World ending in 2012!

[lizerdbits]

Being sick allows me to watch crappy TV and some people in suits on the History channel told me the world is ending in 2012. Mayan calendars, Revelations, I Ching, Native American writings etc say so. So should I scrap the 401k and rack up debt since I won't have to pay it off? :rofl:

[Warpy]

1. They always forget that the Mayan calendar continues

into a completely new age. All 2012 means is that a drastic change is expected. Since those prophecies are occasionally self fulfilling and since I'm not too keen on the kind of world that would allow a rich half wit like Stupid so much power, I'm all for it.

[lizerdbits]

6. Maybe that will be when

all the crap we're doing to the environment kicks us in the ass at once. You are more optimistic than I am apparently.

[TZ]

2. So what does Nostradamus have to say about this?

I only get my end-of-the-world prophecies from him.....;-)

[lizerdbits]

4. I didn't see the whole show

but I did see someone talking who was listed as a 'Nostradamus expert' so they probably covered it.

The best quote I heard about Nostradamus was something like 'Make predictions vague enough and you can convince just about anybody of anything.'

[Warpy]

7. I did see the whole thing

and it was laughable. They GUESS that the illustrations in a Nostradamus manuscript were done by his son and they GUESS that what looks like a ship's wheel is actually a picture of the Milky way and they GUESS that we're heading into some sort of alignment with the plane of the galaxy and they GUESS that all sorts of vague predictions are referring to this as the end of the earth.

That much woo in one sitting left me a mass of quivering giggles.

[lizerdbits]

14. All those shows are like that

This writing COULD mean A which is then taken as fact. That "fact" is then used to say subsequently this other writing COULD mean B. This continues all the way to Z and in combination WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE ON THIS DATE.

[onager]

9. Was the "Nostradumbass expert" that idiot in the funny hat?

No, not the Pope, some other idiot. That smug dope who was on Penn & Teller's "Bullshit" episode dealing with the end of the world.

Back in the Eighties, this clown wrote a book on Nostradamus and gave the name of the Anti-christ: Saddam Hussein.

A later revision of the Eternal Truths edited out Mr. Hussein and replaced him with Osama been Forgotten.

On the same episode, Buy-bull Doom expert Tex Marrs noted, regretfully, that Hillary Clinton would be the perfect Anti-Christ but she's the wrong gender.

[Warpy]

12. No, this was some professorial type

who farted dust as he wheezed his way though the whole thing.

[rAVES]

26. Most the Big Nostradamus prophecys where WW2 propaganda.

[mr blur]

3. What does Big Yak say?

[lizerdbits]

5. If I told you

I'd have to kill you.

[realisticphish]

8. the fact that you don't already know

means that you can never know :tinfoilhat:

[NoodleBoy]

10. So the Mayans could accurately predict the end of the world, but somehow

making tools out of anything but obsidian, stone, and bone escaped them.

Yeah, totally the kind of people I want to listen to regarding end of the world prophecies.

[semillama]

19. Come on now, leave off the Mayans.

It's not like they INTENDED to have their entire culture co-opted by a bunch of raving nutters.

[realisticphish]

20. yeah, right

smug bastards :grr:

[NoodleBoy]

24. I think they did intend to be killed by pious gold-hungry rapist Christian soldiers--

You know, since they could so obviously predict the end of the world, they probably predicted their own demise, so they just spent their time eating plantains and building step pyramids instead of an arsenal to repel their doom.

[rAVES]

27. nobodys claiming they could... but their calanders are only like 6 seconds off to this day..

not bad for a bunch of cave men.

[NoodleBoy]

28. when all you need is a clear view of the night sky, something to write with

and an understanding of math, that's not that impressive.

[realisticphish]

29. but they're from A LONG TIME AGO

that means they were MORONS.

Just like the Egyptians were far too stupid to build pyramids.

My explanation: Space Yaks

[NoodleBoy]

30. right, because it was much too complex for brow- I mean ancient people to build anything.

I think UFO's built most of the castles in the UK too. How do I know? Because I do. You can't prove they didn't, therefore UFO's built most of the castles in the UK.

[realisticphish]

31. frankly

I don't believe that people were intelligent enough to do anything before October 28th, 1985, around noon. At that time, a glorious new age began, and light reached into the darkness of human civilization

[DavidDvorkin]

11. Crap. That's much to soon.

I haven't even started throwing all out the old stuff in the garage. I'll never be able to get ready in time.

[WoodrowFan]

13. There's an easy fix

There is an easy fix. Simply decide the "missing time" guy is rght and declare this year to really be 1707. Bingo. A 300 year grace period. Or adopt the Muslim calendar so it'd be 1428.

See, easy-peesy.

[trotsky]

15. DUDE

I can't believe you neglected to mention, we could jump to the Jewish calendar of the Illuminati and bypass the problem completely! It's like the year 5769 now, isn't it?

[realisticphish]

16. no, idiot

that would make the world end instantly, since it would have ended 3000 years ago. Duh :eyes:

[trotsky]

18. Damn I'm stupid sometimes.

Plus it would probably piss off the lizard people.

[WoodrowFan]

21. damn dude

damn Trotsky, you trying to kill us all??

[trotsky]

23. DUH - I support vaccination, don't I???

:crazy:

[lizerdbits]

22. Don't anger my people

[progressoid]

25. I'm confused about a timeline - which came first the Gorn or the Sleestack?

[TZ]

17. That was gonna be my suggestion.!!!

Don't make the jew/illuminati mad!! I'll sick the Federal Reserve on your ass....:evilgrin:

[Q3JR4]

32. I caught part of that show.

I seem to recall that there was a big thing about the world ending in 2000 and then 2001 based on "prophecies."

Just goes to show you, make your prophecies vague enough and they can mean anything.

Q3JR4.