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Languish 12/21/12 end of the world predictions

Started by lustindarkness, December 20, 2012, 11:22:04 AM

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mongers

Quote from: garbon on December 20, 2012, 02:35:24 PM
Quote from: mongers on December 20, 2012, 02:32:57 PM
So, you're saying you can get that sort of action for free ?  :P

Well I was thinking along the vein of charges for sex clubs/theaters...but since you asked, yes. :P

I hope you wash your hands properly afterwards.  :sleep:
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

garbon

Quote from: mongers on December 20, 2012, 02:38:18 PM
Quote from: garbon on December 20, 2012, 02:35:24 PM
Quote from: mongers on December 20, 2012, 02:32:57 PM
So, you're saying you can get that sort of action for free ?  :P

Well I was thinking along the vein of charges for sex clubs/theaters...but since you asked, yes. :P

I hope you wash your hands properly afterwards.  :sleep:

Being able and actually attending are different things, no? :huh:
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

garbon

http://news.yahoo.com/mass-hysteria-strange-mayan-apocalypse-freakouts-164058402.html

QuoteDespite a flood of debunking from news agencies and NASA, belief in the upcoming Mayan apocalypse is apparently still going strong.
From China to the Americas, people are reacting to the alleged doomsday with more fear than skepticism, according to multiple news reports. Space agency NASA is fielding hundreds of concerned calls, and hundreds of members of a religious group in northwest China have been arrested for spreading doomsday rumors.

All this despite the fact that the Mayan apocalypse is not going to occur. The doomsday rumors arise from a misunderstanding of a calendar used by the ancient Maya, whose civilization crumbled in about A.D. 900. The date, Dec. 21, 2012, on the modern calendar likely correlates to the final day of the 13th b'ak'tun on the ancient Mayan calendar. B'ak'tuns are 144,000-day cycles and one of the units of time that the Maya used to keep track of the days since their mythological creation date. Thirteen of these b'ak'tuns would have been seen as one full cycle of creation.

However, there were no doomsday prophecies associated with this day. Only two carvings have been found that refer to the date; one brags that an ancient Maya king will still be praised that far into the future, while another refers to the return of a god associated with calendar changes.

Nevertheless, modern-day cultures have brought their own myths to bear on the Mayan calendar, leading to serious doomsday fears. NASA is receiving 200 to 300 calls and emails a day asking about the end of the world, a spokesman told the Los Angeles Times. The agency maintains a website debunking doomsday myths and is so confident that nothing will happen on Dec. 21 that it's already released a press release about the world not ending dated Dec. 22.

In Michigan, two counties have cancelled classes Thursday and Friday, citing both fears about school violence after the elementary school shooting in Connecticut last week and rumors about the end of the world causing distraction, according to CBS Detroit.


Finally, in China, splinter religious groups are warning of the apocalypse, earning government crackdowns in the country, which heavily controls religious freedom. In the northwestern province of Qinghai, the government has arrested more than 400 members of a group called the Church of the Almighty God, confiscating computers, banners, books, cellphones and other items, The Guardian reported.

Also in China, a farmer reportedly went into debt building several doomsday escape pods, steel-and-fiberglass structures meant to withstand an apocalypse. As of earlier this month, none of the $48,000 pods had sold.

Plenty of people scoff at Mayan apocalypse rumors, of course, but there is evidence that humanity is simply a superstitious bunch. The New York Post reports that Times Square celebration organizers are warding off the bad luck of a giant, lit-up "13" as part of the 2013 display by adding 13 "lucky charms," such as a four-leaf clover to the number.

"Some people get nervous about the number 13," Tim Tompkins, president of the Times Square Alliance, told the paper.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

CountDeMoney

Quote from: Valmy on December 20, 2012, 12:52:58 PM
Quote from: mongers on December 20, 2012, 12:50:47 PM
That stuff is routine in Austria?   :boff:

Just with all your tied up daughters locked in your basement.

Well, hello there.

CountDeMoney

Quote from: Grey Fox on December 20, 2012, 11:22:55 AM
People will die.

Yup;  my prediction is, it'll definitely be the end of the world for quite a few people, somewhere.

lustindarkness

It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.
Grand Duke of Lurkdom

FunkMonk

I predict civil, sane, and rational discussion on Languish tomorrow.  :hug:
Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

Ed Anger

Quote from: FunkMonk on December 20, 2012, 04:53:33 PM
I predict civil, sane, and rational discussion on Languish tomorrow.  :hug:

it'll be a Christmas miracle.
Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

FunkMonk

Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

Ed Anger

Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

CountDeMoney

Quote from: Ed Anger on December 20, 2012, 05:00:21 PM
The Christmas thread is one big ball of retard.

No kidding.  Staying out of that one: I've scooped enough cat shit today, don't need to roll around in it.

Valmy

Quote from: CountDeMoney on December 20, 2012, 05:28:58 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on December 20, 2012, 05:00:21 PM
The Christmas thread is one big ball of retard.

No kidding.  Staying out of that one: I've scooped enough cat shit today, don't need to roll around in it.

What?  My posts were brilliant! :angry:
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

CountDeMoney

Quote from: Valmy on December 20, 2012, 05:35:25 PM
What?  My posts were brilliant! :angry:

ORLY?  :P  "fundies have tried making Christmas Jesus-centric for centuries?"  :lol:

lustindarkness

Quote from: FunkMonk on December 20, 2012, 04:53:33 PM
I predict civil, sane, and rational discussion on Languish tomorrow.  :hug:

The Maya predictions have more possibility than that.

Grand Duke of Lurkdom

Pedrito

O my God it's RAINING OUTSIDE!

IT'S TOO LATE WE'RE DOOMED

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