Question about 2012?

[brianxlt]

I have a question?

I have been doing some research on the 2012 end of the world thing for a project in class.
Now I don’t want to start the will it happen or not debate or even how it will happen, but if in fact it is going to happen and the world governments have this information and how it will happen would you want to know and how would you prepare.

There are so many predictions on what is really going to happen from gods hand to planet X (Nibiru) to human self-destruction and so many more its not worth debating this.

If you knew it was going to happen - would you want to know and what would you do to prepare?

As for myself I would not want to know but, hope I am at ground zero.

[Ambrosia76]

I feel the same as you,Don't really want to know,but hope it is painless if it happens.

On a lighter note I find this funny

Mayan Calender

[NathanFranke]

Originally Posted by Ambrosia76

I feel the same as you,Don't really want to know,but hope it is painless if it happens.

On a lighter note I find this funny

Mayan Calender

I read somewhere (someone else can fact check, i'm too lazy) that that's pretty much correct. Some Meso-american expert said that when the current Mayan calendar runs out, they just start the next one. Kind of like what we do every Jan 1.

[Biomech]

Yeah the Mayan stuff is always badly interpreted, it basically just signifies the end of the calender. If you look at other sources, they generally point to a turning point rather than an end of the world.

[Bruce A]

Isn't this about the eighth "end of the world" we've had in the past eight years?

[UlpilotSC]

If the mayans were so good at predictions, why didn't they predict their own extinction? I'm not worried. If the world ends, fine. I just wish it wasn't so close to xmass. We have to spend all that time shopping for BS, and don't even get to enjoy it.

[SwissJon]

FFS.. Nostradmus predicted the end of the world about 7 million times.. We're always getting the end of the world predictions.. Who cares? I'm gonna die one day anyway, I've already had a couple of close calls, I'll go either by my own stupid fault, like because I ran my motorbike into a brick wall, or by getting far too stressed and having a heart attack, or the Cancer will come back, or I'll just pop me clogs at a ripe old age..

The end of the world is no more scary than anything else, if you die you die, if you live you live, sod all I can do about it, so I'll prepare in the same way.. By getting on with my life and enjoying what I have left of it and doing nice things for people that I didn't have to do. Then when the grim reaper finally comes a knocking, he can say "Hey Jon.. you were an arse some of the time, nice some of the time, but you didn't waste your time on earth wishing for stuff didn't have, so here.. A pass into heaven.. You can use it after you have been to hell for a day to make up for all the shitty things you did."

Who wants to live forever?

[NathanFranke]

Going out in an epic cataclysm would be much cooler than passing quietly while asleep, as long as we're talking about inevitables here. Think of the street cred you'd get in the after life:

"How'd you die?"
"Fell out of a boat. You?"
"Planet caught fire, oceans turned to blood, Old Ones rose from the deep, universe exploded. You know, End Times."
"..."

[andrewdt]

I reckon that the Mayans figured that by the year 2012 there might be a civilization that would be advanced enough to carry on with their own damn calendar. Bear in mind we click three buttons and we have calendars for the next 10 million years with moon cycles on it. They had to inscribe the damn things in rock. I would have given up too if I were them!

[BigFuzzy]

Originally Posted by NathanFranke

"How'd you die?"
"Fell out of a boat. You?"
"Planet caught fire, oceans turned to blood, Old Ones rose from the deep, universe exploded. You know, End Times."
"..."

hahaha... too funny. I agree. I guess that's why I was always the first guy in the door when in the Army, if I had to go, I didn't want it to be some random round or an IED.

A. I'd want to know.
B. I'm already prepared.
C. No, you can't hang with me to wait it out.