Crap. Y2K all over again. What a pain. You would think people learned something about superstitious feelings of foreboding due to some obscure theory.
It would be worth it if the fear of impending doom changed the world in some way. It didn’t in 2000. Except, maybe, everyone was so distracted by the potential for immediate disaster that the preparations caused less effort to go into the usual day to day chipping away at wiping out the earth.
On the plus side, I have two years to save money so when the stock market dips, I can grab up some deals. Hell, I can buy up stock now in companies that will benefit from the end of the world hibbie-jibbies.
Still, I don’t get this whole panic thing. If, on the off chance, the Mayans had some supernatural insight into when the world will end, why panic? Why even give it thought? It is what it is. Nothing can change the inevitable. The only thing we have the power to change is how we spent our time each day that we are alive. This is true if the world ends in 2012 or when the world ends after a lifetime.
— See you in 2013 (Crap. Year 13! Maybe 2014 will be a safe year.)
This article appears in Dec 31, 2009 – Jan 6, 2010.
OP, there isn’t a time in human history when the idea of doom didn’t dominate man’s thoughts AND actions in one way or another. Just ask yourself, since when was mankind not doomed if we did/didn’t…?
Did ya get a flu shot? (snicker)
That said, Y2K could have been real. Because we woke up to it and spent insane amounts of money on people (like me) to certify Y2K compliance in processing plants everywhere it was a non-event. The thing is, the possibility for disaster was very obvious but timing is everything. If we did nothing x% of the world’s machines would fail in unpredictable ways, some blow up, some shut down, some remain oblivious. Since we did something… A LOT of something, x%-y% happened. instead. You’ll remember, even you were affected by the Y2K bug. Your own computer received several updates over a couple of years to fix it. Imagine owning 1000 computers. That’s a pretty big deal! Make them do important things like manage dialysis machines or cooling towers and viola… Y2K was not a joke, just disaster avoided.
maybe you’re wrong..i don’t think…but maybe
Actually, the Mayans also thought that rather then destruction, this was to be a time of profound spiritual transition for mankind. Hmmm…maybe both? If the world is destroyed, we will certainly go through a spiritual transition = p
I’m having a sale on custom crafted aluminum brain protectors…you wear them on your head. I can custom them to fit inside various types of hats & hoods so no one will realise your protected.
These will keep the deadly cosmic spiritual transitional & all religious mind control & other stupidity out. So you can continue to enjoy life as you now know it.
At $25.00 each they’re cheap…except no substitutes !
i was into the mayans and visited chichen itza when i was in cancun and no where was there any mention of the world ending just a new beginning; people love shit about the world ending and impending doom these days
ooh, maybe I can sell shelters to protect against solar flares…just have to get me a backhoe = )
Hey HKM, I’d buy one of your shelters, but only if YOU came included.
Wink wink…
Don’t worry OP, no serious thinking person believes in silly fabricated “myths” like the end of the world in 2012, Armageddon, or the “Rapture” …only fools do…
qpmzwonxeibcruv: Then you would have “Paradise By the Dashboard Light” (Meatloaf) stuck in your head = ):
♫ I couldn’t take it any longer
Lord I was crazed
And when the feeling came upon me
Like a tidal wave
I started swearing to my god and on my mother’s grave
That I would love you to the end of time
I swore that I would love you to the end of time!
So now I’m praying for the end of time
To hurry up and arrive
‘Cause if I gotta spend another minute with you
I don’t think that I can really survive
I’ll never break my promise or forget my vow
But God only knows what I can do right now
I’m praying for the end of time
It’s all that I can do
Praying for the end of time,
So I can end my time with you!! ♫
Only, since the end of time already passed, you would be screwed = D
HKM, as per the previous part of that song, I’d just tell you “yes,” I love you, I will love you forever, I need you, I will never leave you, I will make you so happy for the rest of your life and take you away to make you my wife, rather than “no,” just to get in your panties. I definitely wouldn’t sleep on it to give you an answer in the morning.
The only reason the Y2K bug wasn’t a more serious problem at the end of 1999 is because the issue was identified years earlier and large companies invested the resources necessary to fix the problems.
While the “end of the world” scenarios were exaggerated, it was a technical issue that needed attention and for the most part was successfully dealt with.
As for the Mayan calendar’s “prediction”, well, let’s wait and see shall we?
I have lots of plans for the next decade and beyond. I will not be wasting any time sitting around waiting to get hit by a bus, a bolt of lightning, or a giant meteor from outer space.
I acquired a free computer from someone at a company that was replacing it’s computers so it wouldn’t crash with the Y2K bug. That computer works like a charm! So much for that theory!
You say the sweetest things ♥
I’ll know the 2012 End of the World is true when my bank will not extend payments past then.
yeah people,get all your shit together before may 24th. 2012.that’s the big boom day.when all things on earth,will end,as we know them.no,the earth will still be here,just that most of us now living on it won’t be.this requires a lot of research,and an open mind.there is a site for the I.H.C.,it’s a group of concerned people,that want to perpetuate our life on this rock.it‘s a fun site to look at and read.join up if you want.but don’t count on being beamed up,or exiled into orbit.they are just too fucking zany for that.seriously,take a look at the site.they sent me an email awhile back,someone had sent them my addy.but we we still go on,minus the flying cars(mine was totaled last week).
it will be a boom time for gun and generator sales…i keep knives teehee
o.l.,i have plenty of older systems,that i donate at christmas time to kids starting out.a lot don’t have y2k compliance either,and work just as well.but you can flash the rom chip too,to get an update.i have an old 386 that just makes it to 2019.hkm,you like meatloaf too i see,and also q,still trying for a lady friend,me too.but i have a nice little place up country that can hold out for maybe 10 years,properly stocked.it‘s an old army bunker,on land i made a deal for 2 years ago.don’t even think guy who had land before me,knew it existed.about 4 foot thick walls and roof,and one huge heavy iron door,now with a lock on it.took me a week to open it up.i won’t say what was in there,but everything was still fairly good shape,and should work okay.
LS, “you can flash the rom chip”
you realize you’re speaking “Greek” about equipment and processes never even thought of by the avg bitch, right? Geek.
Don’t worry, World War 3 will be here before then!
It’s just old superstitious supernatural bullshit that’s merely interesting and fun to believe in… like aliens, ghosts, bigfoot, conspiracies, psychics, and god.
Yeah.. it’s a load of crap, but just in case, stock up on beans and shot-gun shells.
I don’t think beans and shot-gun shells are going to protect you from the end of the world… although they might come in handy if the mayans plan was death by zombies…
My mortgage will be paid off December 2012 – fuck, I hope I get to own my house for a couple of hours before the Mayan Cosmic Muffin’s Almighty Spinning Plate flattens all mankind.
Everyone go watch the Pen and Teller Bullshit episode about 2012
http://www.megavideo.com/?v=VU0RRRJ3
Seen it – excellent episode. Unfortunately, there are arsepins out there that will exploit the fear the media has stirred up. And let’s face it, most Americans will lap this up like a five patty burger. Anyone remember talk radio host Art Bell (a pure lunatic) flogging his $99 Y2K kits?
TTFN, c’mon now Art can be very entertaining at 2am in the middle of a night shift, especially when he has “Mr Area 51” on, talking about the aliens and UFOs there.