So, the world didn't end.

Ah, the poor deluded people who thought that the 21st of December was the end of the world because the Mayan Long Count calendar ended there. They would have made more calendars, but they got wiped out by the Spanish.

Hold your horses, it's still the 21st here! Not all hope is lost!

Nobody actually thought the apocalypse was nigh, did they?

(And it didn't even end on 21th today...)

What I don't get is that why would christians believe apocalypse is coming on this day?

Also, day hasn't yet ended, soooooooooooooooooooo- Nah, can't make that joke, too stupid

^I heard some people got scared and went hiding in caves. Thats what my friend told me at least.*shrugs* Though that wasn't local stuff so that might be just hearsay.

edited 21st Dec '12 10:12:13 AM by SpookyMask

Yeah, there are still 4 hours, 39 minutes and some seconds to go here in Austria!

I've got 9 hours, 42 minutes here in Nova Scotia.

Aw, and here I was looking forward to seeing some spectacular tornadoes and meteors...

I was hoping for something that would prevent my relatives from visiting. Oh well.

Spooky Mask, the majority of Christians (at least here in Europe) never thought that the apocalypse would happen this day. We don't care about that, because we don't know when it's gonna happen, so, let's live on!

I wonder how many drug overdoses and suicides are going to happen today.

Who knows how many.

Ah well, the world didn't end, and apparently nobody in South Africa panicked, so...

It's been rather boring. I thought that somebody in my hometown would panic. Oh well.

"If I were to live every day like it was my last, it soon would be."

Got about 5 h 5 min left here in GMT.

And the world revolves around GMT, so when its 21.59 here, the world will defo end.

What if the world ended and an identical one came into being at the same time? Would anyone notice?

Like the in the Hitchhiker's remake?

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What the fuck, man. Stop breaking our tiny fabric of reality!

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

edited 21st Dec '12 11:16:50 AM by Catfish42

@Quad: I know, I was talking about minority What, are you offended by my statement?

I think you're looking at it the wrong way Spooky. Literalist Christians are actually way more likely than anyone else to think of magic as real. They just associate it with witchcraft, and therefore evil. I mean, in the old days it's always been assumed that pagan religions were just worshiping various demons or devils. Which meant that they were real, just evil. If Christians didn't believe in pagan magic then they wouldn't have burnt witches or gone on Crusades. And, in the modern era, they wouldn't be protesting Harry Potter.

So to that kind of literalist Christian, it's not a matter of the ancient Mayans knowing more about the textures of the spiritual world, it's a matter of being evil and dooming the world with their evil magic.

edited 21st Dec '12 11:32:40 AM by Clarste

There is another theory that the world was created five minutes ago and any memories you have were put in your head at this time.

I came up with that theory in middle school, which clearly means that you're the one who's recreating the world by reading my mind.

@Clarste: Riiiiiiiiiiiiight.

Awks.

@Clarste, assuming history actually exists, that hypothesis is more than 90 years old and attributed to Bertrand Russell

Time travel!

Although honestly I'd be surprised if no one thought of it earlier. Like ancient Greeks or Chinese or something.

@ Spooky Mask, not really. I thought you were generalizing.