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Post by Willing Sniper on Dec 13, 2012 22:52:50 GMT -8
Mayan apocalypse: panic spreads as December 21 nears
Telegraph.co.uk - by Malcolm Moore
Ahead of December 21, which marks the conclusion of the 5,125-year "Long Count" Mayan calendar, panic buying of candles and essentials has been reported in China and Russia, along with an explosion in sales of survival shelters in America. In France believers were preparing to converge on a mountain where they believe aliens will rescue them.
The precise manner of Armageddon remains vague, ranging from a catastrophic celestial collision between Earth and the mythical planet Nibiru, also known as Planet X, a disastrous crash with a comet, or the annihilation of civilisation by a giant solar storm.
In America Ron Hubbard, a manufacturer of hi-tech underground survival shelters, has seen his business explode.
"We've gone from one a month to one a day," he said. "I don't have an opinion on the Mayan calendar but, when astrophysicists come to me, buy my shelters and tell me to be prepared for solar flares, radiation, EMPs (electromagnetic pulses) ... I'm going underground on the 19th and coming out on the 23rd. It's just in case anybody's right."
In the French Pyrenees the mayor of Bugarach, population 179, has attempted to prevent pandemonium by banning UFO watchers and light aircraft from the flat topped mount Pic de Bugarach.
Fears that the end of the world is nigh have spread across the world with only days until the end of the Mayan calendar, with doomsday-mongers predicting a cataclysmic end to the history of Earth.
David Morrison, an astronomer at Nasa, said: "At least once a week I get a message from a young person, as young as 11, who says they are ill and/or contemplating suicide because of the coming doomsday. I think it's evil for people to propagate rumours on the internet to frighten children."
Mayans themselves reject any notion that the world will end. Pedro Celestino Yac Noj, a Mayan sage, burned seeds and fruits to mark the end of the old calender at a ceremony in Cuba. He said: "The 21st is for giving thanks and gratitude and the 22nd welcomes the new cycle, a new dawn."
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Post by Willing Sniper on Dec 13, 2012 22:54:03 GMT -8
I actually have additional information, but what are you going to do to save yourself?
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Post by Willing Sniper on Dec 13, 2012 23:00:31 GMT -8
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Post by kpad1 on Dec 13, 2012 23:46:58 GMT -8
i think more people will be worried about their last minute gift buying...lol
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2012 7:46:52 GMT -8
I am so stressed out, I can't decide what to wear! help...
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Post by domic on Dec 14, 2012 7:57:04 GMT -8
That looks fine Apple, don't change a thing.
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Post by ♬ pkbucko ♬ on Dec 14, 2012 8:11:56 GMT -8
I think I'll just help Apple decide what to wear.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2012 8:38:35 GMT -8
Good thing I've got a week to decide. There could be some shopping trips necessary. What the heck, you only get to see the end of the world once. I'm starting with shoes... Loubouton of course...pink or black?
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Post by domic on Dec 14, 2012 8:46:18 GMT -8
The black ones would look good kicked in a pile of clothes on the floor.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2012 9:33:50 GMT -8
The black ones would look good kicked in a pile of clothes on the floor. No doubt those shoes only ever see the ground sideways.
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Post by Willing Sniper on Dec 14, 2012 9:36:38 GMT -8
Banal
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2012 9:37:48 GMT -8
Christmas lyrics are banal
Loubouton...never!
Edit me again and I will keel you!
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Post by Willing Sniper on Dec 20, 2012 8:04:47 GMT -8
Well here it is the end of the world.
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Post by ✿Lexxy✿ on Dec 20, 2012 8:13:21 GMT -8
It damn well better not be. I have 11 straight days off work starting at 4:00pm on the 21st.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2012 8:42:53 GMT -8
I am not going shopping for presents until I know for sure if I have to. nu huh...no way.
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Post by ♬ pkbucko ♬ on Dec 20, 2012 12:08:43 GMT -8
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2012 13:35:06 GMT -8
Effing Mayans. Now I have to pay off my credit cards!
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Post by Willing Sniper on Dec 21, 2012 13:53:34 GMT -8
I can't believe no one posted this!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2012 14:21:08 GMT -8
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Post by Willing Sniper on Dec 22, 2012 8:51:20 GMT -8
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