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2012--End of the World? Your thoughts welcome.

18,308 38,677 August 18, 2009 at 07:55 AM in Chat
Okay, so I have an older sister who is OBSESSED with reading about 2012 and the Mayan Long Count calendar. She is absolutely convinced that the Mayans were onto something and that Armageddon is just a stone's throw away.

This morning she called to tell me about a movie that is being released in November called 2012 that is, obviously, about the end times.

Okay, so aside from the fact that my husband and I think she is a one french fry short of a Happy Meal on this issue, she appears pretty normal about other issues/situations. But she harps on this 2012 all the time to anyone who will listen.

I finally Googled it and read a little but don't find it to be any more or less impressive than the Nostradamus (sp?) guy. I think people can pretty much read anything they want into things.

So my question is, anyone here ever spent any time reading about this 2012 stuff? Thoughts?
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08-18-2009 at 03:51 PM.
08-18-2009 at 03:51 PM.
Quote from veritableqndry :
What everyone fails to realize is that the Mayans counted in base 9 because of their ritual of lopping off the pinky finger on all of their mathematicians' left hands so that they couldn't discover zero and thereby escape from the grue. So 2012 in base 9 actually = sqrt*5^3 which, when divided by pi, = 81909, means

OHSHI--

The end of the world is TOMORROW! Whee

Who wants to have sex one last time?
It ends on my birthday? WHAT THE F*CK? Mad

I hope I at least get to eat cake first.
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ThatOneNotThis
08-18-2009 at 04:02 PM.
08-18-2009 at 04:02 PM.
Well, if it does end in 2012, I've already got my guns... my bible.....

CRAP! My Nascar recordings!

I'm gonna have to tape another 2 years of it now. :/
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MsGal
08-18-2009 at 04:37 PM.
08-18-2009 at 04:37 PM.
Quote from Autumn :
It ends on my birthday? WHAT THE F*CK? Mad

I hope I at least get to eat cake first.
Quick, grab your spork!Smilie
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08-18-2009 at 04:38 PM.
08-18-2009 at 04:38 PM.
Quote from Autumn :
It ends on my birthday? WHAT THE F*CK? Mad

I hope I at least get to eat cake first.
So it ends on the birth of the anti-Christ? Scratchchin
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08-18-2009 at 04:44 PM.
08-18-2009 at 04:44 PM.
And lo, it came to pass, that the One with the Toes did fall upon the Earth and in her 32nd year did cause a great stench, so mighty in its terribleness that none could stand to breathe. And she did look upon what she had wrought and thought that it was good, but none other upon the face of the Earth did agree, and they gathered together in their places, and built them up great ships, and left the planet of their birth, to seek a place where she could not find them. And thus, children, do we shave our toes and drown all auburn-haired girl children, lest any of them rise up and cause us to leave our home again.
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08-18-2009 at 04:51 PM.
08-18-2009 at 04:51 PM.
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08-18-2009 at 06:37 PM.
08-18-2009 at 06:37 PM.
Quote from topchief1 :
Well, you know what they say, "One's a conspiracy, two's a movement."
The NWO is going to set off a nuclear bomb that will destroy the human race.
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08-18-2009 at 06:40 PM.
08-18-2009 at 06:40 PM.
Quote from DBC :
The NWO is going to set off a nuclear bomb that will destroy the human race.
Iagree Where's my bumper sticker?
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08-18-2009 at 06:54 PM.
08-18-2009 at 06:54 PM.
Quote from DBC :
The NWO is going to set off a nuclear bomb that will destroy the human race.

Didn't reality TV already do that?
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08-18-2009 at 06:55 PM.
08-18-2009 at 06:55 PM.
Quote from Autumn :
It ends on my birthday? WHAT THE F*CK? Mad

I hope I at least get to eat cake first.
[iaaaiws]

Look at meeee!! Look at meee!! It's my birthday tomorrow!!!! Whee

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08-19-2009 at 05:06 AM.
08-19-2009 at 05:06 AM.
Quote from DWells55 :
OMG, Obama = antichrist, and the election is in 2012. So if Obama gets reelected, it's the end of the world!!111one
Nah, he loses the election, gets pissed and pushes the big red button and starts a nuclear holocaust.
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08-19-2009 at 05:14 AM.
08-19-2009 at 05:14 AM.
I actually watched something on the history channel a month or so ago about this whole 2012 thing. It's actually fairly interesting, because not only does the Mayan calendar end in December of 2012, but there was something about the Jewish calendar and one of Nostradamus' predicitions for the same date.

All in all none of them actually predicted the end of the world, more over that something cataclysmic or cosmic would be happening. Something like an alignment of certain stars and planets in the universe. Of course this alignment could be what tears the Earth into sub-atomic particles, but hey who the hell knows and really who cares. If its the end of the world and we all die big f'n deal, we're dead what're you gonna do about it?
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08-19-2009 at 05:48 AM.
08-19-2009 at 05:48 AM.
I'm taking out a huge ass loan in October.
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08-19-2009 at 05:52 AM.
08-19-2009 at 05:52 AM.
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I'm taking out a huge ass loan in October.
Where can I get an ass on loan?
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08-19-2009 at 05:53 AM.
08-19-2009 at 05:53 AM.
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Where can I get an ass on loan?
I hear KTMay loans her's out.
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