Poll: 2012, Real or fake?

[Krafty_Krocodile]

Fake, honestly i think that its stupid, cuz it Has to be when England gets the olypics, it Has to be when im 18 years old, it Has to be the year when i join university (if i do that is)

 

[WorldCritic]

Fake, oh no the Mayans stopped their calender it's the end of the world. No.

 

[The Procrastinated End]

They just got lazy and decided that when it was like 2000 or so they would add to the calender.

 

[Alon Shechter]

Is 2012 real?

Of course it's real. It's not like we're going to jump from 2011 to 2013!

...

Ooooh, you mean the end of the world theory!

No, it's fake

I agree with this lad.

It is time we put an end to this!

For me, it's pure rubbish. I think it Mayans were like:

"Dude, you're still carving that calendar?"
"YEAH!BUT ITS NOT OVER 9000 YET!"
"Oh, quit it already, either ways, our space-ship is ready, leave it"
"Fine."

Corrected the carving person's line.

 

[Queen Michael]

Oh, and I almost forgot to mention this:
The Mayans clearly say that they don't think the world'll end in 2012. One of their leaders wrote that he expected his jubilee to be celebrated somewhere around the year 3400 if I remember it correctly.

 

[SleeperAwake]

My caleder ends every year. The world ain't gone yet.

 

[rookie.of.the.year]

This is a discussion?

2012 is just the end of the Mayan cycle of the sun or something, and the cycle just starts again.

Nobody dies!

The film did scare me a bit though! Not the end of the world at 2012, but like, the real life tsunami predictions, which made me decide i need to be either a. very important, or b. very rich so i can be saved from any global disaster And nuclear fallout

 

[X123Lewis123X]

Is 2012 real?

Of course it's real. It's not like we're going to jump from 2011 to 2013!

...

Ooooh, you mean the end of the world theory!

No, it's fake

i totally agree.

and i also lol'd.

 

[gurall200]

(on a side note, how many of these topics exist, 42,037?)

No, it doesn't exist, now something might (keyword: MIGHT) happen on the 42nd anniversary of Douglas Adams death, terrorist attack, earthquake, sudden surge in atheism, worldwide book burning, Harry Potter becomes a religion, no one knows, but something MAY happen.

 

[Worgen]

its very real and the only way to save yourself is to send me a big bag o cash in exchange for a super box

 

[Leole]

(on a side note, how many of these topics exist, 42,037?)

No, it doesn't exist, now something might (keyword: MIGHT) happen on the 42nd anniversary of Douglas Adams death, terrorist attack, earthquake, sudden surge in atheism, worldwide book burning, Harry Potter becomes a religion, no one knows, but something MAY happen.

You mean HARRY POTTER ISN'T A RELIGION!?

What the hell have i been doing these past 6 years then!? No wonder my Golden Snitch never returns when i throw it down my balcony.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

Well the world could end in 2012. It could also end in 2010, 2011, 2013, and any other year. But either way, the Mayans never said that the world was going to end in 2012... and neither did anyone else. There's a Cracked article about it somewhere... here it is. [http://www.cracked.com/article_17445_the-6-best-2012-apocalypse-theories-are-all-bullshit.html]

No, it doesn't exist, now something might (keyword: MIGHT) happen on the 42nd anniversary of Douglas Adams death, terrorist attack, earthquake, sudden surge in atheism, worldwide book burning, Harry Potter becomes a religion, no one knows, but something MAY happen.

Umm... did I miss something? Did you make that up or is this supposed to be a real thing?

 

[NickCaligo42]

Also, dick move putting "Poll:" in the topic without adding a poll.

Wow, I just noticed, I did add a poll. It didn't show for some reason, sorry.

Ah, never mind then!

 

[dfcrackhead]

It is time we put an end to this!

For me, it's pure rubbish. I think it Mayans were like:

"Dude, you're still carving that calendar?"
"Yeah, man, I'm down to 2012, almost done"
"Oh, quit it already, either ways, our space-ship is ready, leave it"
"Fine."

Where is the actual poll?

OT: If the world ends, no one can come on here to go "HAH it was right" and if it's fake everyone will go "Oooh it's 2012, I can haz apocalypse? I gues not" Personally I think the whole thing is fake, but whatever

 

[Timotei]

I know very well the world isn't going to end, but I do so love to rile up people about this. I love it so much in fact that I'll be sure to be sitting in a chair in Time Square on December 20th, 2012 with a nice bottle of Don Perrignon waiting for the countdown. I will sit there all day day until December 22nd, 2012. where I shall get up out of my chair and laugh at all the simpletons.

If the world does indeed end, at least I'll die with a nice bottle of champagne.

Either way I die happy. Just one way I die faster than the other.

 

[Queen Michael]

Also, dick move putting "Poll:" in the topic without adding a poll.

Wow, I just noticed, I did add a poll. It didn't show for some reason, sorry.

Ah, never mind then!

I, too, retract my similar complaint.

OT: You know what we need? A "Is there anybody who seriously does believe in 2012?" thread.

 

[Balmong7]

The scientist that told everyone about the 2012 Maya calender translation. Have said that there was a misscalculation. It is in about 200 years or something like that. Not that it is going to happen.

So Does this mean that it will happen... just not in 2012 but in 4012?
because then I would still be right that the Mayans did predict the end of the world AND the there would be a big party in 3400!
YAYYYYYY!

bu seriously 2012 is crap

 

[manythings]

2012 is real, as a year, not the apocolypse.
(i hope)

Apocalypse doesn't even mean that which says a lot about the people who write books about the *insert disaster* Apocalypse.

 

[Lukeydoodly]

That depends on whether or not your an idiot.

 

[The3rdEye]

God, this again. I thought we were finally done with all the threads where everyone agrees that 2012 is a load of bullshit and chips and acts like they're being edgy by saying it. I was really hoping we wouldn't have to see another one.

So yes, it's hogwash. But, has any of us actually ever met someone who believes it? I haven't. This debate keeps getting brought up by people who already think the debate is a moot point. There's like three crazy guys in a basement with tinfoil hats somewhere that believe the 2012 stuff, and they're the only people who believe it. Other than that, it's just hollywood and other people who write fiction doing what people who write fiction have been doing for a long time, 'borrowing' concepts from ancient mythologies no one believes any more since they're now the free idea bucket, and having a little bit of fun with it.

How many more threads will I be forced to see about this?

What -I- don't understand is why people who are so adamantly against certain re-occurring threads go out of their way to post in them, hiking up the post count and increasing it's ranking. It's like the reverse of trolling.



OT: No, the world's end doesn't have a date on a(ny) calender yet.

IMO, we have the power to schedule and control our lives to a very limited degree, so the "End of the World" debates are just a bigger, bad-ass-er version of every other (speaking from a completely non-secular PoV)inconsequential date on the calender that we've attached some kind of sentimental or personal significance to. Aside from the issue of "security" in knowing exactly when the world is going to die (or more specifically, when YOU are going to die) there's also the question of curiosity. I'd be curious to see the world end, I just probably wouldn't want to survive it.