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pussnheels
Viziam
#1 - 2012-05-29 09:13:37 UTC
So how many of you actual believe the world is going to end in december
Just curious, since a guy i knew at work is absolutely convinced it will and quited his job last week and is about to move with his family to some community
Seems like nothing or nobody can convince him to change his mind

I partly blame the media for that , in the last 2 years there been nothing but these documantries about it , nostradamus, the mayas, book of revelations , planet x etc

I do not agree with what you are saying , but i will defend to the death your right to say it...... Voltaire
Sidus Isaacs
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2012-05-29 11:56:54 UTC
I find it absurd anyone actually believes stuff like this at all. And we all ourself an intelligent species.
Bunnie Hop
Bunny Knights
#3 - 2012-05-29 15:26:46 UTC
I don't believe in religion or psuedo science like this mayan nonsense.
testy ickles
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#4 - 2012-05-29 15:48:26 UTC
honestly its 50/50 i do not believe the world will end tho it could however by the same as timing comets and eclipses it could be a once every 2012 years something happens be it world temperature change or large scale shifts in the Teutonic plates etc
you just have to adopt a wait and see attitude ..on the birghtside even if your wrong nobody will be around to say "i told you so"
Cierejai
Biofuel Productions
#5 - 2012-05-29 15:50:54 UTC
pussnheels wrote:
So how many of you actual believe the world is going to end in december
Just curious, since a guy i knew at work is absolutely convinced it will and quited his job last week and is about to move with his family to some community
Seems like nothing or nobody can convince him to change his mind

I partly blame the media for that , in the last 2 years there been nothing but these documantries about it , nostradamus, the mayas, book of revelations , planet x etc



It's a shame we don't have this thing called the internet which has a massive amount of information free for anyone to use.

This Mayan crap was taken over by pop culture. Mayans never said anything about the world ending, pop culture did.

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AlleyKat
The Unwanted.
#6 - 2012-05-29 16:17:28 UTC
pussnheels wrote:
So how many of you actual believe the world is going to end in december
Just curious, since a guy i knew at work is absolutely convinced it will and quited his job last week and is about to move with his family to some community
Seems like nothing or nobody can convince him to change his mind

I partly blame the media for that , in the last 2 years there been nothing but these documentries about it , nostradamus, the mayas, book of revelations , planet x etc


The Collective Subconscious is a powerful thing.

Regardless of whether the mayans were actually correct or not is irrelevant - if enough people believe something terrible will happen at the end of the year, then it will; not because of planets colliding or earthquakes, but a large enough percentile of the populace causing havoc.

Y'see?

I might happen, but not for the reasons claimed; but because enough people believed it would.

Conspiracies to me are simply entertainment, from Roswell through to the moon landing, just fun, just people unable to deal with reality and seek out a game of 'connect the dots' that suits an interpretation of reality that suits them.

It's VERY similar to women ignoring the true reasons why their BF broke up with them and choose to believe something less sinister than them running away with their sister.

Can't deal with reality? Make some fuckin' **** up and have a coke and a smile :)

AK

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Researcher Anabiosis
#7 - 2012-05-29 16:44:08 UTC
Living in the West, I'm much more scared by the very, very real possibility that, economically, we are taking a pounding and that China is actively working to replace the dollar as the gold standard, which would drastically and rapidly destabilize our economies even further.

the end of the world is just nonsense, the end of "our" way of life, it's very possible AND genuinely scary stuff (to me)
Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#8 - 2012-05-29 17:09:10 UTC
Researcher Anabiosis wrote:
Living in the West, I'm much more scared by the very, very real possibility that, economically, we are taking a pounding and that China is actively working to replace the dollar as the gold standard, which would drastically and rapidly destabilize our economies even further.

the end of the world is just nonsense, the end of "our" way of life, it's very possible AND genuinely scary stuff (to me)


If China wanted to destroy our economy they'd just inject the few of the hundreds of billions of our currency they have stockpiled over there back into our economy. The dollar would instantly become worthless, but they won't do that because we owe them a lot of money P

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FloppieTheBanjoClown
Arcana Imperii Ltd.
#9 - 2012-05-29 17:26:12 UTC
I've yet to see a satisfactory explanation of *how* things would end.

Maybe it'll be three-eyed mutant neutrinos like in "2012". (seriously, they said that it was caused by "mutated neutrinos" early in the movie)

Founding member of the Belligerent Undesirables movement.
pussnheels
Viziam
#10 - 2012-05-29 19:07:14 UTC
well i knew most people on here are rational about the subject
just think it was sad
we had a final meeting this morning at the office with me , i used to be his boss, the head of the HR dep , some others and the guy trying to convince him to stay

just found it hard to believe that what i thought was a intelligent man like him is throwing away a 20 year carreer as a civil servant just for a hype ,

makes me angry

I do not agree with what you are saying , but i will defend to the death your right to say it...... Voltaire
stoicfaux
#11 - 2012-05-29 20:22:15 UTC
pussnheels wrote:
just found it hard to believe that what i thought was a intelligent man like him is throwing away a 20 year carreer as a civil servant just for a hype ,

makes me angry

Let's make it worse. How many of the people who drop out of society to prepare for the end of the world will commit suicide or murder-suicide (of their family) after the end of the world doesn't happen?

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AlleyKat
The Unwanted.
#12 - 2012-05-29 20:36:47 UTC
pussnheels wrote:
well i knew most people on here are rational about the subject
just think it was sad
we had a final meeting this morning at the office with me , i used to be his boss, the head of the HR dep , some others and the guy trying to convince him to stay

just found it hard to believe that what i thought was a intelligent man like him is throwing away a 20 year career as a civil servant just for a hype ,

makes me angry


Not buying it.

What are you not telling us?

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baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#13 - 2012-05-29 20:40:05 UTC
Whats going to kill us this time?
Akita T
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
#14 - 2012-05-29 21:06:03 UTC
testy ickles wrote:
honestly its 50/50 [...] you just have to adopt a wait and see attitude

The friggin' bloody hell it is 50-50.
More like at least a few hundred thousands to one against the sudden end of humanity, and a few billion to one against the end of life on the planet.
There have been at least 200, probably over 300 "definitive", well recorded end-of-the-world predictions in the past which, as you can easily see, pretty much spectacularly failed to predict it.
If anything, you need to adopt a "not this crap again" attitude, even if "this time" it looks almost believable.
And if you really have to, feel free to live each day as if it was your last one, because there are far better chances to get into a deadly (or severely disabling) accident than die in an "end of the world" scenario anyway.

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Onyx Nyx
Trillium Invariant
Honorable Third Party
#15 - 2012-05-29 22:58:00 UTC
stoicfaux wrote:
pussnheels wrote:
just found it hard to believe that what i thought was a intelligent man like him is throwing away a 20 year carreer as a civil servant just for a hype ,

makes me angry

Let's make it worse. How many of the people who drop out of society to prepare for the end of the world will commit suicide or murder-suicide (of their family) after the end of the world doesn't happen?



You say that like it is a bad thing?

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witchking42
Doomheim
#16 - 2012-05-29 23:05:40 UTC
A newly discovered Mayan Calendar has already shot the 2012 prediction down:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/guatemala/9259069/The-world-may-not-end-soon-predicts-newly-found-Mayan-calendar.html

I never believed it would anyway, but can't believe people thought it all ended just cos the calendar did. If I go by that theory my calendar finishes on 31st December....should I be worried?

Wk
Ituhata Saken
Killboard Padding Services
#17 - 2012-05-30 00:38:07 UTC
The only way it could end is through a self fulfilling prophecy, so watch the feedback loop folks...

So close...
Sidus Isaacs
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#18 - 2012-05-30 08:24:24 UTC
Researcher Anabiosis wrote:
Living in the West, I'm much more scared by the very, very real possibility that, economically, we are taking a pounding and that China is actively working to replace the dollar as the gold standard, which would drastically and rapidly destabilize our economies even further.

the end of the world is just nonsense, the end of "our" way of life, it's very possible AND genuinely scary stuff (to me)



Hint, US does not use a gold standard, at all. That was phased out decades ago.

And what is up with all this China hate? It is not like US are "the good guys" either. I mean, decades of wars and imperialism is a good thing? Not to mention the recent laws like NDAA and Patriot Act.

Both are bad in their own way.

The economy is going to ****, there is no doubt in that, but it is not because China or US or anything like that. It is because the economy assumes infinite growth, but we got finite resources. The resources are going away, but still we waste and "consume". No thought is given to the fact that the system itself is flawed, and needs to be replaced in order to continue a decent way of living.
Alara IonStorm
#19 - 2012-05-30 08:45:58 UTC
pussnheels wrote:
to move with his family to some community

Seems like nothing or nobody can convince him to change his mind

Gotta love cults.
Shalia Ripper
#20 - 2012-05-30 09:11:19 UTC
Sidus Isaacs wrote:


The economy is going to ****, there is no doubt in that, but it is not because China or US or anything like that. It is because the economy assumes infinite growth, but we got finite resources. The resources are going away, but still we waste and "consume". No thought is given to the fact that the system itself is flawed, and needs to be replaced in order to continue a decent way of living.


You mean the minerals in those holes in the ground don't replenish during downtime?

Crrrraaaaaaaaappppp!


j/k

The world needs change, but the inertia is nearly unstoppable.

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