Another 2012 thread

I know we've had discussions in the past on whether or not you believe something will happen on 2012 where the world would end, or rather - a significant change occurs to the earth that could possibly wipe out mankind.

However, what I was wondering is how you guys think that the general population will respond to 2012 as it comes closer to date.

I remember the year 2000 incident, people buying up GOBS of batteries, going to church and praying, etc, etc.

Do you think there will be issues with 2012?
This really doesn't have anything to do with whether or not you believe 2012 demise will happen, but rather, how you think people will react as a general population.

They will be calm about the situation and accept the rational and scientific explanations for why this idea is full of shit.



Pfffft, yea right! They'll go apeshit like the dipshits that they are. In the meantime, I'll be watching the cocksuckers while they're on television.

Seen the '2012' movie from Emmerich? Well, I'm now checking China thoroughly via Google Earth just to be sure.

I'd like to think that a lot of people have learned their lesson regarding trying to futilely trying to predict the end of our days. That, and the fact that the Mayan Long Court calender doesn't have any direct correlation with any Christian doomsday scenario would lead me to believe that a lot of Christians would think it's hogwash, and surely most non-religious people will as well.

Our Government isn't organized enough to pull something like that off.

OUR government isn't organized enough to even educate someone capable of finding something like this out. You should still be glad your government would at least know about it. :)

This forum was the first place I ever heard about that 2012 flimshaw. So I don't think people will do anything at all where I am at. Hell, even the Y2K bug was more popular than this, and even that only led to one guy building a nuke-safe bunker in his garden and being ridiculed on national TV for it.

Really Gibbous? Because it had a great opening day...

I think people will, you know in this "enlightenment" age we are having where everyone this it is cool to know the latest news and rant about politics, actually educate themselves as the time grows nearer.

I'm actually optimistic that people wont go crazy. Also, there are going to be some crackpots shouting about how they have known about this for the longest time. Once those guys bring up reptile aliens and other craziness they believe in, I think that will turn off most the population. Humanity has a low tolerance for believing they aren't the only species in the universe.

So this is how it'll work out:
Worry>Education>Find out this stuff is crazy>90% will stop worrying, 5% will be nervous, 5% will drink the kool-aid

Won't be opening until Dec 3rd here (the movie).
Won't be opening, ever, here (the crackpot "theory") - hopefully.

Remember when they made us kids take iodine pills and had us do nuke drills in school because of THE COLD WAR?
Or when I couldn't go out and play with the other kids on my birthday because of CHORNOBYL?

Those were at least some real, intimidating threats right there, which made people buy shops empty and huddle in nukeshelters. Not some weak-ass Mayan chickenshit prophecy. They just don't make impending catastrophes like they used to anymore.

Our Government is too stupid and/or late when it comes to dangerous situations to react in time to them.

So i think everyone in the USA would be F*cked!
I think most US citizens would just go crazy during this situation because most US citizens live by one law: "Every man/woman for themselves"

Meh, sad but true!

Actaully no gibbous I can't say I recall having to do nuke drills or chornobyl because I'm only 20. But I do get your point, I think as we get rid of a threat - like a nuclear war - the next one is either more deadly or completely stupid in reason. People want to feel like their moment in history contains something of great significance, that a defining moment is going to happen during their time - and what more defining then the end of the world.

Of course part of it is just the natural fear of being afraid to die as well.

And no Hoshi Americans do not live like that at all. Actually we pull together very well during a crisis, that may be the best or only time we pull together.

Probably depends on how the world economy is at that point. When people are actually making money, they're too distracted to go for doomsday crap like that. But when they're out on their ass and hungry and miserable, they latch onto stuff like this very easily, especially when news organizations pump it up like crazy to make money. Look at the Taiping Rebellion in China, which began during a period of economic decline and was led by a guy whose belief system was about the same as a modern-day hobo. It led to one of the bloodiest civil wars in world history. It's not even about the belief system so much as just a general way to express mass anxiety.

Ahhhhh, here's another fun aspect:

During the cold war, my grandma would actually look forward to the Yankees and the Russkis sending glowing death hurtling through the stratosphere. And after Chornobyl she actually hoped "the cloud" would just slowly march across the earth and indiscriminately kill everyone, painfully.
Her reasoning? She didn't want to be survived by anyone else. If she got to croak, she wanted to at least take everyone with her. Many other old people I've met since thought much along the same lines.
What troopers!




Beg to disagree, to a point.
Y2K was fairly huge in the U.S., yet the U.S. economy was doing great at that point. It was the late nineties! Halcyon days of dotcom! The roaring nineties!
People will always latch onto irrational doomsaying.

The question is, when do things grow violent, and then I think it is no longer a matter of mere economy, but more generally existential pressure.

Thus, in my view, things like the Taiping rebellion might as well be explained with the Weston-LaBarrean concept of crisis cults (cf. ghost dancers in the U.S.; boxer rebellion; maji-maji revolt).

Gee grandma, what twisted reasoning you have...

LD I completely agree with you though, if the economy is great, people are happy just living their lives and don't worry to much about stuff like this.

Some jumpy guy will build another bomb shelter, others will store provisions, but most will just stay at home bored, watching TV, while more and more threads about 2012 are made throught the internet as doomsday approaches. XD

And about the movie, I thought...

I'm gonna LOL my ass off once DEC 22 2012 comes. XD

Don't ever laugh your ass off on a guy with a nuke-safe bunker. Or one day he will laugh at your burnt body, from inside.

You're letting your age show :lol: But no, I can't recall ever having to do that.

i'd rather watch 2013 where people doing sex like crazy to normalize world populations that halved in 2012. i wonder if Chuck Jones will make one..

The fact of the matter is that it doesn't have any correlation with any Christian doomsday scenario which, in my opinion, gives it a bit more credibility. A significant portion of the Christian community is counting on the end of the world, its a major part of their faith. That's why a bunch of them jumped on 2012 and tried to twist their crap to make it say 2012 when the world didn't end in 2006. Setting aside the fact that everything people are saying about the Mesoamerican Long Count predicting the end of the world is wrong, there is a lot of shit going on right now that could very well become progressively worse, culminating in some kind of cataclysmic event or series of events in the near future. The only reason why I'd lend any credence to the world possibly ending in 2012 is due to geological evidence, tensions among the international community, the bullshit war that is obviously not ending any time soon, and shit in space that might occur. I'm not exactly saying that any of it, or anything that I failed to mention will lead to the end of the world, but there is a possibility and its not in my nature to ignore things that aren't impossible.