2012 - real or not?

The end of the world was canceled, due to a lack of credibility.

Well, I guess the Mayans were wrong! Enjoyed my scotch! :-)




If he talks about anything, will cut his hair off.

I guess all the scam artists who wrote and sold books about 12/21/12 will now write books about how the Mayans were misunderstood and make even more money.
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Bob DeWoody

Put it all down to the ignorance of current mankind, Bob. The Mayan descendants
found it all quite strange that we thought that the ending of the Mayan calender
meant the pending end to the world. They were getting ready to celebrate the
ending of the old calender and the beginning of the new one. They must think
us Western lot a strange bunch!!



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The Kite Fliers

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Kite fliers: An imaginary club of solo members, those who don't yet
belong to a formal team so "fly their own kites" - as the saying goes.

Perhaps some of those who believed in this apocalypse will now have learned to apply reason to extraordinary claims; examining them with real care. If so, this incident will not have been for nought.

I think you mean Harold Camping, head of Family Radio, of Oakland, California, a religious broadcasting network. He predicted the end of the world on October 21st, 2011, on the basis of his intricate numerical analysis of Biblical texts.
Shortly after the date passed without incident, he suffered a stroke. He was hospitalized for a time, and has since returned home. He now says his predictions were 'sinful'. He spoke about his theories frequently over the Family Radio network, before the anticipated date. He is no longer heard on the radio.
I spoke to one of Mr. Camping's followers, who lives nearby, on October 21st, 2011. He had been, and was still selling his possessions, though what he thought he'd do with the money, I don't know. He created a local stir by proposing to euthanize his pets, to spare them going through the end of the world. Television people came from San Francisco to interview him.
I pointed out to him that at that hour, world time zones being what they are, some of the world had already passed into and out of the fateful date without anything unusual happening. (Mr. Camping had predicted that the end would sweep around the world, hour by hour, as October 21st dawned.) As it turned out, this fellow was already busily reinterpreting and rationalizing Mr. Camping's prediction 'on the fly' to make it fit the facts, speculating that a delay of a few hours, or a few days might be anticipated.

Perhaps some of those who believed in this apocalypse will now have learned to apply reason to extraordinary claims; examining them with real care. If so, this incident will not have been for nought.

Whatever happened to that American Apocalyptic Pastor after his non-apocalypse earlier this year?

Is he still on the scene?...