Appetite for destruction: 2012 and the Apocalypse

Canadian TV ^ | December 30, 2011 | Jered Stuffco

[2ndDivisionVet]

It seems like everyone has their own vision of the Apocalypse.

For Christians, The End is synonymous with the Four Horsemen, the Rapture and the Anti-Christ.

Environmentalists, meanwhile, fear climate change, melting polar ice caps and turbulent weather.

For paranoid newshounds, if rogue states like Iran or North Korea don't trigger a nuclear war, then debt-wracked banks will soon lead to total societal collapse.

Then there's Hollywood: aliens, meteors, earthquakes, malfunctioning uteri and Hitchcock's angry birds.

While the Apocalypse-theme has essentially become a pop culture cliché, it remains endlessly fascinating.

Case in point: the Christian-focused "Left Behind" books, which have made authors Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins very rich thanks to sales numbering 65 million and counting.

Likewise, there's the Mayan prediction that 2012 will mark the end of the world.

While the myth entered the public consciousness in the 1970s, today, even the descendants of the Mayans have grown tired of the damned prophecy: Mexico's National Anthropology and History Institute went out of its way this month to say the entire theory was dreamed up by a writer named Frank Waters and his "mishmash of beliefs."

[One Name]

If we manage to escape a large Coronal Mass Ejection things will largely rely on normal weather events, no big deal.

I keep some point distributors around, just in case.

[stars & stripes forever]

Only the Father knows: www.patburt.com

[Barnacle]

For Christians, The End is synonymous with the Four Horsemen, the Rapture and the Anti-Christ.

The rapture thing is a concoction from the 1800's based on the Book of Revelation. Some Christians subscribe to it. My guess is that most do not.

In any case, See you in 2013.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Actually the Mayans could be very right. If Obama wins a 2nd term, will there be any doubt?

[joe fonebone]

If they myans were so damn smart, how come they are extinct?

[thatjoeguy]

They’re not, they are just in hiding....

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks . The truth is, I wanted a pretext to post this very nice artist's conception of a planetary collision. :') The article itself is in Indonesian, which is a dialect of Malay, and Google language actually had a Malay to English option so I could find that out. :') The article is a breezy debunking of the whole 2012 madness of crowds.

Ist/Internet

• Will the year 2012 be an apocalyptic game-changer?
• (2012) Mayans couldn't even see their own End of Days
• Doomsday in 1 Year? Why the World Won't End on Dec 21, 2012
• 2012 End-of-the-World Countdown Based On Mayan Calendar Starts Today
• Experts admit second Mayan prediction of 2012 as end of the world
• Mayans Never Predicted December 2012 Apocalypse, Researchers Say
• 2012 end of the world Cancelled [sure, just when we were having fun]
• Is The End Nigh? We'll Know Soon Enough (World to end May 21)
• 2012, Just Another Year
• 2012 Apocalypse -- Postponed (Remember the Mayan Calendar?... er... Never Mind!!)
• Congress Races to Destroy Country Before 2012 Deadline (Satire)
• Bicentennial Anxiety: Why Mexicans Are Wary of 2010
• Christians Have Their Own Mayan Calendar Problems
• UCSB Archaeologist Disputes Common Belief About Collapse of Maya Civilization
• If the world ends, can you still return gifts?
• "Of Mayans and Millerites: 2012, 1844, and 2009" (Sermon for the Last Sunday of the Church Year)
• The world will not end in 2012
• The '2012' doomsday craze is keeping scientists busy and frustrated
• 2012 Doomsday Not Likely, Mayans Insist
• Balloon Boy's Father 'Wanted TV fame Before World Ends In 2012'
• Mayan Elder Insists "2012 Is Not the End of the World"
• Doomsday: 2012 is not the end of the world, Mayan elder insists
• 2012 isn't the end of the world, Mayans insist
• Mayan Year 2012 Stirs Doomsday Theories...
• '2012', the Movie! Did you see the trailer on TV last evening?
• Is the world going to end on December 21, 2012?
• The Mayan Calendar and Christian Response to 2012
• UAH casts eye on Maya mystery [global warming shills]
• Who's Afraid of the Mayan Calendar?
• "Cracking the Maya Code"

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[Scythian]

The True "Appetite for Destruction" ...

[Silentgypsy]

I like to look at the bright side: if it occurs, at least I won’t outlast my retirement $.

[odds]

That’s an amazing image.
Could this be the ‘other’ Big Bang theory to further expand the universe?! Perhaps in Bahasa Indonesian :-)

[gleeaikin]

Here is an article on today’s Coronal Mass Ejection that someone might want to post under Catastrophism.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/23/strongest-solar-storm-sin_0_n_1223841.html?ncid=webmail2