So worried about December 21 2012

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14 Dec 2012, 2:37 am

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OK it's July the 1st today and I am worrying about what is going to happen in less than 6 months time. Someone said to me that something's going to happen with money, worldwide, so I don't quite know what's going to happen beyond that. The beginning of the financial year in the UK starts in April, so if anything I thought something like that would happen in April, but I'm not sure about how this sort of thing works in other countries.

I am worrying about what this would mean. Would everybody go skint, and not be able to eat or live in homes? Will it just cause a big apocalypse in some other way? I'm so worried, I know I hate my life but I still don't want to die.

This is why you should always encourage yourself to rely on rational thinking only for predictions and decisions. See what this irrational thinking was doing to you? There's no evidence for the end of the world anytime soon, and it still got you to sh*t yourself over it.

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14 Dec 2012, 8:33 pm

I am not worried about this day next week.

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14 Dec 2012, 9:31 pm

Perfect excuse to open your presents early this year.

My kids are coming to my mom's this weekend to do just that... it works out.

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15 Dec 2012, 12:57 am

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Best case scenario: due to the growing paranoia and uncertainty surrounding next Friday, suicide and crime rates will reach unimaginable levels. Riots ensue. Massacres. Governments are overthrown. Anarchy.

I used to be all excited about this date, some years back.... now I only plan to take photos, on that special day (in which the starry sky is present). It only happens every 26000 years or so, after all.... the galactic alignment, I mean. Next time is so far into the future that humanity won't even exist, anymore. I look forward to documenting it.... I just hope it will be a clear sky. =_= Otherwise, I would be very disappointed..... :/

The galactic alignment happen every year.

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15 Dec 2012, 2:06 pm

When would you like the world to end? Anything is negotiable.

Besides, the literal interpretation is "the world as you know it will end" - which i guess means, commerical living standards, and ppl competing pointlessley. So yea.

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18 Dec 2012, 11:20 am

Please understand the Mayan 'End of the World' myth the media has been getting ratings from is nothing but a farce.

The Maya calendar is cyclical. Their concept of time is that when one cycle ends another begins. Just like our calendars simply re-start with Jan 1 after Dec 31.

The Maya believed that the world ended and begun again because in central america they lived in a region with high volcanic activity and lowlands that were quite prone to flooding (and did so frequently every year...hurricane season). Hence their religion incorporated the idea that since the world they saw in their lifetimes was constantly being destroyed and re-made, so should the whole world follow suit.

In THAT sense the media got it right.

What they got wrong was the 'prophecy' of doom and gloom. The whole Maya doomsday thing comes from just ONE tablet found and INCORRECTLY deciphered.

...yes, INCORRECTLY deciphered. See, in those days the media picked up on an article by the person that was working on the tablet and focused on one little comment he made about the tablet stating the world would end in 12/21/2012. You know the media... they want ratings. Prophecy, doomsday..that gets ratings. The media is what made this whole damn thing into a meme/cult belief.

The accurate translation of the tablet does not say the world will be destroyed but rather it will be reborn. In Maya mythology there is a huge difference between apocalypse and re-birth. Their stories of rebirth do not require the death or destruction of people or places... but rather a renaissance of the spirit/mind/land.

The only freaky prediction I grant the Maya did that came to pass was that of white people with white beards arriving and being the end of the Maya...that did happen albeit by the time of the spanish conquista the Maya civilization had plunged into the equivalent of the european middle ages. Hundreds of years earlier they had been like the Roman Empire at its peak... when the Spanish arrived it was like they arrived in the early years of the middle ages.

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18 Dec 2012, 12:57 pm

Friday will just be another day. I've got work on Friday. Saturday I'm off to a really busy shopping place what will be so packed you can't move, but I need to go just to get some last-minute necessities. I'd just have to bear the crowds. Sunday I'm doing voluntary work. Monday is Christmas eve, can't wait because I might be going to a haunted place with my uncle and his sons and maybe my mum and her sister, which will be great on Christmas eve. Then Christmas day will be exciting too, because I'm getting the Simpsons box set, season 15, along with a few other nice bits, and we've got family coming round too for Christmas lunch. I just hope I don't have to work on Christmas day, so far I don't have to. I've got to work boxing day though. Ah, well.

I choose not to believe the world is ending now, regardless of the obvious fact that I started this thread. I was just stupid enough to believe the media.

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20 Dec 2012, 4:49 am

http://astardly.wordpress.com/2011/10/1 ... d-in-2012/

Apparently people have been placing bets on how the world will end..
I heard on Sunrise (morning show) that a man put in a $1000 bet that the world would be taken over by zombies...

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20 Dec 2012, 5:11 am

tweety_fan wrote:

http://astardly.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/will-the-world-end-in-2012/

Apparently people have been placing bets on how the world will end..
I heard on Sunrise (morning show) that a man put in a $1000 bet that the world would be taken over by zombies...

I've thought about trying to start an insurance company that would sell alien abduction insurance. If you are abducted by aliens and it is adequately verified, then your heirs would receive the amounts specified in the policy.

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20 Dec 2012, 7:05 am

it is a blasted nuisance that the world ends this friday (of all fridays!!).
i had quite a few appointments on friday, and when i found out that the world ends on friday, i had to ring everyone to reschedule my appointments for saturday instead!

i am sure that the mayans were malicious clairvoyants , and designed their calendar with the ultimate aim of ruining next saturday for me! .

eric76 wrote:

I've thought about trying to start an insurance company that would sell alien abduction insurance.

i can not see how that would be viable, and i will detail why using the rest of your post.

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If you are abducted by aliens and it is adequately verified, then your heirs would receive the amounts specified in the policy.

why would a standard "will" be inadequate to ensure that the heirs of the person who has disappeared receive their inheritance?

if a person "disappears" and is not found after a reasonable amount of time, and if there are no transactions made in their name during that time, then they can be declared legally dead, and their estate can be distributed as per the directives within the will.

if people were locked into the burden of proving an "alien abduction" in order to receive their inheritance (due to your policy that would presumably override a will) , then i am not sure that your scheme sounds like a lucrative alternative to the standard practice of simply leaving a will.

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20 Dec 2012, 10:48 am

b9 wrote:

eric76 wrote:

I've thought about trying to start an insurance company that would sell alien abduction insurance.

i can not see how that would be viable, and i will detail why using the rest of your post.

eric76 wrote:

If you are abducted by aliens and it is adequately verified, then your heirs would receive the amounts specified in the policy.

Insurance policies and wills are entirely separate things. Insurance policies provide payments to the beneficiaries in the case of a loss under certain circumstances. It has nothing at all to do with distributing an estate.

For example, automobile insurance is used to cover the losses incurred as the result of an automobile accident. Health insurance is used to cover the losses incurred as the result of medical treatment. Life insurance provides a set amount of money to your beneficiaries after your death. None of these have anything to do with your estate.

If you had a $25,000 alien abduction insurance policy and you were abducted by aliens, then upon proof of that abduction the insurance company would pay you the $25,000 if you were returned or to your designated beneficiary if you were not returned. But note that as an alien abduction policy, it would not cover any other circumstance.

Do you not have insurance in Australia?

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20 Dec 2012, 11:17 am

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... I only plan to take photos, on that special day ... I just hope it will be a clear sky.

It is tipping down with rain at the moment here in northern France. Here is the French weather forecast for the full week:

[img][800:425]http://i1353.photobucket.com/albums/q671/rocco19831/148641_4110611171144_1033291908_n_zpse0512471.jpg[/img]

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20 Dec 2012, 3:11 pm

I used to worry the world was going to end until a couple years ago my Geology professor debunked the myth. http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2012.html Have no fear the world will keep on spinning it just means the solistice.

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20 Dec 2012, 3:16 pm

I don't know about you all, but I'm outta here!

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20 Dec 2012, 3:54 pm

Well, I guess we will be finding out one way or the other here in about nine hours.

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20 Dec 2012, 4:39 pm

Oh, well, here's the forecast for where I come from.

Friday 21 December 2012 : 8 celcius, sunny intervals.

Maybe just France is ending then.

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