Thread: End of time: take17/cut.......................

Waiting for doomsday: Our apocalypse obsession likely to last long past 21/12/12


Just like the crush of online doomsday clocks ticking down to the supposed end of time, NASA space scientist David Morrison is also counting the days to Dec. 21.
“It’ll all be over in, oh, 11 weeks,” he said from his office in California. “I’m curious as to what will happen next. But maybe I can stop answering questions about the end of the world after Dec. 21.”
Since answering the first apocalyptic email queries four years ago, the man behind the Ask an Astrobiologist feature on NASA’s website has been flooded with thousands of questions about Doomsday 2012 — at least one a week from a teenager so spooked by the idea of end times that they’re considering suicide.
There is a remarkably enduring allure to the end of time, and to young minds, the 2012 conspiracies can seem convincing: One theory predicts a hidden planet called Nibiru will crash through the Milky Way and knock the earth off its axis. The Mayan theory posits the end of the 1,525 year-long MesoAmerican long count calendar will usher in the end of time as we know it.
1498 woodcut by Albrecht DurerThe four horseman of the Apocalypse. Click to enlarge.





“The one thing in common with all of these scare stories about December 2012 is that they have absolutely zero basis in fact,” Dr. Morrison said. “There was no Mayan prediction of anything going wrong, there’s no planet Nibiru, there’s no planet alignment, there’s no change in the earth’s axis, there’s no change in anything about the earth. It’s just a complete fantasy.”

It’s hard to squash belief in one of the oldest narratives there is — a storyline that has transcended faiths and cultures and happens to have morphed, this time, into a relentless Internet meme.
Ubiquitous in movies and TV shows, in books and on websites, the apocalypse storyline has taken on a new urgency in North America over the past decade, experts say, in light of 9/11, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the financial meltdown and nuclear threats.
Of course, people have been predicting the end of time almost since the beginning of it. But as doomsday deadline after doomsday deadline passes with yet another sunrise — much to the disappointment, for example, of last year’s twice-failed predictor California preacher Harold Camping — our fascination with the end of time still sticks.
Why? The apocalypse drives our very human desire to look outward for answers in times of apparent chaos, it promises justice to the underdog who holds out hope. And perhaps most of all, it quenches our thirst for a good narrative, as the sheer volume of fictional accounts can attest.

Tick,talk...tick tock.

Still almost three months to go.

Too early to call.

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Waiting for doomsday: Our apocalypse obsession likely to last past 21/12/12 | News | National Post

Originally Posted by Warhammer820

Didn't you swear that you had a reliable source that the world was going to end last year or something???

Wasn't me.

Must have been someone else.

Originally Posted by swampy

If you still feel you have unfinished business and only 3 months to go, what is the one thing you would want to cram in before the curtain comes down for ever?

Might make an interesting thread.

Give it a go?

I am content and always have been content.

Originally Posted by russellsimpson

Still almost three months to go.

Too early to call.

Didn't you read your own article Russ?

“The one thing in common with all of these scare stories about December 2012 is that they have absolutely zero basis in fact,” Dr. Morrison said. “There was no Mayan prediction of anything going wrong, there’s no planet Nibiru, there’s no planet alignment, there’s no change in the earth’s axis, there’s no change in anything about the earth. It’s just a complete fantasy.”

we're all fucked. Come Dec 20,..i'm gonna party like its 1999

Warning: the end of the world is nigh ... on impossible to predict

ACCORDING to John of Toledo, it should have been September 23, 1186, but nothing happened. Judgment day failed to materialise again on April 5, 1761, as foretold by William Bell of London. Nothing apocalyptic happened on April 28, 1843, and again on September 21, 1945.
Those anxious that the world will end on December 21 this year - such as the residents of Chelyabinsk in Russia, who have built a Mayan-style archway out of ice - may be comforted to know that over the past 2000 years there have been at least 200 confident, date-specific prophecies, and they have all been wrong.

Read more: Warning: the end of the world is nigh ... on impossible to predict

Any believers who wish to donate their life savings to me please PM.

Originally Posted by Umbuku

Those anxious that the world will end on December 21 this year - such as the residents of Chelyabinsk in Russia, who have built a Mayan-style archway out of ice - may be comforted to know that over the past 2000 years there have been at least 200 confident, date-specific prophecies, and they have all been wrong.

We may not know whether time has ended until long after the actual event.

Years, decades, maybe even centuries.

I remain hopeful for Dec. 21.

Originally Posted by russellsimpson

We may not know whether time has ended until long after the actual event.

Leary passed through Canada when he was on the run. Confirmed.

Leary is circling the planet as we speak...

Burroughs too..............

These men were far, far ahead of their time.

In terms of "end of the world

we must think outside the box.

Thoughts come and go.......

The secret is non attachment.....

We must be objective observers of our own life as it passes by...

These are the essential principles.

Not to say new puppies aren't of interest.

Hope you know where I'm going with this..............



('cause fucked if I do)

Easy to say, hard to do.