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[SSB] 2012
Topic Started: Jan 27 2008, 01:09 PM (1,223 Views)
Jarnakel Magnus
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Nothing to siege here, move along.

I'd like to mention that the Mayan Calander that ends in 2012is the Long count calendar. There's others. And really, it was carved out of a rock. Maybe they just ran out of room.

Look at our (non-digital) calendars. They last a year. So are we then to assume the world is going to end on December 31st of each year, just because a calendar stops there? Silly people who believe in 2012 being The End are silly.
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Seraphim
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The end of life as we know it sounds like an awesome concept, even though its as far-fetched as all anime becoming real. Which would also be awesome.

Besides the point: I personally think that it won't be the end of everything. My thoughts are that there will be mass hysteria, people will die because they think the world is ending, blah blah. Then on December 22nd, 2012, I'm watching the movie 2012 and laughing at all the idiots who got worked up over nothing.
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Kentington
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100% of past doomsayers have been dead wrong, even during the Cold War - the one point in human history when a global apocalypse might actually have been plausible. With that kind of track record, it's frankly depressing that people still buy into the "end of the world" - it's almost as though we have some kind of species-wide death urge. We yearn for apocalypse, and while that phrase might sound badass in a metal track, in the real world it's just sad.

(Before the pedants descend, okay, it's theoretically possible that a host of different astrophysical phenomena - from a nearby gamma-ray burst to an undetected near-earth object - could have apocalyptic effects with little-to-no warning, and so we can't say for certain that we won't go extinct in 2012 or in the next five minutes. If the ancient Mayans understood the physics behind gamma-ray bursts and had built enough telescopes to observe nearby neutron stars and\or black holes well enough to predict GRBs a few centuries in advance... I for one would love to see their general-relativistic calculations, maybe carved into a temple somewhere. You'd win a Nobel prize if you figured that shit out today, never mind hundreds of years ago.)
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Nove Fidelis Incendia
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indeed. I believe the "Earth" itself won't be the only one to end, if there is an ending in our time. It would be a universal thing, not just one planet. There are possibilities for escape if it's just one planet, especially since we are capable of traveling to one of our nearby planets. No, the universe, began. So it has to end. Everything within it will be gone too when it ends.

what there will be after the universe will be no more, I haven't the faintest idea.
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Bane Martius Agni
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Archon Agni, of Clan Martius

Zombies.
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b l o n d e b o n d
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Wombo Combo

Well at least America will handle zombie threat well, what with the whole anti-zombie thing going on.
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knightkid123
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Here’s how I feel about 2012.
I can’t tell you if I think 2012 will be the end of earth, but I can tell you how privileged I feel. Think about it for a second. You have a chance to experience the end of the [radio edit]ing Mayan Long Count calendar, that’s something every person born after 12/21/2012 and before 12/21/1890 will never, ever have a chance to do.

I’m [radio edit]ing SRS! That’s awesome.
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Kula Diamond
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knightkid123
Jan 27 2011, 02:43 PM
Think about it for a second. You have a chance to experience the end of the [radio edit]ing Mayan Long Count calendar, that’s something every person born after 12/21/2012 and before 12/21/1890 will never, ever have a chance to do.
Well, that is a new way to look at things.

I like.
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Shiroi Jigoku
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Jan 27 2011, 02:46 PM
knightkid123
Jan 27 2011, 02:43 PM
Think about it for a second. You have a chance to experience the end of the [radio edit]ing Mayan Long Count calendar, that’s something every person born after 12/21/2012 and before 12/21/1890 will never, ever have a chance to do.
Well, that is a new way to look at things.

I like.
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Tange9t
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My personal take on the matter is generally a resounding 'meh'. I try not to think about it too much, but I personally think people are getting worked up over nothing, and anything that actually happens will be due to people freaking out too much and going crazy. If it doesn't happen, huzzah, huge success! If it does happen, what's the point in dwelling on it? If the end of the world's gonna happen it's gonna happen, nothing I can do to change that. Life's too short to spend it worrying about what may or may not happen.
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Kiki
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It seems to be generally accepted here that the world will not end in 2012. Some people have brought up mass-hysteria around the doomsday date though, do you really think that's going to happen?

There'll probably be a flurry about it around New Years Day 2012. News programs will probably run sensational stories, "2012: Is it the End?" but ultimately they can't say "WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE" because that's just not true. They'll probably have experts on explaining things for a few weeks. Then the interest will die down for a few months. After Thanksgiving we'll see news stories pick up on it again, but a lot of the coverage will be eclipsed by Christmas stuff. Then Dec 22 will come by and we'll all be like "LOL WE'RE GONNA DIE TODAY" and maybe we'll have a Doomsday Temple Holiday or something. Then it will be the next day and everyone will be like lol.

I don't think enough people believe in it for mass hysteria. The only people I know who believe are "on the fence," people who don't really know anything about it and uh... aren't very smart. ._. The only way to get these people to freak out is if the media starts shouting ITS REAL! ITS REAL! But they won't do that, because there is no strong evidence to suggest that it is true. The only things that will freak out over it are talk shows.
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Gilgamesh
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It'll probably just be Y2K all over again. Some people will stockpile a bunch of crap, feel stupid when nothing happens, and then 2012 will be used as a joke in sitcoms until 2013.
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