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Post by SilverSergyon13 on Dec 31, 2009 19:27:19 GMT -5
I'm just curious to see what you guys think. I'm not a believer of apocalypse theories, but I don't doubt that the world could really end at any moment. Personally I think we'll survive 2012, but there are a lot of people really worried about it.
Do you think the world will end on December 21st, 2012? Why or why not?
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Post by surfersquid on Dec 31, 2009 21:14:15 GMT -5
Pfft no.
It's the end of a Mayan long count (and beginning of a new one), there's nothing to freak out about unless you're somehow strangely adverse to a calendrical cycle that includes periods of time longer than millennia.
I really wish humanity would wisen up. Mass hysteria should be beneath us.
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Post by SilverSergyon13 on Dec 31, 2009 21:40:00 GMT -5
That's basically what I think. Things end, and so do calendars. It's just that ours ends every twelve months. They say there are other things that point to the end of the world, such as asteroids, and solar flares, and the such, but none of those things mean the end of humanity. I think its always wise to be prepared for disaster, but I don't know why people panic. If the world ends, it's gonna end whether you have a say in it or not.
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Post by Demarion on Dec 31, 2009 22:02:29 GMT -5
I think it's just a way that the media can get money through movies and stuff. All hype. 2012 is going to be as normal a year as any others.
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Post by surfersquid on Dec 31, 2009 23:10:37 GMT -5
Yeah...it makes me sick just thinking about how many people are going to be duped into doing crazy things just because of a proposed date for the "end of the world" (whatever that might entail). I've already heard reports of people doing things like committing suicide over this. For unscrupulous people and companies to capitalize on something so emotionally and psychologically damaging...that's sick.
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Post by Cy Skywalker on Jan 1, 2010 15:05:37 GMT -5
I think, that because it's Mayan, Quetzalcoatl should show up.
I wrote a short story about the reactions of a bunch of people to the world not ending, that I'm pretty proud of.
That's basically the end of my opinions on the matter. I'm not worried about it. I survived Y2K well enough, and while religious-wise I do believe that the world will end some time, there's no reason it's more likely to on 12/21/12 than on any other day (less, actually, as no one's supposed to be able to predict the day.)
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Post by SilverSergyon13 on Jan 1, 2010 15:12:14 GMT -5
Oooo, Quetzacoatl....Now that's something I'd like to see at the end of the world.
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Post by surfersquid on Jan 1, 2010 23:21:37 GMT -5
(Psst Quetzalcoatl is an Aztec mythological figure, not Mayan.)
*is a pre-Columbian Mesoamerican culture snob*
I remember the Y2K panic. It was actually pretty hilarious. I was young and stupid at the time--somehow smart enough to at least grasp the illogicity of the alleged computer troubles, but at the same time I was praying like crazy at 11:59 on December 31st, 1999. (Although I guess if I only experienced emotional distress over the matter for one minute, that's a pretty good track record...okay, I should stop attempting to redeem my irredeemable loserishness.)
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Post by SilverSergyon13 on Jan 1, 2010 23:56:48 GMT -5
That's right, the Mayan god was something with a K...dangit, I can't remember now.
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Post by Cy Skywalker on Jan 2, 2010 0:05:15 GMT -5
Fail. Sorry. Okay, but Quetzalcoatl is really fun to spell.
Wikipedia tells me that the primary god of the Mayans is the creator Itzamna, seconded by Kinich Ahou, the sun. I'm ashamed to say that I never looked into these, unlike the more flashy, winged-serpent-y Aztecs.
However, they do have what WIkipedia calls "Animal Persons."
Now that I think about it, I'm not sure how I believed that computers not knowing what to do about what date it was could cause mass problems on the scale of a world ending, but I remember being at a party and not wanting to be near any. \
It's interesting how we tend to think of ourselves as a very rational culture, but we have as many superstitions and traditions as what we call primitive cultures. Okay, so our coming-of-age ritual typically involves seeing how much alcohol we can take rather than killing a predatory beast or something, but...society always creates standards to conform to, and they're comforting. Or is it that they're threatening?
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Post by surfersquid on Jan 2, 2010 0:29:54 GMT -5
If anything, we're worse than the so-called "primitive" cultures we condemn as being irrational.
The Egyptians were marvelously rational.
Well, I guess I was more well-informed than most other kids because my dad works with computers, and he'd basically laid everything about the Y2K "problem" bare for me so I understood what a silly misconception it was.
Pfeh. I laugh in the face of society's standards.
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Post by SilverSergyon13 on Jan 2, 2010 0:42:49 GMT -5
Kukulkan is the one I was thinking of, thought I'm not sure if that's the correct spelling.
Y2K was ridiculous. I remember seeing people duct taping their windows on the news. First of all...what in the world will that accomplish? Will duct tape seriously keep out anything? It might keep your window from falling out during the event of those gusty Y2K winds, but it wouldn't even keep out a fairly determined child. They wouldn't even have to be very determined...just fairly.
Second of all, people have to be pretty smart to make computers. Any rational person (Apparently there are very few, if any, in existence on the planet earth) would think that maybe these very smart computer scientists would foresee the magical coming of the year 2000 and realize that computers should be programmed to work even in a new century. After all, their livelihood depends on it.
Third of all....Why the HECK duct tape?! If we had a sudden zombie invasion, are you going to duct tape your door to keep them out? NO! Common sense, people. Common sense.
In fact, maybe the world should end on 12/21/12 because people are so naive to think that duct tape would help prevent the world from ending.
~Silver <-Runnning to the nearest store to stock up on duct tape.
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Post by Jedi Master Sar Sha on Jan 2, 2010 0:47:08 GMT -5
I don't believe in a known date that the world will come to an end. I believe there will be things happening that will tell us we are at the end, but as for a day, time, and place...no.
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Post by nighthawk on Jan 3, 2010 10:44:43 GMT -5
I believe that by the time the world ends, one way or another, i'll have been dead for many years, had many ancestors, and well....yeah...I don't think it's going to happen in my lifetime.
You know what though? I want ewoks to show up at the end of the world.
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Post by MFB on Mar 11, 2010 13:13:21 GMT -5
I think the world will stop spinning for 10 seconds, all power will go out, the sun will be eclipsed... ...then everything will start back up, and the world will be all like "sike!". But seriously, no. I doubt it...unless you're a seismophobic (phobia of earthquakes...get it?) (Oh, and about the duct tape...you throw it at zombies/redeads, and they implode. The only problem, is that it is a great adhesive for severed members...so if their zombie/redead friends decide to revive them, they've got all they need right next to them )
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Post by SilverSergyon13 on Mar 12, 2010 16:19:39 GMT -5
(Oh, and about the duct tape...you throw it at zombies/redeads, and they implode. The only problem, is that it is a great adhesive for severed members...so if their zombie/redead friends decide to revive them, they've got all they need right next to them ) I honestly read that the first time as "red heads" and I burst out laughing. When I finally realized that is not what you meant at all...I burst out laughing again. Might I note that I just recently died my hair "light auburn" and so I found that comment especially hilarious, considering you were possibly hinting at the fact that I might implode when rolls of duct tape were thrown in my direction.
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Post by Cy Skywalker on Mar 13, 2010 1:28:25 GMT -5
*pelts silver with duct tape*
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Post by SilverSergyon13 on Mar 13, 2010 1:30:42 GMT -5
*implodes*
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Post by nighthawk on Mar 13, 2010 13:35:12 GMT -5
o.O
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Post by Cy Skywalker on Mar 13, 2010 22:26:59 GMT -5
*sweeps up silver particles, puts them in re-animation-machine*
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