Out of Pod Experience

Will you hire him again in 2013? Only if he wants to come back, ofc.

It's actually wishful thinking, like communal suicide of sorts.

The worlds a pretty horrible place, and there is a lot of helplessness. If I was stuck on a ship full of perversion and torture the idea of it sinking would be better then looking forward to a lifetime on it.

Its not the end of the world. It's the end of the world as we know it. Things are changing, things have already changed. Take a look at the dictators having to step down from 30 years in power. We're not going to suddenly burst into a big ball of flames or cease to exist all of a sudden. The world is just changing.

Actually we've already adjusted our calendar date to most accurately match theirs.

Ahh, communes. They never work out do they.

Now see here Charles, you work all day and put the fruits of your labor into a communal pool. This pool of community resources then gets redistributed back to the community fairly to every family. I tell you Charles, this is the Utopia right here on earth. We cant do it without you!

1 year later

Charles looks around, sees Mary Joe sitting on her behind for the last 2 months because of hangnail. Jim Bob and his seven teenage brides spend all their time fornicating and are too tired afterwards to work and can barely stand in line for their share of the daily meal, the poor dears. Charles looks at the 5 acres he turned into a lush garden plot with only the help of his wife and 2 kids then looks back at the communal building housing 20 other Mary Joes and Jim Bobs. Charles angrily wonders why he is doing all of the work while others are loafing about all day.

Angry words are then exchanged between the few hard workers like Charles and those that think they work hard. The Utopian Community comes crashing down.

Perhaps you should send this little story in an email link to the guy even though it is a tad too late seeing how he quit already.

Best answer to prepare for hardtimes and end of the world scenarios? Dont quit your day job and watch a few Doomsday Prepper episodes if you want to be prepared in a serious, or crazy depending on your viewpoint, way. You can always eat your food stockpiles if the end doesnt come but you cant eat ifyou dont have any resources because you were a numpty and quit your job.

The Mayan calendar doesn't actually predict an end of the world on Dec. 21, 2012. It predicts the end of the current age or cycle, not the complete end of humanity. But the end of each age is marked by a sharp shift, not a gradual change. World-changing disasters, kind of like a Noah's flood event. The last time the calendar showed an age shift, Hernan Cortes invaded Central America. A disaster for the people there, but not the whole world. Check out Religions of Mesoamerica by David Carrasco (an anthropology book, not New Age book).

I WANT TO BELIEVE the end is nigh when I wake up on monday mornings

the mayan calender is incredibly accurate. the only thing the calender says is that its the end of an age or era, I think something will happen, not ending the world but our way of life..
Read somewhere the on that day the earth, sun and center of the galaxy will align in a way that only happens every few thousand/millions/ of years..

I believe something will happen, but not doing anything drastic, living life the way I want hoping its just a giant rock.

I m a bit believe in this. Juz some different senses, and observe somethings strange more frequent recently, but cannot speak out what is going strange. Juz a feeling...

It may not be the end, but seems sth is going to change.

Well, they accurately predicted the change of the last age. But when the time came, apparently they were looking for signs and misread some. The feather serpent god Quezalcoatl was supposed to come back. One of his guises is as a golden haired man. So when blondie Spaniard Cortes showed up, they thought he was Quetzal bringing in all the good stuff of the new age....