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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Flipperk on March 30, 2010, 01:18:08 PM
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I was just thinking about how much everyone believes in the doomsday belief, and I have to say that maybe because everyone believes in this theory is the reason why the world might end in 2012.
Hear me out, lets visualize this, if no one paid attention to the 2012 theory then most likely nothing will happen, the year goes by without a second thought and everyone goes about their day. But however this will not happen, with the thought that the end is near highly powered people who do believe in this theory perhaps might not care about their actions, after all the end is near...why care?
Perhaps it's not the events themselves that might end the earth, but possibly the power of belief in it. With millions in belief of 2012, that's millions with moral hazard, millions that may not care about their actions...these millions themselves might be the cause of the end of the earth. If high powered leaders take actions that they would not normaly take due to the belief then perhaps there might be truth in this theory.
The theory itself may by a cover of an underlying message, if you think it will happen...then it will. The closer 2012 comes the more panic arrises, the crazier people become...they loose control and start doing what ever it takes to survive. Chaos arrises in the masses, neighborhoods turn into war zones, congress unable to act in any motions, nations abroad follow, world chaos inssues. All because they believed.
I do not believe in the theory, but however I am terrified by what I just stated above...with millions in belief, they themselves are what they must fear.
Why am I terrified? Because events are controllable, people are not.
Thoughts?
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I'll bet you a trillion stimulus dollars that 12/21/2012 comes and goes like any other day.
If I'm right; pay up.
If I'm wrong; it wont matter. :)
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I'll bet you a trillion stimulus dollars that 12/21/2012 comes and goes like any other day.
If I'm right; pay up.
If I'm wrong; it wont matter. :)
A trillion dollar stimulus would devalue the dollar so much that a billion dollar stimulus would be worth more :aok
besides the point, I said I do not believe in the 2012 theory, I only fear what I stated above.
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Without fear and panic we wouldn't have ratings. Politicians wouldn't have a platform to run on. We wouldn't need religion.
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wrongway
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DO ANY OF U EVEN REMEBER y2K>?
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A trillion dollar stimulus would devalue the dollar so much that a billion dollar stimulus would be worth more :aok
besides the point, I said I do not believe in the 2012 theory, I only fear what I stated above.
:rofl :rofl
DO ANY OF U EVEN REMEBER y2K>?
y2k bug wasnt a doomsday :aok
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I laugh at everyone who thinks the world is going to end.
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I am with Spikes,..uh,...in an idea sort of way, not in a man-love sort of way. :)
Have to figure it this way. If it is going to end, there is nothing I can do about it, so why waste precious time worrying about it? If it is not going to end, then I will not have wasted precious time worrying about it.
All I have to worry about is the backlash from the first sentence of this post. Now, THAT IS something to worry about.
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i'll be the first one to say welcome to 2013, same as the Y2K hype, scare everyone into stocking up for something that wont come :noid
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Thoughts?
Civilization would have collapsed a long time ago if such a thing would push people over the edge... 2000 came & passed without incident as far as I can remember.
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I am with Spikes,..uh,...in an idea sort of way, not in a man-love sort of way. :)
Oh, I'm with spikes in that other sort of way. :bolt:
Anyway, I wouldn't lose any sleep over it Flipperk. Some people will bug out, millions of dollars will be made by those capitalizing on rampant stupidity, and this big old rock will keep on turning.
Without fear and panic we wouldn't have ratings. Politicians wouldn't have a platform to run on. We wouldn't need religion.
wrongway
Nailed it. :aok
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I am with Spikes,..uh,...in an idea sort of way, not in a man-love sort of way. :)
Have to figure it this way. If it is going to end, there is nothing I can do about it, so why waste precious time worrying about it? If it is not going to end, then I will not have wasted precious time worrying about it.
All I have to worry about is the backlash from the first sentence of this post. Now, THAT IS something to worry about.
Exactly the way I see it as well.
Also you'd have to think to yourself, how would the world just 'end'? Just like that? Too many people are freaking out that I talk to, since all of these earthquakes are happening.
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Like Skuzzy said why worry about something you cant stop ( for those who do believe it) then TV blows everything out of portion with there constant bombardment of what if Shows, lol like that show Life After Humans (i think) lol how can they even know what will or could happen, again all speculation, i mean after all... if its a bigbang, poof were gone, then i guess none of that show really mattered now did it :D
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Yawn. This is about the 3rd EOTW situation I have seen. They seem to come about every 20 years or so. I recall some folks who said the Earth was going to be destroyed and were packing up to live in a cave. I don't know why they figured a cave would be safe if the Earth were to be destroyed. I am not going to pay a darn bit of attention to the current scare. Y'all have fun playing with it but that "toy" is boring to me.
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I really do know why you all are suck into the whole 2012. It just like Y2K. people panic when that time came and what happen, nothing.
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I'll tell what I believe about 12/21/2012... I believe at the end of the day there's gonna be 6 billion people doing a massive facepalm all saying " CRAP!!!! I've only got 3 days to shop for Christmas!!!" :D
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I think ya'll are overestimating the number of people who belief that "something big" will happen in 2012. I'd bet those "believers" are less them 5% of the population
I've yet to meet a single person who takes it seriously.
Some of you may have been listening to too much Art Bell and George Noory. :noid
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2012 is something I don't believe. 2029 could be a different story though....
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:rofl :rofly2k bug wasnt a doomsday :aok
???????????? Of course it wasn't were still here / there were plenty of people that thought it was how doomsday was coming.
Its no differant than the calendar on my wall it runs out ....doesn't mean the end of the world.
the end of the AGE makes more .02 if your into stars and stuff.
It woudl be the perfect time for a rouge government or buch of guys with towels on their heads to set off a nuke and scare the heck out of every one......
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Mayan civilization ended about 2,000 years ago. So it would seem that their calender was off a bit.
Anyways everyone knows that the trouble doesn't start until 2112.
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Civilization would have collapsed a long time ago if such a thing would push people over the edge... 2000 came & passed without incident as far as I can remember.
But the calender we use is off by several years. So that said we could have missed the 2yk thing and that is coming still! Then in a few years the real end will be here. On Dec. 20th 2012 I will be selling Jim Jones special kool-aid! Or t-shirts that say "I survived the Apocalypse". :bolt:
WMBohica
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I was born on 12/19, I'll turn 30 two days before the world explodes. Coincidence? I think not. :noid
nyuck nyuck
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I was born on 12/19, I'll turn 30 two days before the world explodes. Coincidence? I think not. :noid
nyuck nyuck
12/21 Is my Mom's Birthday.
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From an evolutionary stand point how could they possibly know the world is going to end? I mean how would that information even be available?
Lots of other good points.been posted. They could not fortell ther own demise, but they could the end of the world.
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I don't think there are too many people that actually believe in the doomsday theory. If millions believed then it might be another story but only a fraction of a percent think it will end.
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Anyways everyone knows that the trouble doesn't start until 2112.
Don't pick up any guitars..
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I'm half looking forward to it. First off there's going to be a lot of 'End of the World' parties. The 21st is a Friday so it will work very well. If there aren't people out there even now working out how to make a killing, sorry I'll rephrase that, make a lot of money out of it. Then I'll be surprised.
I love watching documentaries on the subject, apocalypse and all that. I treat them like a movie. Fun to watch, food for thought. But not something to take seriously. Inevitably there will be people who will take it seriously. They will hide away or shoot themselves. But in truth nothing they do can make the world end. So I won't be worrying.
But it will be hyped mercilessly getting close to the time.
The whole end of the world mythology is a bit sad really. There are any number of variations on it. All silly and based on a lot of deluded thinking.
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The first I heard about 2012 was after some marketing advertisement to a film
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I'll tell what I believe about 12/21/2012... I believe at the end of the day there's gonna be 6 billion people doing a massive facepalm all saying " CRAP!!!! I've only got 3 days to shop for Christmas!!!" :D
http://www.motifake.com/image/demotivational-poster/0811/facepalm-demotivational-poster-1226799057.jpg
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The first I heard about 2012 was after some marketing advertisement to a film
+1
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I wouldn't put much stock in the Mayan doomsday prophecies considering the actual doomsday of the Mayan civilisation was sometime during the 8th and 9th centuries when their civilisation fell. They missed by several hundred years.
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I wonder how many people are going to have some crazy parties right before, including me. :)
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I wouldn't put much stock in the Mayan doomsday prophecies considering the actual doomsday of the Mayan civilisation was sometime during the 8th and 9th centuries when their civilisation fell. They missed by several hundred years.
Actually, they never even CALLED it the end of the world (modern-day survivors of the Mayan culture are annoyed as hell about that artificial meaning applied to it).
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If it says so on the apocalypse...err I mean History channel, then it must be true :noid
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What would a bunch of Mayan know that we do not? they smoked better drugs?
Every Golly-geen culture on this earth has or had a doomsday prophecy with hundreds of possible dates depending on your interpretations.
:headscratch:
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What would a bunch of Mayan know that we do not? they smoked better drugs?
Every sweet potato culture on this earth has or had a doomsday prophecy with hundreds of possible dates depending on your interpretations.
:headscratch:
Reread my post. It wasn't EVEN a doomsday prophecy to begin with. I don't know WHERE the hell the idea came from, but it was NOT from the Maya.
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I wonder if any of the doomsday'ers stopped to think that maybe the Mayan's made a calendar to extend 2000 thousand years after their existence and perhaps they thought to themselves, "Ugh, I'm tired. Do we really need to make this calendar longer? Let's just end it here on the winter solstice and call it done."
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I'm half looking forward to it. First off there's going to be a lot of 'End of the World' parties. The 21st is a Friday so it will work very well.
I like where your head is at.
"You know, darling... what was your name again? Nikki? K. You know, Nikki, this *could* be our last night on Earth."
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I like where your head is at.
"You know, darling... what was your name again? Nikki? K. You know, Nikki, this *could* be our last night on Earth."
I say bring on the giant flaming rock from space.
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I say bring on the giant flaming rock from space.
If you're gonna go out, might as well go out in style.
Im going to start printing T-Shirts.
"I survived 2012."
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I don't believe anything until I see it. But I am going to take the day off and drink some beer down by the river! :x
I'll get back to ya on how the party went. :cheers:
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i bet 100BILLION theoretical dollars nothing happens
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I was just thinking about how much everyone believes in the doomsday belief, and I have to say that maybe because everyone believes in this theory is the reason why the world might end in 2012.
Hear me out, lets visualize this, if no one paid attention to the 2012 theory then most likely nothing will happen, the year goes by without a second thought and everyone goes about their day. But however this will not happen, with the thought that the end is near highly powered people who do believe in this theory perhaps might not care about their actions, after all the end is near...why care?
Perhaps it's not the events themselves that might end the earth, but possibly the power of belief in it. With millions in belief of 2012, that's millions with moral hazard, millions that may not care about their actions...these millions themselves might be the cause of the end of the earth. If high powered leaders take actions that they would not normaly take due to the belief then perhaps there might be truth in this theory.
The theory itself may by a cover of an underlying message, if you think it will happen...then it will. The closer 2012 comes the more panic arrises, the crazier people become...they loose control and start doing what ever it takes to survive. Chaos arrises in the masses, neighborhoods turn into war zones, congress unable to act in any motions, nations abroad follow, world chaos inssues. All because they believed.
I do not believe in the theory, but however I am terrified by what I just stated above...with millions in belief, they themselves are what they must fear.
Why am I terrified? Because events are controllable, people are not.
Thoughts?
This sounds like a bad Keanu Reeves movie. Barf.
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Actually, they never even CALLED it the end of the world (modern-day survivors of the Mayan culture are annoyed as hell about that artificial meaning applied to it).
Yup, the Mayan calender in question (they had several) is calender on a 5,100 year cycle based off of their astronomical observations. All this means is that on 12-21-12 there will be some sort of astronomical alignment which was important to the Mayans, and the calender will start over. For the Mayans it means the beginning of a new age. It holds no real importance to anyone else unless perhaps you are a practicer/believer of astrology.
It's really just a calender rolling over. Do we predict doomsday every Dec. 31st when our Julian calender rolls over?... Of course not. But somehow because this calender is a much, much longer cycle a few whackos have predicted doomsday when it rolls over. People have been predicting the end of the world as we know it for thousands of years, someday one of them may be right, but it will be pure luck.
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Large meteors have hit this planet before and will again but I doubt those that believe they can predict the randomness of the cosmos.
(http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l74/Onmyoji_2006/Meteor_Canada.gif)
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Yeah you can all laugh now..but.. Wait til the sky starts falling !!!
Or is that y2k?
Or is it Paul is dead?
One of those things...
Oh yeah, 2012.... lets be ready troops!!!
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See Rule #14
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In a time...long ago...it was prophesized...one day...all would end. Our own thoughts...as a collective unconscious...working together like a giant battery...would rip the earth apart by its individual molecules.
One man...one chance...to stop it all and change destiny. Keanu Reeves is... The Thought Collector
(http://www.rootology.com/images/whoa.jpg)
SUMMER 2011....
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See Rule #14
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See Rule #14
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2012 doomsday idea is based on a lack of understanding of the Mayan calendar. They never predicted the end of the world just what is called the end of the age. As the calendar goes forward the signs of the zodiac rotate the other way. We are entering the age of aquarius or sum crap like that.
lol doomsday
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(http://www.freeroleentertainment.com/1259238892.jpg)
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If the movie 2012 is any indication, yes, we are all doomed.
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If the movie 2012 made any money then we truly are doomed.
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I sure hope some world-changing product is released on 12-21-12, that way I can ask for it on my birthday the day after. Maybe something like a cellphone, but with a holo-screen that has a sentient AI program on the inside to help manage my access of the internet. Besides, I'm not that worried; I turn 18 the year before, so what do I have to look forward to on my nineteenth?
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I sure hope some world-changing product is released on 12-21-12, that way I can ask for it on my birthday the day after. Maybe something like a cellphone, but with a holo-screen that has a sentient AI program on the inside to help manage my access of the internet. Besides, I'm not that worried; I turn 18 the year before, so what do I have to look forward to on my nineteenth?
im gonna be a nice 22 :aok free beers on me on 12-21-12. No joke.
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I sure hope some world-changing product is released on 12-21-12, that way I can ask for it on my birthday the day after. Maybe something like a cellphone, but with a holo-screen that has a sentient AI program on the inside to help manage my access of the internet. Besides, I'm not that worried; I turn 18 the year before, so what do I have to look forward to on my nineteenth?
Actually, probably around March 17, 2012, somebody at the CERN center is going to say:
"Here, hold my Captain and Diet and watch this!"
At which point he drops a twinkie into the particle accelerator. This creates a space/time paradox from the magnetic fields trying to stabilize the mass that is so dense with preservatives, the particles are altered as they tear into the twinky.
The resulting shrapnel combine into black holes, gravitating to the Earth's core.
Here they gather and grow until the core is consumed and the world implodes in a huge 'Poofski'.
Game over, man!
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Actually, probably around March 17, 2012, somebody at the CERN center is going to say:
"Here, hold my Captain and Diet and watch this!"
At which point he drops a twinkie into the particle accelerator. This creates a space/time paradox from the magnetic fields trying to stabilize the mass that is so dense with preservatives, the particles are altered as they tear into the twinky.
The resulting shrapnel combine into black holes, gravitating to the Earth's core.
Here they gather and grow until the core is consumed and the world implodes in a huge 'Poofski'.
Game over, man!
"Tell him about the Twinkie."
"What Twinkie?"
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I was just thinking about how much everyone believes in the doomsday belief, and I have to say that maybe because everyone believes in this theory is the reason why the world might end in 2012.
Hear me out, lets visualize this, if no one paid attention to the 2012 theory then most likely nothing will happen, the year goes by without a second thought and everyone goes about their day. But however this will not happen, with the thought that the end is near highly powered people who do believe in this theory perhaps might not care about their actions, after all the end is near...why care?
Perhaps it's not the events themselves that might end the earth, but possibly the power of belief in it. With millions in belief of 2012, that's millions with moral hazard, millions that may not care about their actions...these millions themselves might be the cause of the end of the earth. If high powered leaders take actions that they would not normaly take due to the belief then perhaps there might be truth in this theory.
The theory itself may by a cover of an underlying message, if you think it will happen...then it will. The closer 2012 comes the more panic arrises, the crazier people become...they loose control and start doing what ever it takes to survive. Chaos arrises in the masses, neighborhoods turn into war zones, congress unable to act in any motions, nations abroad follow, world chaos inssues. All because they believed.
I do not believe in the theory, but however I am terrified by what I just stated above...with millions in belief, they themselves are what they must fear.
Why am I terrified? Because events are controllable, people are not.
Thoughts?
Odd
Thats what I've always thought also.
My plan for 2012 is to drink a bottle of nyquil and sleep it out.
If it doesnt end then I wake up the next day refreshed and if it does I'll be too asleep to notice the end of days.
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Really?! That's the complete opposite of me.
If niburu does hit our planet i'm going to stay awake for a week watching it come in and open my arms wide and inhale the shock wave with my last breath.
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The world is going to end, as we know it, just not in 2012.
when our creator has had enough it will end.
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Here's my guess
World Population
71% - Believe theory is completely ridiculous
26% - It's probably bogus, but I'm going to save up a couple cans of food and pray extra hard the week before
2.5% - Will be in their local religious facilities waiting for their preferred almighty to take them to their preferred afterlife experience.
0.5% - Are digging and stockpiling :noid
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Here's my guess
World Population
71% - Believe theory is completely ridiculous
26% - It's probably bogus, but I'm going to save up a couple cans of food and pray extra hard the week before
2.5% - Will be in their local religious facilities waiting for their preferred almighty to take them to their preferred afterlife experience.
0.5% - Are digging and stockpiling :noid
is it bad to be in that .5!?!
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is it bad to be in that .5!?!
Nope, because in Spring 2013, you'll have a great new tornado shelter!
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I don't think there are too many people that actually believe in the doomsday theory. If millions believed then it might be another story but only a fraction of a percent think it will end.
HMMMMMMMMMMMMM
IIRC the prophecy? Is more like an ERA will cease? Be over? Something different will take it's place?
SO NOT the END of the WORLD? But the END of a ERA. A period of celestial time change? Celestial daylight savings time kicks in?
Change? :rofl
Anyways :neener: :neener: :neener:
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HMMMMMMMMMMMMM
IIRC the prophecy? Is more like an ERA will cease? Be over? Something different will take it's place?
SO NOT the END of the WORLD? But the END of a ERA. A period of celestial time change? Celestial daylight savings time kicks in?
Change? :rofl
Anyways :neener: :neener: :neener:
No, a Giant hand will reach down from the sky and rewind it...everyone knows that...
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(http://www.freeroleentertainment.com/1259238892.jpg)
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in 2012 the lines at the DMV will never end, oh wait they already do
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Im reupping in 2012 to go back to Korea.....I wanna be there when it pops off :rock
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If I am not mistaken, the world wont end, only about 99% of all life will...
LOL!! :lol wow we are all dumb, the earth is fine!