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The End is Nigh

Post by Coito ergo sum » Wed May 02, 2012 10:47 pm

(Reuters) - - Nearly 15 percent of people worldwide believe the world will end during their lifetime and 10 percent think the Mayan calendar could signify it will happen in 2012, according to a new poll.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/ ... XH20120501

15% of the population. Ugh.
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Post by macdoc » Wed May 02, 2012 10:48 pm

u seen the stats for virgin mary etc in the us of hey. Pretty dismal.
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Post by klr » Wed May 02, 2012 10:50 pm

Most Irish people from my parent's generation seriously thought that JC was coming back to wind the whole show up. Seriously. The morbid fascination with the Third Secret of Fatima probably had a lot to do with it.
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Post by Coito ergo sum » Wed May 02, 2012 10:53 pm

macdoc wrote:u seen the stats for virgin mary etc in the us of hey. Pretty dismal.
No, I haven't. What stats? Is she 36D, 24, 34? 5'7" tall, 115lbs?
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Post by Rum » Wed May 02, 2012 10:53 pm

It's probably a rather smaller proportion than during most eras during the last 2000 years.
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Post by Coito ergo sum » Wed May 02, 2012 11:00 pm

Rum wrote:It's probably a rather smaller proportion than during most eras during the last 2000 years.
One would hope.

But, don't bet on it.
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Wed May 02, 2012 11:01 pm

6 billion people. 5,999,999,950 idiots.
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Post by Audley Strange » Wed May 02, 2012 11:28 pm

When are the stars right again? 23rd Dec? Something like that? I used to love hogwash.
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Post by Woodbutcher » Thu May 03, 2012 12:14 am

At least it would give us some interesting TV. There's vapid shit on every channel right now...
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Thu May 03, 2012 12:18 am

Woodbutcher wrote:At least it would give us some interesting TV. There's vapid shit on every channel right now...
Tribulation Broadcasting System?
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Post by Audley Strange » Thu May 03, 2012 12:45 am

Woodbutcher wrote:At least it would give us some interesting TV. There's vapid shit on every channel right now...
Same as it ever was.
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Post by Hermit » Thu May 03, 2012 1:34 am

macdoc wrote:u seen the stats for virgin mary etc in the us of hey. Pretty dismal.
Rum wrote:It's probably a rather smaller proportion than during most eras during the last 2000 years.
Recent trends are encouraging. From the Australian censi, for example:

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Re: The End is Nigh

Post by laklak » Thu May 03, 2012 4:02 am

Of course it is. We're only something like 1010000 years away from entropic heat death.
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.
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Re: The End is Nigh

Post by Hermit » Thu May 03, 2012 4:40 am

laklak wrote:Of course it is. We're only something like 1010000 years away from entropic heat death.
This planet, and all humans with it, will expire long before that. It will either be deep-fried when the sun turns supernova or snap-frozen when gravitational forces caused by the collision of our galaxy with its neighbouring one, Andromeda, pull both of them apart. We have 3.5 billion years left, tops. Mark my words!

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Post by Atheist-Lite » Thu May 03, 2012 5:21 am

The world won't end but humans will. :crumple:
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