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[Isichar]

Obeded the 2nd wrote...

It best end because I didn't buy any Christmas gifts.

"So yeah, I was going to get you a Christmas gift and all but I was kind of betting on the world ending and well... time makes fools of us all"

[Obeded the 2nd]

Isichar wrote...

Obeded the 2nd wrote...

It best end because I didn't buy any Christmas gifts.

"So yeah, I was going to get you a Christmas gift and all but I was kind of betting on the world ending and well... time makes fools of us all"

Better excuse than I have most years XD

[Isichar]

Obeded the 2nd wrote...

Isichar wrote...

Obeded the 2nd wrote...

It best end because I didn't buy any Christmas gifts.

"So yeah, I was going to get you a Christmas gift and all but I was kind of betting on the world ending and well... time makes fools of us all"

Better excuse than I have most years XD

"Mom, dad, you know how you kept saying you wanted a pet? Well I got you a dog! But he had to be put down due to rabies so... Merry Christmas!"

Modifié par Isichar, 17 décembre 2012 - 09:40 .

[Obeded the 2nd]

Isichar wrote...

Obeded the 2nd wrote...

Isichar wrote...

Obeded the 2nd wrote...

It best end because I didn't buy any Christmas gifts.

"So yeah, I was going to get you a Christmas gift and all but I was kind of betting on the world ending and well... time makes fools of us all"

Better excuse than I have most years XD

"Mom, dad, you know how you kept saying you wanted a pet? Well I got you a dog! But he had to be put down due to rabies so... Merry Christmas!"

“I thought I would save it for Jan. 25 so you’d be really surprised.”

The best part is by the 25th of Jan., they've forgotten 

[Isichar]

Obeded the 2nd wrote...


“I thought I would save it for Jan. 25 so you’d be really surprised.”

The best part is by the 25th of Jan., they've forgotten 

Omg Ive totally done that before

[Obeded the 2nd]

Isichar wrote...

Obeded the 2nd wrote...


“I thought I would save it for Jan. 25 so you’d be really surprised.”

The best part is by the 25th of Jan., they've forgotten 

Omg Ive totally done that before

Might be able to give my Skyrim code away this year, I'm sure someone will take it.
I have 1 guft without even shopping:lol:

[Fishy]

mousestalker wrote...

The world has gotten better, objectively better, every decade of my life. What has also gotten better is the media's ability to report on, incessantly, disaster, catastrophe and woe.

The same wonderful tools that allow me to discuss roses with enthusiasts around the world also aids those who wish to trumpet misfortune. And since they have the money and desire to propagate their information, it goes everywhere.

Meanwhile, while there are more people in the world, fewer starve. For most of my life both India and China were economic basket cases, the subjects of derision and scorn. Most of the people of India and China are still poor, but almost all of them are better off than they were thirty years ago. That is two-fifths of the world's population.

There are far more literate people then there were fifty years ago. Globally, people are better housed, nourished and clothed than ever before. Even political repression has eased somewhat.

If what is troubling you is the recent shooting at the elementary school, even there things haven't really grown worse. The U.S. has regressed in our treatment of the mentally ill, but we did it for the best of intentions. Both in the U.S. and globally, mass shootings have remained fairly level. They decline over time as long as they are not publicized and spike when the media promotes them and so encourages copy cats.

Why would the media do this? Bad news of a spectacular nature, involving sympathetic victims drives ratings. Ratings brings in advertisements. Advertisements mean the opportunity for more revenue. The personnel involved even get to feel like they are doing something important as people who would otherwise ignore them start paying them attention.

That by listing the numbers of dead and wounded as a score, by obsessing over the story and by giving the malefactor's name prominence they are encouraging others to emulate him is less relevant as that occurs further down the road, is somewhat ephemeral and may never actually come about. There's an old song about it. It is still true.

/pontification

I don't believe it's better or worse than before. The problem are just different. Today everyone is so stressed and the globalisation of the world have good and bad side.

[deuce985]

I believe it will happen when it happens. Should it? I don't know. I believe everything moves in cycles and Earth will decide when it should end.

I know this much, it amazes me how ignorant some people are to what's happening to our world right now. Sea levels, hurricanes, disasters, economic collapses, drastic climate changes, strange unexplained phenomenon. I don't know what's happening to our world right now, but what I do know is it's happening an alarming rates. Whether it happened in the past or not, I can't answer that. I believe we're seeing major shifts how our world proceeds forward. Personally, I believe it's just another cycle. As long as nothing catastrophic happens all at once, we'll be ok. The good news with that is humans are incredibly adaptable. We'll be able to adapt. If something big hits us all at once, I fear we're in trouble.

I do not believe in that Mayan Calendar Prophecy either. It's full of misinformation and nowhere did the Mayans predict an apocalypse. That's a myth. Each time the Mayan Calendar ended, a major event in history happened. People just interpret the Calendar ending and not starting over as the "apocalypse" since something big happened each time it ended.

I also recommend this Youtube channel for anyone who wants to see all the major strange happenings in the world the past two years. It's a great channel. It's left to interpret how you want. It has natural disasters, strange unexplained phenomenon, natural phenomenon, uprisings, etc. etc. He does a collection every few weeks of everything going on around the world. Enjoy it.

2012 is strange part 71(yes, 71 parts for the year)

Modifié par deuce985, 18 décembre 2012 - 12:03 .

[KBomb]

EntropicAngel wrote...

The world's on a one-way trip to he11, as far as I see it.

I can't wait for the end.

You say that now, but when someone stabs you in the eye with a fork over the last roll of toilet paper, you'll be wishing otherwise!

[TheClonesLegacy]

No, we have potential, some scraps of hope, that we can be better, and as long as I have even a small amount of hope, that people can be better, I will never wish death upon this lovely planet of ours, or it's wide and diverse species, and I'll never stop fighting.

Modifié par TheClonesLegacy, 18 décembre 2012 - 04:25 .

[Dragoonlordz]

TheClonesLegacy wrote...

No, we have potential, some scraps of hope, that we can be better, and as long as I have even a small amount of hope, that people can be better, I will never wish death upon this lovely planet of ours, or it's wide and diverse species, and I'll never stop fighting. F*ck all you pessimists here YOU'RE APART OF THE PROBLEM!

That's a very pessimistic view of yours in the last sentence about pessimists... Just saying...

Modifié par Dragoonlordz, 18 décembre 2012 - 01:53 .

[Homebound]

The world has ended many times. Just ask a dinosaur. Oh wait u cant, theyre all dead.

But guess what, after the world ended, it started all over again. So really the end isn't THE end.

[Link Ashland 614]

Boy, the Reapers would be glad if Earth came to an end this Friday.

[NoForgiveness]

KBomb wrote...

EntropicAngel wrote...

The world's on a one-way trip to he11, as far as I see it.

I can't wait for the end.

You say that now, but when someone stabs you in the eye with a fork over the last roll of toilet paper, you'll be wishing otherwise!

omg lmao wtf?

[NoForgiveness]

Obeded the 2nd wrote...

It best end because I didn't buy any Christmas gifts.

me either, im just gonna try to add my name on others' gifts

[Zazzerka]

No, because I don't have a "fück humanity" complex.

Plus, I've still got sh*t to do.

[spirosz]

BringBackNihlus wrote...

GT Zazzerka wrote...

No, because I don't have a "fück humanity" complex.

Plus, I've still got sh*t to do.

This.  

Technically "our" calender ended in 2011, so by the logic, we should be dead.  It's not like calenders go infinite days, it goes by cycles. 

To want it to end because of a "few" is a sad, sad way to look at humanity.  We're not perfect, but there's too many wonderful people out there.  

****, it's the media and **** that always focuses on all the bull****, but you rarely hear about the positives during the worst times/crisis.  You have to go out of your way to find this type of stuff on the internet, whatever, depressing.  I'm not saying we should be oblivious to bad circumstances happening, but it would be nice to have some positive outlooks as well, instead of the typical "We're celebrating a kid's birthday today, yeah!" type stuff on news.  

Modifié par spirosz, 18 décembre 2012 - 03:36 .

[Zazzerka]

Thread needs this.

[ObserverStatus]

Oh yes, the Mayan Calendar is going to give us exactly what we deserve. There is no forgiving what our species did to that poor soul.

[Lenimph]

Yeah I do, but there's some things I want to get done personally before it happens.

[AresKeith]

BringBackNihlus wrote...

GT Zazzerka wrote...

No, because I don't have a "fück humanity" complex.

Plus, I've still got sh*t to do.

[KBomb]

MR_PN wrote...

KBomb wrote...

EntropicAngel wrote...

The world's on a one-way trip to he11, as far as I see it.

I can't wait for the end.

You say that now, but when someone stabs you in the eye with a fork over the last roll of toilet paper, you'll be wishing otherwise!

omg lmao wtf?

I was being jocular. I read an article recently that stated the thing people who plan for disasters stock up on the most is toilet paper. That just struck me as hilarious. I imagined everyone running around killing to get the last roll of Charmin. When the sh!t goes down, people want to be truly prepared, I guess.

Modifié par KBomb, 18 décembre 2012 - 04:21 .