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Old 11-December-2007, 08:15 AM
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I know someone already steered the OP to this content, but I have this strange compulsion to include it in every new 2012 topic. If the string is broken, disaster may befall us. See also...
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It is a very hard list to crack 01101001, I note none of my ideas rated a mention
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This is the heart of the matter. Only you can put your mind at ease. Since this is a conspiracy forum you have made the attempt to contact the best there is in answering questions from the logic of science.

The logic of the mind is very much in your hands. There are normal precautions that include a home emergency kit. Candles, radio, blankets and the like. Where you have to be able to draw the line is how reasonable for you and that means you personally is the best balance for functioning at your best. That means not freaking out family and friends or compromising life satisfaction. Case being some run to the wilderness and just are not wilderness sort of people. They are the ones who do get into trouble when 'normal' rescue people have to come looking for them.

Anyway I worked for the government in a minor capacity, selling train tickets years ago and if bureaucracy is anything to go by everybody knows what is coming and when it does come it is late. Nobody "knows" for certain what is not yet come. So if it is not possible to know what is coming or when it is coming ... then know where you are going. Have a place to meet and a communication link because normal every-year events like normal earthquakes can but do not necessarily disrupt life.

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In it another poster admitted to panic over 2012. .
Would that lucky person happen to be me.
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Old 11-December-2007, 09:07 AM
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In it another poster admitted to panic over 2012. .
Would that lucky person happen to be me.
I believe it went on to say Maksutov believed the problem to be resolved. Some things start one way and end another.

It takes a level of bravery to post your thoughts on a public forum and I congratulate you for that. The level of concern is how far you take it or how far you let it take you ... there is a difference.

In, well in my case I wrote to the department of homeland security and at the last check had not received a response. I consider that to be my level of responsibility ... it may be more or less than others, but at some point you need to hand over and live. Even better if you find acceptance.

So since I know the approximate location of one of the two working can openers in the home (and two that don't work) I may just get a couple more before 23 December 2007 ... or at least it has made the list of things to remember
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Ah, no harm done, was just trying to be funny :P
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Ah, no harm done, was just trying to be funny :P
That is the most important thing. A good sense of humour helps ... being able to blame it on others excuses it
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A moose once bit my sister...
Was she karving her initials in the moose with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush?
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It took you guys long enough! HA!

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The people responsible for obtaining the Moose costumes have just been sacked....
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Guys, I found a loophole! Just make your own calendar and let it start at year 1! You'll have about two milleniums of time then!
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If we use First Flight time, we're only in year 105!
And in Apollo 11 time, it's just year 38!
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Guys, I found a loophole! Just make your own calendar and let it start at year 1! You'll have about two milleniums of time then!
I know this post was in jest, but it exemplifies the biggest problem with these "calendar says we'll all die" shenanigans, which is the fact that all calenders currently in use (or no longer in use, like this one) start from an arbitrary date. That's not to say that the inventors of said calendars didn't have a reason for picking the respective start date, but in the grand scheme of things, said date is still arbitrary.
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I know this post was in jest, but it exemplifies the biggest problem with these "calendar says we'll all die" shenanigans, which is the fact that all calenders currently in use (or no longer in use, like this one) start from an arbitrary date. That's not to say that the inventors of said calendars didn't have a reason for picking the respective start date, but in the grand scheme of things, said date is still arbitrary.
The most important calendar started on December 24, 1958, by "your" calendar. I'm not quite sure when the universe will end according to that calendar (call it SST - Swift Standard Time), but I suspect some time between year 70 and year 100 of SST. At that point, at least as far as I'm concerned, the universe will end.
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I've booked an expensive restauant for the 23rd. Will the world be OK until at least after lunch?
If the doomsayeers are correct, you can dine and dash without consequence.
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That's not to say that the inventors of said calendars didn't have a reason for picking the respective start date, but in the grand scheme of things, said date is still arbitrary.

And no matter what date you pick, the nature of the celestial motion and the nature of numerology guarantees that some "significant" coincidence of celestia and calendar is only a matter of time.
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I know this post was in jest, but it exemplifies the biggest problem with these "calendar says we'll all die" shenanigans, which is the fact that all calenders currently in use (or no longer in use, like this one) start from an arbitrary date. That's not to say that the inventors of said calendars didn't have a reason for picking the respective start date, but in the grand scheme of things, said date is still arbitrary.
My post was in gest indeed, but I wrote it with that thought in the back of my mind, pointing out the problem in a humorous way.
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I've got an idea for a calendar that restarts every year as Year One. It's the secret of eternal youth!
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I'm sorry, I can't take the ideas of a one year old seriously.

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I put together a calendar that was very popular at work. It looked like this:

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I've got an idea for a calendar that restarts every year as Year One. It's the secret of eternal youth!
Not quite so severe is, for instance, the Japanese emperor era system. This is Heisei 19, year 19 of the Heisei era.

2000 AD was Heisei 12. No Y2K problems there.

What will be the era name and number of the year 100 years from now? No problem. Nobody knows!

2012? Maybe Heisei 24. Maybe not.
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I put together a calendar that was very popular at work. It looked like this:

Ah, yes, using the Garfield numbering system.
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I wrote an article last year, just for fun, where I created a few fun calendars with unusual Begining Dates.
The Titanic Calendar: This is year 95.
The US Independance Calendar: This is year 231.
The Dinosaur Extinction Calendar: This is year 65 Million.
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I like the Atomic Age calendar, which is numbered from the year we first developed the technical means of making ourselves extinct.

This is year 62. We've done surprisingly well so far. It'll be interesting to see if we make it into four-digit territory. (Well, interesting to somebody, but probably not me!)
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How about the Space Age calendar, which marks how long we have been able to send objects beyond the Earth. We are in year 50.
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Wow! I read a few pages on that link, man those people are serious business!

Did you guys know that the sun has been at a minimum for AGES!?

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I can't stop reading, this is funny stuff...

Oh, there is it, they mentioned planet X, I'm done.

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One wonders whatever became of Nibelheim. Abducted, subducted, subluxioned, or just spirited away?

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I think he was just looking for answers in a one time post, I hope he found them though , I now know that GLP'ers are crazy.
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Well, I don't know that they're all crazy, but they definitely left out a letter for their acronym. Perhaps the folks there should rename it "God Like Obsequious Productions", AKA, GLOP.
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Ooh, here's a choice Planet X thread (language warning):

Planet X vaporized - Zetas RIP

"Earlier today SOHO caught on video Planet X plunging into the sun and causing a CME...No further information is available at this time, our thoughts are with Nancy Lieder for the loss of all her zetas."

OP's follow-up post:

"Please note the Pole Shift and associated doom is canceled forthwith. Please begin to clean up the planet as we will be here for a very long time."

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They also believe that the sun will not rise on the 24th! I guess they'll all hop on the 2012 wagon when it does.
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They also believe that the sun will not rise on the 24th!
Hehe. My question would be: how? Does the earth magically stops rotating or something?
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