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2012: What if nothing happens?

A bunch of people get together and have a party. There's incredible "energy" and everyone agrees that this is the dawn of a new era and that they're all feeling something which must be new and special. There's an earthquake or a plane crash and that proves it too. In six months everyone has forgotten about it.
 
Sounds like the same situation as during the Harmonic ConvergenceWP of '87.

The convergence is purported to have "corresponded with a great shift in the earth’s energy from warlike to peaceful.
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So how's that working out for ya?

Also...

According to Argüelles, the Harmonic Convergence also began the final 26-year countdown to the end of the Mayan Long Count in 2012, which would be the so-called end of history and the beginning of a new 5,125-year cycle. Evils of the modern world, e.g. war, materialism, violence, abuses, injustice, oppression, etc. would end with the birth of the 6th Sun and the 5th Earth on December 21, 2012.
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Oh oh - I've no idea what to buy for THAT baby shower.
 
This plane crash was blamed on the harmonic convergence. Cecelia Cichan spent months in the University of Michigan Mott Children's hospital just down the street from where I lived. They found a badly burned but living four year old girl on the ground and assumed she had come from one of the struck vehicles. After a few days they sorted out all the plane passengers, bodies, and wrecked cars and decided she could only have come from the plane. Her grandparents identified her by her tacky purple nail polish. Eventually the FDA decided that she had survived because her parents had wrapped their bodies around her. I followed all this in real time in the local papers.

At the time the new agey folks stated that Cichan had paranormal powers would be a major player in the new world to come. Instead her surviving family changed her and their names, moved somewhere no one knew them, and raised her in peace.
 
All this just makes a person wonder how many great disappointments a person can endure to get the message across that there's nothing to it?

If anything is understated in the world, then it's not the shrewdness of people, but the ability of people to delude themselves.
 
Many of the most ardent believers have abandoned a lot of the 2012 stuff just in case nothing happens.

Then they can cross one possible mode of embarrassment off their list. :D
 
IIIClovisIII said:
Many of the most ardent believers have abandoned a lot of the 2012 stuff just in case nothing happens.

Then they can cross one possible mode of embarrassment off their list. :D
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Luckily, since the internet is relatively anonymous on a user-level, people can be a skeptic on one forum, and be a believer on another.

IRL that wouldn't work as well, but still, they'd just play at sitting on the fence, and hop to whichever side "wins".
 
George152 said:
What? No-one bothered to turn the rock over and read the other side ?
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I see in the Times today -another- rock where the date ends at 2012 has been found.
And right here at home, all my 2011 calendars won't be of much use after December 31.
What did the manufacturers of -those- calendars know that the Mayans didn't?
 
I figure the Mayans thought they had plenty of time to catch up the calendar. A major lesson in procrastination. Next time you chew your kid out for procrastinating and he says "it's not the end of the world," you can say "You want to bet?"
 
bruto said:
I figure the Mayans thought they had plenty of time to catch up the calendar. A major lesson in procrastination. Next time you chew your kid out for procrastinating and he says "it's not the end of the world," you can say "You want to bet?"
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It's too bad that I have a nasty cough, because it hurts when laughing.
 
Well, to be fair, if nothing happens the day after... they were right...
 
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Stray Cat said:
"What if nothing happens?".

Well 'things' always happen. To paraphrase Tim Minchin; To place significance on things happening is to seriously underestimate the amount of 'things' there are.
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Billy Preston said it best...

Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin'
You gotta have somethin'
If you wanna be with me
Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin'
You gotta have somethin'
If you wanna be with me


I'm not tryin' to be your hero
'Cause that zero is too cold for me, Brrr
I'm not tryin' to be your highness
'Cause that minus is too low to see, yeah


Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin'
And I'm not stuffin'
Believe you me
Don't you remember I told ya
I'm a soldier in the war on poverty, yeah
Yes, I am


[Instrumental Interlude]


Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin'
You gotta have somethin'
If you wanna be with me
Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin'
You gotta have somethin'
If you wanna be with me


You gotta have somethin'
If you wanna be with me
You gotta bring me somethin' girl
If you wanna be with me
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