I just walked past the big astrology/mystic healing superstore and they're still open today. Make of that what you will.
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Dark Raven XLaugh hard, run fast,be kindRegistered Userregular
Hah
Suck it, fate
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KageraImitating the worst people. Since 2004Registered Userregular
I don't find the entropic death of the universe depressing really. I mean yeah there will possibly nothing ever anywhere or anyone either but the fact that its so far off I can barely fathom the enormity and breadth of events that will happen between this time and then makes it pretty academic really.
All things must end or at least that is what current mainstream thinking tells us. And if it does well at least that means all the pain and suffering will end as well. Silver lining and all that!
No amount of notice will be enough to prepare, and that is sort of a sweet thing anyway. The world will end and there will still be a dead bug in the Tupperware on top of the fridge. There will still be a dozen half-finished or barely-started Word documents on your computer—admit it.
As the moment approaches, the verb tense will be complicated, hard to wrangle. I will never have gotten around to buying a new comforter, you will never have gotten around to losing that last ten pounds, she will never have gotten around to breaking his heart, even though all of us knew for ages that they’d have been happier if she did.
We’ll all have the idea that we’ll buy something new to wear, something special for the occasion, but mostly we won’t. The only people who will buy new dresses are the kind of people who buy new dresses for things. (My mom might wear one, in the bunker.)
The rest of us will wear our favorite things, and H. and I will stand in front of her closet and touch all of the soft things in it and debate, because that’s what we do, even if we both sort of know she’ll wear that one red dress and those shoes. She’ll debate heels but ultimately decide that flats are who she is, and isn’t that the idea? Not to be someone else, when it’s your very last chance to be who you are?
Eventually entropy will cause everything to stop doing anything so yeah we are all fucked in a hundred billion or so years.
Yeah, but dark energy is a thing. It is dumping an ever increasing amount of energy into the universe, and we have no idea how that energy will interact with quantum chromodynamic bonding. I haven't heard of a good reason it would not result in matter being created through hadronization.
If the best you can come up with against someone who's patently ignorant is to yell back at him, "Yeah? Well there's BOOKS, and they say you're WRONG!"
Then honestly you're not coming out of this looking great either.
But this universe will be dead and all memories, nothing that ever happened across the entirety of everything will be remembered or have mattered.
Incorrect. "Have mattered" is some kind of past tense. It "will not matter anymore". It totally will "have mattered."
As ever, Red Dwarf has all the answers to Life, the Universe and Everything.
RIMMER: Lister, it *has* happened. You can't change it, any more than you can change what you had for breakfast yesterday.
LISTER: Hey, it hasn't happened, has it? It has "will have going to have happened" happened, but it hasn't actually "happened" happened yet, actually.
RIMMER: Poppycock! It will be happened; it shall be going to be happening; it will be was an event that could will have been taken place in the future. Simple as that. Your bucket's been kicked, baby.
So, like, what if the world really DID come to an end today, while everyone was sleeping, and the world we're living in now is just, like, some new world created to look like the old one? Wooooooahhhhh
So, like, what if the world really DID come to an end today, while everyone was sleeping, and the world we're living in now is just, like, some new world created to look like the old one? Wooooooahhhhh
No amount of notice will be enough to prepare, and that is sort of a sweet thing anyway. The world will end and there will still be a dead bug in the Tupperware on top of the fridge. There will still be a dozen half-finished or barely-started Word documents on your computer—admit it.
As the moment approaches, the verb tense will be complicated, hard to wrangle. I will never have gotten around to buying a new comforter, you will never have gotten around to losing that last ten pounds, she will never have gotten around to breaking his heart, even though all of us knew for ages that they’d have been happier if she did.
We’ll all have the idea that we’ll buy something new to wear, something special for the occasion, but mostly we won’t. The only people who will buy new dresses are the kind of people who buy new dresses for things. (My mom might wear one, in the bunker.)
The rest of us will wear our favorite things, and H. and I will stand in front of her closet and touch all of the soft things in it and debate, because that’s what we do, even if we both sort of know she’ll wear that one red dress and those shoes. She’ll debate heels but ultimately decide that flats are who she is, and isn’t that the idea? Not to be someone else, when it’s your very last chance to be who you are?
Reading the whole thing feels like the more than slightly crazy proto-blog an acquaintance had in high school (late 90s) in which he made thinly veiled professions of love and hate to everyone around him.
it's fun to imagine that hundreds or thousands of years from now when our contemporary culture is dead and buried, our most deeply held beliefs and rituals will just be fodder for animated 3D images on whatever replaces the internet
ed: so I mean basically the only difference will be that they can make 3D animated gifs, now that I think about it
Eat it You Nasty Pig. on
it was the smallest on the list but
Pluto was a planet and I'll never forget
There's always this undercurrent of hope when people talk about the end of the world
Like "maybe history will end on the 21st... C'mon, c'mon."
Culture-wide freudian death wish, yo
Makes me think of that guy who kept repeatedly predicting that the world would end. The impression that I got, especially towards the end of his life, was that he was unable to accept that the world would continue to exist without him. Not in that it needed him to exist, but that if it continued endlessly, then what was the point of him being alive?
There's always this undercurrent of hope when people talk about the end of the world
Like "maybe history will end on the 21st... C'mon, c'mon."
Culture-wide freudian death wish, yo
Makes me think of that guy who kept repeatedly predicting that the world would end. The impression that I got, especially towards the end of his life, was that he was unable to accept that the world would continue to exist without him. Not in that it needed him to exist, but that if it continued endlessly, then what was the point of him being alive?
This is probably not even rare
was there ever a teenager who didn't feel that history had somehow been totally ruptured, coincidentally timing with their own life?
How about this: The world DID end today and this is the afterlife. Did I just blow everyone's fucking mind?
I bet I did
n't
Like, everyone died today. The person you are now was actually just created 23 seconds ago with a false set of memories to deceive you into believing you were here all along. For realz.
Like. This is allegedly doomsday. Where is the grand moment of catharsis when we realize that the world isn't ending and that we're stuck with the consequences of our own stupid fucking actions? When are we going to avert the doomsdays that we are creating with our own hands as we speak?
Honestly, dying now in some flashy catastrophe would be confirmation that a single human being has been correct about a single thing, whereas, now...
Bah, fuck it. That blog was right. Every single asshole who thinks that the world will end tomorrow ups the odds that it will.
Man, this doomsday has been like the most boring day for me ever. I mean we already knew the NRA announcement was going to be the same tired shit. We already knew we were going off the fiscal cliff. Syria is still a fucking mess. The GOP is still insane. Damn shame this wasn't a Monday, at least it wouldn't be nearly as disappointing, but it had to be a Friday, a day that's suppose to interesting for most. Fuck, I didn't even get a T-shirt saying "I survived the end of the World on 12/21/2012."
How about this: The world DID end today and this is the afterlife. Did I just blow everyone's fucking mind?
I bet I did
n't
Like, everyone died today. The person you are now was actually just created 23 seconds ago with a false set of memories to deceive you into believing you were here all along. For realz.
Your living relatives were just put there by Satan to deceive you.
JeanHeartbroken papa bearGatineau, QuébecRegistered Userregular
Just a bunch of snow/rain/ice here. Bussiness as usual!
I almost feel bad for that dude in Netherlands who invested in a boat that can hold 35 people.
"You won't destroy us, You won't destroy our democracy. We are a small but proud nation. No one can bomb us to silence. No one can scare us from being Norway. This evening and tonight, we'll take care of each other. That's what we do best when attacked'' - Jens Stoltenberg
Anybody watch Doomsday Preppers on NatGeo? It's a fun show to watch but there was a few that were actually preparing for the 2012 Doomsday and put a lot of money and effort into their prepping. Imagine their disappointment.
We've done some prepping ourselves but nothing extreme. We have a few firearms and Krav Maga training so home/personal defense is covered but I don't think we'd last long food/water wise. Our plan would be to drive or walk to my future-in-laws house as it'd be best to trust family over neighbors when disaster strikes.
I caught part of an episode of it in a waiting room. Pretty hilarious to see someone claiming that money would become worthless, and then proceed to stockpile gold instead.
We've done some prepping ourselves but nothing extreme. We have a few firearms and Krav Maga training so home/personal defense is covered but I don't think we'd last long food/water wise. Our plan would be to drive or walk to my future-in-laws house as it'd be best to trust family over neighbors when disaster strikes.
yeah it's true people who know Krav Maga usually live through disasters that's how it works
CaptainPeacockBoard Game HoarderTop o' the LakeRegistered Userregular
We're all betas: genetically identical clones of our Alphas with backup memories that don't include the final moments of what really happened yesterday....
That'd be a great premise for a book.
Cluck cluck, gibber gibber, my old man's a mushroom, etc.
We're all betas: genetically identical clones of our Alphas with backup memories that don't include the final moments of what really happened yesterday....
That'd be a great premise for a book.
That was already a plot for a Star Trek episode. You are beaten to the punch, I'm afraid.
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Suck it, fate
All things must end or at least that is what current mainstream thinking tells us. And if it does well at least that means all the pain and suffering will end as well. Silver lining and all that!
Like "maybe history will end on the 21st... C'mon, c'mon."
Culture-wide freudian death wish, yo
http://thisrecording.com/today/2012/9/27/in-which-it-was-a-good-party.html
No amount of notice will be enough to prepare, and that is sort of a sweet thing anyway. The world will end and there will still be a dead bug in the Tupperware on top of the fridge. There will still be a dozen half-finished or barely-started Word documents on your computer—admit it.
As the moment approaches, the verb tense will be complicated, hard to wrangle. I will never have gotten around to buying a new comforter, you will never have gotten around to losing that last ten pounds, she will never have gotten around to breaking his heart, even though all of us knew for ages that they’d have been happier if she did.
We’ll all have the idea that we’ll buy something new to wear, something special for the occasion, but mostly we won’t. The only people who will buy new dresses are the kind of people who buy new dresses for things. (My mom might wear one, in the bunker.)
The rest of us will wear our favorite things, and H. and I will stand in front of her closet and touch all of the soft things in it and debate, because that’s what we do, even if we both sort of know she’ll wear that one red dress and those shoes. She’ll debate heels but ultimately decide that flats are who she is, and isn’t that the idea? Not to be someone else, when it’s your very last chance to be who you are?
Yeah, but dark energy is a thing. It is dumping an ever increasing amount of energy into the universe, and we have no idea how that energy will interact with quantum chromodynamic bonding. I haven't heard of a good reason it would not result in matter being created through hadronization.
It's possible to have -2 sex?! ;o
As ever, Red Dwarf has all the answers to Life, the Universe and Everything.
RIMMER: Lister, it *has* happened. You can't change it, any more than you can change what you had for breakfast yesterday.
LISTER: Hey, it hasn't happened, has it? It has "will have going to have happened" happened, but it hasn't actually "happened" happened yet, actually.
RIMMER: Poppycock! It will be happened; it shall be going to be happening; it will be was an event that could will have been taken place in the future. Simple as that. Your bucket's been kicked, baby.
Reading the whole thing feels like the more than slightly crazy proto-blog an acquaintance had in high school (late 90s) in which he made thinly veiled professions of love and hate to everyone around him.
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Lucky we haven't found any Metatron-ore, yet.
ed: so I mean basically the only difference will be that they can make 3D animated gifs, now that I think about it
Pluto was a planet and I'll never forget
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Makes me think of that guy who kept repeatedly predicting that the world would end. The impression that I got, especially towards the end of his life, was that he was unable to accept that the world would continue to exist without him. Not in that it needed him to exist, but that if it continued endlessly, then what was the point of him being alive?
This is probably not even rare
was there ever a teenager who didn't feel that history had somehow been totally ruptured, coincidentally timing with their own life?
it's horrible, president Romney launched all the nuclear weapons to create a better investing environment for private equity
however he fulfilled his campaign promise of both lower taxes and lower unemployment!
Like, everyone died today. The person you are now was actually just created 23 seconds ago with a false set of memories to deceive you into believing you were here all along. For realz.
Like. This is allegedly doomsday. Where is the grand moment of catharsis when we realize that the world isn't ending and that we're stuck with the consequences of our own stupid fucking actions? When are we going to avert the doomsdays that we are creating with our own hands as we speak?
Honestly, dying now in some flashy catastrophe would be confirmation that a single human being has been correct about a single thing, whereas, now...
Bah, fuck it. That blog was right. Every single asshole who thinks that the world will end tomorrow ups the odds that it will.
battletag: Millin#1360
Nice chart to figure out how honest a news source is.
Your living relatives were just put there by Satan to deceive you.
I almost feel bad for that dude in Netherlands who invested in a boat that can hold 35 people.
Fuck it, going to bed.
"It's the beginning of the end. Things are going to take a turn for the worse and just snowball now. Just you wait"
yeah it's true people who know Krav Maga usually live through disasters that's how it works
That'd be a great premise for a book.
That was already a plot for a Star Trek episode. You are beaten to the punch, I'm afraid.