it's NOT going to happen!

## Post 107 by LeoGuardian (You mean there is something outside of this room with my computer in it?) on Wednesday, 16-Jan-2013 17:37:52

Check out the Histeria Channel 2012 "documentary" that has been posted to Youtube. Better yet, check out the comments to that vid. I usually use my iPhone to read comments as the site is a pain in the ass for that, but anyway. They're more entertaining than the film was.