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- angrytortilla, on 11/05/2009, -0/+21Y2K, Bird Flu, H1N1, 2012... If there's a doomsday scenario out there, the western world media will beat it to death.
- spookyttws, on 11/05/2009, -1/+17The problem with the 2012 end of the world scenario is that the Mayan's say absolutely nothing about it. The Mayan calendar ends in Dec 2012, it doesn't claim that it's the end of the world. Besides the prediction being ridiculous, it's not even what the Mayan's were claiming. Basically, it would be like claiming the world ends on Dec 31 (every year) according to our calendar. I guess those who buy those 15 month calendars that continue into March of the following year get an extra 3 months of life.
- jp2535, on 11/05/2009, -0/+13The year 5 billion the sun explodes.
- solarplexus7, on 11/05/2009, -1/+12How about 220 failed predictions
http://www.bible.ca/pre-date-setters.htm - lurrch1, on 11/05/2009, -1/+11Heaven's Gate, what a bunch of idiots.
- Vaiper, on 11/05/2009, -0/+8I'm going to go ahead and take a leap here and say that ALL doomsday predictions have failed. Not just 10.
- lurrch1, on 11/05/2009, -2/+9There's also the little fact that the Mayans couldn't predict the downfall of their own civilization, let alone the world.
- TriplePlay2425, on 11/05/2009, -0/+7Someone out there will probably "discover" an ancient doomsday in the future.
- gnomeh, on 11/05/2009, -0/+7If one person is going around and checking for unlocked cars though, what are the chances he will come upon your mother's car? Takes 2 seconds to check a car and 5s to walk to another? I think there is a greater chance of your car be struck and theft occurring.
Also, ever have one of those "if only..." moments. I would say locking your car is not such a big task for a peace of mind feeling. Most would agree locking your car is more than well within the normal range of sanity ;p
Although I do agree with people and their obsession with worrying. Take your life... now move yourself to a poor town in Africa. Your current worries wouldn't seem so important. Enjoy the little things and what life you have. - Zambimaru, on 11/05/2009, -0/+6How could they forget the Jehovah's Witnesses? They kept making claims on when the world would end and none of them came true. To not look stupid they claimed they misinterpreted the Bible.
- PoetPainter, on 11/05/2009, -0/+5Well, after a bit of a reprieve, the Large Hadron Collider goes fully functional this month.
- OldSkoolSlacker, on 11/05/2009, -1/+6Ya know, I'm beginning to look at it this way. I was walking into the mall with my mother the other day and about halfway between the mall and the car, my mother stopped and gasped, "Oh my God! Did I lock the car?".
Now, I looked at her and told her, "Look, even if you didn't, it will be fine. No one is going to get in your car. Don't worry about it", but she marched back and checked anyway.
When she got back, I asked her to look around and guess how many cars were parked around us. Two, three hundred, maybe? And I said to her, "Imagine I told you someone was going to come out here and leave $10,000 in one of these cars, do you think you'll be the lucky one that gets picked?" "Of course not", she said.
Do you see how silly that is? The odds are the same one way or the other. If it is something bad, everyone is convinced it is going to happen to them. Even the chance is one in a million, people are sure they will be the one picked for the bad thing. But if it is a million to one that a good thing will happen, everyone is sure it will never happen to them. Same odds. Different mindset.
It doesn't take much to convince human beings that the end of the world is just around the corner, that the boogie man is under the bed and the evil monkey is in the closet. They see doomsday everywhere. They see it in the mall parking lot, in the grocery store... in the patterns of stars in the sky... whatever.
It is so easy to believe something bad is going to happen, even though it hardly ever does. Near as I can tell, from what I've read, people have been paranoid like this from day one. And I don't see it changing anytime soon. - matt.rubin, on 11/05/2009, -0/+52012 is gonna be on the list. I hate stupid people.
- RAAFStupot, on 11/05/2009, -0/+5I subscribe to a Christian Eschatology Forum (as an observer only ;) ).
They have a policy of 'no date-setting' - in fact, here is their policy verbatim:
<QUOTE>
No End Times Date Setting, Date Speculating, Date Framing, Date Suggesting, Date Alerts, or designating specific Peace Treaties or feasts as the main event of the Rapture or Second Coming. No quoting from others on date setting future events such as the fall of Damascus, Gog/Magog, the Rapture, the Second Coming, the Millennium, Peace Covenants, feasts, etc.... or speculations on who will be the Antichrist, False Prophet, or Gog. This includes linking to sites and books that also speculate and throw out dates based upon Blood Moon, Rash Hashanah, and other events. Do not set Date Alerts and speculations that even hint of date setting, nor posting from date setting preachers. We have already heard the "know the season argument". Matthew 24:36 Mark 13:32
Please do not inadvertently call Jesus a liar.
<ENDQUOTE>
They have this policy, as they are not confident enough. In my opinion.
Oh, and I suppose you can call Jesus a liar, if you aren't inadvertent about it. - Hellahulla, on 11/05/2009, -0/+4You just need to be able to actually see it. It'd be a shame if this cool event happened and you missed it because you were too busy dying in agony.
- Rogor, on 11/05/2009, -0/+4One of the interesting things is that the whole doomsday prediction business will probably end at 2012, I am not aware of any doomsday dates further ahead of that.
- zeebo, on 11/05/2009, -0/+3It didn't end in the 70s, 80s, 90s, or in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2008 or this year. The groups that really believe the end is near will still be around and this won't stop them from believing that the end is approaching, they'll simply do what they've done in the past pick a new date and start hyping it. Much of the modern 2012 hype has been built up by the same people who in 2003 and 2004 were pushing the Planet-X/Niburu nonsense.
- Calintzpso, on 11/05/2009, -0/+3The Mayan calendar ends at 2012 in December. People assume its the end.
Brilliant logic. *eye roll*
With that kind of thinking, I'm shocked no one with a pin up calendar freaks out when it gets to the last page! - WeirdEdsel, on 11/05/2009, -1/+411: All of them.
- JKAL, on 11/05/2009, -2/+5and the naive are still eating up the panic propaganda
http://digg.com/health/Dr_Julio_Frenk_Foresees_Sec ...
just happens to be the next on the Digg front page. - YojanV, on 11/05/2009, -0/+3And for balance, where is the "10 Successful Doomsday Predictions"?
*****'s sake. Anyone calling out the end of the world is just asking to be mocked. Best to just tell everyone it'll carry on, and on the insignificant chance it does all end, who is going to laugh at you then?! - Hellahulla, on 11/05/2009, -0/+3Now you're just pandering to the media's obsession with instant fiery death.
- skeebs287, on 11/05/2009, -0/+330 years from now you think computing will even slightly resemble what it is today? look at the development over the last 30.. and it has been exponential
- travdiggsit, on 11/05/2009, -0/+2Some people still actually believe that these clowns caught a ride with a UFO and regret not drinking the koolaid.
- plasmoske, on 11/05/2009, -0/+2too bad 2012 was a miscalculation
http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/10/26/1517242 ... - Richienyhus, on 11/05/2009, -0/+2Who is looking forward to y2k38 ? (aka the year 2038 problem)
This one looks like it is going to be a lot more fun than y2k. - inajeep, on 11/05/2009, -0/+2So far, all of them have failed. Every crackpot yelling on a street corner, every doomsday cult, web site and forum that has predicted the end of the world has failed.
- pig13, on 11/05/2009, -0/+2Am I the only one that is secretly hoping it does end the world? Because, man, if it did rip open a hole in spacetime, that would be damn interesting to watch.
- Frostek, on 11/05/2009, -0/+2I submitted that as an article a while back, but no one seems to have picked up on it yet.
- jagenigma, on 11/05/2009, -0/+2Yes they could HAVE
- perrym, on 11/05/2009, -1/+3ZOMG!!!111 but alex jones is never wrong.
i believe everything he says!!!111
/s - inajeep, on 11/05/2009, -0/+2Funny, I haven't read any main stream media claiming doomsday scenarios on any of those. Plenty of warnings and worse case scenarios but no doomsday death toll numbers or the estimated number of days before cannibalism sets in.
- Frostek, on 11/05/2009, -0/+2It seems like spelling is already dead in your world.
- bmiami69, on 11/06/2009, -0/+1pow!
- bmiami69, on 11/06/2009, -0/+1haha u found whats wrong , i hope u can find what is right as well. well i like to see it as creative spelling, maybe that is too difficult for your cpu brain to comprehend
- plasmoske, on 11/08/2009, -0/+1darn those digg powerusers
- gerbil20, on 11/05/2009, -0/+1Ugh... Y2K problem was not a big deal... unless you were Barclay's shareholder.
- jagenigma, on 11/05/2009, -0/+1here come the 2012 nuts to say that the world will definitely end in 2012
- browny1978, on 11/05/2009, -2/+3Funny psuedo-science religious people
- OldSkoolSlacker, on 11/05/2009, -1/+2I hardly ever lock my car and after 22 years of driving, owning and leaving cars in parking lots... I've had my car broken into once. One time. In 22 years. And the one time someone broke in, the damn thing was actually locked! lol
How many times have I parked a car and left it unattended in those 22 years? Three times a day everyday? Lets be conservative, lets say twice a day everyday for 22 years. That's 16,060 times. And in only ONE of those cases did anyone steal from me. That means the other 16,059 times I would have been completely justified to shrug my shoulders and say, "Ahh... it'll be ok. Don't worry about it. Nothing bad is gonna happen".
Just remember that; one time in 22 years. Either I am extremely lucky, or 99.9% of the time no one is going to mess with your stuff and there's no sense making a big fuss about it with locks and alarms and all kinds of anti-theft devices. - Hellahulla, on 11/05/2009, -0/+1Or Homer Simpson.
- Xiefer, on 11/05/2009, -1/+211th time's the charm.
- Benoldays, on 11/05/2009, -0/+12050 is the year millions will die from global warming.
2100 is the year we will all die.
dont forget those ones. - Kempachi, on 11/05/2009, -0/+1Uh... Every Doomsday prediction ever made has been wrong since we're still here.
- gkiltz, on 11/05/2009, -0/+1Why stop at 10?
- JarOfEyeballs, on 11/05/2009, -0/+1Their calendar doesn't even end, it just restarts.
- heril, on 11/05/2009, -0/+1If you ask me, for most purposes except maybe scientific research, military usage, etc. that in 30 years, as well as for some time later, computing systems will essentially be 64-bit processors will be used with advances occurring elsewhere.
Not that it matters, if everyone still uses 32-bit at the time, it will probably be a more boring but also interesting version of y2k, but hopefully it will just be solved before the time remaining is short enough for the attention span of the masses for doomsday hype. - getzwane, on 11/05/2009, -0/+1Joseph Smith never made that prophecy, which makes me question the credibility of this article.
- thedeepestgrey, on 11/18/2009, -0/+0Planet X is real....although it is not a planet but a pretty big asteroid that is passing between the earth and the moon in 2012, although scientists don't believe it will be close enough to be pulled in by the earths gravity, however they believe on it's next passing in the year 2036 it will collide. so that is the next "doomsday date". I hope it does happen soon the people on earth are pathetic and useless morons...not saying i believe all the doomsday hype but i can hope for it, and i do believe in science...
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