What will you do in Dec. 21 2012?

Yeah, I get that. But still, Revelations is as symbolic as it gets, I think. Personally, I am not convinced that the 1000 years necessarily represent 1000 years, or even any span of time at all.

However, good point on the "new world" thing. Revelations is more about the renewal of the world than about its end, strictly speaking.

edited 1st Sep '12 11:36:31 PM by Carciofus

But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.

From Second Peter 3, it seems pretty clear that the Earth will be destroyed. As in, completely reduced to subatomic nothingness. But it's also clear that the end is not happening on any set schedule, but rather God is delaying it as long as possible to maximize the chances for people to repent and be saved. I'm guessing that the end will happen whenever we reach the tipping point where waiting longer will lead to more people being lost rather than more people being saved.

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This is obviously speculation: but I think that whatever will happen (assuming that Christianity is true, of course) is going to be quite a bit more radical than the mere physical destruction and recreation of Earth, and more akin to a rewriting of the fundamental nature of reality.

I think that Paul says something along these lines somewhere: but I may remember wrongly, and to be honest I don't remember where I read it.

As for the schedule being set by God "already" or not, personally I think that this is a bit of a false problem, as God is not constrained by time as we understand it.

edited 2nd Sep '12 12:17:18 AM by Carciofus

But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.

Going to my girlfriend's Death Party she's got set up for the day.

Swordplay and writing blog. Purveyor of weeaboo fightin' magic.

Like every doomsday prediction ever, this one will pass without incident.

I'll gather a whole lot of kittens into a bag, and punch them! :D

...Kidding, kidding. I'd probably end up eating myself into a coma. If it's the "end of the world", I might as well stock up for the 7 years of destruction.

Come sail your ships around me, and burn your bridges down.

Eat, poop, play video games, eat some more, sleep, and wake up the next day.

Also agreeing with whoever mentioned staying inside. I just know the assholes that actually believe it are going to become even bigger assholes. Considering where I live (a large city) I really hope the riot squad doesn't have to be called in. It's incredibly unlikely, but possible depending on whether or not people actually bother to see if there are any actual signs of the world ending.

"It's so hard to be humble, knowing how great I am."

I'm not going to be hugely concerned about that. I have yet to meet anybody who does not consider this prediction a joke.

edited 2nd Sep '12 1:36:23 AM by Carciofus

But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.

I might do a little Christmas shopping. Maybe go and see some of my less immediate family. Snowmen are cool. Yeah, that sort of thing.

I shall also browse TVT and read the inevitable thread about the day. I won't insult those who believe the world will end, but I will pick apart their reasoning to the best of my ability, including pointing out that the world hasn't actually ended.

I will feel general mild embarrassment if the world does actually end then, though not if it happens before or after. Not that feelings would matter any more.

That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.

21 December?

I shall possibly be revising for January exams. Also, it shall be the school holidays. Browsing TVT.

Pretty much what I do every day.

If something does happen, then I will feel like a silly bean, howevs.

I'll be arse-deep in dead zombies, swinging an axe around like a crazy person.

So...same as every year, really.

'All he needs is for somebody to throw handgrenades at him for the rest of his life...'

A true Scotsman.

Well, me, personally, will probably still be deciding which two bottles of single malt whisky one wants to buy for one's own Christmas present from the Oddbins shop in Glasgow, assuming that establishment is still open. Der Tag will do for the shopping trip, I think.

I will be crying over my January exams.

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We have a terrible problem with midwinter undead around here.

'All he needs is for somebody to throw handgrenades at him for the rest of his life...'

I would be too busy causing The End of the World as We Know It

edited 2nd Sep '12 3:46:00 AM by MrsRatched

Haw Haw Haw

As usual. Playing video games, browsing the net. That kind of stuff.

edited 2nd Sep '12 3:59:00 AM by ArmoredFury

Lovepilled and Hopemaxxing

I'll confess to the local priest, before I spontaneously combust.

If you wanna PM me, send it to my mrsunshinesprinkles account; this one is blorked.

Rule the world.

While I am sipping my newly acquired Glenmorangie Single Highland Malt, I will be pondering the silliness of people putting that much faith into something that even the Mayans would have wet themselves laughing over.

Working, hanging out online, maybe wrapping a few Christmas presents, probably going to the store for some groceries and stuff, and making sure I've got my "I survived the Apocalypse and all I got was this lousy T-shirt" out so I can wear on the 22nd.

Stupid doomed timeline...

Hanging out here, and watching people on Facebook panic over it.

Going to school and doing my last bits of homework before Christmas break, going to tae Kwon doe (as per usual on a Friday), eating a footlong from subway, watching tv, and making fun of the suckers that actually believe it the next day.

I don’t even know anymore.

@Carci: That's how I interpret "the elements will melt in the heat". The laws of physics themselves will be gone.

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Meh. The world will end when the sun goes red giant and evaporates it. Not a moment before.

'The End Of The World As We Know It' (TEOTWAWKI), on the other hand, happens fairly regularly.

The latest one is in progress now, Maya or no Maya.

After the dust settles from various economic unpleasantness that's coming down the line (the worst is yet to come, after all, what with the core problems at the root of the 2008 'crunch' remaining unaddressed) the world will not be as we know it now.

It'll still be here, though, and we won't have 'shifted into the fourth dimension' cos that's not how dimensions even work fer chrissake.

edited 2nd Sep '12 8:15:48 AM by InverurieJones

'All he needs is for somebody to throw handgrenades at him for the rest of his life...'