2012 Doomsday?

[venomouscobra98]

I know this question has been asked but do people really beleive that the world will end?I have heard so many different theories on what will happen it makes me laugh.

If you are preparing im not making fun of you , I just want to know what you are doing to prepare. And if you dont believe what do you think of the people who do?I have a wife that is pregant and do in August and a 2 1/2 year old son. If the world or economy would end I just dont know how I would have my family survive.I do have an old farm house in the sticks I could move out to and hopefully live off the land but it would be hard.

I'm not really a believer but if i guess i have a back up plan.I'm not going to the extreme like the t.v. series Doomsday Preppers. But if the Raptshur comes some people wont have to worry about anything.

Just wondering of what you people thought of the 2012 Doomsday Theory!!

 

[01cobravortech]

Based on what are we supposed to be expecting the end of the world this year? There are a lot of "survivalists" clowning people with their "preparation kits" and making good coin off this fear mongering. How would you even prepare for the "end of the world?"

 

[Njc0las]

:rollseyes:rollseyes:rollseyes:rollseyes:rollseyes

 

[WireEater]

I'm already prepared, I survived Y2K BITCHES! GHHEEYAAAHH.

 

[Kiohtee]

If Chuck Norris dies before "Doomsday" I'll worry. Until then, he's got this.

 

[ItsReal93]

I thought the world was ending....so what is there to prepare for?

 

[dtheo]

Subculture of Americans prepares for civilization's collapse


(Reuters) - When Patty Tegeler looks out the window of her home overlooking the Appalachian Mountains in southwestern Virginia, she sees trouble on the horizon.

"In an instant, anything can happen," she told Reuters. "And I firmly believe that you have to be prepared."

Tegeler is among a growing subculture of Americans who refer to themselves informally as "preppers." Some are driven by a fear of imminent societal collapse, others are worried about terrorism, and many have a vague concern that an escalating series of natural disasters is leading to some type of environmental cataclysm.

They are following in the footsteps of hippies in the 1960s who set up communes to separate themselves from what they saw as a materialistic society, and the survivalists in the 1990s who were hoping to escape the dictates of what they perceived as an increasingly secular and oppressive government.

Preppers, though are, worried about no government.

Tegeler, 57, has turned her home in rural Virginia into a "survival center," complete with a large generator, portable heaters, water tanks, and a two-year supply of freeze-dried food that her sister recently gave her as a birthday present. She says that in case of emergency, she could survive indefinitely in her home. And she thinks that emergency could come soon.

"I think this economy is about to fall apart," she said.

A wide range of vendors market products to preppers, mainly online. They sell everything from water tanks to guns to survival skills.

Conservative talk radio host Glenn Beck seems to preach preppers' message when he tells listeners: "It's never too late to prepare for the end of the world as we know it."

"Unfortunately, given the increasing complexity and fragility of our modern technological society, the chances of a societal collapse are increasing year after year," said author James Wesley Rawles, whose Survival Blog is considered the guiding light of the prepper movement.

A former Army intelligence officer, Rawles has written fiction and non-fiction books on end-of-civilization topics, including "How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It," which is also known as the preppers' Bible.

"We could see a cascade of higher interest rates, margin calls, stock market collapses, bank runs, currency revaluations, mass street protests, and riots," he told Reuters. "The worst-case end result would be a Third World War, mass inflation, currency collapses, and long term power grid failures."

A sense of "suffering and being afraid" is usually at the root of this kind of thinking, according to Cathy Gutierrez, an expert on end-times beliefs at Sweet Briar College in Virginia. Such feelings are not unnatural in a time of economic recession and concerns about a growing national debt, she said.

"With our current dependence on things from the electric grid to the Internet, things that people have absolutely no control over, there is a feeling that a collapse scenario can easily emerge, with a belief that the end is coming, and it is all out of the individual's control," she told Reuters.

She compared the major technological developments of the past decade to the Industrial Revolution of the 1830s and 1840s, which led to the growth of the Millerites, the 19th-Century equivalent of the preppers. Followers of charismatic preacher Joseph Miller, many sold everything and gathered in 1844 for what they believed would be the second coming of Jesus Christ.

Many of today's preppers receive inspiration from the Internet, devouring information posted on websites like that run by attorney Michael T. Snider, who writes The Economic Collapse blog out of his home in northern Idaho.

"Modern preppers are much different from the survivalists of the old days," he said. "You could be living next door to a prepper and never even know it. Many suburbanites are turning spare rooms into food pantries and are going for survival training on the weekends."

Like other preppers, Snider is worried about the end of a functioning U.S. economy. He points out that tens of millions of Americans are on food stamps and that many U.S. children are living in poverty.

"Most people have a gut feeling that something has gone terribly wrong, but that doesn't mean that they understand what is happening," he said. "A lot of Americans sense that a massive economic storm is coming and they want to be prepared for it."

So, assuming there is no collapse of society -- which the preppers call "uncivilization" -- what is the future of the preppers?

Gutierrez said that unlike the Millerites -- or followers of radio preacher Harold Camping, who predicted the world would end last year -- preppers are not setting a date for the coming destruction. The Mayan Calendar predicts doom this December.

"The minute you set a date, you are courting disconfirmation," she said.

Tegeler, who recalls being hit by tornadoes and floods in her southwestern Virginia home, said that none of her "survival center" products will go to waste.

"I think it's silly not to be prepared," she said. "After all, anything can happen."

(Reporting by Jim Forsyth in San Antonio; Editing by Corrie MacLaggan and Greg McCune)

 

[TJSwoboda]

I'm already prepared, I survived Y2K BITCHES! GHHEEYAAAHH.

^This.

 

[thepizz]

:sleeping:

 

[SolarYellow]

There are a lot of "survivalists" clowning people with their "preparation kits" and making good coin off this fear mongering. How would you even prepare for the "end of the world?"

Jim Baker is now in this racket. Send him a "love gift" and he'll send you a bucket of freeze dried beans or potatoes. The saps fall for it.

 

[01cobravortech]

Jim Baker is now in this racket. Send him a "love gift" and he'll send you a bucket of freeze dried beans or potatoes. The saps fall for it.

The economy is real good right now if you're employed in the 2012 End of the World business.

 

[Devious_Snake]

you live every day like its your last, this way when it ends you will have no regrets. I would rather go quickly instead suffering slowly like we already do with this economy...

 

[wieduwilt]

I really made my boss stumble about this the other day.

He is a God fanatic. I am a christian but he is really a fanatic.

He was talking about his devotion that morning and how he thought the end was near. He was talking about wars, violence, murder, anti-christ (and other ungodly figures).

My only reply was, "Thats been the world for the past 2000 years what makes today any different?"

He had no reply...

 

[Devious_Snake]

I really made my boss stumble about this the other day.

He is a God fanatic. I am a christian but he is really a fanatic.

He was talking about his devotion that morning and how he thought the end was near. He was talking about wars, violence, murder, anti-christ (and other ungodly figures).

My only reply was, "Thats been the world for the past 2000 years what makes today any different?"

He had no reply...

:lol:

 

[01cobravortech]

I really made my boss stumble about this the other day.

He is a God fanatic. I am a christian but he is really a fanatic.

He was talking about his devotion that morning and how he thought the end was near. He was talking about wars, violence, murder, anti-christ (and other ungodly figures).

My only reply was, "Thats been the world for the past 2000 years what makes today any different?"

He had no reply...

So if you're a Christian and your boss is a Christian too, what makes him a "God fanatic?" I mean I have a good idea about some of the things he reads in the Bible that lead him to believe the way he sees things at the moment. But I guess I'm not accustomed to hearing, "I am Christian but that other Christian guy he's a "God fanatic." I mean if you really are a believer then what makes another believer a "God fanatic?"

 

[RDJ]

So if you're a Christian and your boss is a Christian too, what makes him a "God fanatic?" I mean I have a good idea about some of the things he reads in the Bible that lead him to believe the way he sees things at the moment. But I guess I'm not accustomed to hearing, "I am Christian but that other Christian guy he's a "God fanatic." I mean if you really are a believer then what makes another believer a "God fanatic?"

I am a Christian, you are a God fanatic. look in the mirror and you will see a prime example of a "God Finatic". you are right and anyone who doesn't accept YOUR interpretation of the word is flat out wrong.

 

[wieduwilt]

So if you're a Christian and your boss is a Christian too, what makes him a "God fanatic?" I mean I have a good idea about some of the things he reads in the Bible that lead him to believe the way he sees things at the moment. But I guess I'm not accustomed to hearing, "I am Christian but that other Christian guy he's a "God fanatic." I mean if you really are a believer then what makes another believer a "God fanatic?"

When I say he's a fanatic, it's not an insult. I actually admire it. Every aspect in his life is determined by God and all of his decisions are based off it as well. He listens to sermons in one ear while he's working at the restaurant. He surrounds himself with God alone and refuses sin and every day temptations and encourages the teenagers that work there to do the same.

 

[LogiWorld123]

Question-

What's to prevent the Mayan calendar from just starting over? Much like our calendar ended in 2011, but started over in 2012?

Oh its because that's exactly what is going to happen/

 

[wieduwilt]

Question-

What's to prevent the Mayan calendar from just starting over? Much like our calendar ended in 2011, but started over in 2012?

Oh its because that's exactly what is going to happen/

This.

The only reason this is such a big topic is because of so many over-dramatized stories and movies and new coverages of it.

But you've gotta make money somehow.


C.Wied

 

[Mr. Mach-ete]

Being prepared is not a bad thing. If every house hold had 7-10 days of food and water on hand it would go a long way in easing the tension of any emergency be it localized or something on a larger scale. It's common sence.