Originally Posted By mawnck <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/21/fox-news-chyron-highlight_n_328622.html" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...622.html</a>
Originally Posted By utahjosh Why do I visit WE anymore? I should just go to huffingtonpost.com - I'd get the same thoughts.
Originally Posted By Inspector 57 I've lived through 1984, 1999, and 2001. The apocalypses predicted for those years didn't materialize. As a result, I am now just about completely immune to the whole "END OF THE WORLD IS NIGH!" hysterical scare thing. So the Mayans think the world will end in 2012? Bueno. Lo que sea. Let someone else go out and buy flashlights and freeze-dried food and scramble to find religion this time. I'ma sit this one out.
Originally Posted By Mr X According to this Mayan hype, people are equating "the end of their calendar" with "the end of the world", without realizing that we as a Western Society also have an end to our calendar. So I wonder if people will be in a panic around December 31, 9999 because those ancient, oh so wise Westerners PREDICTED THE END OF THE WORLD! omg.
Originally Posted By TomSawyer They are probably hoping the world ends in 2012 so they can blame it on Obama.
Originally Posted By Mr X <a href="http://blogs.ajc.com/mike-luckovich/files/2009/10/mike10092009.jpg" target="_blank">http://blogs.ajc.com/mike-luck...2009.jpg</a>
Originally Posted By Inspector 57 LOL, TomSawyer and Mr X! I shoudda known that guy seemed too good to be true.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>Why do I visit WE anymore? I should just go to huffingtonpost.com - I'd get the same thoughts.<< 'Skuze me, but that's FOX NEWS that's reporting the end of the world as "developing." Huffington Post is merely the conduit for the mirth. BTW, why DO you visit WE anymore?
Originally Posted By WilliamK99 I have seen equally frivilous news stories on all networks, so why is this an issue? CNN had a 5 minute story on a 5 year old who got high score on Guitar Hero.... I could think of even more examples but its too darn early...
Originally Posted By Mr X CNN has gone pretty much darkside recently as well, particularly with Lou Dobbs spouting nonsense.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>I have seen equally frivilous news stories on all networks, so why is this an issue?<< It's an opportunity to point and laugh at Fox News. I never miss one.
Originally Posted By alexbook The next couple of weeks will be crazy with 2012 hysteria, with the new movie coming out soon. BTW, what ever happened to California falling into the sea?
Originally Posted By WilliamK99 BTW, what ever happened to California falling into the sea?<< The ocean doesn't want that crap polluting it....
Originally Posted By alexbook I was thinking more about this. Does anybody remember Edgar Cayce? When I was a kid, there was a rumor going around that he had predicted the big, final California earthquake that was going to make L.A. fall into the Pacific. It was supposed to happen on a particular day, a Saturday I think, in the Spring of 1969. I remember hearing that at least one family in our neighborhood had packed up and headed East for the weekend, just in case. I think that experience innoculated me against "end of the world" prophecies.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 <It was supposed to happen on a particular day, a Saturday I think, in the Spring of 1969. I remember hearing that at least one family in our neighborhood had packed up and headed East for the weekend, just in case.> I absolutely remember that, vividly. It was "open house night" at my grade school, where the parents come and talk to your teacher, and see projects you're working on, etc. All the kids in the schoolyard were joking that they hoped the prediction was true and CA would fall into the ocean, because that would cancel "open house."
Originally Posted By TomSawyer I think the real disaster comin in 2012 is Roland Emmerich's movie version of Asimov's Foundation trilogy.
Originally Posted By TomSawyer I think the real disaster comin in 2012 is Roland Emmerich's movie version of Asimov's Foundation trilogy.
Originally Posted By Princessjenn5795 I was a senior in high school on New Years 2000 and I had a friend whose parents were so scared about all the Y2K/world ending stuff that they completely stocked their garage with all of this survivalist gear. I never did get why night vision goggles and camo gear would be necessary if the world was ending but that is just me. They gave a lot of that stuff to my friend as a graduation present that June. They are going to be really screwed if the world does end in 2012 and they don't have their 10 years worth of toilet paper.
