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

[Hi Top]

Yes. I AM a believer and since the world is ending on the 21st, Rob and I are doing an "It's The End of The World AND We Know It" FINAL edition of THE FUNHOUSE on Friday December 14th 8PM EST because we will not be around on the 21st to do one. Well, I suppose if the world ended after 10PM on the 21st we'd be okay, but I'm not taking that chance. It's been a good run, we've had a blast doing the show and it's been nice knowing all of you.

[zulu]

Maybe, like others, the Blab is suffering from Doomsday fatigue.

There was, of course, the Y2K doomsday on January 1, 2000, which was also possibly the date of the millennium doomsday, except there was much confusion over when the millennium began and the world ended and when all that happened on January 1, 2000, was that the V-Roys disbanded, the millennium doomsday got switched to January 1, 2001, and then there was the Rapture doomsday in 2005 or 2006 that somebody in the US predicted, and then there was the end of the world as we know it doomsday when Obama got elected in 2008, and then we just had another Rapture doomsday in April or May of last year as forecast by Harold whatshisname, and now we just had the second end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it Obama doomsday with his reelection just weeks ago, and now we're supposed to worry about some Mayan end-of-time-calendar doomsday? And that's not even accounting for all the other little cultist doomsdays over the last decade, scattered around the world?

I think we're just plumb doomsdayed out.

Perhaps we should call a moratorium on all this and declare an end to the end of times.

[SnM]

Perhaps we should call a moratorium on all this and declare an end to the end of times.

OK by me. But as Buffy said, if the apocalypse comes, beep me.

[abalene]

old news, but since you brought it up.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...world-science/

ps. sorry to rain on your end of the world parade.

[SnM]

Quoting Buffy got me thinking, though: How do we even have an end-times in these times, when everyone has seen it all endlessly repeated before in fiction and in fortunetelling, and thus no one can get much worked up about it, negative, positive or otherwise, and any ironic response is sort of de rigueur, and therefore unironic?

Can there be any true, valid and fresh emotional response to the ostensible threat of a post-post modern apocalypse? Or is it all just, "The end of the world is nigh? Oh, that's so 20th century."

[JMG]

I find it interesting that everyone seems to assume they will be one of the very few left and not one of of the billions killed. I know I do. But when you think about it, the odds are much greater you won't be a survivor if or when it happens. I kind of like the waterworld scenerio but who knows. I'm also kind of fond of the whole rapture thing although I doubt most of the people I know will be called up unless the parameters are very different than what has been put out there. On the other hand, if rapture happens it will prove all those self-rightous folks correct. Unfortunately, they wont be here to gloat, which I think a lot are looking forward to doing.

[SnM]

Sadly, some appear to be taking this silliness seriously:

2012 End of the World: NASA Scientist Tries to Ease Fear

...But over the past few years, some of the questions he's receiving are increasingly alarming, and include a number of children who, faced with a perceived threat of impending doom, say they are planning their own deaths.

"I get 1-2 a month from a person who self-identifies as 11-12 years old, who is contemplating suicide," he said. "It happens often enough to disturb me … to hear that children are considering ending their lives." ...

[Jerseyhighlander]

If Not This Year, Then ...

[Hank IV]

I find it interesting that everyone seems to assume they will be one of the very few left and not one of of the billions killed. I know I do. But when you think about it, the odds are much greater you won't be a survivor if or when it happens. I kind of like the waterworld scenerio but who knows. I'm also kind of fond of the whole rapture thing although I doubt most of the people I know will be called up unless the parameters are very different than what has been put out there. On the other hand, if rapture happens it will prove all those self-rightous folks correct. Unfortunately, they wont be here to gloat, which I think a lot are looking forward to doing.

I wish the rapture would come on. I need a new car.

[earlnemo]

Quoting Buffy got me thinking, though: How do we even have an end-times in these times, when everyone has seen it all endlessly repeated before in fiction and in fortunetelling, and thus no one can get much worked up about it, negative, positive or otherwise, and any ironic response is sort of de rigueur, and therefore unironic?

Can there be any true, valid and fresh emotional response to the ostensible threat of a post-post modern apocalypse? Or is it all just, "The end of the world is nigh? Oh, that's so 20th century."

Yeah, but look what they did to Al Gore. And Jesus.

We just elected "the leader of the free world" and the biggest talking points were nowhere near the real problems we are facing. Distracted as any of us are by all the other nancy grace crap they rain down on us constantly, I might have missed it, but I'll still bet 6 beers that neither MR or BO made any mention of "artic ice" in any substantial context in the past 3 months.

So it goes, keep shopping, comrades.

They learned early on to send on rock-thrower to the other side of the lines, to justify sweeping the streets. You don't have to defend the lie if you can discredit the truth. And even the brightest minds slip and slide into analyticals and miss the looming Black Swan. No, that is not a crow.

So, what to do? Man, I dunno. Gearing up for TEOTWAWKI plays out no differently than SHTF, and those seem to be happening somewhere all the damned time. Tool and fuel, but I eschew weapons. The answers hide from us because they are so simple. ​Stop shopping.

That yowling cat kept me awake all night.