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Meadow
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13 Sep 2010, 6:07 pm

There's a doom's day theorist on every corner. I guess they have nothing better to do. Life will come to an end on this planet, as we know it. In the meantime though, enjoy the sunrise and sunsets and don't worry about things we can't change.



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13 Sep 2010, 6:10 pm

Meadow wrote:
There's a doom's day theorist on every corner. I guess they have nothing better to do.


I call these types "social trolls". All they want to do is cause upheavel to someone elses day because they are down in life themselves.



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13 Sep 2010, 11:20 pm

as a leaning scientist, and an advisor to the pope of romania, and president of the under states of antartica, and grand selector of the murmen church of the undead......i proclaim that celoneth is correct,,,,,,so many humans will not buy a 2012 calendar that the combined black holes will destroy the earth. right on.



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14 Sep 2010, 12:47 am

In 2012 I will gladly be accepting peoples cash and valuables since they are going to die and won't be needing them anyway. :D


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14 Sep 2010, 1:53 am

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I used to worry too- remember that Nostradamus prophecy? And then, after the 'event' people went back and rechecked the prophecy and found out that actually, due to a misplaced apostrophe in the translation, it was just talking about a new age of prosperity etc...

I've been a little sceptical ever since :P


Have you noticed that the specific events that old N predicted become known only after they happen?

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14 Sep 2010, 2:16 am

so the 2012 date doesnt scare me anymore. and if the world ends soon i believe it wont be due to religion but to our own behaviors. consider all these possibilites:

global warming going out of control

nuclear war

running out of oil and other precious resources

overpopulation and mass starvation

im sure i could think of others if i really tried



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14 Sep 2010, 3:18 am

I think that the "end times" hysteria is nothing new, as humans have always thought they were the last generation, yet we're still here. If anything, we as a species might destroy the planet, through overpopulation, depletion of resources, and causing a mass extinction of animals. Eventually, the sun will become a red giant, which will kill all life on this planet, but that's not going to happen anytime in the near future.

I think that date in 2012 is just going to be another day, and we'll wake up the next morning just fine.


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14 Sep 2010, 8:16 am

I remember when everyone was so sure the world was going to end in the year 2000. We're still alive aren't we? :wink:



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14 Sep 2010, 8:47 am

ADoyle wrote:
I think that the "end times" hysteria is nothing new, as humans have always thought they were the last generation, yet we're still here. If anything, we as a species might destroy the planet, through overpopulation, depletion of resources, and causing a mass extinction of animals. Eventually, the sun will become a red giant, which will kill all life on this planet, but that's not going to happen anytime in the near future.

I think that date in 2012 is just going to be another day, and we'll wake up the next morning just fine.


Let us gather together on Jan. 1, 2013 and have a big laugh.

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14 Sep 2010, 9:11 am

If you read the New Testament, the followers of Jesus were so certain that he was coming back any day that they sold their property and pooled their money to live in a commune in Jerusalem.

Didn't Jesus say something like "Those here today will live to see the Kingdom"?



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14 Sep 2010, 10:01 am

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If you read the New Testament, the followers of Jesus were so certain that he was coming back any day that they sold their property and pooled their money to live in a commune in Jerusalem.

Didn't Jesus say something like "Those here today will live to see the Kingdom"?


Yes. On the Big Day they will be resurected to life.

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14 Sep 2010, 1:17 pm

that depends on his definition of "kingdom". About 40 years later...Iseral (sp) was wiped out by a kingdom of sorts


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14 Sep 2010, 2:06 pm

Remember Y2K?

Now there was, at least, a shred of truth to the concern that mistakes could be made with a failure to accommodate eight digit dates. But the rollover of the great Mayan odometer is just so much hokum.


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14 Sep 2010, 2:57 pm

Some old long-forgotten calendar wil run out of numbers in the year which we call 2012?

Zzzzzzzzzzzz......



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14 Sep 2010, 4:57 pm

Assuming we keep our world clean, Earth will last for over 50 billion years. After that, life will be restricted to the north and south polls because of massive, natural global warming, a giant, old sun, and oxygen escaping out of the atmosphere. Also, the moon is slowly moving away from the Earth. This will throw the Earth off balance and mess up the magnetic polls, causing extreme heating and more oxygen escaping. Then Earth will become like Mars, a dry, desolate, life-less planet. Soon after that, the sun will burn out and implode (not in a super nova, as our sun would have to be about 3 times more massive than it is now to explode). The dead, dry Earth will spin out of the ex-sun's orbit and fall into Saturn, Jupitar, another star, or a black hole. Untill then, you won't have to worry. As we speak, scientists are tying to make artificial plants that pump out oxygen at an enormous rate and suck up CO2 and CO from our cars and power plants. Then we can keep our cars running for al long as we want!



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14 Sep 2010, 5:37 pm

Stonecold wrote:
Assuming we keep our world clean, Earth will last for over 50 billion years.


It will be another 5 billion years before our sun runs out of hydrogen and begins to expand into a red giant star. It will most likely vaporize the earth at that time. And even if it doesn't all life on earth will be burned away. Our sun is not going to last 50 billion years. M-class stars simply don't last that long.

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