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Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 5:57 pm
by saturdayindex
88marquis wrote:I actually read up on this every day, along with any UFO or alternative news there is -

As far as what i believe, i don't believe any of the specific ideas the media seems to whip out every once in a while, i believe something might happen, but that's the extent of it for me.

The one thing that keeps me interested in this whole 2012 thing is how people are going to be acting once 2012 comes around, and once we grow very close to it, I predict anarchy and mass panic world wide - the media got a hold of this years ago and its getting crazier and crazier - people believe whats on TV these days, at least most of the general population.

Sad thing though.
So true. I agree that even if the 2012 "apocalypse" doesn't happen, there will still be mass worldwide panic, possibly anarchy.

One thing I forgot to mention: I am a college Spanish student and one of my professors, an older, pretty well-to-do and highly knowledgable person, says that the Mayan prohpecies have ALWAYS been correct in one form or another.

Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 10:57 pm
by turquoise70
saturdayindex wrote:anarchy.
the word you meant to use there is "chaos"

anarchy is social order without hierarchy. the scenes you're envisioning lack any social order, and the hierarchy is determined by brute strength.

Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 11:01 pm
by 88marquis
turquoise70 wrote:
saturdayindex wrote:anarchy.
the word you meant to use there is "chaos"

anarchy is social order without hierarchy. the scenes you're envisioning lack any social order, and the hierarchy is determined by brute strength.
isn't anarchy chaos?

Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 2:31 am
by silo flame
nah man I think its a sunglasses company

Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 3:28 am
by zeitgeist
silo flame wrote:nah man I think its a sunglasses company
Yea, way.

Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 6:22 am
by 88marquis
zeitgeist wrote:
silo flame wrote:nah man I think its a sunglasses company
Yea, way.
oh SNAPS gonna git me sum shadez bro!

Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 5:27 pm
by saturdayindex
turquoise70 wrote:
saturdayindex wrote:anarchy.
the word you meant to use there is "chaos"

anarchy is social order without hierarchy. the scenes you're envisioning lack any social order, and the hierarchy is determined by brute strength.
You will find that the word 'anarchy' has several definitions, at least one of which fits my intent, if you look it up.
zeitgeist wrote:
silo flame wrote:nah man I think its a sunglasses company
Yea, way.
Those are sleek, but not my style.

Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 6:04 am
by CoBoC
I think it's fascinating how humans' ability to measure and record data about nature is so offset by their tendency to take their best guess at the gaps in their knowledge, and then believe it as if it were truth, and then fight about which made up story should be beleived. It boggles the mind.

Stay skeptical, folks!

Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 12:13 pm
by Cupz
CoBoC wrote:I think it's fascinating how humans' ability to measure and record data about nature is so offset by their tendency to take their best guess at the gaps in their knowledge, and then believe it as if it were truth, and then fight about which made up story should be beleived. It boggles the mind.

Stay skeptical, folks!
AMEN!

Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 5:55 pm
by zeitgeist
well, see, the link i gave is just a promotional site for an upcoming movie by sony pictures. so....i was just kidding. but personally, when the date rolls around, i'd enjoy gobbling a bunch of acid and sitting smack dab in the middle of the CERN collider. a sort of 'heaven's gate' remanifestation, don't you think? no, but it would probably be fun either way.

Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 6:21 pm
by saturdayindex
zeitgeist wrote:well, see, the link i gave is just a promotional site for an upcoming movie by sony pictures. so....i was just kidding. but personally, when the date rolls around, i'd enjoy gobbling a bunch of acid and sitting smack dab in the middle of the CERN collider. a sort of 'heaven's gate' remanifestation, don't you think? no, but it would probably be fun either way.
Good idea. See you there?

Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 6:40 pm
by observation
There's a brief intro to Millenarianism on wikipedia, worth a look in this regard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millenarianism

I don't suggest this to be disdainful of those among you who hold beliefs about dates such as 2012. I have read about the extremely skillful Mayan astronomers and their very sophisticated number system (Volume 1 of the Universal History of Numbers by Georges Ifrah if you're interested).

What I'm getting at is that there is a strong need for individuals or groups to identify the coming apocalypse, and it almost seems to be down to an egotistical need to be the harbinger of doom or even to experience the end of the world personally.

My 2p. :)

Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 9:29 pm
by Vexille
Well I was 16 when the y2k stuff had people all excited. And it felt like more things could have gone wrong then (with old computers messing up and stuff). But looking back at it I think it was just hype. Grocery stores prob made a killing though.

To me 2012 will be y2k all over again. At best something to get a little more excited about than you normally would be at a new years party.

Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 11:07 pm
by meat like product
Vexille wrote:Well I was 16 when the y2k stuff had people all excited. And it felt like more things could have gone wrong then (with old computers messing up and stuff). But looking back at it I think it was just hype. Grocery stores prob made a killing though.

To me 2012 will be y2k all over again. At best something to get a little more excited about than you normally would be at a new years party.
y2k was a serious problem that took years to correct.

2012 is just quasireligious bullshit.

Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 1:06 am
by saturdayindex
meat like product wrote:
Vexille wrote:Well I was 16 when the y2k stuff had people all excited. And it felt like more things could have gone wrong then (with old computers messing up and stuff). But looking back at it I think it was just hype. Grocery stores prob made a killing though.

To me 2012 will be y2k all over again. At best something to get a little more excited about than you normally would be at a new years party.
y2k was a serious problem that took years to correct.

2012 is just quasireligious bullshit.
I thought Y2K never even happened.

Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 6:55 am
by meat like product
saturdayindex wrote:
I thought Y2K never even happened.
it happened right at the end of 1999 :)

Problems with computers and the '00 crap I believe were known since the 70s. It took a lot of time and money rewriting software and etc to keep there from being any serious problems.

Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 8:15 am
by bleak.
meat like product wrote:
bleak. wrote:i became interested in this whole 2012 assumption prediction theory thingy after becoming curious to why i always notice the time 11:11 on clocks...

a lot of the theories seem a bit too far fetched for my liking...although i do believe that something will happen during the course of the next few years.
please don't use the word theory when talking about this bullshit. It offends the scientist in me.
the scientist in you? what on earth is he doing in there?

Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 10:38 pm
by meat like product
bleak. wrote:
the scientist in you? what on earth is he doing in there?
fetus in fetu :(

Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 11:11 pm
by Aesthetics
Let's skip this nonsence and move on to 2050 when the age of pisces will end we will welcome aquarius.

Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 11:46 pm
by zeitgeist
Aesthetics wrote:Let's skip this nonsence and move on to 2050 when the age of pisces will end we will welcome aquarius.
orange.