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Started by Cramulus, January 25, 2009, 05:46:37 PM

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Cramulus

#30
March 08, 2009, 04:50:10 PM
where is that, exactly? California? I'll totally go if it's in driving distance, but I suspect it's not. (I'm in NY)

Aufenthatt

#31
March 08, 2009, 06:52:04 PM
Quote from: Principia Discordia  on March 08, 2009, 04:50:10 PM
In the Los Angeles suburb of Whittier there lives a bowling alley, and within this very place, in the Year of Our Lady of Discord 3125 (1959*), Eris revealed Herself to The Golden Apple Corps for the first time.

Torodung

#32
March 09, 2009, 05:57:08 AM
Quote from: Cramulus on January 25, 2009, 05:46:37 PM


The world will end in 2012.

Why believe in the apocalypse?

one word, people:

HOPE.


2012 or bust.

One word Cramulus: Lithium.

Oh and  :mittens:
The only choice you're given is how best to burn
BURN BRIGHTLY

potato

#33
March 13, 2009, 05:03:52 PM
personally I'm quite pleased to see apocalypse predictions once again getting media coverage. a few decades ago it was a fairly regular thing, then there was a huge dry spell until 2000 (by the way to whoever said nothing happened, you're wrong. it just wasn't anything out in public view where it would incite mobs of people to go looting) (and seriously I want to know who's responsible for deciding to ignore apocalypse predictions in the first place, they suck) then nothing until 2012 popped onto the scene.

I'm quite enjoying it.
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The Good Reverend Roger

#34
March 14, 2009, 06:12:45 AM
Quote from: potato on March 13, 2009, 05:03:52 PM
personally I'm quite pleased to see apocalypse predictions once again getting media coverage. a few decades ago it was a fairly regular thing, then there was a huge dry spell until 2000 (by the way to whoever said nothing happened, you're wrong. it just wasn't anything out in public view where it would incite mobs of people to go looting) (and seriously I want to know who's responsible for deciding to ignore apocalypse predictions in the first place, they suck) then nothing until 2012 popped onto the scene.

I'm quite enjoying it.

I used to.  Then the whole 2000 thing (God likes big, round numbers) turned into 2001 ("There was no zero year"), then 2004 (Gregorian vs Julian calendar) then 2005 (2004 plus the no zero year thing) by which point even the evangelical Christians were getting sick and tired of it.

Now I'm expected to believe that a baroque culture which didn't invent the wheel or make any advances in agriculture, and which threw their sacrificial virgins into their drinking water, have predicted the end of the world because their calendar maker quit at 2012 (for those of meso-American descent, this is a slam at a baroque culture, not a race of people, kthx).

Frankly, I'm beginning to become a little discouraged.  Where is my apocalypse?  Where are the great seven-headed beasties?  I'd settle for a meteor right about now, or maybe some alien face-huggers.

Goddammit.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Cain

#35
March 14, 2009, 01:36:16 PM
If they had predicted 1520 as an apocalypse, I might have been more impressed.

Cramulus

#36
March 14, 2009, 02:48:17 PM
the mayans never predicted that it would be the End
crazy pattern-finding humans made that connection

from http://shii.org/knows/2012

QuoteDecember 21, 2012 is not a "prophecy of the end times" someone has dredged up from an old history textbook. The Mayan calendar does not end on any particular date, and they were not "building up" to 2012 any more than a Puritan "gets ready" for next Sunday; it is a natural part of their calendar. There are dates on surviving Mayan inscriptions placing legends in 400,000,000 BCE (Thompson 1956:23). The calendar survives past 2012 and continues into the indefinite future.

I really hope that in three years I have the cash to attend a 2012 party at the foot of some mayan pyramid

Urraco

#37
March 14, 2009, 03:16:13 PM
Hm. Well the world isn't going to end itself, frankly. That's the major problem with these Armageddon theories is that we expect something to do all the work for us.
Spørk, børk? Pørk!

Rococo Modem Basilisk

#38
March 14, 2009, 04:35:41 PM
It's not the end of the world, it's the end of the FIFTH world. Gets wiped out by fire, everybody survives, we all go to another place that will be wiped out by something else in a couple thousand years.


I am not "full of hate" as if I were some passive container. I am a generator of hate, and my rage is a renewable resource, like sunshine.

Urraco

#39
March 14, 2009, 04:41:06 PM
So this whole thing is just a metaphor for the passing of the old year to the new one?

What are we worried about then?
Spørk, børk? Pørk!

potato

#40
March 15, 2009, 12:30:53 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 14, 2009, 06:12:45 AM
I used to.  Then the whole 2000 thing (God likes big, round numbers) turned into 2001 ("There was no zero year"), then 2004 (Gregorian vs Julian calendar) then 2005 (2004 plus the no zero year thing) by which point even the evangelical Christians were getting sick and tired of it.
sadly, I missed those. otherwise I would not have made such a sweeping generalization about our lack of apocalyptic hype.
everything I commit to print is protected by the copyright laws of the U.S. and I retain all rights, including rights to create derivative works, except where I have included reprinted content under the fair use provision, in which case the original author retains all rights, unless of course they've place their work in the public domain or under a CC license, in which case there are no restrictions on public domain works and CC works can be used under the specific license under which it has been distributed.

the above notice exists in case I accidentally ever say anything clever enough that someone wants to borrow, steal or otherwise use it in any printed form.

Thurnez Isa

#41
March 15, 2009, 05:35:54 AM
hey apparently now Nostradamus predicted the 2012
:lulz:

http://nostradamus2012.com/
Through me the way to the city of woe, Through me the way to everlasting pain, Through me the way among the lost.
Justice moved my maker on high.
Divine power made me, Wisdom supreme, and Primal love.
Before me nothing was but things eternal, and eternal I endure.
Abandon all hope, you who enter here.
Dante

The Good Reverend Roger

#42
March 15, 2009, 06:55:42 AM
Quote from: potato on March 15, 2009, 12:30:53 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 14, 2009, 06:12:45 AM
I used to.  Then the whole 2000 thing (God likes big, round numbers) turned into 2001 ("There was no zero year"), then 2004 (Gregorian vs Julian calendar) then 2005 (2004 plus the no zero year thing) by which point even the evangelical Christians were getting sick and tired of it.
sadly, I missed those. otherwise I would not have made such a sweeping generalization about our lack of apocalyptic hype.

I am surrounded by Calvinists.  They don't let you miss a thing.  :tgrr:
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

potato

#43
March 16, 2009, 05:28:50 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 15, 2009, 06:55:42 AM
I am surrounded by Calvinists.  They don't let you miss a thing.  :tgrr:
funnily enough, I still had one foot in the cult through 2006, but the cult's only concern was the change from 99 to 00. all possible mayhem was anticipated because of antiquated computers floating in space and in the server rooms of government offices around the globe, but they had no sense of fun when it came to numerological apocalypse.
everything I commit to print is protected by the copyright laws of the U.S. and I retain all rights, including rights to create derivative works, except where I have included reprinted content under the fair use provision, in which case the original author retains all rights, unless of course they've place their work in the public domain or under a CC license, in which case there are no restrictions on public domain works and CC works can be used under the specific license under which it has been distributed.

the above notice exists in case I accidentally ever say anything clever enough that someone wants to borrow, steal or otherwise use it in any printed form.

P3nT4gR4m

#44
March 16, 2009, 05:43:35 PM
Quote from: potato on March 16, 2009, 05:28:50 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 15, 2009, 06:55:42 AM
I am surrounded by Calvinists.  They don't let you miss a thing.  :tgrr:
funnily enough, I still had one foot in the cult through 2006, but the cult's only concern was the change from 99 to 00. all possible mayhem was anticipated because of antiquated computers floating in space and in the server rooms of government offices around the globe, but they had no sense of fun when it came to numerological apocalypse.

Stop teasing us goddamnit, I demand anecdotes. NAOW!!! :argh!:

I'm up to my arse in Brexit Numpties, but I want more.  Target-rich environments are the new sexy.
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