DeeboCools wrote:I have a question for the wise old drunks available. Are all these obnoxious doomsday predictions relatively new, as in after Y2K(and/or because we are living post 2000?), or have there always been "some ancient unscientific 'math' predicts the end of the world..." going on every few years?
you mean like the mayan calendar thing? people dont realize that the spaniards came along and basically wrecked and pillaged their culture, besides we follow the gregorian calander. china has its own calander and so do jewish people, so its hard to really tell
ill end this with a quote "time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so" ford prefect h2g2
peetie44 wrote:One of the usual suspects predicted a "world catastrophe" for this past Saturday (May 14), corresponding to the 63rd anniversary of modern Israel's 1948 birth.
Other than my own world almost ending due to a massive hangover in Turku/Finland...sorry, but no cigar.
As for any other wack-jobs and their brain-dead predictions, take a number and get in line:
DeeboCools wrote:I have a question for the wise old drunks available. Are all these obnoxious doomsday predictions relatively new, as in after Y2K(and/or because we are living post 2000?), or have there always been "some ancient unscientific 'math' predicts the end of the world..." going on every few years?
Well, there were the millenium nutcakes. They lay down and waited for the Lord to take them, back in 1,000 A.D.
I'm actually flying cross country on the 21st, if I see the world in ruins beneath me I promise to knock out the sky martial, raid the bar, and have a drink to each and every one of you, then all my friends and families, then all my pets (past and present) then to every woman I've ever slept with and/or cared about, then to any woman I've ever seen, then to anybody I've ever said a word to, then, supplies permitting, everybody else.
What contemptible scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch? ~ W. C. Fields
Savage Swiller wrote:Wait, May 14 already occurred, and I only had a bit of gas. (Taco Shoppe burrito.) Did something catastrophic happen and I missed it? Damn!
No...but I mentioned it because it led off the link I posted and the 14th had already come and went (as will the 21st) without the earth ending.
DeeboCools wrote:I have a question for the wise old drunks available. Are all these obnoxious doomsday predictions relatively new, as in after Y2K(and/or because we are living post 2000?), or have there always been "some ancient unscientific 'math' predicts the end of the world..." going on every few years?
Deebo...here's a link to a list with @200 such predictions from throughout history.
(sorry...but you have to scroll down past a bit of religious propaganda to find the list)
"Man i once bought $101 worth of insect candy because it was free shipping on orders over 100 bucks." -- ThirstyDrunk
"I wanted a shark high on crack dumped into a piranha tank! I wanted college AD's to pull their human faces off, then dive at each other's lizard throats!" -- waahoohah
I betting on the solar flares next year. We'll have about 8 minutes of warning. But Florida's electrical infrastructure isn't underbuilt and overused like the NorthEast and Cali, and will survive the EMP; I have a house near the beach, see you there!
