End of the world

brittany634 · December 2012

What's everyones opinion on this?

I think it's a bunch of BS, however there are actually crazies out there that believe it!

anna.oskar · December 2012

brittany634 · December 2012

haha Anna- thats funny!

*sigh* why do friday afternoons always seem so long!

bunni727 · December 2012

My thoughts exactly, anna. This one is my favorite though:

TiffanyT816 · December 2012

Isn't there a show about the nutjobs who believe in this? I think there is...on like History or something. It's a week from today! I wonder if people are going to buy tons of water, etc. like they did for 2000.

bunni727 · December 2012

I love Doomsday Preppers! It's on NatGeo for us. Those people are mostly preparing for floods/earthquakes/nuclear meltdowns and the like. Not true "end of the word" stuff, more like extreme disaster prepardness things.

TiffanyT816 · December 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_snarky-brides_end-of-the-world?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding BoardsForum:17Discussion:c7342c10-4fec-409a-ad64-ee51d13f5dadPost:ec0570ff-f03a-4049-8f00-b1326f354f72">Re: End of the world</a>:
[QUOTE]I love Doomsday Preppers! It's on NatGeo for us. Those people are mostly preparing for floods/earthquakes/nuclear meltdowns and the like. Not true "end of the word" stuff, more like extreme disaster prepardness things.
Posted by bunni727[/QUOTE]

Clearly I'm not completely in the loop on this show! Thanks for clarifying...but aren't some of them a bit over-reacting?

B2Z728 · December 2012

I'm having a girls night with my friends on the 21st. It wasn't planned to coincide with this though and I just realized it the other day. We're going to a bar to hangout and have a few drinks. I wonder if everyone there will count down at midnight and we'll all toast with each other that we survived the end of the world.

Also coincidently last summer, during the other supposed end of the the world aka "the rapture," we were also having a girls weekend at my friends beach house. We went up on the roof deck to count down and toasted with champagne when we all were still alive.

bunni727 · December 2012

Oh yeah, definitely.

They are very very extreme, and oddly specifc. The ones I've seen only prepare for one specific disaster. I get having emergency plans, but if you are preparing for a tornado and a flood happens instead, you are up the creek.

cwaggoner07 · December 2012

I read somewhere that their calendar didn't include leap days, so the would should have ended earlier this year if you go back and do the math.

Marrin713 · December 2012

Unfortunately it was the end of the world as they know it for some families in Conn.

We went to an after T-giving party and a relative of the hosts was very insistent that the Mayans are right about next Friday. He was seriously saying his good byes.

azdancer8 · December 2012

I'll bet everyone here $100 that the world doesn't end.

lovelybride614 · December 2012

I don't buy into the predicting of the end of the world. Yes, there have been a lot of devestating tragedies but we've had them for centuries. Yes we have more technology but that doesn't necessarily mean "the end". I like Bunni's cartoon because personally I think that's what happened. I mean they created the calendar in ancient history. They probably couldn't fathom anything lasting this long based on the knowledge they had then. Anyway, long story short, I don't believe you can predict the End and I think it's another hyped up Y2K

lovefuzzies · December 2012

I had the opportunity to visit several of the Mayan ruins this year (they were VERY busy, lol) and according to all the tour guides the Mayan calendar that this belief is being based off of is a calendar that actually shows a Mayan sun cycle (the length of time the Mayans believed it took the planet to orbit the sun). Their calculations were different that ours (their sun cycles were around 590 days I believe) and I think I remember hearing that they didn't include leap years. Sacrifices (not necessarily human) were prevalent toward the end of a cycle because the Mayans were never sure if the gods would see fit to allow them another cycle. The tour guides also said that just because other calendars hadn't been found doesn't mean there aren't more calendars out there showing future or past sun cycles. I have no idea how much training the tour guides are required to complete in Mexico but I think this is a pretty standard explanation because I heard the same basic explanation at several ruins.

Of course, we could all be wrong and the Mayans were actually predicting the end of Twinkie-dom

End of the world

Re: End of the world

Choose Another Board

Search Boards