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| 22 DEC 2012 at 2:05am |
TravellerGuild Master
Posts : 4039
Joined: 3 JUL 2010
Location: US
Status : Offline | Let's hope the next 5000 years will be a better time than the past 5000.
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 22 DEC 2012 at 3:26am |
Len GreenJourneyman
Posts : 826
Joined: 31 JAN 2012
Location: IL
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Traveller (22 DEC 2012 2:05am)
Let's hope the next 5000 years will be a better time than the past 5000.
Halleluiah !!!
I hope so too, Trav !!
But being I suppose by nature somewhat of a pessimist, I unfortunately have grave doubts !
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The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,
Awaits alike th' inevitable hour:-
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
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| 22 DEC 2012 at 5:57am |
chronotigger65Journeyman
Posts : 1142
Joined: 23 FEB 2005
Status : Offline | Ya! No.....
Nuclear holocaust
World war 3
Alien invasion
Meteor impact
Comet impact
Rapture
Other religion end of the world scenario
Robot uprising
Ape uprising
New ice age
Zombie plague
Barbra Streisand singing
Or any other stuff I've forgot.
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| 22 DEC 2012 at 11:12am |
Len GreenJourneyman
Posts : 826
Joined: 31 JAN 2012
Location: IL
Status : Offline | We've just seen on TV a 2 part (50 minutes or so each) National Geographic programme "10 causes for the possible end of the world" or some such title. 7 of your 13 were amongst them IIRC !!
Although as I said I am by nature a pessimist, I don't believe that any of the detailed 10 is likely to occur at least within the next 100 years – by which time it is highly unlikely that any of us here will still be alike & kicking !! Except for your last listed one of course – hahaha !
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The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,
Awaits alike th' inevitable hour:-
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
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| 22 DEC 2012 at 2:22pm |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Joined: 28 JAN 2007
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| 22 DEC 2012 at 3:22pm |
Lady KestrelGuild Master
Posts : 4036
Joined: 27 SEP 2004
Location: US, NJ
Status : Offline |  That is a hoot, Caroline!
"Where is the fountain that throws up these flowers in a ceaseless outbreak of ecstasy?"
-Rabindranath Tagore
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| 22 DEC 2012 at 8:30pm |
karlaAdministrator
Posts : 2588
Joined: 27 JUL 2003
Location: US, Close to the Edge
Status : Offline | I was looking forward to it and had been for years. (All together now: That figures.) Then it didn't happen. Not fair!
I've heard various reasons why things didn't exactly go as anticipated.
(1) Something did happen. We just don't know it yet. This goes along with recent invisible UFO sightings.
(2) An electronic pulse emanating from who-knows-where saved the planet. This is the Not Enough Tin Foil in Your Beanie theory.
(3) Everyone got it wrong; it's supposed to happen next year. This drags things out so more people can make a profit selling ridiculous end-of-the-world paraphernalia.
(4) The Mayans never existed. This illustrates classic denial.
Oh well...maybe next time... 
EDIT...
Update: Now it's supposed to happen on Christmas Eve. Depending on where you live, that could be tomorrow. 
Last edited by karla : 23 DEC 2012 9:45pm
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| 24 DEC 2012 at 10:51am |
SupportAdministrator
Posts : 111
Joined: 24 DEC 2011
Location: US
Status : Offline | mmm nope im still here. and its xmas eve
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| 24 DEC 2012 at 2:07pm |
karlaAdministrator
Posts : 2588
Joined: 27 JUL 2003
Location: US, Close to the Edge
Status : Offline | Maybe they meant New Year's Eve.
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| 24 DEC 2012 at 9:28pm |
AlienBZJourneyman
Posts : 877
Joined: 14 JAN 2008
Status : Offline | Well it's Christmas Eve, and about 11:30 PM here in West Mifflin, nothing bad happened, the JA forum is stil up and running, we were watching TV all evening, all's well.
I'm not worried. Who's worried? Or is this supposed to be a joke? Or a ages-old hoax/supersition/legend, or what?
Either way, no worries, folks!
Instead, Merry Christmas!
Doin' Warp 9 to the Great Kingdom of Adventure Games of Outer Space
Last edited by AlienBZ : 24 DEC 2012 9:30pm
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