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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Hollywood on July 06, 2008, 06:59:41 PM

Title: So ... only about 4 and a half years until the world ends
Post by: Hollywood on July 06, 2008, 06:59:41 PM
Dec 21, 2012


Best quote:

"You have to understand, there will be nothing, nothing left," Patrick Geryl told ABC News. "We will have to start an entire civilization from scratch." Geryl, a 53-year-old former laboratory worker who lives in Belgium, quit his job two years ago after he saved up enough money to last him until December 2012. He’s now stocking survival supplies, a list of which runs 11 pages long.

http://news.aol.com/story/_a/thousands-expect-apocalypse-in-2012/20080706152409990001
Title: Re: So ... only about 4 and a half years until the world ends
Post by: MrAngryFace on July 06, 2008, 07:01:44 PM
THANKS MAYANS or whoever it was
Title: Re: So ... only about 4 and a half years until the world ends
Post by: Vizzys on July 06, 2008, 07:05:13 PM
highly doubt anything catastrophic will happen in 2012
Title: Re: So ... only about 4 and a half years until the world ends
Post by: Crushed on July 06, 2008, 07:05:38 PM
Someone should tell him that the Mayan calendar extends past 2012.
Title: Re: So ... only about 4 and a half years until the world ends
Post by: MrAngryFace on July 06, 2008, 07:07:26 PM
well ill at least have enough time to play Persona 4
Title: Re: So ... only about 4 and a half years until the world ends
Post by: Powerslave on July 06, 2008, 07:10:08 PM
I am so gonna get laid before I die.
Title: Re: So ... only about 4 and a half years until the world ends
Post by: Hollywood on July 06, 2008, 07:12:36 PM
I want to talk to this guy and get the 11 pages from him. I bet there's something I'm drastically missing before I try to survive the apocolypse.
Title: Re: So ... only about 4 and a half years until the world ends
Post by: Fresh Prince on July 06, 2008, 07:18:27 PM
Quote from: wikipedia
Metaphysical predictions

2012 is sometimes claimed to be a great year of spiritual transformation (or apocalypse). Many esoteric sources interpret the completion of the thirteenth B'ak'tun cycle in the Long Count of the Maya calendar (which occurs on December 21 by the most widely held correlation) to mean there will be a major change in world order.[who?]

Accordingly, several eclectic authors claim that a major, world-changing event will take place in 2012:
The 1997 book The Bible Code claims that, according to certain algorithms of the Bible code, an asteroid or comet will collide with the Earth.
The 2006 book 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl by Daniel Pinchbeck discusses theories of a possible global awakening to psychic connection by the year 2012, creating a noosphere.

Other prophecies and apocalyptic writings and hypotheses for this year include:
Terence McKenna's numerological novelty theory suggests a point of singularity in which humankind will go through a great shift in consciousness.
Sounds like someone watched Neon Genesis.
Title: Re: So ... only about 4 and a half years until the world ends
Post by: Hollywood on July 06, 2008, 07:27:27 PM
Quote from: wikipedia
Metaphysical predictions

2012 is sometimes claimed to be a great year of spiritual transformation (or apocalypse). Many esoteric sources interpret the completion of the thirteenth B'ak'tun cycle in the Long Count of the Maya calendar (which occurs on December 21 by the most widely held correlation) to mean there will be a major change in world order.[who?]

Accordingly, several eclectic authors claim that a major, world-changing event will take place in 2012:
The 1997 book The Bible Code claims that, according to certain algorithms of the Bible code, an asteroid or comet will collide with the Earth.
The 2006 book 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl by Daniel Pinchbeck discusses theories of a possible global awakening to psychic connection by the year 2012, creating a noosphere.

Other prophecies and apocalyptic writings and hypotheses for this year include:
Terence McKenna's numerological novelty theory suggests a point of singularity in which humankind will go through a great shift in consciousness.
Sounds like someone watched Neon Genesis.

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4c/Pinchbeck.jpg)

Picture of the guy who wrote that 2012 book. He's also wacked out on LSD and about everything else it says. Looks like a guy who is a professional authority on 2012.
Title: Re: So ... only about 4 and a half years until the world ends
Post by: Fresh Prince on July 06, 2008, 08:01:00 PM
This Terence McKenna guy was also whacked out on LSD, I'm beginning to see a connection.
Title: Re: So ... only about 4 and a half years until the world ends
Post by: Joe Molotov on July 06, 2008, 08:06:00 PM
I want to talk to this guy and get the 11 pages from him. I bet there's something I'm drastically missing before I try to survive the apocolypse.

- (1) American muscle car (can be substituted with a souped-up, nitrous boosted dune buggy)
- (1) Gas can
- (1) Siphon hose
- (1) Sawed-off double-barreled shotgun
- (3) Shotgun shells
- (1) Mangy dog
- (1) can of dog food
- (1) Unused prophylactic One soiled.
- (1) Geiger counter
- Lots and lots of leather
Title: Re: So ... only about 4 and a half years until the world ends
Post by: fistfulofmetal on July 06, 2008, 08:29:02 PM
I am so gonna get laid before I die.

Hey me too.
Two birds one stone?
Title: Re: So ... only about 4 and a half years until the world ends
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on July 06, 2008, 08:30:25 PM
You stopped short of the best part.

"Geryl is certainly not the only one. Searching for "2012 the end of the world" on Google brings up nearly 700,000 hits."

Fine journalism.
Title: Re: So ... only about 4 and a half years until the world ends
Post by: Brehvolution on July 06, 2008, 08:52:04 PM
Good, lets get this gen over with.
Title: Re: So ... only about 4 and a half years until the world ends
Post by: laesperanzapaz on July 06, 2008, 11:45:50 PM
if it means killing all blind liberals and conservative extremists, or better yet, a meteoric catastrophe to the whole entire world, then by all means.
Title: Re: So ... only about 4 and a half years until the world ends
Post by: TVC15 on July 06, 2008, 11:47:17 PM
I'd be 31 then.  I certainly hope I'd already be dead.
Title: Re: So ... only about 4 and a half years until the world ends
Post by: Joe Molotov on July 07, 2008, 12:00:30 AM
I don't trust anyone over 30.
Title: Re: So ... only about 4 and a half years until the world ends
Post by: TVC15 on July 07, 2008, 12:15:22 AM
I don't trust anyone over 30.

And I'm almost there :(  I will become what I hate.  Technically, I probably am something that I hate, but at least I'm not 30 on top of that.  I am a terrible human being.  Terrible.

I was listening to the Dead Kennedys today, spurred by the possible Rock Band 2 song list.  I was like wooo, punk rock, this is awesome.  And then I realized that Jello Biafra would probably murder me for being the total and complete sellout whore that I am.  I wish there was some sort of volcano I could throw myself into, make the snap decision to jump and bathe in the several seconds of regret that would follow.  It's the only way that I'd ever feel as ashamed and embarrassed as I should.  And then at the last moment of mental agony, my body would be dissipated like a cloud by the lava.  I also have this fantasy about going up a mountain and breaking my legs in a minor fall.  Stranded in a remote location, alone, getting picked apart by crows as I sit there and wait to die.  I wish it would happen right now.
Title: Re: So ... only about 4 and a half years until the world ends
Post by: muckhole on July 07, 2008, 12:16:29 AM
I don't trust anyone over 30.

That's only beacuase you know we'll rule Bartertown.
Title: Re: So ... only about 4 and a half years until the world ends
Post by: Reb on July 07, 2008, 07:23:31 AM
I am so gonna get laid before I die.
I don't know man, 4,5 years? Tic toc!
Title: Re: So ... only about 4 and a half years until the world ends
Post by: Eric P on July 07, 2008, 07:24:24 AM
few things infuriate me as much as 2012 or apocalyptism in general.

Title: Re: So ... only about 4 and a half years until the world ends
Post by: Reb on July 07, 2008, 07:25:50 AM
few things infuriate me as much as 2012 or apocalyptism in general.


Man, you're gonna eat so much crow, after you day a fiery death along with the rest of the world, in 2012.
Title: Re: So ... only about 4 and a half years until the world ends
Post by: MrAngryFace on July 07, 2008, 12:01:33 PM
We'll see WHO laughs last!
Title: Re: So ... only about 4 and a half years until the world ends
Post by: lordmaji on July 07, 2008, 12:05:43 PM
Well, it has been a good run. Time to start over.  :'(
Title: Re: So ... only about 4 and a half years until the world ends
Post by: WrikaWrek on July 07, 2008, 12:05:57 PM
More than enough time for me. Seriously, if you knew the world would end in 4 years, those 4 years would be fucking balla.
Title: Re: So ... only about 4 and a half years until the world ends
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on July 07, 2008, 12:06:41 PM
few things infuriate me as much as 2012 or apocalyptism in general.

I love 2012! I want to sit next to you in the SuperContext. :-*
Title: Re: So ... only about 4 and a half years until the world ends
Post by: MrAngryFace on July 07, 2008, 12:11:15 PM
Im more inclined to believe in 99942 Apophis hitting us in 2036

999 = HRM THAT LOOKS LIKE SOMETHING BAD
42 = Meaning of Life
Title: Re: So ... only about 4 and a half years until the world ends
Post by: Phoenix Dark on July 07, 2008, 12:12:14 PM
2012 HUCKABEE GOD'S CANDIDATE :bow :bow :bow

Title: Re: So ... only about 4 and a half years until the world ends
Post by: MrAngryFace on July 07, 2008, 12:13:28 PM
I stand with the X-Men during the AGE OF APOCALYPSE

(http://www.comic-images.com/watermark.php?src=data/media/1/aoa.jpg)
Title: Re: So ... only about 4 and a half years until the world ends
Post by: MCD on July 07, 2008, 12:14:27 PM
next gen better get here fast
Title: Re: So ... only about 4 and a half years until the world ends
Post by: Reb on July 07, 2008, 04:11:38 PM
But we know their hinges are their weak spot.
Title: Re: So ... only about 4 and a half years until the world ends
Post by: Eric P on July 07, 2008, 08:54:01 PM
few things infuriate me as much as 2012 or apocalyptism in general.

I love 2012! I want to sit next to you in the SuperContext. :-*

we have much to discuss