were the mayans right? tell me what you think!!!

[mike g]

Hello all. I am working on a newspaper story about the Mayan calendar and the end of the world. For obvious reasons, my deadline is short.
But I'm seeking your help.
The idea is to take a light-hearted look at the popular (mis)reading of the Mayan calendar, this notion that the Mayans have foreseen the End of it All in a couple of weeks here. So here are some Questions for you to chew on, wax funny or philosophic, or just take a dismissive piss on it all, so long as you care to do it in print.
*Do you buy into any of this stuff, or know anybody who does? If so, what's your/their belief?
*Is there anybody having an end-of-the-world party?
*what would you do if you only had a week left before doomsday? (pulling out that 'contingency bucket list...')
*Why do think society is so obsessed with the Apocalypse, whether it be the Harold Painter, lake-of-fire, armies-of-angels, Jesus-with-a-sword variety, or the Native American, oh-shit-we-didn't-have-enough-stone-for-2013 type?

I'm fishing for material that I can use in my story along with other research I am doing. I appreciate any participation. Cleverness is always appreciated.

[SnM]

Eh, there seems little lightheartedness around these parts on that subject these days:

What are you doing until doomsday?

[toby]

I am looking forward to it. Mesoamerican cultures know how to bring the pain.

[Hank IV]

I'm just trying to get through this whole "Mercury in retrograde" thing for the next two weeks.

[SnM]

As for me, I'm too busy being overwhelmed by every day's multiple small, but persistent, catastrophes for the world's imminent end to impinge on my consciousness; if apocalypse wants my attention, it's gonna have to get in line behind everything else that's afflicting it.

[Scott]

yep what SnM said, the end of the world doesn't sound so bad.

It's the end of the world as we know it. It's the end of the world as we know it. It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel not so good lol

[spinetingler]

The last page on my Hallmark kitten calendar runs out in Feb 2013, so that's when I think the world will end.

[mte]

Hello all. I am working on a newspaper story about the Mayan calendar and the end of the world. For obvious reasons, my deadline is short.
But I'm seeking your help.
The idea is to take a light-hearted look at the popular (mis)reading of the Mayan calendar, this notion that the Mayans have foreseen the End of it All in a couple of weeks here. So here are some Questions for you to chew on, wax funny or philosophic, or just take a dismissive piss on it all, so long as you care to do it in print.
*Do you buy into any of this stuff, or know anybody who does? If so, what's your/their belief?
*Is there anybody having an end-of-the-world party?
*what would you do if you only had a week left before doomsday? (pulling out that 'contingency bucket list...')
*Why do think society is so obsessed with the Apocalypse, whether it be the Harold Painter, lake-of-fire, armies-of-angels, Jesus-with-a-sword variety, or the Native American, oh-shit-we-didn't-have-enough-stone-for-2013 type?

I'm fishing for material that I can use in my story along with other research I am doing. I appreciate any participation. Cleverness is always appreciated.

seeing you on the blab makes me think the end of the world must be near.

[Rocky Hillian]

I'd think Neil McCauley would be all over this thread.

Anything to drum up more gun sales. Cuz, ya know, Obama isn't he only one aiming to take your rights away. So are the Mayan calendar makers.

[Keef Riffers]

Odd behavior. Check.

The other day I was reading at a coffee shop close to my house.

This lady comes in with like 3 beach bag style vinyl dumpster sized bags/purses, sets up camp at the bar top, takes up like 4 seats worth of space (there were maybe 3 of us in the whole place) and proceeds to have a loud conversation on her cell phone with another woman about a group of people, what they were doing, how they had been, etc.

Then she pulls her laptop out, fires that baby up and cranks the volume to ten and then proceeds to do a
Video conference/FaceTime with the woman she was speaking with.

While she is talking to the other woman she says "let me talk to smoopsums."

Then the other lady puts a dog in front of the computer screen. An excited, barking, yipping dog.

There were other dogs at this point barking in the background.

They all got to take a turn talking.

If McKenna is right, novelty is bout to beat the brakes off the damn thing.

Immanentizing the eschaton through the noosphere.