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It's Pre-Millennial Stress all over again...

Eek! A Freek!

20:03 / 20.10.08

1984 came and went.
I remember being terrified of the end of the world in 1986 as predicted by Nostradamus.
1989-1991 as Communism crumpled the world was supposed to change.
Dec 31, 1999.
Oops! You don't count the zero! It starts Dec 31, 2000.

So...

What are we all going to do when 2012 comes and goes and nothing changes? There's a part of me (I will seek therapy sometime soon) that really, really wants a cataclysm to strike. I want half the population to be wiped out. I want floods and volcanoes and comets crashing into the earth. I want a full on nuclear exchange and roving gangs of survivalist cannibals.

There's a part of me that say's "Life will continue, don't worry about the end of the world until the buildings come crashing down."

I am tired of this anticipation and fear.

I think I'm gonna do my best and ignore the hype.

So.

What's everyone's plans for 2013?

Colonel Kadmon

21:27 / 20.10.08

It's true, we're living in the Last Days.

But then, we've always been living in the Last Days.

This Sunday

11:06 / 21.10.08

1984, '86, '89, '96, '99, 2000, 2001... So, we've weathered lots of silly old ends of the world without hardly a hiccup. This was the year of Megaman and of Split Second. No timewave zero can top that, surely?

All our best apocalypses are behind us. Tis very sad.

When's the next Batman movie come out, then?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

11:34 / 21.10.08

I think the zombie onslaught can happen at any time- I'm pretty sure there's no set date for that one.

Quantum

12:26 / 21.10.08

Is this really meant for the Headshop?

This Sunday

14:45 / 21.10.08

I think the zombie onslaught can happen at any time- I'm pretty sure there's no set date for that one.

I've actually heard complaints about Diary of the Dead on the basis that it ruins the Dead timeline. Perhaps, zombies would benefit from a tighter calendar, after all.

And thanks to whomever moved this to Conversation, where I assumed it was when I first posted (because I pay so much attention, obviously).

Quantum

15:08 / 21.10.08

Moved to convo.

Doom-mongering is nothing new, consider the South Sea Bubble and the Tulip boom and the rest. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay details quite a few mass manias, and was published 1841- every generation thinks they're the last.

Quantum

15:14 / 21.10.08

Turns out doomsday scenarios like that are known as Malthusian catastrophes, I didn't know that.

grant

17:25 / 21.10.08

Some are already planning for 2013.

ONLY NICE THINGS

18:24 / 21.10.08

Not to poor cold water, but you do realise that the idea of the end of the Baktun as the time of the great cataclysm de dum is a con? McKenna's timewave is mathematically flawed to start with - see The Watkins Objection - and has never been subject to peer review. The Mayan Calendar stuff was then expanded upon by José Arguelles, as part of a scientific project to separate credulous hippies from their money. No serious Mayan scholar has ever taken the end of the thirteenth baktun, to my knowledge, as ushering in a great cataclysm, although I am of course no Mayanist myself and would be happy to be corrected.

Triplets

23:36 / 21.10.08

You never know, it mayan happen.

Quantum

08:22 / 22.10.08

Ah, but Haus, in 2012 the POLES WILL FLIP OVER and WE'LL ALL BE DESTROYED IN A CATACLYSM, it'll be like Magneto.

If that doesn't happen the GIANT SOLAR FLARE will roast us like potatoes, and if we survive the flare PLANET X will crush us or the Anunnaki will invade and enslave us.

See the Temple for details, or here.

h1ppychick

13:54 / 22.10.08

I'm loving the unauthorised amendment to the Wikipedia page for 2012, at the bottom of the "Television" section within the References to 2012 in the arts bit:

Dan Haddad debuts in film "Fraternity Boys Love Fat Cock" according to Nostradamus.
Apologies in advance if the link doesn't work, I'm not that familiar with the formatting...

h1ppychick

13:55 / 22.10.08

which is self-evident. curse you, inappropriately placed !

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

13:59 / 22.10.08

OK, well my electricity went off all day on Monday, and it sucked. I'm thinking I should maybe get some candles in before the zombies arrive, otherwise I may not cope as well as I'd imagined.

Quantum

15:31 / 22.10.08

Candles won't save you Stoat. The electricity is off because of the IMMINENT POLAR SHIFT and MASSIVE SOLAR FLARE. Zombies are just a side-effect.

Mistoffelees

16:54 / 22.10.08

Whatever happens, it won´t be a technological menace. No red button was successfully pushed yet (not even by Skynet), the millenium bug disappointed, Twelve Monkeys stayed science fiction and now the HADRON didn´t collide. And the singularity will also be benign.

Maybe in 2012 the compost piles will rise against us.

Eek! A Freek!

17:11 / 22.10.08

PANDEMIC!
All the medicinists say it's overdue: SARAvianHI/PVSuperbugz.
ReGenesis opened my eyes!*

To the fact that Ellen Page is awesome.

Read in the Bible that Jesus told Peter that he would be back to usher in the Apocolypse within Peter's lifetime.

Fail.

People have wanted to be a part of the "Great End Of Time" ever since (Probably before). The only singularities we face will be individual, I'm beginning to think.

Liger Null

00:07 / 23.10.08

From the wikipedia link:

Riley Martin claims that Biaviian aliens will allow passage aboard their 'Great Mother Ship' when the Earth is 'transformed' in 2012.

I read that as Ricky Martin.

Quantum

09:08 / 24.10.08

You have a 64% chance of surviving a zombie outbreak

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