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Old 01-27-2011, 08:13 AM
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Sure it's gonna end then. Heck I'm gonna max out the cards and spend my 401k

Hillbilly, for sure! And since Jesus said no one knows the day or hour, anyone who says they do is a fake

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Old 01-27-2011, 11:30 AM
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I thought Y2K ended the world in 2000?
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Old 01-27-2011, 11:37 AM
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I thought Y2K ended the world in 2000?
And, 1984 was also supposed to be the "End of the World", which was the dumbest prediction of them all. Orwells book had nothing to do with end times per se. It was a comment on political propaganda, mind control and totalitarianism. However, here in the Bible belt, we had charlatan preachers fear-mongering donations from the faithful, ostensibly because the "End" was nigh.

And the gullible mailed it in by the millions.

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Old 01-27-2011, 11:37 AM
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I thought Y2K ended the world in 2000?
No that only ended machine life.
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Old 01-27-2011, 11:58 AM
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As a base generality, there are a couple of arguments that can be thrown out -- beyond the obvious ones previously mentioned -- for 2012 to NOT be the "end of the world."

First, one possible reason that the Mayan calendar terminates is because there were no more Mayans to update it. (i.e., "Hey, Bob? Why does your calendar stop at 1978? Printer went out of business? Okay...")

Second, I'm not sure sure linear "calendar" is quite the correct term for usage related to the Mayan items/documents used to predict 2012. Most American aboriginal date-keeping items are more circular than literal. (i.e., "Bob, why does your Roman calendar end on December 31st? You say that's the end of this document/year/age? But I shouldn't be worried because it only marks the passage of time, controls nothing, and immediately resets? Okay...)

And, oddly, I just watched 2012 last night. Insipid film...
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Old 12-26-2011, 12:45 PM
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couldnt agree more! the movie was PAINFULLY sucky, but you gotta admit, the special effects were cool
I actually do agree with that.
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Old 12-26-2011, 02:20 PM
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The end of civilization will come when some far right lunatic gains control of the U.S. nuclear arsenal and realizes the rest of the world is less conservative than America.....and sets out to change that. After all, once you've bombed the shyte out of them, they become your friends......Don't they?

The end of the planet will come when the sun goes into it's "Red Giant" phase, swells up, burns it to a cinder then swallows it.

On second thought, the two things ARE very similar...........

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Old 01-02-2012, 09:52 PM
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Well Fellows,

If you don't believe that something horrible is coming, our government sure does !

They have been building BIG HOLES in the ground to save their asses !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOWWIDT910I

And by the way, I'm having a really big End of the World Party December 21, 2012 !
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Old 01-02-2012, 10:18 PM
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Well Fellows,

If you don't believe that something horrible is coming, our government sue does !

They have been building BIG HOLES in the ground to save their asses !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOWWIDT910I

And by the way, I'm having a really big End of the World Party December 21, 2012 !

Wanna take turns diggin'? I got a 45 degree hillside here, my house sits halfway up it. I've been thinking of digging out a storm shelter, damn these twisters. So far the hillside has blocked the wind from behind, and the hillside across the branch in front of us has blocked the wind from the front ( it passes over us either way ), but what if a twister drops down and decides to follow the the holler.. like in 1974? If I built one, it may as well be bigger nuff to hang out in for a while.
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Old 01-03-2012, 06:51 PM
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The end of civilization will come when some far right lunatic gains control of the U.S. nuclear arsenal and realizes the rest of the world is less conservative than America.....and sets out to change that. After all, once you've bombed the shyte out of them, they become your friends......Don't they?

The end of the planet will come when the sun goes into it's "Red Giant" phase, swells up, burns it to a cinder then swallows it.

On second thought, the two things ARE very similar...........

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I hope I live to see that! I always thought it might be an asteroid, that the earth would survive, but man would not.
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