Even the mere thought that might happen makes me despair and wish it were the end of the world.
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2012: What are your thoughts?
- Thread starter Subhood
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Even the mere thought that might happen makes me despair and wish it were the end of the world.
The Web Bot project was implemented in the 90s to follow stock market ebbs and tides by simply searching word trends online. So it may be useful for detecting patterns in the stock fluctuations or pop culture rumblings online, but not predicting as in the incidents you claim above. Post the precise wording for each event as "predicted" by Web Bot and we can determine whether it was like most predictions: vague, insubstantial and applicable to just about any event. The only reason 2012 is in Web Bots' sights is that the internet is all aflutter with 2012 doomsday talk. Nothing else. It's not unlike Y2K- the internet was on fire with cataclysmic disasters and talk of the collapse of society, and if the Web Bot was around at the time it would've "predicted" the same thing. There's nothing predictive in anything you've mentioned here.
<snip cultural examples>
Carlos Barrios is a Guatemalen anthropologist who's an expert on the Maya. The Mayan calendar does end in 2012 on the Long Count calendar, but it denotes a change, a new golden age, not a destructive end.
Nearly every culture has an end of times prophecy pending, but the ones you've listed do not all culminate on 2012. The vast array of human cultures have offered an equally vast array of end of the world scenarios, none of which have proven accurate of course.
cardero
Citizen Mod
All I'm saying is that you are lucky that your cheek isn't here for me to pinch it.
Heneni
Miss Independent
yeh I agree a lot of nonsense has been circulated, and honestly i dont see how anybody can take any of it seriously anymore. And that's the point. If the propechy of the end of the world, as predicted in the bible is going happen, folk will have to carry on like people in the days of noah......just another day, dont see rain clouds, dont see where all the water is going to come from etc...etc..., while the 'noah's' of this world warns of a flood and people think they are nuts...and they just get on with life. The point im trying to make, is that unless this kind of 'yeh yeh, what's new' attitute doesnt prevail in the majority of the world's minds...then the next 'flood' is not going to happen.
So really, the more people say 'yeh yeh, these folk are nuts' the closer the time actually is.
No they don't and no it hasn't. Examples?
whereismynotecard
Treasure Hunter
Eh... I still don't get it.
But I guess I'm lucky that you aren't here to pinch my face, I suppose.
Subhood
aintnopartylikeanopenbar
Subhood
aintnopartylikeanopenbar
Web-bot has predicted events that have come true.
as i stated in an earlier post
Mayans refer to it as the galactic alignment with the dark rift that all speculate around this period in time.
Smoke
Done here.
It's short for kilo, meaning a thousand.
I always thought Y2K was a stupid abbreviation, though.
The year 2000 brought on a bunch of nonsensical hysteria that the world would collapse, particularly anything banking related. Per Wiki':
In computer program design, the practice of representing the year with two digits becomes problematic with logical error(s) arising upon "rollover" from x99 to x000. This has caused some date-related processing to operate incorrectly for dates and times on and after January 1, 2000 and on other critical dates which were billed "event horizons". Without corrective action, it was suggested that long-working systems would break down when the "...97, 98, 99, 00..." ascending numbering assumption suddenly became invalid. Companies and organizations worldwide checked, fixed, and upgraded their computer systems.
It was nonsense, as is the 2012 hysteria.
I explained these already in my previous post. Web Bot has not predicted anything. The Mayan calendar does not refer to the end of the world in 2012.
You're misinformed.
I'm running naked through the streets on the day of as a kind of apocalyptic Pascal's Wager. Hey, it can't hurt.
Smoke
Done here.
That's pretty ridiculous even the standards of the History Channel.
K-Y is a much better abbreviation, methinks.
Subhood
aintnopartylikeanopenbar
Y2K has nothing to do with my original post, nor does it serve any purpose in trying to prove a point since.
The Year 2000 problem was the subject of the early book, "Computers in Crisis" by Jerome and Marilyn Murray (Petrocelli, 1984; reissued by McGraw-Hill under the title "The Year 2000 Computing Crisis" in 1996). The first recorded mention of the Year 2000 Problem on a Usenet newsgroup occurred Saturday, January 19, 1985 by Usenet poster Spencer Bolles.[2]
This is very different being only a 15 year old nonsense story.
The Year 2000 problem was the subject of the early book, "Computers in Crisis" by Jerome and Marilyn Murray (Petrocelli, 1984; reissued by McGraw-Hill under the title "The Year 2000 Computing Crisis" in 1996). The first recorded mention of the Year 2000 Problem on a Usenet newsgroup occurred Saturday, January 19, 1985 by Usenet poster Spencer Bolles.[2]
This is very different being only a 15 year old nonsense story.
Smoke
Done here.
When I say "specific," I mean specific. In other words, no vague and unsourced claims like this one. Exactly which Mayans refer to it? In what writings do they refer to it? Do they mention 2012? What, exactly, do they say? If you can't provide that kind of information, you've got nothing.
Subhood
aintnopartylikeanopenbar
Smoke
Done here.
I'm just hoping all the 2012 enthusiasts will have the strength of their convictions and give away all their earthly belongings like the 19th-century Millerites. I could use a new blender.
Subhood
aintnopartylikeanopenbar
i think you are all mistaken in your replies, if you look at my original post it began as a speculation and does not state any type of fact i merely asked the opinion of what you all thought would happen.
If you think nothing will happen the proper response would have been to state that nothing will happen.
If you think nothing will happen the proper response would have been to state that nothing will happen.