Will the world end in 2012?

darkshade wrote: actually i think that date is when Prog Rock is accepted into the mainstream, new trendy prog bands break out, and the new Dream Theater hits #1 on the charts, and stays at #1 for 5 weeks then the world explodes...

exactly

lazland wrote: Visitor13 wrote: No need to worry. I have it on good authority that the disaster foretold in the Mayan calendar is Poland organising the 2012 Euro footbal championship. Absolutely not - it is that prize goofball Brown wasting our millions on the Olympics in London that the great civilisation foretold

Ah, that is indeed an alternative interpretation worth considering 

No need to worry.

I have it on good authority that the disaster foretold in the Mayan calendar is Poland organising the 2012 Euro footbal championship.

I hardly think it's the end of the world if Robert Fripp has something better to do than play gigs.

mrcozdude wrote: crimhead wrote: mrcozdude wrote: I hear the world is going to end everyday it may do,it may not.As long as I get to see KC live before it does.Either way nice knowing you *raises beer   I hope we all get to see KC live again. I don't think money is an issue with it, it all depends on the mood Fripp is and if he wants to deal with it all again. We're more likely to see him go solo again rather than in an Crimson incarnation. Perhaps I should write Fripp a letter giving him details on the importance of a KC concert.I can't imagine he receives many fan letters involving KC and the apocalypse.Anyhow about the cults,that's quite a worry this surely is going to be a huge day/year on a cults calendar.I hope nothing comes of it.

He had a response on DGM website last week to a posting about KC playing in a park.

: Posted by Mikhail664 on April 24, 2009
Geez when Robert looks outside his window doesnt he ever think, jeez what a beautiful day today i feel like playing.

Yes.

Lets call the crim crew and set up a few small gigs and play at a park or something.

No

Toaster Mantis wrote: Of course not, everyone knows the world will end in 2036.

my time machine should be completed by then.

Padraic wrote: No. Next question.

Agreed. It's only the abbreviated long count that ends in 2012 anyhow, not the full one.

See the part about the higher order cycles. 2012 would have been a huge clebration for the Myans like a millennium party, not a doomsday event.

The idea that the long count runs out in 2012 and it'll be doomsday was an idea cooked up by some baked hippies back in the 60s.


Edited by Deathrabbit - May 05 2009 at 08:54

If that volcano goes, you may have to.

progrocker2244 wrote: I remember Y2K. It was kind of funny how many people hid in their basements with enough food to last for months, only to find that it a bunch of crap

Never underestimate the power of stupidity

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So far as I see it then, the Yellowstone supervolcano will erupt, the resultant earthquake will make all superpowers fall onto their big red "NUCLEAR ARSENAL DO NOT PUSH THIS BUTTON" buttons, the risen Christ will emerge from the ocean on Atlansis's roof (thus proving Pallas almost right, dammit ) and the owner of a small deli in downtown Chicago will reveal himself to be the b*****d son of Elvis Presley and Nostradamus (a crossbreed made possible by an accident with DNA and a time machine) & say "I told you so"

Could be an interesting front page of The Times, then

King Crimson should hold a concert that day btw. Then release it as a live album afterwards (when we're still here) and call it "21st Century Schizoid Man On The 21st"