Yes, there was a playground at the end of the street

Didn't get in one little fight, but I did get bitten by a duck about 3 weeks before we moved here

Your lucky you didn't turn into a were-duck.

I could go out into the street yell that the world will end in 2052 and no one will believe me. Why? Because I'm not Mayan? Well I could just make a calendar that uses special increments of time so that it ends in 2052, yet still no one will believe me. Why not? What makes everyone think that the Mayans knew anything more than we do?

Now, if you want people to believe you, you gotta do better than that. You need to publish a book about your theories on the world ending, and then use something ancient, dead, and hard to verify as proof of your claims.

The reason why this craze even exists is because some wrote a book and used the mayans to justify their claims.

Yeah, and Back to the Future predicted self lacing Nike's and hover boards, we still don't have those yet (and don't give me that crappy self lacing shoe video where they take 20 seconds to lace up and use a huge ass motor. I mean SELF, LACING, NIKES, not a boat motor attached to my shoes).

Don't even get me started on how convoluted the whole "Mayan Doomsday Prophecy" is. The still-remaining Mayan descendants translated the actual prophecy in the tablets. They said that "its a time of great change" not destruction or anything like it.

I do find it kind of weird/coincidental how it marks the end of Barack Obama's term as president though. That's all I'll say on that front though.

EDIT: And for those of you worried about widespread panic. Yes its a scary thing, but remember Y2K? That was even bigger than the Mayan prophecy and all people did was buy out the supermarkets of damn-near all the water and canned goods. Come to think of it, 2012 could make a nice little turn for our failing economy.

I doubt anything of note will happen. People will die, more people will be born, prices will keep on going higher, the rich will keep getting richer and the poor will still be in the dirt, but no earth-shattering kabooms, m'afraid. If the end of the world will ever come around, it's most likely due to some idiot politicians with too big egos and missiles to match clashing. Not some mayan mumbo-jumbo.

Not a thing will happen. Absolutely nothing what so ever. I agree with the person on here who said it will be Y2K all over again. Also chuck norris will save us all.

It's the end of the world:

Hear me, o people of Cyrodiil! Look well upon the Chapel of Dibella. Look at the faces of the dead. This is your future. Evil has returned, and the Nine need a champion! Is there no one who would stand for the Nine? Now Mara's children cry out from beyond the grave for vengeance! How many more must die at Umaril's hand?
I AM CYRODIIL COME, he said, Old Reman, born from the earth that IS Al-Esh, and yet he would scorn this country now! Repent! I say again, REPENT! The blood of Dibella's slaughtered acolytes cries out for vengeance. Vengeance! Who will take up this holy crusade? Love and Mercy! Do you still think me mad? Who shall next fall to Umaril's bloody revenge?
The Eight And One require a champion, a Divine Crusader reborn. Pelinal Whitestrake once struck down the enemies of man and god. Who will now reclaim his Relics and fight again for the true faith? There are loremasters among you, heads so heavy with learning that you cannot raise your eyes to the heavens to see the truth there written! Cut eight-wise he was, Pelinal the Blamer, champion of Men, and though dispersed he left us a warning! Heed it!
Umaril is returned, as was foretold by the head of Pelinal to the Bull of Kyne in those days of old Cyrodiil. Who will walk the Pilgrim's Way, as did the questing knights of old? The blood tide rises! Will no one take up this holy crusade? Will no one walk the ancient Pilgrim's Way? Oh unhappy Tamriel! Where is your Divine Crusader, in these latter days of petty strife and lesser men?
Umaril -- yes, your children know that name if you do not. The Dread Castellan of fearful legend. Did you think him a myth? Or dead? Have you not heard the Abadal-a [sic]? Spoke Peninal [sic]: "Beware, Morihaus, beware! With the foresight of death I know now that my foe yet lives, bitter knowledge to take to my grave..." "Better that I had died believing myself the victor. Although cast beyond the doors of night, he will return.""Be vigilant! I can no longer shield the host of Men from Umaril's retribution." Thus spake Pelinal in the hour of his death.
The Unfeathered has come during the Breaking of Gates! His golden-wickedness will hold fast against all arms except those of his ancient foe, the Whitestrake!
The gate, once open, cares not who passeth through. Our ancient enemy has returned, from the deeps of time, to exact his revenge upon the gods. The gods, the Eight Attendants of Saint Pelinal when he smote down Umaril the Unfeathered...
Are there no ears to hear the warnings? Are there no eyes to witness the Wheel's breaking? The Eight and One favor only the righteous! And too few of you remain! The Thief has found the lock that he cannot break! The Warrior, the foe that cannot fall! The Wizard, an incantation that takes not to his tongue! Truly this is the Age of the Serpent and the Void that follows! The Guardians have fallen and no one remains to watch their charges, and all the heavens are now banquet for the Princes of Misrule!
And Talos said to the Arctus, "Let us join as one to fortify this throne, this land, these people, each one glorious under heaven!" Would you not do the same, children of Cyrodiil? No, you would not! This is plain! You looked away when the fires flickered, and now act lost that they are gone! Only death remains for Tamriel! Death and oblivion!
"That all the Interplay is one flea of assertion on a wolf of naught." It is by these heresies that you fall from grace! Shame on you, people of Cyrodiil, and more shame for the children that you give freely to the mouth of Destruction!
The Al-Esh is near! Mother of the Empire! She weeps for fallen Cyrod and all her children that call it home for truly she is the mother to us all! Citizens, the Queen of Stars asks you: where is her issue? Where are the men who can walk in her steps? In whose blood has the dragon taken purchase? Alessia! Reman! Talos! They cry for blood akin to theirs to rekindle the dragonpact! Citizens, take to your knives! Are there no ears to hear the warnings? Are there no eyes to witness the Wheel's breaking?
You pore over your dusty tomes of lore. You study ancient genealogies and bloodlines. Look you to blood for truth? There is truth in blood, but it is not the truth that you seek! The truth is written in the blood of the innocent, there in the Chapel of Love! Can you not read the ancient runes? "As oiobala Umarile, Ehlnada racuvar!" A curse and a threat to those who have eyes to see and ears to hear! Are there are any among you who still understand the ancient tongue? "By the eternal power of Umaril, the mortal gods shall be cast down."
Who will match the deeds of Sir Amiel and his companions when they smote the Wyrm of Elenglynn to recover the Cuirass of the Crusader?
Think on this -- what happened here is only the beginning.

:P

I don't know about the end of the world, but the best practical joke ever in human history would be to get a bunch of people together across the country to break in and set off all the http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYeql9xE19k at exactly 11:55PM on Dec. 11, 2012.

*sigh*. No one can actually predict when the world ends or anthing like that, the world could end anyday, it could even end in the next five minutes, or 500 years. Seriously, whats with all this "It's gonna be 2012. We are screwed." stuff?

Ahh FFS. This [censored] again?

I have to watch Avatar 2-3, so 2012 should wait. There are also Hobbit and Dark Tower coming soon. No apocalypse for a while would be good. Thanks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIOiwg2iHio, as we jarheads know only too well.


It looks like Ro's world is already ending :whistling:


Living up to your name I see

I see this already happening. People becoming less susceptible to advertising, more critical of government and standing authorities such as organized religion and superstition, more aware of the pitfalls of pursuing solely a materialistic existence -although for some reason, the hippie movement is also dead..

The world is increasingly shrinking in perceived size. I get my biltong from SA, steak sauce from the US, I'm dating a really hot half Puerto Rican, half Croatian girl and my son's mother lives in the states and visits on occasion. Anything that happens anywhere these's days affects me in some way, and usually it's the gas price that suffers.

More and more, people aren't getting their information from the 'power that be' in a top down fashion, but laterally via social network sites and forums. With growing frequency are the transgressions of those in power being brought to light, if not officially then again through lateral media, and no one believes anymore that there ever were any WMDs to start with, they just wanted an excuse..

A global industry that's hell bent on turning us into mindless consumers of useless products, and our growing resistance to their attempts -we get ourselves into a global economic crisis because of too much credit spending, and the solution is.. spend more?!

Riight... pull the other leg, it has shrapnel in it..

So don't be surprised if in ten years or so we look back and say collectively

"You know, something did happen back then, around '12.. dunno what, but stuff's different now."

maybe I'm just http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ul7X5js1vE&feature=more_related :shrug:

I voted yes, I can always hope...

Stupid Mayans, ending their calender and leaving us to deal with the conspiracy theorists...

Mayans predicted that 2012 comes after 2011?! This can't be true! Don't believe everything you read on the Internet.

Nothing will happen, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJjQMwEjC1I

Its all [censored]

-Grabs lawnchair, something to read, sunglasses, and a drink.-

"Let her rip!", I'd like to say. B)





But honestly, I can't tell the future, nor can I say wether or not the Mayans could (I never met them, did you?).

Someone once said that if the Mayans were so good at predicting the future, their calendar would have ended not long after the Spaniards showed up.

Having read something in another thread floating around here somewhere... if we create one more 2012-end-of-the-world-thread there's a fair chance that Mamagato will end the world all by herself.

I, for one, believe her to be capable of this. (no joke, read her posts.. she's tough :cold: )

So we might be fulfilling the prophecy by just discussing it.




oops?

:hehe:

And then the Elder Race of Man will come and set things to rights.

"Attention all planets of the Solar Federation
We have assumed control..."

The Mayans did NOT predict the end of the world in 2012. That is a misinterpretation of their calendar that's been debunked a zillion times. It's a media blitz designed for authors who are "authorities" on the subject to sell books and merchandise. Remember Y2K? Yeah, like that.

Did you hear this from people who SAID it would happen, or people who said it WOULDN'T happen? Remember- sensationalists tend start shouting out crazy ideas based on shaky evidence; there's a group out there that actually belives Ancient Egypt invented the lightbulb... and helicopters, just because the picture for their "birth of a god" looks kinda like a lightbulb, and millennia of wear and tear on one hyrogliphic (spelling?) makes it look kinda like a helicopter... and then they shout out at how mainstream archaeology is trying to suppress the "truith."

Always look at your sources before making statements- mine came from an editorial in New Scientist explaining the whole hulabaloo over the 2012 thing.