2012

[Bianca_Sommerland]

Okay so I just saw all the trailors...I think...and the movie looks awesome (if you're into disaster movies, which I am )

I'm just wondering what people think of the whole Apocalypse thing. Believe it? Don't believe it? Hope you can watch someone you really don't like go down before you do?

Personally I'm not sure what I think, but I know I'm not going to worry about it until there's something concrete to worry about. If it is true one thing made me giggle. Because I'm strange but anyway.

Guess we wouldn't have to worry about global warming

Here's a wiki excerpt about the 2012 Phenomenon. Might look for more later. Found one thing was interesting, the alien referance. See we have had contact. They told our ancestors we were all going to die in five thousand some odd years!

The 2012 phenomenon is a range of beliefs and proposals positing that cataclysmic or transformative events will occur in the year 2012.[1][2] The forecast is based primarily on what is claimed to be the end-date of the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, which is presented as lasting 5,125 years and as terminating on December 21 or 23, 2012. Arguments supporting this dating are drawn from a mixture of amateur archaeoastronomy, alternative interpretations of mythology, numerological constructions, and alleged prophecies from extraterrestrial beings.

A New Age interpretation of this transition posits that, during this time, the planet and its inhabitants may undergo a positive physical or spiritual transformation, and that 2012 may mark the beginning of a new era.[3] Conversely, some believe that the 2012 date marks the beginning of an apocalypse. Both ideas have been disseminated in numerous books and TV documentaries, and have spread around the world through websites and discussion groups. The idea of a global event occurring in 2012 based on any interpretation of the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar is rejected as pseudoscience by the scientific community, and as misrepresentative of Maya history by Mayanist scholars.[2][4]

 

[JackLuis]

Naw, it's not the end of the world,

Dick Cheney gets elected President and it'll just seem like the end of the world.

 

[Freefall_mc]

Ok...I thought it was supposed to be Dec 22. I would have made all my preparations, fitting all my preferred activities into the last day, just to possibly meet my end the day before? Wow...good thing I read this!

Mayan hieroglyphics have been some of the most difficult to translate. So as astute as they were astonomically with regards to their almanacs, are we interpreting it correctly?

 

[Freefall_mc]

Naw, it's not the end of the world,

Dick Cheney gets elected President and it'll just seem like the end of the world.

*smacks Jack across back of head for suggesting a worse fate*

 

[TE999]

Doomsday in any number of forms has been proclaimed as imminent throughout history; the last one was predicted to occur in 2000 at the change of the century. It makes for a cinematic special effects extravaganza but is, for all rights and purposes, unlikely.

You're in greater danger crossing the street in mid-block than the Earth getting whacked by a meteor.

 

[Bianca_Sommerland]

Ok...I thought it was supposed to be Dec 22. I would have made all my preparations, fitting all my preferred activities into the last day, just to possibly meet my end the day before? Wow...good thing I read this!

Mayan hieroglyphics have been some of the most difficult to translate. So as astute as they were astonomically with regards to their almanacs, are we interpreting it correctly?

21 or 23. You might be safe

Of course we're not reading it right. We're actually supposed to die tommorow

I'm gonna miss you sweetie!

 

[Bianca_Sommerland]

Doomsday in any number of forms has been proclaimed as imminent throughout history; the last one was predicted to occur in 2000 at the change of the century. It makes for a cinematic special effects extravaganza but is, for all rights and purposes, unlikely.

You're in greater danger crossing the street in mid-block than the Earth getting whacked by a meteor.

Well that's not very exciting! *pout*

Darn you for spoiling my fun. I was looking forward to a post Apocalyptic society...or the attempt to live to see it anyway.

 

[JackLuis]

*smacks Jack across back of head for suggesting a worse fate*

"The prophet is unwelcome in his own country"

 

[Freefall_mc]

21 or 23. You might be safe

Of course we're not reading it right. We're actually supposed to die tommorow

I'm gonna miss you sweetie!

I'll be there the week before hon! I honestly need that much time.

*Wonders if Tom's correct, and I get hit by a minivan crossing the street one block away from B.* Oooh...the injustice of it all!!!

 

[Bianca_Sommerland]

"The prophet is unwelcome in his own country"

Predict something good...like me getting with John Cena before I die

I'll be there the week before hon! I honestly need that much time.

*Wonders if Tom's correct, and I get hit by a minivan crossing the street one block away from B.* Oooh...the injustice of it all!!!

I'm in Montreal baby...we'll meet downtown...under the city. No cars!

 

[TxRad]

What happened to the Mayans? Didn't they just disappear one day? Phone home ET.

Maybe 2012 was as far as they wanted to figure the calendar back then. They figured it would give them plenty of time to get back to it later. OOps

 

[TE999]

Well that's not very exciting! *pout*

Darn you for spoiling my fun. I was looking forward to a post Apocalyptic society...or the attempt to live to see it anyway.

Sorry.

Survival would be possible at the higher elevations...the Rockies or the Appalachians...bring plenty of warm clothes, food and water.

 

[Freefall_mc]

What happened to the Mayans? Didn't they just disappear one day? Phone home ET.

Maybe 2012 was as far as they wanted to figure the calendar back then. They figured it would give them plenty of time to get back to it later. OOps

So elusive are their decipherings, and you have to blow it for us? *pouts*
I rather enjoyed the mystery. Please dont tell us what happened to them if you know Rad, until Dec 21. I'll be demanding the unraveling of the mysteries of the universe at that time.

 

[Bianca_Sommerland]

What happened to the Mayans? Didn't they just disappear one day? Phone home ET.

Maybe 2012 was as far as they wanted to figure the calendar back then. They figured it would give them plenty of time to get back to it later. OOps

LMAO! That's actually possible. I could just imagine it.

"World flat? Check. Gods happy? Check. End of world...hmmm...let's say Dec 21 or 23, 2012. Will adjust it later."

 

[Bianca_Sommerland]

Sorry.

Survival would be possible at the higher elevations...the Rockies or the Appalachians...bring plenty of warm clothes, food and water.

We'll have a Lit-together, we can keep each other warm

I'm taking my car.

So elusive are their decipherings, and you have to blow it for us? *pouts*
I rather enjoyed the mystery. Please dont tell us what happened to them if you know Rad, until Dec 21. I'll be demanding the unraveling of the mysteries of the universe at that time.

Hey MC. Psst. Guess what?

There is no Santa Claus.

 

[TxRad]

LMAO! That's actually possible. I could just imagine it.

"World flat? Check. Gods happy? Check. End of world...hmmm...let's say Dec 21 or 23, 2012. Will adjust it later."

Twenty Twelve does have a nice ring to it and it's right in the middle of summer. Nice time to check out.

 

[Freefall_mc]

A local radio show was inquiring what type of cataclysmic event would they prefer. I'm not sure there are any that I would classify as satisfying. I suppose a celestial event, an asteroid descent would be fascinating to witness.
Notice I say descent, not impact. The impact sensations probably wouldn't make it past the nerves to the first synapses of my brain.

 

[Monkey_Face]

Luckily I'm a prophet.

I'm seeing the year 2012. I'm seeing people waving cardboard signs. Food being rationed and stocked in cellars. Zealots on TV telling us this is all because of gay marriage. I'm seeing the ball falling in New York, the count down...and...nothing happens! Everything is fine. Zealots go back to finding other things to blame gays for. Rational things, like 9/11. Food is taken out of cellars and put back in cabinets. Cardboard signs going back to their intended uses, guilting people into donating beer money on street corners.

Now I'm getting another vision. It's a vision of the past. Hundreds of years ago. It's the year 900 AD, deep in the rain forests of South America. Tribal people in loin cloths. Mayans. They...they look tired. Really tired. They're holding chisels. They're complaining. Oh! I can hear what they're saying. Yes, yes. They're bitter about carving a calender in stone that spans 2000 years. They're tired and sweaty. They're packing up their shit and going home. Something about not being paid enough, and possibly the diseased Spanish. I'm not sure.

 

[Bianca_Sommerland]

A local radio show was inquiring what type of cataclysmic event would they prefer. I'm not sure there are any that I would classify as satisfying. I suppose a celestial event, an asteroid descent would be fascinating to witness.
Notice I say descent, not impact. The impact sensations probably wouldn't make it past the nerves to the first synapses of my brain.

Tidal waves would be cool. Like the ones in The Day After Tommorow. Or Aliens. Big, spaceships surrounding the planet.

Would like something with a chance for survival.

 

[TE999]

We'll have a Lit-together, we can keep each other warm

I'm taking my car.

The Litogether to end all Litogethers. Party like it's 2012.

If a bunch of us pervs and libertines survived, I bet the Fundies would be chapped. Of course they'll have their ark.

 

[Freefall_mc]

Tidal waves would be cool. Like the ones in The Day After Tommorow. Or Aliens. Big, spaceships surrounding the planet.

Would like something with a chance for survival.

Hmm...now I'm suspicious. I think you're nothing but an adrenalin junky!

And then again...the monkey could be right.

 

[Freefall_mc]

*Making plans to attend the Litogather of 2012. Better start saving for the rager. Drops two quarters into coffee can.*

 

[TheGreatRaja]

I have T-Shirts!

 

[Bianca_Sommerland]

The Litogether to end all Litogethers. Party like it's 2012.

If a bunch of us pervs and libertines survived, I bet the Fundies would be chapped. Of course they'll have their ark.

I can just picture it. Harems everywhere, orgies, parties.

Damn where's that meteor!

Hmm...now I'm suspicious. I think you're nothing but an adrenalin junky!

And then again...the monkey could be right.

Who me?

 

[Freefall_mc]

I have T-Shirts!

Oh great, someone's already selling t-shirts. Hope they cover all the possible outcomes on the front. I'd be embarrassed to die in a shirt that foretold the wrong disaster.