There better be Twinkies.
Posted on 01/19/2012 9:44:39 AM PST by Wolf13
What if the Mayans were right when they predicted that the world was coming to an end in 2012?
Some people are always prepared for the apocalypse. Last year, a group of misguided Christians believed the end was nigh. A dozen years ago, Y2K was all the rage. Back when the Mayans were making predictions, so were the Essenes, a reclusive Jewish sect during Christ’s time on Earth. They thought the final battle between good and evil was coming any day now — more than 2,000 years ago.
Today, some people in the Arizona desert are reportedly preparing for the earth’s destruction. Anyone can use the Internet to find survival gear and rations for stockpiling.
I’m going to go out on a limb and officially predict that the world will not come to an end in 2012. But for many financial analysts, perhaps the key issue in predicting worldwide disaster is that it all depends on what definition of “apocalypse” is used.
An honest look at hard financial data indicates that an economic Armageddon may, indeed, be on the way. The sovereign debt crisis gripping Europe and the U.S. should be enough to make the prudent start to prepare for tough times ahead.
“For the first time in recorded history, no fewer than five major Western nations — Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain — are now edging toward default,” Martin Weiss, chairman of the Weiss Group, warned in October. “Nobody knows precisely when the first default will be announced, and the first shoe could drop at virtually any moment.”
International pressure is building to move the U.S. and the leading industrialized nations toward a global economy, in which all will rise or fall together, weighed down by their collective debt.
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Will somebody please 'splain to me where they predicted "the world was coming to an end" ???
All I know is that their calendar ran out.
My calendar runs out every year, I don't get that excited about it.
The date is slightly off, but if Obama is re-elected, and I think he will be, that’s an apocalypse to me.
One Word: Obama
OMG!!! Get one of those that has a couple extra months, for God's Sake!!! You're risking setting off the apocalypse, jerk!!!
Maybe the Mayans predicted when the socialists would run out of other peoples MONEY...
But it ran out of numbers in 1999, killing approximately 99% of the human population leaving the rest to live on the flesh of the dead... or something like that.
If the Mayans predicted the end of the world AND they had a history of correct predictions without going through some Nostradamean back flips to make the facts make the prediction, then I might consider worrying. Otherwise I'll put it with the other doomsday predictions which have had a accuracy rate of 0.00000% out of the last few thousand attempts.
"Apocalypse" means "disclosure" or "revelation."
I blame my mistyping on the Mayans.
the mayans are extinct... how smart could they possibly have been?
I think I just saw the third horseman of the Apocalypse riding by.
The term “self fulfilling prophesy” comes to mind.
It’s when the serpent of light finally settles down in the Andes
Apocalypes means and "unveiling" or a "revealing". That's why the last book of the Bible is titled "Revelation". Armageddon means the mountain of Meggido. Armageddon is a place not an event.
Or not...
On Dec 21, 2012, Obama will have had a little over a month to stew in his humiliating, crushing and unexpected defeat at the hands of the American people.
He’ll still be Commander in Chief.
He’ll still have the nuclear ‘football’. Just sitting there. Staring at him. Taunting him. Daring him...
Wow! Someone who knows. I also include the word “unveiling.”
As a Bible student I associate this with a rather favorable event, that is, when Jesus Christ is unveiled, or revealed, as to who He really is and the esteem in which He is held by the Father. However, I understand that this word “apocalypse” has been taken and applied to the most horrific catastrophes imaginable.
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