Anyone here....

[Wizard]

.....stocking up for the alledged 21/12/12 Apocolypse in case???....just curious.

[Sanchez88]

no, but if it's happening just before christmas I'll save a fortune on presents

[Rooney]

Originally Posted by Wizard

.....stocking up for the alledged 21/12/12 Apocolypse in case???....just curious.

[ellie]

Are you serious?

[August]

Originally Posted by ellie

Are you serious?

No, he's Wizard.

[Simon Taylor]

Originally Posted by Wizard

.....stocking up for the alledged 21/12/12 Apocolypse in case???....just curious.

What ANOTHER one? Can't believe how many gullible people there are out there that ACTUALLY believe this stuff!

[Ariana2]

Originally Posted by Wizard

.....stocking up for the alledged 21/12/12 Apocolypse in case???....just curious.

Not much point in stocking up on material things if the world is going to end eh

[Shiraz]

lol, a gateway, as one of my more unusual guests calls it. How was your 5/5 or your 4/4? She does run her life around such things, if she gets a feeling about something on a gateway day, she acts on it. She's going to be totally obsessed by 21/12/12.

[calvert]

Originally Posted by Simon Taylor

What ANOTHER one? Can't believe how many gullible people there are out there that ACTUALLY believe this stuff!

there are a couple,

Pic de Bugarach - france

The village has 200 inhabitants and they are expecting an influx of approximately 10,000 believers and non-believers from around the world, in December 2012. The mayor has even called for assistance from the French Army.

oooops, i think they under-estimated

december212012

the pilgrims, already over 20,000, believe that when Doomsday comes on December 21, aliens will appear in UFO ships at Pic de Bugarach to rescue all people awaiting them in the area and fly them off safely to a place of dawn of a new age and era

and there is still 255 days to go

[Wizard]

Originally Posted by Simon Taylor

What ANOTHER one? Can't believe how many gullible people there are out there that ACTUALLY believe this stuff!

Mmmmmm.....I think you've got the wrong end of the stick here, or maybe I'm not making myself understood very well, I'm aware that there maybe some here who do firmly believe in the 'Mayan 21-12-12 Apocalypse Prophecy' but I wouldn't describe myself as an actual believer Simon, if I was a firm believer then I wouldn't be ASKING if anyone is stocking up I'd be TELLING you to, so just to make it clear, my stance on it is one of uncertainty either way, I'm not fully convinced that anything Apocalyptic is going to happen on that date, the evidence is at best arguable but at the same time I'm not completely sure that it won't either, because the Mayans certainly seem to have been on the ball in their time, I am entertaining the possibility that's all, I was just wondering if there might be any here whom likewise are entertaining the feasibility and as a result will be stocking up...just in case, after all, there will be little to lose.

[Simon Taylor]

Originally Posted by Wizard

Mmmmmm.....I think you've got the wrong end of the stick here, or maybe I'm not making myself understood very well, I'm aware that there maybe some here who do firmly believe in the 'Mayan 21-12-12 Apocalypse Prophecy' but I wouldn't describe myself as an actual believer.

Wasn't refering to you, was just saying, I can't believe how many people DO believe in this nonsense.

You remember Harold Camping's predicted rapture last year? There were a hell of a lot of people who believed it, and blew all their money taking to the road and paying for adverts trying to warn everybody

Similarly, there will be many who do believe this latest prophecy. I just cannot fathom why so many do actually get sucked into this claptrap.

[Wizard]

[QUOTE=Simon Taylor;2545860]Wasn't refering to you, was just saying, I can't believe how many people DO believe in this nonsense.

You remember Harold Camping's predicted rapture last year? There were a hell of a lot of people who believed it, and blew all their money taking to the road and paying for adverts trying to warn everybody

Similarly, there will be many who do believe this latest prophecy. I just cannot fathom why so many do actually get sucked into this claptrap.[QUOTE]

Yep, it certainly puzzles me how they can be so sure or at least think they are sure that it's all true to a point where they are prepared to give up everything, I would imagine that true believers are in a minority although it can seem as though there are many, most people either definately don't believe or are not sure enough to do anything silly like blowing all their money on it, as you say we have had so many of these "the end is nigh" things that I can understand why many find it hard to take it seriously, like, how many times can we hear "it's a wolf...it's a wolf"??, this is what it always reminds me of but we all know what happened in that nursery rhyme don't we??.

[Gordon Russell]

How many people actually believe this article I chanced upon ?

[QUOTE

German drops Mayan skull, endangers mankind
10 May 2012

An ancient Mayan skull stolen from Tibet by Nazis - said to have magical powers to enable humanity to survive the December 2012 apocalypse - has been dropped by a lab assistant in eastern Germany, chipping its chin.

The volcanic rock skull, named Quauthemoc, was dropped - or, more eerily, may have fallen of its own accord - during a photo-shoot at a laboratory in the small town of Glauchau, Saxony. "It was probably put down somewhere a bit wobbly," an eye-witness told Bild newspaper. "Suddenly it crashed to the floor. A big piece broke off the chin. It's really tragic."

But the skull's private owner - who was not in the room at the time of the fateful accident - was more sanguine. "It was a bit of a shock at first, but then I found the damage was fairly marginal, so I was quite relieved," skull-owner Thomas Ritter told The Local. "I don't think it's a bad omen."

The 43-year-old amateur historian calls his Mayan skull Quauthemoc, and says it is one of 13 magic skulls that will help humanity survive the impending apocalypse on December 21, 2012 – the last day of the Mayan calendar. On that day, Ritter plans to bring Quauthemoc to a meeting with the other owners and their skulls to an ancient Mayan site in Mexico. "The prophecy says that the skulls will reveal a secret knowledge to humanity on that day," said Ritter. "But I can't say more than that. The skulls might start speaking or something, but I have no idea."

The journey taken by Quauthemoc to the lab in Saxony is worthy of an Indiana Jones adventure – Ritter said it had been kept in southern India and Tibet, where it was stolen from a monastery by a Nazi expedition between 1937 and 1939. After the war, it was found among the belongings of Nazi Interior Minister and Gestapo chief Heinrich Himmler, a well-known connoisseur of black magic and ancient pagan cultures.

Ritter wrote in 2009 that a man whose grandfather was present when Himmler was arrested and took the skull, later gave it to him at meeting in Wiltshire, southern England. The man told Ritter that Quauthemoc had chosen to “continue its journey” with him. Ritter said he was not concerned that the chip on the skull's chin will limit its ability to prevent Armageddon.

"A lot of the other skulls have some kind of superficial damage too," he pointed out, rejecting the theory that butter-fingered lab assistants in Saxony would be responsible if the world ends in December.][/QUOTE]

with its own gruesome image :
http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/1175/mayanskull.jpg