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It's the end of the world as we know it

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  • castadiva
    castadiva Posts: 2,016 Member
    So far, so good - it's a beautiful day in London :smile:

    Isn't that how most disaster movies begin?

    --P

    usually :laugh: Nonetheless, it's a nice day for a 'pocalypse! :wink:
  • Prahasaurus
    Prahasaurus Posts: 1,381 Member
    We must be hard wired to care about these ridiculous predictions or prophecies. They play such a prominent role in great literature and religion that there must be a cause. Why?

    Why do we care today what primitive people had to say about anything? They hadn't even invented the wheelbarrow, and yet we seriously worry that they had miraculously discovered hidden secrets of the universe?

    --P
  • RosscoBoscko
    RosscoBoscko Posts: 632 Member
    I'm guessing its the ingrained human mortality complex, many people are obsessed with knowing how and when they will die, and maybe for the rest of us the apocalyptic prophecies are linked to this on a subconscious level.
  • jenbit
    jenbit Posts: 4,252 Member
    Well the Mayans didn't actually predict the end of the world. Their calander just ended. We don't freak out when our calander ends on Dec 31st we just start back at Jan 1st. Though according to the small Mayan villages left on the yucatan the restart of the calander means the start of a new age and is supposed to be a good thing. So happy new 1200 peeps :drinker:
  • AnnaPixie
    AnnaPixie Posts: 7,439 Member
    So far, so good - it's a beautiful day in London :smile:

    Isn't that how most disaster movies begin?

    --P

    :laugh: :laugh:
  • AnnaPixie
    AnnaPixie Posts: 7,439 Member
    Well gonna take the approach linked to what the mayan's really believed from today that the calender resets from today, not ends, so tgonna try to take the approach that this is the beginning of the new me as of today. as good a day as any i guess. this is the first day of the rest of my life as they say.

    I think I will join you in that approach Ross - cheers!! :drinker:
  • Prahasaurus
    Prahasaurus Posts: 1,381 Member
    I'm guessing its the ingrained human mortality complex, many people are obsessed with knowing how and when they will die, and maybe for the rest of us the apocalyptic prophecies are linked to this on a subconscious level.

    Yes, well said.

    --P
  • pa_jorg
    pa_jorg Posts: 4,404 Member
    I'm guessing its the ingrained human mortality complex, many people are obsessed with knowing how and when they will die, and maybe for the rest of us the apocalyptic prophecies are linked to this on a subconscious level.

    This is probably true. And another part of it is like gossip...something to amuse you during an otherwise uneventful time.
  • RosscoBoscko
    RosscoBoscko Posts: 632 Member
    This is probably true. And another part of it is like gossip...something to amuse you during an otherwise uneventful time.

    Yeah probably this as well, a kind of morbid curiosity, or a wouldn't it be funny if it actually happened kind of thing.
  • dbrightwell1270
    dbrightwell1270 Posts: 1,732 Member
    I'm just disappointed because it was supposed to be apocalytically hot today. Instead, it's 17 degrees with snow and ice on the ground.
  • dbrightwell1270
    dbrightwell1270 Posts: 1,732 Member
    My bad, it's actually up to 19 degrees now.
  • Roadie2000
    Roadie2000 Posts: 1,801 Member
    Wow, people are talking about the apocalypse like there's no tomorrow. :bigsmile:
  • RosscoBoscko
    RosscoBoscko Posts: 632 Member
    Wow, people are talking about the apocalypse like there's no tomorrow. :bigsmile:

    There's always one!!
  • dbrightwell1270
    dbrightwell1270 Posts: 1,732 Member
    I graduated from the same high school as Mike Stipes from REM. I wonder how much bigger his next royalty check is going to be from all the people playing this song. (It's the end of the world as we know it)
  • TheKitsune6
    TheKitsune6 Posts: 5,798 Member
    We must be hard wired to care about these ridiculous predictions or prophecies. They play such a prominent role in great literature and religion that there must be a cause. Why?

    Why do we care today what primitive people had to say about anything? They hadn't even invented the wheelbarrow, and yet we seriously worry that they had miraculously discovered hidden secrets of the universe?

    --P

    Do you actually know anyone that takes it seriously? Because I certainly don't. Most people I interact with think it's a fun joke and it pretty much ends there.

    I am amused at the amount of people b*tching at other people for being stupid and taking such things seriously.
  • Prahasaurus
    Prahasaurus Posts: 1,381 Member
    We must be hard wired to care about these ridiculous predictions or prophecies. They play such a prominent role in great literature and religion that there must be a cause. Why?

    Why do we care today what primitive people had to say about anything? They hadn't even invented the wheelbarrow, and yet we seriously worry that they had miraculously discovered hidden secrets of the universe?

    --P

    Do you actually know anyone that takes it seriously? Because I certainly don't. Most people I interact with think it's a fun joke and it pretty much ends there.

    I am amused at the amount of people b*tching at other people for being stupid and taking such things seriously.

    It's not about taking it 100% seriously. It's about it being a story at all. Otherwise, it wouldn't be news. The amount of interest implies some level of seriousness, some level of stress that it might - just might - happen, even if the odds are 1% (when in reality they were 0%).

    --P
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