How long must we wait for the end of the world? It's been predicted

[saltpoint]

for many thousands of years and I'm getting tired of waiting.

[madrchsod]

1. 2012..... just in time for the next presidential election

[mwb970]

2. Apparently it's always imminent.

Then when it doesn't come, the wackos say that proves them right and they set another date. And on and on it goes. People sure are stupid!

:crazy:

[saltpoint]

11. Exactly my sentiment. I feel as if we've been sold a bill of goods!

[cosmik debris]

3. It has already happened.

You got left behind.

[FreakinDJ]

4. What if it was a "Choice" rather then a Fate

hhhmmmmm

[MUAD_DIB]

5. The end of the world comes with the

death of each individual so the end of the world is always closer than you think.

[lazer47]

6. Why do you consider the end of the world, to be based

on the existence of mankind/womankind,, the universe and the earth are forever,, we are like the dinosaurs,, only visitors,, we don't make up the earth we are only temporary

[MUAD_DIB]

16. Neither the universe or the world are forever.

Everything runs down eventually.

[saltpoint]

12. It's possible that it's closer than we think but all the same it feels like

being in a 900-mile long line at the drive-through lane at Burger King.

[MUAD_DIB]

17. The end of the world comes with a Happy Meal®, and

a Ninja Jesus action toy.

[Historic NY]

7. The Freepers think it happened in Nov.

[saltpoint]

13. LOL. Yes. When Indiana and North Carolina showed blue on the

election map, their world must have felt pretty over.

[Torn_Scorned_Ignored]

8. The Mayan Calendar

ends on December 21, 2012.

What could this mean?

12 21 212

1221212

1221
212

If you are tired of waiting, you do have options.

[Occam Bandage]

10. Well, you could just choose to adopt a calendar with different arbitrary divisions,

or one starting at a different arbitrary year, or adopt a different arbitrary base numeral for your counting system instead of 10. That makes any numerical coincidences disappear, and in their place inserts a whole different host of them.

[Torn_Scorned_Ignored]

15. Great point.

[Occam Bandage]

9. It's ended plenty of times.

Whenever people start talking about "the end of the world," they're usually responding to stirrings of societal or cultural change. They see the world as they know it ending, and it's very difficult to distinguish "the world as I know it" from "the world," for obvious reasons.

The world ended in the 400s AD. The world ended around 1000 AD. The world ended around 1500 AD, around 1700 AD, certainly around 1800 AD, around 1850 AD, and ended just about every decade of the 20th century. Given that the ends of the world seem to be accelerating, I would estimate that the world will enter a constant state of ending sometime this century.

[saltpoint]

14. I trust that arithmetic and history, Occam Bandage. But darn it,

it does seem to take FOREVER!

[Sandrine for you]

18. Well, I give you a proximately 24 years to live..

lol I hate when I say that !