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    EH, on a few other forums I've seen people saying " IN 2012 WORLD IS GOING TO DIE ZOME OH NOES!"

    I can't help but think to myself that this has happened in 2000, 2002, 2006 2007 2008 and now 2012, Does anybody believe it? I don't...

    Just want opinions, lol.

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    World is easily going to last another several hundred years.
    People on it might not enjoy it though.
    "If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance." - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

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    I dont believe a bunch of elderly mayans.

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    Mayan zombies will rise from the ground and eat our Brains... OH NOES!!11!!1!

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    This world will end eventually..

    Personally, I'm not sure if the world will end in 2012, but it does sound very feasible..(World War III, oil shortage, the speculation about the impending global police state).

    By the way, I think it's ironic the Mayans can predict the end of the world, when they couldn't predict the destruction of their own civilization by the Spanish.
    Last edited by Antissa; February 18, 2008 at 06:11 PM.

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    I bet it happens during the London Olympics too. So after all that fooking money we will have spent on it could have gone on more instant pleasures like giving everyone a massive telly and a years supply of fags.

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    Quote Originally Posted by William the Bastard View Post
    I bet it happens during the London Olympics too. So after all that fooking money we will have spent on it could have gone on more instant pleasures like giving everyone a massive telly and a years supply of fags.
    i always knew there was something fishy about the british obsession with men dressing up in women's clothing *cough* monty python *cough*

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    Quote Originally Posted by Exarch View Post
    i always knew there was something fishy about the british obsession with men dressing up in women's clothing *cough* monty python *cough*

    monty is amazing. don't be hatin on monty.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Antissa View Post
    Personally, I'm not sure if the world will end in 2012, but it does sound very feasible..(World War III, oil shortage, the speculation about the impending global police state).
    Oh yes, a global police state means the end of the world.

    Quote Originally Posted by Simetrical View Post
    Well, no. The issue is more like running out of digits than running out of calendars. It's not like 2010, it's like the year 10,000, when we can no longer use four-digit years. One (kind of silly) way to look at that event would be that we have to start the calendar over at 0000. In the case of the Mayans it's maybe a little less silly, given their weird counting systems for dates, but there's still no reason to think they would have viewed it as much more significant than Y2K (which actually did cause problems!).
    The solution is easy Sim; change to five-digit years.

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    its the mayan thing isnt it, i believed my brother when he told me lol

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    I don't know if it's mayans or not, but I've seen posts and I just think "Pfft yea right"
    Prejudice is 100% ignorance, 100% immaturity and therefore 200% stupidity.

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    is it also true that on that day all the planets wil be lined up or something?

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    Possibly, but I doubt it, because of the way we orbit, either way, nothing will happen if they do line up, I believe.....
    Prejudice is 100% ignorance, 100% immaturity and therefore 200% stupidity.

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    I've been hearing this stuff from people for a few years now. The Mayan calendar, alignment with the galactic centre etc.

    (the planetary alignment thing has been and gone - Leonard Nimoy of Dr.Spock fame as host of Great Mysteries of the World put the fear of God into me when I was young by stating the date we may all die on due to a planetary alignment - I remembered the date, astronomers mentioned it, it happened, it passed. The alignment is meant to be with the galactic centre or some such bollocks)

    Pffft.

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    yeah and you have to realize that "alignment" in an astronomical sense is a very loose alignment, technically it should be called an arrangement, because we are "aligned" with the galactic center since the 1500s and we will continue to pass the horizon until 2012, or 2015 somewhere in there.

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    This planet will not end until our sun expands/explodes!

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    If our world is vaporized by the sun god on January 1st 2012, I'll pay everyone one hundred dollars.

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    Pfft.





    Just had to add that in.

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    Humanity could end but the world will keep going on for a long time.
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