So I'm not quite sure which side I should pick to be on with this issue.

On one hand, I feel like I should jump on board with this and agree that the world will end in 2012 so that if it does end I can be like "I told you so"

On the other hand, logic is telling me not to jump on board so that when nothing happens and when midnight January 1 2013 comes around I can be like "I told you so"

Or I could jump on board with the 2012ers who think it will end so that I can be like I told you so if anything happens and then if something doesn't happen I can be like "do you honestly think I honestly thought that something was going to happen, I mean I'm not that dumb!"

Or I could just not take a side and be one of those random people running down the road screaming.

11/2/2009 10:57:26 AM

shut up

11/2/2009 10:58:21 AM

Aztecas had like 40 calanders each of which was like 30% more accurate than ours

or amazons or some shit

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11/2/2009 10:58:36 AM

shut up

11/2/2009 10:58:38 AM

11/2/2009 10:58:41 AM

you're also not sure which of the multiple threads covering this to post in apparently

11/2/2009 10:58:53 AM

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"On one hand, I feel like I should jump on board with this and agree that the world will end in 2012 so that if it does end I can be like "I told you so""

If you were right, you wouldn't get the chance.

[Edited on November 2, 2009 at 10:59 AM. Reason : also, shut up]

11/2/2009 10:59:10 AM

IMO

Good riddance. The rest of the universe is better off without us.

11/2/2009 10:59:31 AM

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"you're also not sure which of the multiple threads covering this to post in apparently"

That's why I created a new thread. Cause there wasn't already a thread devoted to my inner argument.

11/2/2009 11:00:52 AM

'cause a thread devoted to your thoughts is important!

11/2/2009 11:01:15 AM

dammit i love that video and youtube is being a little bitch

YOUTUBE I NEED YOU NOOOOOOOOW

11/2/2009 11:01:18 AM

First, there was an error it's 2022 not 2012. (Edit: it was on slashdot last week or two weeks ago)

Secondly, it's just when their calendar ends. Our calendar ends every year on December 31st.

Big deal.

[Edited on November 2, 2009 at 11:02 AM. Reason : -]

11/2/2009 11:02:05 AM

naw son its when all of their 40 calanders overlap.

they predicted like all kinds of fucking asteroids and shit with calendar collisions.

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11/2/2009 11:03:19 AM

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"'cause a thread devoted to your thoughts is important!"

I mean I try to take over the what are you thinking about thread, but too many other people have inner thoughts that get in the way of mine. Twitter is too annoying to try to keep up with, and I'm not one for posting a new facebook status ever 2 seconds when my thought changes....

HOWEVER, my inner thoughts are pretty important, you'd be amazed with what I think about. Some crazy ass shit goes on in my brain.

11/2/2009 11:04:16 AM

EVERYONE LOOK AT ME

LOOK AT ME!!!

11/2/2009 11:05:21 AM

What am I looking for? Are you about to do a trick?

11/2/2009 11:07:20 AM

i fully support this thread and all its associated shenanigans

[Edited on November 2, 2009 at 12:53 PM. Reason : does tww have a like button yet?]

11/2/2009 12:53:10 PM

OMFG Y2.012K

11/2/2009 1:48:43 PM

shut up

11/2/2009 1:50:03 PM

personally i take the position where i say it will happen i calmly explain nothing took place only because john titor saved us.

11/2/2009 4:18:02 PM

Let's scare children some more.

Even the Maya are getting sick of 2012 hype
Apocalypse Next? Experts trace fears to modern, not ancient sources
Oct . 10, 2009

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"MEXICO CITY - Apolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the Mayan calendar supposedly 'running out' on Dec. 21, 2012. After all, it's not the end of the world. Or is it? Definitely not, the Mayan elder insists. 'I came back from England last year and, man, they had me fed up with this stuff.'"

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"It can only get worse for him. Next month, Hollywood's '2012' opens in cinemas, featuring earthquakes, meteor showers and a tsunami dumping an aircraft carrier on the White House. At Cornell University, Ann Martin, who runs the 'Ask an Astronomer' Web site, says people are scared. 'It's too bad that we're getting e-mails from fourth-graders who are saying that they're too young to die,' Martin said. 'We had a mother of two young children who was afraid she wouldn't live to see them grow up.' Chile Pixtun, a Guatemalan, says the doomsday theories spring from Western, not Mayan, ideas. A significant time period for the Maya does end on the date, and enthusiasts have found a series of astronomical alignments they say coincide in 2012, including one that happens roughly only once every 25,800 years. But most archaeologists, astronomers and Maya Indians say the only thing likely to hit Earth is a meteor shower of New Age philosophy, pop astronomy, Internet doomsday rumors and TV specials — such as one on the History Channel that mixes predictions from Nostradamus and the Maya and asks: 'Is 2012 the year the cosmic clock finally winds down to zero days, zero hope?'"

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"'If I went to some Mayan-speaking communities and asked people what is going to happen in 2012, they wouldn't have any idea,' said Jose Huchim, a Yucatan Mayan archaeologist. 'That the world is going to end? They wouldn't believe you. We have real concerns these days, like rain.'"

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"'It's a special anniversary of creation,' said David Stuart, a specialist in Mayan epigraphy at the University of Texas at Austin. 'The Maya never said the world is going to end, they never said anything bad would happen necessarily, they're just recording this future anniversary on Monument Six.'"

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33261483/?GT1=43001

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11/2/2009 4:21:49 PM

tsb is a few clicks down, don't get lost

11/2/2009 4:22:40 PM

I don't buy it.

How many other times do we rely on THE FUCKING MAYANS for answers? Oh right, never.

11/2/2009 4:22:58 PM

...because being able to say "I told you so" is the best reason to jump on board with something

11/2/2009 5:34:11 PM

If you don't believe the world is going to end in 2012 then you are going to hell when it does.

11/2/2009 5:36:26 PM

you people

11/2/2009 5:41:43 PM

why hasn't someone mentioned nostrodamus or edgar cayce yet

11/2/2009 5:46:41 PM

ON THE HISTORY CHANNEL RIGHT NOW!

1/4/2010 12:33:17 AM

Maybe somebody mentioned this already, but I'll say it again:

If the world ends in 2012, you will not be around to say "I told you so." You'll just be dead, or you'll be in Mayan hell because even though you bought into their calendar you gave inadequate sacrifice to the Mayan gods.

1/4/2010 12:35:02 AM

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"On the other hand, logic is telling me not to jump on board so that when nothing happens and when midnight January 1 2013 comes around I can be like "I told you so""

except its not December 31st 2012 that is the suspected date.

1/4/2010 12:37:03 AM

Things that the Mayans successfully predicted that other civilizations could not also predict: 0

I wonder how many people have the Mayans confused with the Aztecs, and are wondering about the Aztec predictions of gods coming that coincided with white dudes fucking their world up.

1/4/2010 12:38:51 AM

Well, they mentioned that the Mayans were able to talk to their ancestors by stabbing themselves in the penis with a stingray tail, wrapping the wound in paper, and then burning the bloody paper to create a smoke serpent to the sky.

Maybe that's what our modern "scientific method" is missing.

1/4/2010 12:55:21 AM

I plan on doing a lot of sexing in the year 2012. What about you?

1/4/2010 1:00:21 AM

The penis-jabbing thing has always made me feel kind of OK with wiping out the Aztecs. Along with the, you know, war-for-the-purpose-of-acquiring-human-sacrifices thing.

[Edited on January 4, 2010 at 1:01 AM. Reason : you sure that wasn't the aztecs? or maybe it was both.]

1/4/2010 1:01:14 AM

I'm thinking this might not be a bad thing if life doesn't get better.

1/4/2010 1:01:49 AM

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"The world ending in 2012. "

I will bet anyone here $1000 that this doesn't happen.

1/4/2010 1:02:05 AM

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"you sure that wasn't the aztecs? or maybe it was both"

Geez, I'm not 100% sure. I'll tell you what, next time I run into an Aztec or a Mayan I'll be sure to ask them.

OH WAIT...

1/4/2010 1:03:45 AM