Joined: Jan 15 2007 Posts: 11924 Location: Secret Hill Top Lair. V.2
They're always a bit of a let down these end of the World larks, I was due to make a mint when the Millennium Bug bit.
Also, having just taken delivery of six cases of red booze from my Italian chum in Tuscany I'm going to be a bit pushed to polish them all off.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle.
Joined: Jan 30 2005 Posts: 7152 Location: one day closer to death
BackrowSaint wrote:The Mayans at no point predicted the end of the world, it is merely the end of the long count calender after which another will begin, as it already has on numerous occasions. Do you think the world is going to end at the end of December? Its the same principle.
There is however a prediction that the world will enter a '6th age' as we are now in the 5th. This is not pinned to the 21st and does not predict the end of the world, merely the start of a new era.
The media has taken these SEPARATE events, linked them and sensationalised them. Unfortunately, society will believe anything and follow it like sheep.
I don't even think it's the media. They're simply reporting on some of these loony groups who are certain we're all gonna meet a fiery end tomorrow. Those groups have been spinning this rubbish for many, many years, churning out books, websites and youtube videos by the thousand, while the media have only really reported on it very occasionally and a couple of documentaries have cropped up.
What's happened is believers that the apocalypse is approaching via whatever means (Niburu, solar flares, super-volcanoes, various religious apocalypses), and some 'preppers' have heard what they want to hear in the Mayan long count and tagged their beliefs on, conveniently ignoring the actual facts of the long count.
Cronus wrote:I don't even think it's the media. They're simply reporting on some of these loony groups who are certain we're all gonna meet a fiery end tomorrow. Those groups have been spinning this rubbish for many, many years, churning out books, websites and youtube videos by the thousand, while the media have only really reported on it very occasionally and a couple of documentaries have cropped up.
What's happened is believers that the apocalypse is approaching via whatever means (Niburu, solar flares, super-volcanoes, various religious apocalypses), and some 'preppers' have heard what they want to hear in the Mayan long count and tagged their beliefs on, conveniently ignoring the actual facts of the long count.
Very true, Niburu amuses me in particular. If it were true we'd have seen it in the sky weeks ago.
Someday everything is gonna be different, when I paint my masterpiece ---------------------------------------------------------- Online art gallery, selling original landscape artwork ---------------------------------------------------------- JerryChicken - The Blog ----------------------------------------------------------
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 261 guests
You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot post attachments in this forum
