You know what sucks about the end of the world?

Okay, December 21, 2012. Bad enough the world has to come to an end just four days before Christmas. Why can't the world end the day after Christmas, after we've had a chance to play with our presents? I mean, why even bother with Christmas shopping if it's all going to get blown up before we can give it to anybody? Or better yet let the world end in January so we can have one last New Years bash!

Here's another thing: I figured it out and December 21, 2012 falls on a Friday. Why can't armageddon happen on a Monday, when we're all back at our jobs facing a long work week, and then BOOM! the world ends and we get out of it! But no, it will happen on a Friday when we're finishing the work week, yelling Thank God It's Friday! and then BOOM! the world ends and we're all cheated out of one final weekend!

I say we fight this injustice! Go to your nearest Mayan Priest and voice your dissent! If we band together we can postpone it another week and a half! Our motto: Apocolypse Later!

 

lol... I love this!

Did anyone consider that maybe the Maya just realized they didn't need to make quite such a big calendar? Maybe they were planning on making another one later... but their society was destroyed so they never had the chance... I mean, it was already pretty far in advance, how far were they supposed to go before taking a break?

 

i like this too!
there is just one problem though. :sad:
the world will end in 2010, with the invasion of earth. :willy_nilly:

 

Maybe the Mayans just got sick of carving a million numbers into a huge ass slab of rock with primitive tools.

 

That's what I'm sayin'! They were just really fucking tired!

 

Think I'll call in sick on that day, what the hell it's the end of the world, but wouldn't it be just my luck that the world doesn't come to an end, they find out I wasn't really sick and I get fired? I mean, what could be worse than that?!

 

that may very well be part of it. but i think also, they figured out how often humanity as a species goes 'on the rag' and according to their calculations, well i think they're calculations were off by 11 years. 11 out of whatever the square of 226 happens to be, isn't all that bad to be off by.

 

U know what would be funny. If enuf ppl will not go to work at that date and the world does not end maybe from then on every year at a same day a new holiday is born like new April fulls day or something.

 

It is interesting how people will act around that time, even people who don't believe the world will end may still take days off (just in case). To the OP, AMEN!

 

Hmmm....Imagine if on December 22, 2012 all the Mayans in the world yell, "April Fool!" That would really be one on us! That's what we'd get for nearly wiping them out!

 

haha OP

i don't think the world will end that day but i do think people are going to start acting a bit psycho the week of.

 

To the OP: Everyday is Christmas! Did you forget your breath is a gift?

 

I'll probably get hit by a car before then anyway, so I'm not worried.

And if the world does start bursting into flames, I'll just shoot enough heroin so I won't feel it and I'll die comfortably numb...

 

we weren't supposed to tell anybody. not yet anyway.
let it still be a surprise. of course since nobody listens to us anyway,
it still will be.

what they HAVE predicted in the past, are periods of relative collective human more and less, on the rag ness. that these things do sort of run in cycles.

but nixon, ragun and bush were the big ones, hopefully we won't get another hitler or something.

 

I thought that 2012 marked the alignment of everything in our galaxy ending one full "galaxy year" and starting a new one if you will. If that is the case then the Mayans wouldn't need to go farther since planetary alignment would just start from the beginning of the calendar again.

The only part of the end of the world thing i could buy into is the pole shift theory which would move the equator thus melting the polar ice caps and signaling Noah to start rounding up the animals to put on his arc.

 

lmao, dude, that's to funny.

+rep for being epic

 

more gullible idiots then?

The Mayan Calendar is just a Calendar, time going in cycles, just like our western calendar does. The world doesn't end every December 31st, or at the turn of every decade, or every century, or even every millenium.

Daft numpties!

 

It would be a long way off before the shift was complete. Pole shifts don't just wait for a certain day and then BAM they switch. It's very gradual. We would be able to see the changes and adjust for them.

 

rather precisely.
(well everything their astronomy could observe and weave into their beliefs anyway)
people just love being mind bogglingly illogical
especially if it means there's something big they can't do anything about they can use as a cop-out.

logically a lot of things begin and end, sure.
just not that spectacularly on nice even numbered dates on anyone's calender.

as soon as that one blows over someone will be working on the next one.

 

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