There's been a lot of hype over the past 2 or 3 years about the possible end of the world on the 21st of December 2012. There was even a highly unrealistic and painfully long action film made about the idea, based on the Mayan calendar. The idea of this sudden and random apocalypse sourced from the fact that the Mayan calendar, invented by the Mayans in case you were wondering, ends on the exact date of 21/12/12. This caused people who knew this to think that somehow the Mayans were superhumanly clever and somehow possessed the ability to see into the future, despite the fact that in the current age of technology we have today, we find this impossible. Anyway, so basically the monstrosity that is the Media and the viral nature of the internet caused this theory to super-size, and now has anyone gullible believing it. Of course, the majority of us do actually have some logical rational and understand that such an event is quite impossible. How could the Mayans have possibly predicted such an event and not our current scientists? The whole idea seems ridiculous, and I'm not really sure how anyone could possibly pull any truth from it.
If the world were to actually end I'd have a few issues
1) I wouldn't actually get to see my EPL Team Queens Park Rangers win a game this season..
2) I wouldn't get to eat the big chocolate you get in advent calendars
3) No Christmas
4) No New years eve mash-up (sophisticated party with one drink)
All in all I'm pretty solidly convinced that we'll still be alive by the 22nd, however I fear for those going to the Prodigy gig on the 21st. They most likely won't be alive due to extreme pre-apocalypse mosh pitting. Hope this post has helped you to be as bitter and pessimistic as I am.
In case you were wondering, here's what the possible world endings might look like:
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| lovely |
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| realistic |
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| is that the moon? seriously? |
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