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Mayan apocalypse: panic spreads as December 21 nears
The London Daily Telegraph ^ | December 7, 2012 | Nick Allen, Los Angeles, Malcolm Moore in Beijing and Tom Parfitt in Moscow

Posted on 12/07/2012 7:10:55 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Ahead of December 21, which marks the conclusion of the 5,125-year "Long Count" Mayan calendar, panic buying of candles and essentials has been reported in China and Russia, along with an explosion in sales of survival shelters in America. In France believers were preparing to converge on a mountain where they believe aliens will rescue them.

The precise manner of Armageddon remains vague, ranging from a catastrophic celestial collision between Earth and the mythical planet Nibiru, also known as Planet X, a disastrous crash with a comet, or the annihilation of civilisation by a giant solar storm.

In America Ron Hubbard, a manufacturer of hi-tech underground survival shelters, has seen his business explode.

"We've gone from one a month to one a day," he said. "I don't have an opinion on the Mayan calendar but, when astrophysicists come to me, buy my shelters and tell me to be prepared for solar flares, radiation, EMPs (electromagnetic pulses) ... I'm going underground on the 19th and coming out on the 23rd. It's just in case anybody's right."(continued)

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Science; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: apocalypse; archaeoastronomy; emp; endtimes; godsgravesglyphs; maya; mayancalendar; mayans; ohsomysteriouso; panic; weathington
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And we silly “yanks” are still worrying about Barry Benghazi’s “cliff”. LOL!


21 posted on 12/07/2012 7:30:07 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Don't tax me bro! Tax that guy over there!)
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To: eyedigress

45 days which way? I admit I haven’t kept up with this thing.


22 posted on 12/07/2012 7:30:07 PM PST by txhurl (Zero on America: Drive it like you stole it)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What’s Mayan is urine.


23 posted on 12/07/2012 7:32:39 PM PST by Misterioso ( "Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence." - Ayn Rand)
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To: txhurl

My own determination was a Nov 6-7 conclusion.


24 posted on 12/07/2012 7:33:34 PM PST by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/?)
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To: knarf

AMEN!


25 posted on 12/07/2012 7:33:43 PM PST by doc1019
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To: Drew68

Didn’t military and veterans pensions, benefits and disability pay get cancelled a couple of days ago? I thought I read something somewhere...


26 posted on 12/07/2012 7:34:59 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
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To: knarf
Get saved .. born again .. and
VOILA !
No more panic.

I dunno. The thought of spending eternity with a bunch of sanctimonious born-agains doesn't really sound too appealing. Maybe Hell in a smoky bar with like-minded sinners might be more fun.

27 posted on 12/07/2012 7:36:14 PM PST by Drew68
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Didn’t military and veterans pensions, benefits and disability pay get cancelled a couple of days ago? I thought I read something somewhere...

Um, no. Where did you read such nonsense?

28 posted on 12/07/2012 7:38:18 PM PST by Drew68
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To: doc1019; knarf

THE CONVERSION OF PRESIDENT ANDREW JACKSON
http://www.biblebelievers.com/Grady1.html


29 posted on 12/07/2012 7:42:20 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
lol. This has inspired me to lookup and watch all the 2012 movies on netflix, hulu and any other source I can find :)

If the world is gonna end, I wanna see if we have a choice in how to go!

Man, we need a 122112 party on FR!

30 posted on 12/07/2012 7:54:26 PM PST by HeartlandOfAmerica ("We have prepared for the unbeliever, whips and chains and blazing fires!" Koran Sura 76:4)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I am dreading the report of the mass suicide some charismatic leader will convince his followers to commit. Sigh.


31 posted on 12/07/2012 7:56:56 PM PST by ican'tbelieveit (School is prison for children who have commited the crime of being born. (attr: St_Thomas_Aquinas))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
There's an app for that MayanCycles
32 posted on 12/07/2012 8:00:07 PM PST by MrsEmmaPeel (a government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take everything you have)
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To: ican'tbelieveit

“I am dreading the report of the mass suicide some charismatic leader will convince his followers to commit.”

I nominate.....hmmm, hmmmm, hmmm.


33 posted on 12/07/2012 8:04:21 PM PST by Rembrandt (Part of the 51% who pay Federal taxes)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I have two fellow employees who believe 12/21/2012 will be the start of a new, improved humanity.

Google December 21, 2012 retreat - you will get a kick out of it. Do you want to spend the day with dolphins, at Machu Picchu, Hawaii?

I’d be improved, for sure, if I was in Hawaii - LOL.


34 posted on 12/07/2012 8:05:53 PM PST by Wicket (God bless and protect our troops and God bless America)
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To: GeronL

This is just one more thing to get a panic started. If “Planet X” were that close; we would have already been seeing it with the naked eye a decade ago. Our calendar ends Dec. 31 every year; the Mayans just hadn’t got a new calendar produced. Besides, I’m not too thrilled about the Mayans. - The planets aren’t slated to align; that’s just an untruth. - Now, we may have more hurricanes and earthquakes. - Trust in the Lord. Go to bed and go to sleep in peace.


35 posted on 12/07/2012 8:07:37 PM PST by Twinkie (The WICKED walk on every side when EVIL men are exalted. Psalm 12:8)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Oh, come on, let’s get it over with already. I’m sick of where things are heading anyway...


36 posted on 12/07/2012 8:17:45 PM PST by Thorliveshere
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Look at the bright side...it falls on a Friday!


37 posted on 12/07/2012 8:23:42 PM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: cripplecreek
I’m a FReeper of the epoxy clips.

If you didn't post we could imagine that your lips are sealed and you are therefore...

wait for it...

wait...

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The FReeper of the epoxy lips.

I'll be here all week, try the veal...

38 posted on 12/07/2012 8:24:54 PM PST by null and void (Going Galt: The won't of the people)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

from a catastrophic celestial collision between Earth and the mythical planet Nibiru, also known as Planet X................................................OMG, Its Plan 9, You see? You see? Your stupid minds, stupid, stupid.


39 posted on 12/07/2012 8:31:16 PM PST by Bringbackthedraft (Who we elect is not as important as who they bring in with them.)
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To: All

If we can steer past this Nibiru thing, everything will work out great, except for the Middle East, the economy, gay marriage and such.


40 posted on 12/07/2012 8:36:19 PM PST by Peter ODonnell (It wasn't this cold before global warming)
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