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I like your style, shiqi. Dos Equis and prostitutes? At least you were
going to hell on your own terms. Which reminds me, my stripper/girlfriend just got back from the liquor store...
posted by
saul_relative
on June 29, 2006 at 8:24 AM
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666
On 6/6/06 my friends and I packed our suitcases full of beer, porn, and naked women. We figured since we'd be going to hell anyway we better be prepared.
Of course, we were disappointed. Then there was the issue of having 6 cases of Dos Equis, old Playboys and a large number of bored prostitues.
I let my male friends take on the women while I got drunk on their beer.
5 years you say? I'll be prepared.
posted by
shiqi
on June 29, 2006 at 3:48 AM
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I'm sorry you missed it, Nautikos, but The Daily Show had a field day with
it. The news wouldn't stop blathering about it. The only people who seemed to be quiet about it were the Christians, thank God.
posted by
saul_relative
on June 22, 2006 at 8:15 PM
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saul,
how come I missed all this fun? Of course, I'm frequently having a little fun with people's reaction to my telephone number, which is ***-666-****....
posted by
Nautikos
on June 22, 2006 at 6:12 AM
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Is it extraterrestrial or extrasolar, like a massive meteor? Or does he
think a pandemic or biological disaster overtake us all? How about an environmental one? Twenty to forty years, hmmm. Hey, wait a minute, I might still be alive for the big finish!! Oh, yeah, I'm buying a keg and some beer nuts!
posted by
saul_relative
on June 14, 2006 at 8:36 PM
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20-40 years
I heard it on the news (FOX or CNN) this morning. Stephen Hawking says we will have some super disaster and need to work on getting self-sustaining colonies on the moon and mars before homo sapiens are wiped out here on earth.
posted by
DarrkeThoughts
on June 14, 2006 at 6:30 PM
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I have seen reports and documentaries on Medjugorge, franciscan, and
find them both uncorroborated and ridiculously simplistic. I'll stick with the Hopis or maybe the Mayans.
posted by
saul_relative
on June 13, 2006 at 7:52 PM
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Saul,
We are going to get chastized. Now, anybody who reads this could think that the world's disparate groups/religions/peoples/cultures might have doomsday scenarios. I suppose I'm no different. For me the first thing that's coming is what's called the "Warning" or the "Judgement in Miniature". God will speak speak to everyone's conscience in a great way. Google Medjugorje and Warning if you want. After the Warning......hmmmm. Maybe the 'Three days of darkness' that saint Padre Pio talked about. Check it out. And oh yeah, get READY!
posted by
franciscan
on June 13, 2006 at 6:06 PM
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Unfortunately, ariel, with this subject, you only have to be right once.
posted by
saul_relative
on June 11, 2006 at 10:42 AM
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You've got it, Lensman. A case of Molson's and a case of Moosehead.
Looks like I'm going to have to brush up on my end times history. You guys are
in depth.
posted by
saul_relative
on June 11, 2006 at 10:41 AM
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Saul
I'm constantly amazed that allegedly intelligent people will go on believing in such patent absurdities. The world's been coming to an end sinc Adam was a lad, and somehow it still goes on merrrily spinning.
The " experts" who make a living out interpreting all the signs and symbols of this Doomsday lunacy ought to be made to get a suit, go out and get a proper job, and marry a good Jewish shicksa already
Still, I guess that if you cry Doomsday! often enough, you've got to be right once.
posted by
ariel70
on June 8, 2006 at 11:36 PM
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Saul
I'm even less worried about the Mayans. The Mayans believed in five creations. Apparently we're in the fourth one now. Wikipedia states:
When the larger units were shown (notably on a monument from Coba), the end of the last creation is expressed as 13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.0.0.0.0, where the units are obviously supposed to be 13s in all larger places. In this age we are only approaching 0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.13.0.0.0.0, and the larger places are nowhere near the 13s that would match the end of the last creation. (Schele and Friedel 1990: 430)
This is confirmed by a date from Palenque, which projects forward in time to 1.0.0.0.0.0, which will occur on 13 October, 4772. The Classic Period Maya obviously did not believe that the end of this age would occur in 2012. According to the Maya, there will be a baktun ending in 2012, a significant event being the end of a 13th 400 year period, but not the end of the world.
Saul, if you add Molson Beer to that list, then there's room for you all in Canada 
posted by
Lensman
on June 8, 2006 at 10:44 PM
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I have read that the Aztecs 'appropriated' the calendar of the Mayans,
Sunnybeach. But, like many things over time, ownership (and originators) changes. Look at Anglicized Jesus and (more recently, African Jesus).
posted by
saul_relative
on June 8, 2006 at 10:40 PM
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It wasn't really the Aztecs that originated the calendar.
It was a Mayan Calandar.
It was somehow based on astrology and counts backwards....It hits 0 on the winter solistice of 2012.
There's a lot of info out there if you do a search.
posted by
Afzal_Sunny7
on June 8, 2006 at 10:26 PM
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Lensman, I'm only worried about 2012 if that other Bush brother decides
to run for office. This country has too short a memory and way too many right-wing radical evangelicals. I know you guys are getting sick of us Yanks moving into your country (or worse, telling others when we're abroad that we're Canadians), but, really, do you guys have room for me and mine (there are five of us)? I love hockey and Rush (the group) and Triumph and Nickelback and Michael J. Fox and the Blue Jays.
posted by
saul_relative
on June 8, 2006 at 10:17 PM
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Saul
I predict that the Aztecs will prove to be just as messed up as other failed prognosticators. So far the score's something like World = 500/prognosticators = 0.
The Aztecs weren't able to predict their own conquest by the Spanish; I'm not worried about 2012. But I'm guessing you're not either... ~
posted by
Lensman
on June 8, 2006 at 10:06 PM
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I don't know, R.I., but I'll bet he's made a few. But Robertson is such a
good con man, I have a feeling he's been very general in this area.
posted by
saul_relative
on June 8, 2006 at 9:39 PM
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Wonder if good old Pat R. has any predictions on this??...
he must have...
posted by
Rumor
on June 8, 2006 at 12:12 PM
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Love the Killer Bee warnings. You know, they're in Texas!! Maybe they'll
reach Crawford in a year or two. And there are new Aztec calendars: They've converted them to Justinian -- check out the latest one in
Lowrider magazine, with those fine Aztec girls. Now, at the risk of sounding sexist, white-cossack, there's a reason to avoid doomsday.
posted by
saul_relative
on June 8, 2006 at 9:47 AM
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That's on page one of "Identifying Morons For Idiots", isn't it, kingmi?
(Okay, yeah, I made it up, but wouldn't that be a good little book to give to your most annoying in-law for Christmas or Hannukah?)
posted by
saul_relative
on June 8, 2006 at 9:42 AM
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Gotta love the end of the world...
Strange how it never quite happens, its almost as if we just don't get the symbolism right.
The last few were fun though, Y2K (end of the Computer Age and the world as we know it), 5/5/05 (New Ice Age due to a Global Polar Shift), oh and I almost forgot - The Invasion of AFRICAN KILLER BEES (that one was supposed to be reallly bad).
The AZTEC Calendar has an end date - hmmm no Aztec civilization remains so no new calendars.... and this is an issue???
But smile and look up, we have ASIAN BIRD FLU and Global Warming to keep us captivated by Terror's Smile.
posted by
white-cossack
on June 7, 2006 at 3:26 AM
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Saul, only morons like OBL care about cryptic interpretations of dates.
posted by
kingmi
on June 7, 2006 at 2:08 AM
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Maybe so, Sunnybeach. I don't adhere to any philosophy on the subject
of eternity or the afterlife or god. I let people believe whatever they wish and hope that they live their lives well and are considerate of others.
posted by
saul_relative
on June 6, 2006 at 10:04 PM
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Mademoiselle: the "Bible Codes" are a wild read. I read them a few years
back. Amazing, if true. So, biblical codes and the Aztecs, hmmm. Must be something there...
posted by
saul_relative
on June 6, 2006 at 10:01 PM
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I don't believe in the world ending at this time
Only time "as we know it" will end.
Supposedly the earth will finally shift to the 5th dimension. What this means, I'm not quite sure yet, but there is a chance many of us won't need our bodies anymore. I don't believe in death, only transformation. But if that's how you want to look at it, yes, there may be death, but the end of "our world" will never be.
posted by
Afzal_Sunny7
on June 6, 2006 at 9:47 PM
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The "Bible Codes" also predict the world will end in 2012 (twice):
"COMET" + "ANNIHILATE THE EARTH" + "2012"
Then, in another part, it says:
"COMET" + "IT SHALL CRUMBLE TO PIECES" + "2012"
I'm worst at what I do best
And for this gift I feel blessed
Our little group has always been
And always will until the end
posted by
Mademoiselle
on June 6, 2006 at 9:44 PM
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