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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Nov 30, 2012 - 11:15am PT
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There is no afterlife.
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HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
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Nov 30, 2012 - 11:16am PT
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I'll be getting plenty of sleep
24/7/365
So I'll wake up every Feb 29 to be sure I'm still dead.
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10b4me
Boulder climber
member since 2002
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Nov 30, 2012 - 12:07pm PT
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I'm going to come back as the new Werner, only I'm not going to rescue anyone because people are too friggin' stupid and can't find their souls so what would be the point?
Hahaha!
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Fossil climber
Trad climber
Atlin, B. C.
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Blessed oblivion. Won't have to fight insomnia or get up to pee.
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Kenygl
Trad climber
Salt Lake City
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I'm just gonna rot.
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TFPU
Sport climber
Idaho
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Gonna hook up with jesus's mom. She's had a kid but still a "virgin". Guess that means she's into anal?
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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It's been a hell of a ride humanity...
Lived through so many end of the world dates.. but they are kinda fun..
Ever realized that billions of people will die in your lifetime?
YER GUNNA DIE
I'm one who thinks we are immortal and some kind of life goes on...
Dying dosn't seem like a tragedy if that is true.. but damn it hurts to losing someone you love.
Might be a mercy if we can all move on together.
If so Hope we all have a great time somewhere together.
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Captain...or Skully
climber
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It's my birthday. An Apocalypse would be the coolest Bday gift ever. Well, most unique, anyway. ;-)
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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I was thinking of camping out on Thankgod ledge and watching it all come to a screaming end? And if it doesn't? Well thank god.
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Ricky D
Trad climber
Sierra Westside
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Anyone know if Hallmark has any Happy Apocalypse cards left at the Mall?
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Ricky D
Trad climber
Sierra Westside
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I've been told by a reliable source from the local UC that this event will only affect Mayans or those of Mayan descent.
Does this mean I will need a new gardener come the 22nd?
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Wade Icey
Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
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I'm busy that day.
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Jingy
climber
Somewhere out there
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after life is only death, i.e. nothing happens.
however, nothing is going to happen 12-21-12 - The Mayans got tired of counting and stopped making their calendars.
No special meaning
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nick d
Trad climber
nm
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I'm gonna shave Jeremy's Mom's back!!!
Woo Hoo!
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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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I'm such an idiot, I had the best idea last night....
I should have made 21 day advent apocalypse chocolate calendars!!!
Less chocolate so they could be sold for cheaper than the Xmas ones!
I'd be so f*#king rich right now!! At least until Dec 22 when everyone came looking for a refund- next apocalypse for sure....
Other business ideas for the apocalypse:
The Mayan can opener- runs on solar power. This will keep you alive & allow you some first world luxury in post apocalyptic times.
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RP3
Big Wall climber
El Portal/Chapel Hill
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Dec 16, 2012 - 09:34am PT
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I'm going to have to find something to do with all of my old Mayan calanders!
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Tony Bird
climber
Northridge, CA
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Dec 16, 2012 - 10:34am PT
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i'm hoping to cruise through this crap and let 12/21/12 go the route of the harmonic convergence, which didn't seem to do diddly, and the apocalypse which seventh day adventists keep moving back every time it doesn't happen. and i don't like this interfering with the holiday season--all that money i'm gonna spend on christmas presents i might not even be able to give.
but ...
i'm taking this halfway seriously because of something which happened to me 3-4 years ago, which you might find a bit creepy, but which you're free to dismiss as just another of my ghost stories.
to give a short version, i had had a couple of dreams about my late mother, dreams that seemed conciliatory and communicative, the two of us sitting down at a small restaurant table for dinner, conversation, and maybe some explanation about issues which had never been resolved when she was alive.
i was expecting something from mom at this time because of these dreams. what happened surprised me, and it happened twice.
mom had lived with us in our home in northridge the last six months of her life. she suffered a difficult death due to emphysema, and it was also difficult to be close to her and to try to show her our love. i think a lot of people go through this. no matter how wonderful a person you may be during most of your life, the obvious coming of death can make you just plain cranky. mom wanted to move back to arizona, to be independent, but it couldn't happen. and so, after she died, a bit of her unhappy presence seemed to remain with us.
i arrived home one evening from my selling job in the south bay, and as i pulled into the driveway, my cellphone rang. i checked to see who was calling. the number was our home telephone. no one else was at home. i wasn't sure what to do, so i went into the house to see who was calling, but by then the phone stopped ringing. it left a time stamp, a few days before 12/21/12. i think it was 12/18/12. i had heard about the maya long count. somehow, this seemed like a connection to all that.
i showed this time stamp to my wife mariko, who has been a frequent consultant on such matters, and i also showed it around to a few fellow salesmen at work, who seemed to get a bit creeped out. no one could offer an explanation as to how a cellphone would produce a time stamp with a date in the future.
a couple days later, it occurred again, except that the time stamp was normal. but i drove up in the driveway, nobody at home, and my cellphone was being called again by my home phone. maybe i was afraid to answer it. again, i went inside and it stopped ringing.
as an aside, i've taken an amateur interest in maya archaeology over the years, not with any of this mystical pistical in mind, just out of a general fascination. the maya, i find, were an expression of culture which began with the olmec and ended with the aztec. human sacrifice was an important part of these cultures. don't think that christianity has offered anything morally "superior", with its phony wars demanding cannon fodder of every generation and its basically gruesome and morbid, although nicely sanitized, reenactment of the death of jesus and the eating of his body.
the mesoamerican cultures sacrificed humans at a seemingly incredible rate in order to keep their gods placated so that they would not destroy the earth. if you look at the history of christian wars, always fought for compelling reasons, you will find a similar, if not more dismal, compulsion towards "sacrifice". recently i read that martin luther had mused, "if a soldier dies in battle, it is the will of god."
i do hope, and i would pray if i knew whom to pray to, that these damnably negative traditions might change at some time soon in the future. 12/21/12 would be as good a date as any. i think it's long overdue.
afterwards, erik? just give us our lovely planet earth, and a chance, for the first time ever, to be civilized.
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