Garrulous Glaahk AethirWeb Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 2012 is coming up, I wanna hear my fellow Spiders what they think of this. you think it will be like Y2K? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Enraged Slith Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 If the world is going to end, I doubt it will be a sudden event. We will know far ahead of time. That said, some people will panic like idiots. If the world really is going to end in 2012, there's nothing that can be done to stop it, so worrying about it is a pointless endeavor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan Skwish-E Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 Skwish-E is looking for a good scam plan to make some money off the end of the worlders. Maybe I offer to buy all their land really cheap, but let them keep it until 1/1/2013. That way they get to have a bunch of ready cash for their end-of-the-world parties, last flings, whatever. If the world ends, they win. If not, ... Skwish-E rules the world! HA HA HA HA <cough> <cough>. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Trenton. Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 Thats not if the world ends in december 2012, skwish, I mean REALLY ends. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan Skwish-E Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 Trenton, will you be my first victim ... customer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Trenton. Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 0.o what does victim have to do with anything? people just sell you land! My deed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Nioca Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 Originally Posted By: AethirWeb 2012 is coming up, I wanna hear my fellow Spiders what they think of this. you think it will be like Y2K? I sincerely doubt we're looking at any sort of apocalypse or Armageddon here. On the other hand, though, this has been one heck of a year as far as natural (and semi-natural) disasters have been concerned. The tsunami that hit Japan (and it's nuclear plants), the earthquake that hit Virginia, Hurricane Irene, all the usual manner of storms, forest fires, and so forth, plus some others that are probably slipping my mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Trenton. Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 Could it be the natural pole switching Armageddon is about to happen with all these freaks of nature? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 Clearly the mutant turnips are to the blame. Halliburton's genetically engineered freak vegetables are disrupting the fabric of reality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast keira Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall The Ratt Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 Why'd you put it all in white text? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Callie Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 That's not even close to the correct spelling of legitimate. Silly eschatological arguments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt Necris Omega Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 Mayans... if they were so psychic, how come they're all dead? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody Duck in a Top Hat Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 Personally I have absolutely no belief that the world will end in 2012. First off, most people only believe this because they think it was predicted by ancient Maya. According to Wikipedia, Quote: Predictions of impending doom are not found in any of the extant classic Maya accounts, and that the idea that the Long Count calendar "ends" in 2012 misrepresents Maya history. Astronomers and other scientists have rejected the apocalyptic forecasts as pseudoscience, stating that the anticipated events are contradicted by simple astronomical observations. Quote: We have no record or knowledge that the [Maya] would think the world would come to an end" in 2012. In my opinion this is just a misunderstanding of the actual Maya predictions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan Karoka Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 While I'm completely sure the world is not coming to an end, I'm sure something is going to happen. Whatever it is, only time will tell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Alorael at Large Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 I think 2012 is going to be a lot like Y2K. Lots of fear, very little impact. The main difference, of course, is that in Y2K we knew the (non-)threat. For next year we have absolutely no idea what won't kill us all! —Alorael, who is sure many things will happen. In fact, there will probably be more things than an average year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Goldengirl Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 I'm personally hoping for a zombie apocalypse... Realistically, though, one of these is probably gonna end up killing us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 Randy Savage is already gone. There is nothing else the world can do to hurt me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Trenton. Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 I practically read all of those. They all seemed likely except for the one with Quantom particles witch were a bit confusing, and the one with the cats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan Karoka Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 All we have to do is turn into roaches. Then we can survive anything that comes our way! (except shoes) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 Does Intrade have odds on the world ending in 2012? Because I'd like to put around my money where my mouth is- that this entire "2012" hysteria was cooked up by either New-Agers mentally crippled from all the drugs, or people looking to profit off of aforementioned NAs. Besides, even if there is an apocalypse, I'll be fine. There's a FEMA concentration camp I can escape to! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Trenton. Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 Uh, I relized there was more than what I thought there was. I already read three about quantum physics. Ill see you in a few hours after I read them all and try to make sense of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Student of Trinity Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 I know the exact date on which the world will end. It's just that, in that dating system, I do not know today's date. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan Karoka Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 You must let me see, for I have absolutely no experience with foreign dating systems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Cairo Jim Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 My calender runs out at the end of this year. I wonder if I could do a whole "doomsday" thing and make money out of it. Bahaha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Trenton. Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 Dont all calenders have to end? *walks up to the fridge, notice that 2011 is one day short from over, and that there are no more spaces left "OH MY GOD WERE ALL GONNA DIE TOMARROW!" and runs around screaming* See how dumb that sounds? stop worrying about the calenders. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Cairo Jim Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 I don't think we have anything to worry about. Most people have the sense to not listen to those with less sense about the whole dooms thing. Besides, I found one of those diary things for 2013. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Trenton. Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 Lets just hope *glances around nervously* Even if something doesnt happen, theres always 2060 coming up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Cairo Jim Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 I could be dead of old age by then. I dunno. Scrap that, I'll be a tad young for old age. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Trenton. Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 I dont want to die after my fourteenth birthday! 2012 cant come! ill be to young, I will never marry, or have children,or go to an R rated movie in my life! *chokes back a sob* And think in the years after 2012 that so many hamburgers I could have eaten! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Student of Trinity Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 Originally Posted By: Karoka You must let me see, for I have absolutely no experience with foreign dating systems. Dating systems are generally based on setting some important event to occur at the start of the year 1. Well, the end of the world is a pretty important event. So I reckon there's a system in which the world ends at the beginning of the year one. If only I knew what year BTE it was now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt Necris Omega Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 Originally Posted By: Goldenking I'm personally hoping for a zombie apocalypse... Realistically, though, one of these is probably gonna end up killing us. I LOVE Exit Mundi! Too bad it's so unkept and dated. =/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Cairo Jim Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 I'm now very reluctant to eat anything from Mcdonalds. I never liked eating anything of theirs in the first place. But then the other day I realised why. We had to get our lunch from there the other day, and on reading the nutritional info afterwards, I was freaked out. I ate about 75 grams of fat, and thats without including the drink. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Tyranicus Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 Originally Posted By: Cairo Jim I'm now very reluctant to eat anything from Mcdonalds. I never liked eating anything of theirs in the first place. But then the other day I realised why. We had to get our lunch from there the other day, and on reading the nutritional info afterwards, I was freaked out. I ate about 75 grams of fat, and thats without including the drink. If there was fat in your drink, I really don't want to know what you were drinking, unless it was milk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Cairo Jim Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 It was coke, which would have a ridiculous amount of sugar in it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall A less presumptuous name. Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 sugar =/= fat. it may cause you to gain weight if consumed in excess, but they are far from the same thing. Just to get in my nit-picking quota for the year before I die in a hurricane. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Jerakeen Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 Are you in Irene's path? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 Originally Posted By: Duck in a Top Hat In my opinion this is just a misunderstanding of the actual Maya predictions. more pertinent question: why would we expect the mayans to have any particularly useful information about when the world will end in the first place Originally Posted By: Vodka and Quicklime I think 2012 is going to be a lot like Y2K. Lots of fear, very little impact. The main difference, of course, is that in Y2K we knew the (non-)threat. For next year we have absolutely no idea what won't kill us all! —Alorael, who is sure many things will happen. In fact, there will probably be more things than an average year. for the record y2k most definitely would have caused serious problems if everyone had just written it off as a non-event in advance: the mitigation program wasn't a waste of effort as it's sometimes painted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody Duck in a Top Hat Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 Originally Posted By: Lilith more pertinent question: why would we expect the mayans to have any particularly useful information about when the world will end in the first place Good point. But if people are going to put stock in the Mayans at all, they might as well get it right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan Skwish-E Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 On the day that the old calendar runs out, an ancient wrinkled man comes down out of the Andes and flips the big stone over. There you see that the calendar continues on the other side. Skwish-E, having bought all of the land in the region at crazy low cash prices, then evicts all of his victims and declares Skwish-Topia officially founded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan Karoka Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 Pfft, that's nothing. I'm gonna be the king of all roaches! Once I have earned their trust, my roach armies will crush your little Skwish-Topia. Originally Posted By: Student of Trinity Originally Posted By: Karoka You must let me see, for I have absolutely no experience with foreign dating systems. Dating systems are generally based on setting some important event to occur at the start of the year 1. Well, the end of the world is a pretty important event. So I reckon there's a system in which the world ends at the beginning of the year one. If only I knew what year BTE it was now. . . . which gives all the more reason to let me see it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Sarachim Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 Originally Posted By: Lilith Originally Posted By: Duck in a Top Hat In my opinion this is just a misunderstanding of the actual Maya predictions. more pertinent question: why would we expect the mayans to have any particularly useful information about when the world will end in the first place IIRC, the justification (for those who are somehow irrational enough to believe in 2012, but still rational enough to require a justification) is that the Mayans correctly predicted the coming of Cortez, so clearly they must have had some predicting chops. This is kinda-sorta true, provided that you don't know the difference between the Mayans and the Aztecs. Other arguments include that the Mayans were excellent astronomers and therefore excellent astrologers as well, even though Tycho Brahe was pretty good at that stuff too but that didn't stop him from getting his nose chopped off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan Karoka Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 I think the end of the Mayan calendar is just the end of an age. I think the next age is supposed to be Aquarius or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Alorael at Large Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 Originally Posted By: Lilith for the record y2k most definitely would have caused serious problems if everyone had just written it off as a non-event in advance: the mitigation program wasn't a waste of effort as it's sometimes painted It was a technical problem that was solved. It was portrayed as an inevitable, apocalyptic failure of all computers everywhere that could not possibly be solved, and it was portrayed that way after the offending code had been widely amended. —Alorael, who wonders if the Mayans might have been such good predictors that they predicted their own downfall and decided to throw some doomsaying in just for the long-after-the-fact lulz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 Originally Posted By: Vodka and Quicklime It was a technical problem that was solved. It was portrayed as an inevitable, apocalyptic failure of all computers everywhere that could not possibly be solved, and it was portrayed that way after the offending code had been widely amended. by some people, sure. it's just important to remember that it actually was a real problem that needed solving. otherwise you get people using the media beat-up over y2k as a reason not to trust anything that actual scientists say about, say, climate change, because apparently "people who say things on tv" are a monolithic institution and if one of them is wrong then they all must be Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Mea Tulpa Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 not to mention "people who say things on the internet" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dintiradan Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 Quote: it's just important to remember that it actually was a real problem that needed solving. otherwise you get people using the media beat-up over y2k as a reason not to trust anything that actual scientists say about, say, climate change, because apparently "people who say things on tv" are a monolithic institution and if one of them is wrong then they all must be This. It's really infuriating how most people seemed (and seem) to regard the Y2K problem the same way they would a natural disaster. A number of people I knew seemed to think that Y2K was a 'possibility', and that no one knew for sure what its impact would be. Whenever I mention the Year 2038 Problem, people think I'm pulling their leg. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 part of the problem is that most people don't actually have the expertise to tell the difference between a trustworthy and an untrustworthy source in most fields, and mass media have been utterly derelict in their duty to inform the public as opposed to just handing soapboxes to loudmouths Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast *i Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 Y2K is an interesting thing in that the actions taken either seem unjustified because they worked spectacularly, or were wasted efforts since it was not a problem to begin with. Unfortunately, there is no way to go back and run the experiment to see what the magnitude of the problem would have been had no action been taken. What we can safely assert is that there would have been more serious consequences, how serious, we will never truly know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 Y2K was a man made disaster and was correctable as opposed to natural disasters that can only be reduced but not avoided. Look at the East Coast of the US. They just had an earthquake and now hurricane Irene is bearing down on them. Earth, wind (air), and water all within a week. All they need is a forest fire for the big four of disasters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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