What will you do if you are still here on 12/22/12?

[Renew Deal]

:shrug:

[OffWithTheirHeads]

1. Get to drive lots of free cars.

[Brigid]

7. !

:rofl:

Sounds like "The Stand," where the survivors of the superflu just helped themselves to what was in the stores, took off in whatever cars they wanted, etc. Who was going to stop them, and why?

[derby378]

14. I'll be part of the Mother Abigail team

See you guys there!

[EFerrari]

2. Greet Capricorn?

:shrug:

[Mz Pip]

3. Pop some popcorn?

:popcorn:

It means I will still be alive. ...and that's a good thing.

[rug]

4. Complain about the Cabinet picks.

[cynatnite]

5. Get ready for Christmas and be happy to have one more day on earth. n/t

[Indenturedebtor]

6. Complain about republicans and handwring over the next election? n/t

[onager]

8. Since I've already survived a bunch of Armageddi...

The same damn thing I was doing on 12/11.

BTW, even the Mayans are denouncing the 2012 nonsense as a fraud and serious distortion of their beliefs.

[liberal_at_heart]

9. celebrate my husband's birthday

December 22 is his birthday. Maybe the night before we should all huddle together at the kitchen table and eat our favorite dinner like it's our last and then board up the windows like they do in the movie Signs. lol.

[MSchreader]

10. Get a new calendar

Just like I will on 1/1/10.

[amerikat]

11. I'm gonna go out buy a new calendar.

And a bag of cheese Waffies.

[Lint Head]

12. I will have a chocolate dipped soft ice cream cone.

[Dreamer Tatum]

13. Help bury all the dead Mayans

Hey, it's THEIR calendar...maybe only they're going to die.

[DearAbby]

15. Party like it's the end of the world

any reason to party is as good as the next...

[mdmc]

16. i'll be bummed out

lets see what is next already..

[Harry Monroe]

17. I guess I'll shop for Christmas!

[Historic NY]

18. chastise GOP'ers.

[Kansas Wyatt]

19. With the way this country has been going down the shitter....

Be very pissed off that I was lied to again!

:sarcasm:

[hughee99]

20. The Mayans had to wait so long for their calender to expire...

their new Mayan swimsuit calender will be a great seller for all those people who need new ones.

[Rhythm]

21. Figures that the end of the world would be scheduled for a Monday

I don't like Mondays...

[Warpy]

22. Listen to all the wooheads deny they ever bought into that crap

"But we were just on vacation!"

I'm sure the Mayan people are going to fumigate.

[pampango]

35. And get ready for the next Doomsday theory. You know there'll be another and another and ...

:)

[mamaleah]

23. Ack bad calendar! Chanukah will be over! Well, I guess I will be wondering

what all the folks in their bunkers are going to do with all that canned creamed corn.

[cherokeeprogressive]

24. I have this vision of a Mayan slave/scribe sitting in front of a stone tablet with an abacus

counting the days. Finally he gets fucking tired of it all and walks away. None of the other Mayan slave/scribes know what formula he was using, so no one takes his place.

The last day he calculated was 12/23/12. Total coincidence.

[Warpy]

34. As was the starting date they used for the calculations

and the "crossing the plane of the galaxy" stuff is nonsense, too, since that plane is millions of light years across. We've been crossing it ever since we started to walk on our hind legs.

The end is far less likely to be one day than it is to be several hundred years. The dinosaurs were mostly gone by the time that meteor hit, under extreme stress from climate change caused by extreme vulcanism as the Deccan Traps were being formed.

We'll eventually be gone, too, but it will be a slow process. We're probably the rough draft for intelligent life on this planet, far too savage to succeed long term.

[a la izquierda]

37. Funny that you say that...

because there are Mayan Glyphs on buildings that have been dated to the 4000s ce.

[Stevenmarc]

25. Probably hitting ignore on the 100+ Mayan threads

[Renew Deal]

27. lol

Probably :rofl:

[agentS]

26. Same thing I did the day before; go to work...the real doomsday is 11/4/12

There's nothing in the books to suggest a global apocalypse. Even the Mayans don't suspect anything bad so why should I?

However, if Sarah Palin wins election, then I will be PRAYING for global apocalypse because IF SHE WINS, WE ALL DESERVE TO DIE HORRIBLY!

Humans: Why are you aliens attacking us?
Alien invaders: Because you elected Sarah Palin as president.
Humans:...crap...Ok, kill us. We deserve to die like dogs.

[rucky]

28. Renounce my Mayan faith.

[Forkboy]

29. Same thing I do everyday. Try and take over the world!

[Ghost in the Machine]

30. Party like it's 1999!

:party: :toast: :beer: :headbang:

[budkin]

31. Fart and bask in the stench.

[Confusious]

32. What I'm already doing

Laughing at the tin-foil hatters. They look funny in those things!

[zbdent]

33. wake up, go to work ...

come home, fix dinner, shower, go to sleep ...

however, if something cataclysmic happens, scavenge for food ... or a good non-electric canopener ...

[piratefish08]

36. I'll be stockpiling ammo to fight off the freakin' zombies.

[a la izquierda]

38. Saying I told you so to a variety of people...

The so-called Mayan Doomsday prophecy is a bunch of hooey. If you ever watched the history channel special on it, you'll notice the anthropologist (i.e. scholar) explains that 1) we look at this from a western point of view and the Mayans don't; 2) the Mayans sense of time is cyclical, so that a new world will begin the next day (and, in fact, a new calendar begins the next day too).

My students, every semester, are concerned about this. I tell them to keep going to class and paying their bills. However, no matter how many times I try, my friend is convinced the end times are here and is stockpiling.
But, since I'm going to Mexico in a few months for some research, I'll be sure to let you know if the Mayan folks have started to freak out.

[EmilyAnne]

39. I guess I'll break down and buy a few gifts for the family. I would have been putting it off to

save up some cash for Armageddon.

[JVS]

40. Start a thread ridiculing the religion of the Mayans