Oh come on now...

[51stcenturyfox]

NASA has had to debunk those "the world is ending in 2012" rumors. Um. LOL. (The disaster film is coming out this weekend and I'm sure it'll be a blast. So to speak.)

I remember when I was 11 or something, picking up a paperback at a rummage sale with a "the world will end in 1978!" premise. It hadn't. So since that day, I've always thought world-ending predictions were sort of hilarious. 

I admit taking some cash out of the ATM before Y2k in case my bank's computers had a case of the stupids for a day or two. 

Why so gullible, internet?


In other news...

I'm terza rima, and I talk and smile. Where others lock their rhymes and thoughts away I let mine out, and chatter all the while. I'm rarely on my own - a wasted day Is any day that's spent without a friend, With nothing much to do or hear or say. I like to be with people, and depend On company for being entertained; Which seems a good solution, in the end. What Poetry Form Are You?

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[samstjames.livejournal.com]

Lol the fun thing about this "the world will end 2012" is, that there are like four possibilities rumored. Duh... LMAO.
1. There is supposed to be a meteor going to crash with earth - one that they don't see early enough.
2. The Maya-prophecy (I dunno what is said in there).
3. The magnetic field of earth will invert 2012 and leave all the continents without electricity and stuff.
4. There will be devastating ion-storm unleashed from the sun.

Yeah right. Make your choice XD.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

Pick the one that's most dramatic!

I think by the time a giant asteroid aims at earth ala big-style dinosaur extinction-level event -- far, far into the future -- we'll be able to colonise other planets.

So on that note, I really don't mind my tax money going to NASA. :D

[phaetonschariot.livejournal.com]

There is no Maya prophecy. There's no evidence whatsoever that they ever claimed the world would end in 2012, it's just that the calendar they were using runs out then. Sort of like how my 2008 calendar ran out at New Years.

Crazy people are crazy.

[thrace-adams.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link! I'm actually looking forward to the movie...disaster movies are just fun... :)

And I think everyone took out some extra cash just in case ;)

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

I LOVE disaster movies. Frozen cities, giant tides of lava swallowing highways.

Mmmm, special effects! Plus, we have to race to save the hero or heroine's love interest/kids/hermit dad.

Mmmm, yeah.

[phaetonschariot.livejournal.com]

In theory I love disaster movies, but I find they often drag too much for me because they focus too much on the characters and I honestly don't give a crap about the people. I turn them off fifteen minutes before the end so I can pretend everyone died anyway.

[bodlon.livejournal.com]

NASA <3.

Were I not a soft, round liberal arts type, I would so be an astronaut.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

I would have said "no way" when I was young, but now I'm more fascinated by the idea of exploring strange new worlds than I am afraid of combusting in space... ;)

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

I think I was desensitised to all this World is Ending crap then in 1987, the most popular book in my church was "88 Reasons Christ is Returning in 1988."

I can't help but notice that we're all still here.

Also, if I was Jesus, I would go out of my way not make sure no one saw my shit coming. I think that might be why they call me "Thief in the Night" not "Rabid Elephant in a Glass Factory."

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

I know. Egg on face, doomsday authors!


Me too. I'd be like: "Surprise! I'm Kanye West! Didn't see that one coming, did you?"

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

SORRY, JESUS--IMMA LET YOU FINISH-- BUT DIONYSUS WAS THE BEST DEAD GOD EVER.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

OF ALL TIME (OF ALL TIME!)

That's why Dionysus has those video awards on his shelf!

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

LITTLE MOON MAN. WITH A BUCKET OF WINE.

[rodlox.livejournal.com]

1988?

"You will know neither the day nor the hour" as He put it....which is why it amuses me no end that everyone from Newton to Joe the Plumber (practically) tries to figure out when The End will be nigh.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

I think there's a difference between knowing that end times are near and that the end is absolutely near.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

And also, the things pointed to as signs... humanity being worse, wars, etc...

People have always done horrible things to each other. We just have 24-hour news channels and the internet, now.

But if it's OMG!near...then some people get to use that as a means of behavior control.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Some people should be using that as a reason to control their own behaviour.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

As in loving thy neighbors and judging not, lest...

MTE.

[cookiesofkarma.livejournal.com]

I'm rather looking forwards to the sort of people that emerge from the woodwork prophecising certain death in 2012. Might be quite entertaining. XD

I may even be going to see that film. Hurrah. :D

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

It should be entertaining, at least. Both things!

[rodlox.livejournal.com]

1978? um, out of curiosity, did they say why that year?

and you're a good form of poetry.


on some of the "Mayan Doomsday 2012" shows, they say that this happens every so often - and we need to build bunkers because all life on the surface will die.
(my reaction: riiiight, just like pretty much none of the mass extinctions in history; how regular did you say this was?)

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

Oh, planetary syzygy or something. Alignment? Please don't hold me to the year; I just know it was several years before I picked up the book. :D

[rodlox.livejournal.com]

oh good...I was afraid they were blaming me for it.

[phaetonschariot.livejournal.com]

Well you know, dinosaurs were the only lifeforms for a while there.

(yes, I'm being sarcastic, I know full well that they were really not.)

[rodlox.livejournal.com]

the gorgonopsids approve of your sarcasm.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

...and the wee little virii!

[hanuueshe.livejournal.com]

FYI, terza rima rocks my socks like nothing else.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

Casa Guidi Windows!

[blue-fjords.livejournal.com]

Dude! I got terza rima, too! Although, honestly, I can't say as I'd ever heard of it. But I like the description. It is happy-inducing.

I don't expect the world to end while I am still alive. The combined might of all the terza rima people will stop it w/ the power of our terza rima-ness! RAWR!

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

It is, huh?

WE WILL BE ALL-POWERFUL! TERZA THAT! :D

[topgeargirl2.livejournal.com]

my family has been talking about 2012 ever since we saw the ads for the movie. we came to the conclusion that the world will change not end.

We also came up with a alien theory since the mayans worshiped extra-terrestrial beings as their gods.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

If you've seen the last Indiana Jones film... I loved that theory. :)

I THINK it was the Mayans. Pretty certain.