Mayan Apocalypse 12/21/12

[GeneChing]

We have the October 21, 2011: Rapture Redux thread (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=60637), the 'old dusty' 6-6-6 thread (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=41575), the Post your favorite post apocalypse movies thread (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=60593) and the zombie thread (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=50475), but none yet dedicated to this imminent date. What are you doing for the Mayan Apocalypse?

I've been invited to two parties already. Everyone wants a martial artist who can handle a Monk Spade (http://www.martialartsmart.com/45-84cs.html)* in their post-apocalyptic posse. Kung Fu been bery bery good to me.


Safe Haven from the Mayan Apocalypse? Sorry, We’re Closed (http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/12/05/safe-haven-from-the-mayan-apocalypse-sorry-were-closed/)
By Sorcha PollakDec. 05, 20121 Comment

Do you fear the apocalyptic end to humanity scheduled for Dec. 21? Well, there may be hope: a safe haven from the fast-approaching Armageddon in the form of a small, tranquil village in the south-west of France named Bugarach.

Unfortunately, it’s now closed.

For reasons that still aren’t entirely clear, several websites that have been trumpeting the coming end of the world have also named Bugarach the only place on earth that will be saved on Dec. 21st. When the town’s mayor, Jean-Pierre Delord, was alerted to this fact two years ago, his first reaction was not to rejoice in the knowledge that he and his townspeople would be spared the apocalypse but to order special security measures and plans to shut down the village in preparation for a deluge of news agencies, esotericists and Doomsday cultists.

It has been widely reported in recent years that ancient Mayan calendars predicted that the world would end on Dec. 21st, 2012. According to National Geographic, it is true that the Mayan “long count” calendar, which spans around 5,125 years, will reach the end of its cycle in December of this year. Dec. 21st will see the end of the 13th Bak’tun, which represents the end of an old cycle and the beginning of a new one. And while everyone from NASA to astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson are insisting that this doesn’t mean the end of the world any more than December 31, 1999 meant the end of modern computing, people across the globe are preparing for Armageddon. However, the question as to why the inhabitants of this tiny French village will survive unscathed remains unanswered.

So why would the inhabitants of this tiny French village be spared? Nicolas D’Estienne d’Orves, who recently released a book on Bugarach titled The Village of the End of the World, explained in a documentary on the life of the villagers that it has been “impossible” to get to the bottom of the Mayan Bugarach rumor. Why this town? Why in Europe? “It was grabbed on to because this is a place where there’s nothing, so you can easily project your fantasies on to it. It’s like filling a balloon with air,” says the French novelist.

Bugarach is located in the Languedoc-Roussillon region of southern France. This sleepy hamlet of 176 residents has always attracted people with more “esoteric beliefs,” Delord recently told the Guardian. For years this area of southern France has been known for folklore and magic as well as plenty of conspiracy theories. “It’s all about the mountain,” says Delord.

He’s talking about the 4,300-foot tall Pic de Bugarach, which towers over the village. It is known locally as the ‘upside-down mountain’ due to the lower layers of rocks that are inexplicably younger than those at the top of the peak. The flat-topped mountain is also reported to emit strange gurgling sounds, which has probably helped make it a prime UFO-spotting site as well. Many actually believe the mountain contains an “alien garage,” writes the Telegraph, where extraterrestrials are waiting in a massive cavity beneath the rock for the world to end.

Delord fears that many of these Doomsday believers are planning to descend upon his small hometown in the coming weeks in an attempt to avoid what they believe is mankind’s imminent demise. Already, the numbers of hikers climbing the mountain have jumped from 10,000 in 2010 to 20,000 in 2011, writes the Guardian. So as to be completely sure of the locals’ safety, the mayor has made the decision to shut down the area to tourists for the four days prior to Dec. 21st. Meanwhile, the French government has put the anti-cult watchdog agency Miviludes on the case so as to head off any apocalyptic group activities or possible mass suicides, such as those which were carried out by the Order of the Solar Temple in the Alps between 1994-97.

Some of the locals in Bugarach are still happily taking advantage of their new worldwide fame. One local winery has an end-of-the-world vintage on sale, while a local man is renting out his home for up to $1,600 a night. “I possess a rare asset, the land of immortality,” the landowner proudly told the French newspaper Depeche du Midi.

* Actually, I never learned Monk Spade (http://www.martialartsmart.com/45-84wu.html), but I worked on the DVD (http://www.martialartsmart.com/dvd-yr001.html) and the cover story (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/magazine/article.php?article=1042), so I can fake it. Zombies are pretty easy to fake out that way. ;)

[MightyB]

I put this segment (https://vimeo.com/54049027) together for a show I work on.

[Syn7]

How did the end of the calendar morph into a date for a zombie apocalypse?


And about the Mayan calendar. ****, you would think nobody ever head of a cycle. Do the math people, the reason why it stops when it does is freaking OBVIOUS!

[Sardinkahnikov]

I wonder if I can use the "end of the world" thing to skip work that day...?

[bawang]

mayan couldnt predict their own destruction. how can they predict ours?

[Samwise85]

I will be doing the same thing I do every night. Trying to take over the world! :D

[GeneChing]

Here's are four horsemen of the apocalypse:
Unicorns are real! (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1199180#post1199180)
Twinkies are going extinct! (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=64805)
CMA is winning in the cage! (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1200200)
Jackie Chan is quitting action films! (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1197494#post1197494)


How did the end of the calendar morph into a date for a zombie apocalypse? Good question! Are there even such creatures as Mayan zombies?

[MightyB]

Good question! Are there even such creatures as Mayan zombies?

Of course - that's why there's no more Mayans!

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except in Miyami :D

[Lebaufist]

mayan couldnt predict their own destruction. how can they predict ours?Actually , they did.

[bawang]

Actually , they did.

doesnt matter, i believe in jesus christ. his powers will protect me, covering my entire body like a force field.

[Kellen Bassette]

I love how everyone I know is so stoked for a zombie apocalypse, when none of them have any of the skills required to survive. I mean, I know it's just a fun fantasy, but stop saying you'll be one of the survivors, when you can't shoot, can't fight, never spent a night in the woods, have no survival skills and haven't even begun stockpiling food and ammo.

True story, I took a friend of mine up to camp to shoot guns once, he had never done it before...he was actually dumbfounded that he was a bad shot...grown man, in all seriousness, said to me, "I assumed I would be a good shot because I am on video games." Really???!! He's a smart guy too, but people actually assume the mechanics of operating a rifle will be the same as pushing buttons on a controller!

I shouldn't be surprised though. I can't begin to tell you how many people think they can hang in the ring with a trained fighter, when they've never done full contact sparring.

[MightyB]

speak for yerself. I grew up in northern Michigan where schools consider Nov 15th (1st day of rifle season/deer) a holiday and give the day off.

Rabbit and squirrel taste the same.

Turkey's are really stupid until you actually try to hunt one.

It takes a lot of bullets to bring down a raccoon which an uncle pays a bounty for because they kill chickens.

And contrary to magazine ads... small knives are better for hunting knives because they're easier to work with to gut a deer.

[Syn7]

that and snare traps don't work as well in real life as they do in cartoons.

[MightyB]

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[sanjuro_ronin]

doesnt matter, i believe in jesus christ. his powers will protect me, covering my entire body like a force field.

Preach on my fellow Christian jedi !!
:D

[sanjuro_ronin]

Honestly, if it does end on Dec 21, I don't know what I'll do more, laugh or cry, LOL !

[wenshu]

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[sanjuro_ronin]

You know, I still haven't watched ANY episode of that show.

[David Jamieson]

1. The Mayans did predict the end of the civilization. (so did the aztecs and inca)

2. Terrance McKenna is a drug addled wanker.

[bawang]

1. The Mayans did predict the end of the civilization. (so did the aztecs and inca)



proof pls

gregorian calendar also end at december. then the world must end every year.

[TaichiMantis]

http://www.fodrizzle.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Alpacalypse.jpg

[Lebaufist]

You'd have to be crazy to want to survive in a post alpacalyptic dystopian hellhole. Where roving bandits struggle for food and fuel....and copious amounts of hair gel for their Mohawks.

[David Jamieson]

proof pls

gregorian calendar also end at december. then the world must end every year.

Really? It's a lot of work to present it here. Not really worth going through the trouble for a thread. It has nothing at all to do with comparing calendars and watches.

But they did predict the coming of the Spaniards and the fall of their civilization to them. In many places they complacently let it happen.

They also had calendars that were the length of human gestation, the path of venus, the galactic calendar (the one that is ending), solar calendars and lunar calendars.

They are still here, but their civilization and way of life has been pretty much destroyed.

If you really want to know, you'd crack a book or two. Also, not a Terrance McKenna book. lol There is no definitive piece of writing that says "we end on this date", but they did know the ramifications of what was happening to them during the conquests and therefor saw their imminent demise.

You guys that are waiting for magic soothsayers will be waiting a long time. No such thing.

[bawang]

predict the spaniards?? dude, the mayan empire fell way before the spanish came from deforestation and crop failure. the mayan calender applies to the world of the mayans, and they died out 1000 years before the end of their own calendar.


Honestly, if it does end on Dec 21, I don't know what I'll do more, laugh or cry, LOL !

if it ends, then christianity will be proven false. then ill go insane and become a cannibal. because without god, all is permitted.

[David Jamieson]

predict the spaniards?? dude, the mayan empire fell way before the spanish came from deforestation and crop failure. the mayan calender applies to the world of the mayans, and they died out 1000 years before the end of their own calendar.



if it ends, then christianity will be proven false. then ill go insane and become a cannibal. because without god, all is permitted.

No that's not true.

Tenochtitlan was thriving when they arrived, so was Tulum, Chichenitza, Tikal, Palenque and several other cities in the Yucatan.

There was devastating crop failure between the 6th and 8th centuries ce which caused the move north between the 6th and 13th centuries. This drought effected the whole world and contributed to the fall of Rome as well.

North and Central America was an entirely linked continent in many respects with trade and so on. This is something that the various institutions don't broadcast though it is fairly well known.

[Syn7]

Really? It's a lot of work to present it here. Not really worth going through the trouble for a thread. It has nothing at all to do with comparing calendars and watches.

But they did predict the coming of the Spaniards and the fall of their civilization to them. In many places they complacently let it happen.

They also had calendars that were the length of human gestation, the path of venus, the galactic calendar (the one that is ending), solar calendars and lunar calendars.

They are still here, but their civilization and way of life has been pretty much destroyed.

If you really want to know, you'd crack a book or two. Also, not a Terrance McKenna book. lol There is no definitive piece of writing that says "we end on this date", but they did know the ramifications of what was happening to them during the conquests and therefor saw their imminent demise.

You guys that are waiting for magic soothsayers will be waiting a long time. No such thing.


Word. Nothing mystical about any of this. It's just math and common sense. Something that seems to be lacking in these arguments of doom. Credit needs to go where credit is due and their mathematical and mapping skills were nothing short of amazing considering the other aspects of their culture that today we would consider a hindrance to foreword progression.

[GeneChing]

You'd have to be crazy to want to survive in a post alpacalyptic dystopian hellhole. Where roving bandits struggle for food and fuel....and copious amounts of hair gel for their Mohawks. Well, maybe not the mohawk gel part, but I've lived in China.

[TaichiMantis]

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[GeneChing]

...I'm still keeping my monk spade (http://www.martialartsmart.com/dvdk-yr001.html) handy next week.


Mayan Calendar Discovery (http://www.edgarcayce.org/are/blog.aspx?id=6705&blogid=445#.UMYxOsgsPOw.facebook)
By John Van Auken

Archaeologists have found the underground chamber of an official Mayan calendar chronicler! And what his inscriptions reveal is that there is another Age following the present "Age of Movement" that ends on this coming Winter Solstice, December 21, 2012. The world does not end—Hooray! In fact, it goes on and on and on. William Saturno of Boston University, the archaeologist who manages the new discovery, published an article in the journal Science, and writes: "The Maya calendar is going to keep going and keep going for billions, trillions, octillions of years into the future, a huge number that we can't even wrap our heads around."

What Saturno found turned out to be a well-preserved mural that includes the oldest known Mayan calendar ever found. And just like the Maya Long Count calendar, which serves as the basis for the apocalypse myth, this calendar extends indefinitely into the future.

The Mayan calendar is 20 katun cycles containing 144,000 days, equal to 394.26 tropical years, and a whole cycle is 5,128 years. The current cycle we've been living in began on August 11 or 13, 3114 BC, and ends this year on December 21 or 23. The current 13th baktun will end, or be completed, on the Mayan date of 13.0.0.0.0 (which is equivalent to December 21, 2012 using the GMT correlation).

This new discovery provides us with clear evidence that the end of this 5,128 cycle marks the beginning of a new cycle! According to Mayan legend, the current world—the one in which we are all currently living—is an era of major change, the so-called Age of Movement.

Curiously, the newly discovered Mayan calendar in the chronicler's chamber has cycles of time recording 17 baktuns, rather than the standard 13.

The new finding shows that the calculations include a time span longer than 6,000 years that could extend well beyond 2012. Anthony Aveni of Colgate University in Hamilton, N.Y., an expert on Mayan astronomy asks, "Why would they go into those numbers if the world is going to come to an end this year? You could say a number that big at least suggests that time marches on."

Leaders among the Maya were keenly interested in astronomy and sought to coordinate sacred rituals with events in the heavens above. A chronicler of the heaven movements and time cycles would have been an honored member of the Maya court.

The wall in the chronicler's chamber was used in the same way a modern mathematician might use a whiteboard. The chronicler wrote his frequently consulted formulas on the wall of his chamber instead of having to look them up in a book. And— because these calendar details were inscribed on a wall—he preserved them better than any book would have. In fact, no books remain from the period when the chronicler wrote on his wall—researchers believe this wall dates to 800 AD.

In addition to the time data, there are pictures on the other walls in the chronicler's chamber, including an image of a king in a feather headdress, seated on a throne, with a white-garbed person peeking out from behind him (possibly a self-portrait of our chronicler). A painting of a scribe holding a stylus was on another wall.

According to the archaeologists, these paintings were the first Maya art to be found on the walls of a person's house.!

The chamber is a little larger than 6-feet square and is part of a larger complex in Mayan ruins of the rain forest at Xultun in northeastern Guatemala. Xultun is a large Early Classic Maya site. It is 24 miles northeast of the more famous Mayan site of Tikal. The site contains a pyramid that is 114 feet high, 2 ball courts, 24 stelae, and 5 reservoirs (aguadas).

Anthony Aveni said the astronomical data on the wall would allow a chronicler to predict the appearance of a full moon years in advance and could be used to advise the king on when to go to war or how good this year's crops would be. "What you have here is astronomy driven by religion," Aveni said.

On an adjacent wall are numbers indicating four time spans from roughly 935 to 6,700 years. It's not clear what they represent, but maybe the chronicler was doing calculations that combined observations from important astronomical events like the movements of Mars, Venus, and the moon, the researchers said. Why bother to do that? Aveni suggest that perhaps the chronicler and his colleagues were "geeks ... who just got carried away with doing these kinds of computations and calculations, and probably did them far beyond the needs of ordinary society."

Simon Martin, co-curator of an exhibit about the Mayan calendar at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology is very excited by this find: "It's really a wonderful surprise. We've never really been able to identify a working space, or how they actually went about things." The new work gives insight into how the Maya worked on their calculations, he said, and the fact that the room had a stone roof rather than thatching supports previous indications that the chronicler enjoyed a high social standing.

An undergraduate student working with Saturno's team in 2010 first glimpsed the chronicler's chamber. After first dismissing the value of a little piece of paint on a stone wall spotted by his student, Saturno later went back to the spot and dug deeper, finding the amazing timekeeper's chamber. To Saturno's amazement, the wall writings were of immeasurable value to the growing knowledge of the Maya and their fascination with the stars, planets, and the passage of time.

John Carlson, director of the Center for Archaeoastronomy in College Park, Md., said, "It's a very important discovery. We're only getting a glimpse of the story" in the published paper. Complete details and photos of the discovery will be published in the June issue of National Geographic, which funded some of this research.

John Van Auken 2012-11John Van Auken, a director at the Association for Research and Enlightenment, is an acknowledged expert on the Cayce readings, the Bible, ancient prophecies, world religions, meditation, and ancient Egypt. John conducts seminars in the U.S. and abroad, and is a tour guide to the many sacred sites around the world with A.R.E. Travel. He is the author of numerous books, including Edgar Cayce and the Kabbalah, Ancient Egyptian Mysticism and From Karma to Grace. He will be presenting at several upcoming Virginia Beach Conferences including the Annual Ancient Mysteries Conference: Ancient Mysteries Conference—Digging for the Truth with Dr. Zahi Hawass from October 4-7, 2012.

[Syn7]

Whatever helps you sleep at night, bro. I sleep beside weapons every night! I don't need to be under threat to have arms. It's just how I do. Old habit, I guess.

[bawang]

i dont need to have weapons beside me. im not scared of death. if i die, i die.

[Syn7]

i dont need to have weapons beside me. im not scared of death. if i die, i die.
There are weapons all over my place. Can't walk ten feet without having something dangerous within reach.



But that's how a feel about terror. I'm willing to chance it rather than having the TSA types strip search me.

[Jimbo]

There's so many people who latch onto fear...fear of terrorism, of the apocalypse, the "rapture", etc., etc. When it's your time, it's your time; and spending one's entire life a slave of fear is a life wasted. And those who happily give up their basic freedoms for the illusion of feeling safer are fools. As foolish as those people who believed that Harold Camping fraud.

The idea that "When my times comes, it will be the Apocalypse with angelic trumpets blaring" is also a very egotistical mindset. But in reality, the VAST majority will pass on in the conventional, undramatic ways...in a hospital, at home, and some in accidents or otherwise.

[sanjuro_ronin]

if it ends, then christianity will be proven false. then ill go insane and become a cannibal. because without god, all is permitted.

I like the way you think, there's a few women out there that I'd like to eat.
:D

[bawang]

There's so many people who latch onto fear...fear of terrorism, of the apocalypse, the "rapture", etc., etc. When it's your time, it's your time; and spending one's entire life a slave of fear is a life wasted. And those who happily give up their basic freedoms for the illusion of feeling safer are fools. As foolish as those people who believed that Harold Camping fraud.

The idea that "When my times comes, it will be the Apocalypse with angelic trumpets blaring" is also a very egotistical mindset. But in reality, the VAST majority will pass on in the conventional, undramatic ways...in a hospital, at home, and some in accidents or otherwise.

im not scared. i know that if the end comes, jesus christ use his tractor beam to teleport me to heaven, where i can enjoy 72 virgins.

i hope they are all white virgins, no black ones.

[Jimbo]

Why stop at only 72? It's heaven, man!

[Lebaufist]

What if those virgins are all...................................guys. *gasp* :eek:

[Syn7]

What if those virgins are all...................................guys. *gasp* :eek:

Then he can just practice his WC rabbit digs hole technique!!

[Kellen Bassette]

I just ran some numbers; and if you extrapolate the current expansion in the popularity of Wombat Combat, then 5 years from now Wing Chun will no longer be able to use WC as an acronym, because of mass confusion.

All practitioners of Wing Chun will inevitably be forced to adopt the Ving Tsun spelling if they hope to continue their use of acronyms on martial arts forums. :p

[Syn7]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2wimiRUHMI4#!

[GeneChing]

I'll meet y'all here. We'll coordinate our Post-apocalyptic Kung Fu resistance from here. ;)

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[sanjuro_ronin]

I'll laugh my ass off if those nuts are the ones that are actually right !

[Lebaufist]

Well, after the world ends, and we find ourselves waking up to a new one, then we have a whole new set of countdowns. End of the Piscean Age.

[GeneChing]

If you're not polishing your monk spade (http://www.martialartsmart.com/dvdk-yr001.html) in zombie (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=50475) anticipation, and are looking for something else to do, check this out:

1 Billion Oms (http://www.onebillionoms.com/)

I'm in. My monk spade is already polished and at the ready...;)

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[SimonM]

I'll be working. I have no fear for the end of the world.

[Syn7]

I'm working really hard on my 21st prep....!!! I made cupcakes and bought a huge sack of sticky icky! I'm ready for an average weekend! :rolleyes:



Yeah I know, I'm no fun. But this all seems profoundly ridiculous to me. I don't mind joking around, but I have my limits. And riding the short bus just isn't for me. :p

[Lucas]

That's an interesting experiment. I should be free at that time, I'll Om with ya homie. 10:30 pm on the 21st is what its looking like for us on the west coast. its only 3 minutes, if we all merge into one super human consciousness, I get to be on top.

[SimonM]

I'm working really hard on my 21st prep....!!! I made cupcakes and bought a huge sack of sticky icky! I'm ready for an average weekend! :rolleyes:



Yeah I know, I'm no fun. But this all seems profoundly ridiculous to me. I don't mind joking around, but I have my limits. And riding the short bus just isn't for me. :p

This is one of these times i wish the forum had a "like" feature.

[Lucas]

Personally, I think end of the world conspiracy theorists are rediculously idiotic. I'm down for a 1 billion person sincronized meditation experiment, thats freaking cool. I would be curious to know if there are actually going to be that many people taking part though. I want our minds to merge so that I can dominate and control 1 billion people, then take over the world.

[sanjuro_ronin]

I'm working really hard on my 21st prep....!!! I made cupcakes and bought a huge sack of sticky icky! I'm ready for an average weekend! :rolleyes:



Yeah I know, I'm no fun. But this all seems profoundly ridiculous to me. I don't mind joking around, but I have my limits. And riding the short bus just isn't for me. :p

Have you seen the movie Short Bus?
It has its moments, LOL !

[Lucas]

I would ride these short buses.

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[Syn7]

Personally, I think end of the world conspiracy theorists are rediculously idiotic. I'm down for a 1 billion person sincronized meditation experiment, thats freaking cool. I would be curious to know if there are actually going to be that many people taking part though. I want our minds to merge so that I can dominate and control 1 billion people, then take over the world.

It would be interesting if you could get a million people in one area to think one thought with discipline and take any and every measurement you can think of. Curious. Clearly there is a lot about the mind that we don't understand. I'm not willing to speculate much passed that tho. I'm down for experimentation tho.

[Drake]

I suppose when the world doesn't end, this will be the final nail in the coffin of Mayan credibility.

[Raipizo]

That's an interesting experiment. I should be free at that time, I'll Om with ya homie. 10:30 pm on the 21st is what its looking like for us on the west coast. its only 3 minutes, if we all merge into one super human consciousness, I get to be on top.

Yep, i'll try to be in on this also.

[GeneChing]

I worked for earthdance (http://www.earthdance.org/) for several years running. The do an international synchronized prayer every year. It crosses like 100 countries. I'm not sure that we achieved any sort of global awareness, but it was fun.

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[Lucas]

I'm down for experimentation tho.

That's what she said!

[Syn7]

I suppose when the world doesn't end, this will be the final nail in the coffin of Mayan credibility.

Not Mayan creibility. Retard idiots who don't understand math and the culture, yes. There is no Mayan apocalypse prediction. This was all made up rather recently. Nice undercover racism tho. ;) I know what you think of Mayans. Don't hate just cause they were better at math than you are.

[Syn7]

That's what she said!

Actually she did. Yesterday... True story!

[Syn7]

The do an international synchronized prayer every year. It crosses like 100 countries. I'm not sure that we achieved any sort of global awareness, but it was fun.

Doesn't match my criteria. I mean disciplined people having the EXACT same thought at the EXACT same time in the same relative space. Global prayers are very undisciplined.

[Drake]

Not Mayan creibility. Retard idiots who don't understand math and the culture, yes. There is no Mayan apocalypse prediction. This was all made up rather recently. Nice undercover racism tho. ;) I know what you think of Mayans. Don't hate just cause they were better at math than you are.

I'm actually biased against several tribes of people. I think they are not worthy of existing, and are only kept around by anthropologists who like to spend their grant money studying the idiots.

Most of said tribes are South American. I'm more fond of those of the Serengeti region and Australia/New Zealand.

[Syn7]

Yeah cause Polynesians have never hurt any one who didn't deserve it. They aren't warrior cultures that prided themselves on murder and physical domination. Please. Hypocrite much!:rolleyes:

[Kellen Bassette]

I'm actually biased against several tribes of people. I think they are not worthy of existing, and are only kept around by anthropologists who like to spend their grant money studying the idiots.

Most of said tribes are South American. I'm more fond of those of the Serengeti region and Australia/New Zealand.

Something inside of me says, "we desperately need to revive bio-eugenics programs," every time I go to Wal Mart. It's all I can do to suppress it.

[bawang]

I'm actually biased against several tribes of people. I think they are not worthy of existing, and are only kept around by anthropologists who like to spend their grant money studying the idiots.

Most of said tribes are South American. I'm more fond of those of the Serengeti region and Australia/New Zealand.



the south american brown horde is the fittest, strongest tribe on this continent.

[Syn7]

So what exactly about Americans make them worthy of existence? Coz, it's not like they have never committed genocide, murder, sodomy of so called prisoners(even when its the wrong ****ing guy you retards! Another win for 'Intelligence'. "It's an Arab, let's rape him with objects. Oh ****, he's not guilty. All good we're untouchable!").

It's not like Americans don't terrorize their own by bombing clinics. Not like your congress doesn't defund critical care for oil subsidies. Not like you wouldn't roll over ANYTHING in your way. Never any of that!


So what is it about Mayans? The sacrifices? What's your heritage? I look forward to showing you all the reasons your line should have been wiped out early on.

[Syn7]

the south american brown horde is the fittest, strongest tribe on this continent.

Dude. You go to university. Tell me you know that there are two American continents.

[Kellen Bassette]

So what exactly about Americans make them worthy of existence? Coz, it's not like they have never committed genocide, murder, sodomy of so called prisoners(even when its the wrong ****ing guy you retards! Another win for 'Intelligence'. "It's an Arab, let's rape him with objects. Oh ****, he's not guilty. All good we're untouchable!").

It's not like Americans don't terrorize their own by bombing clinics. Not like your congress doesn't defund critical care for oil subsidies. Not like you wouldn't roll over ANYTHING in your way. Never any of that!


So what is it about Mayans? The sacrifices? What's your heritage? I look forward to showing you all the reasons your line should have been wiped out early on.

I agree with all this, aside from referring to those who engage in what is most likely satire as "retards." Let's not forget your from the same line as us, we we're just the more warlike clan. ;)

[bawang]

Dude. You go to university. Tell me you know that there are two American continents.

the south american brown horde is the fittest, strongest tribe on the north american continent.

[JamesC]

the south american brown horde is the fittest, strongest tribe on the north american continent.

If you're referring to Mexicans, Guatemalans, or Salvadorans they're still North American...

[Syn7]

I agree with all this, aside from referring to those who engage in what is most likely satire as "retards." Let's not forget your from the same line as us, we we're just the more warlike clan. ;)

While I mos def agree that Canadians are just as guilty in many ways, and I have ZERO national pride, but we are not the same. Not yet anyways. It's coming tho. We do not spend the kind of money you do on killing. Granted we're well on our way, but we are still WAY behing the US in that regard. Not that I'm excusing Canadian behaviour, just that it is different. For many years we were peacekeepers, not peacemakers. There is a MAJOR difference.

I'm so tired of watching unmanned drones kill children. I'm tired of seeing foriegn journalists rot in prisons at the request of the US gov. for telling the truth. It's sad and pathetic. You guys have strayed so far from what your forefathers intended it's sickening. They left Europe to escape what the US has become. Your democracy is weak. Money is taken more seriously than lives. And honestly, I hope that we get a change in our(Can) gov before we are too far gone.

That wasn't satire. They really did abduct and sodomize a German citizen then just let him go when they realized they ****ed up.

Of course you won't hear about it on many American cable news shows, but the European Court of Human Rights found the CIA guilty of this. Last Thursday I think. Hmm, wonder why that didn't make the rounds. Bought and paid for news is barely news. You ever wonder why you see all these BP commercials that aren't selling anything? Because they anticipate another **** up and want to have leverage when it comes time to talk about it. Oh we better not offend the people who pay for our salaries. It's just sad, man.

My point is, who the **** are WE to judge any other culture when we engage in mass murder, rape and torture, financial fraud and outright widespread political corruption? So we are nicer to our women than some cultures. So what. That doesn't excuse killing children with drones then reporting it was just a dog when it was clearly a child. It's sad. That Yemeni reporter is STILL in prison by Obamas request for reporting a missile attack on 22 children and 14 women and NO militants despite the fact that their ex pres wanted to give him a pardon and the people are still demanding it. But not ****ing off the US is more important than one man I guess. Wouldn't wanna harbour terrorists and lose some contracts and get slapped with sanctions. :rolleyes: Please. Our culture is a sick culture. We aren't better. We are different, but we still rape murder and lie to cover our asses.


Don't take this personally. If these things disgust you too, do something about it. At least try. When is the last time you put any energy into positive social change? Honest question, I don't know you, but you seem like a nice guy. So what are you doing about anything? We are way passed petitions and parades. It seems like occupy is the only real force out there. The proof is in how they are treated by law enforcement. They are afraid, it shows! Like sure you have the right to protest. We set up a protesting staging area for you a mile offsite in a fenced area, by all means, exercise your rights. :rolleyes: And the US sends boys and girls to die for this ****? Yall can call me as "unamerican" or "uncanadian" as you want. In fact, please do. I take that as a compliment. If speaking out about the wrong we do is a bad thing, then I don't want to be good.


ok, rant over. Back to the microcontrollers. I just finished my RF jammer. It has a radial range of 4 meters. It's so liberating to turn everyones phones off when you're surrounded by douchbags talking all loud and disputing a visa bill while in a restaurant. Heaven forbid the wifi doesn't work and people have to actually stand to pay with interact.:rolleyes:

[Kellen Bassette]

@ SYN

By "same line," I was referring to what I presume is your predominately European ancestry, not Canada's small roles in abetting the U.S.A.'s imperialist actions.

By "engaging in satire," I can't speak for Drake, of course, but I suspect his comments about which tribes he wanted to wipe out may have been tongue in cheek. At least I hope so, because I don't want him to rip my arm off and beat me to death with it! :eek:

I don't really wish to go back to the Appalachian eugenics programs that Hitler was so fond of; but I do fear for the future. Never have we had so much information readily available at our fingertips, there is no excuse for ignorance nowadays...yet it seems the masses can't be bothered to pull themselves away from porn and FB for 20 minutes a day to better themselves. It's worrisome.

Anything Bawang says? Who can tell???

My feelings...no offense taken. Your preaching to the choir. I really do love my country and I am really ashamed of a lot of the bad things we've done. I know other countries do horrible things too. I really hate it when that's used as an excuse for what we do. It doesn't justify it. If we are the richest, most powerful country in the world, perhaps we shouldn't allow our CIA to engage in the crap you'd expect from a banana republic dictator.

What am I doing?...I'm always posting about current events, debating with people who disagree, trying to educate those who are clueless, if they have any interest at all in these matters. It's not much and maybe just a bit better than complaining; but I feel we have no recourse politically and if I start blowing up those responsible, I'm not really becoming the change...so I guess I do what I can from my limited platform.

[Drake]

They should live and prosper.

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m91wbqIGNx1r9g020.png

They need to die.

http://www.der.org/films/images/yanamamo-face-paint.jpg

[bawang]

why u say that mang

[GeneChing]

I'm going to an end-of-the-world party tonight. There will be other martial arts friends there, and I'm bringing weapons, just in case.

Speaking of short buses, you must check this Washington Post blog below.

Why the Mayan apocalypse date is such a big deal in China (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2012/12/20/why-the-mayan-apocalypse-date-is-such-a-big-deal-in-china-where-its-already-arrived/)
Posted by Max Fisher on December 20, 2012 at 12:01 pm

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/files/2012/12/AP69328324191.jpg
Chinese man Lu Zhenghai spent his life savings building this 70-foot-by-50-foot vessel powered by three diesel engines, an “ark” in preparation for the Mayan-predicted apocalypse. (AP Photo/ANPF-Chen Jiansheng)

According to some contemporary interpretations of the ancient Mayan calendar, the world is supposed to end on Dec. 21, 2012. Here in the U.S., it’s still the 20th, but with time zones and all, big parts of humanity have already crossed into the potential last day. And, good news: they’re doing fine.

Here is New York Times reporter Edward Wong reporting from the scene:

Edward Wong @comradewong

It is almost 12:30 am on Dec. 21 in Beijing and we're all still alive.
20 Dec 12


New Zealand actually crossed into the day-of-days several hours ago; as of this writing, it’s 5:30 a.m. there on Dec. 21. A Forbes writer based in the Pacific island nation checked in an hour ago to report no natural disasters, alien invasions, or other signs of end-times.

Even if the world doesn’t end up exploding, today still has some darker meaning for China, and not just because some people seem to be taking the prediction surprisingly seriously. Wong also wrote on Twitter, “Many Chinese have been buying candles because of rumors of a 3-day power outage to start on Dec. 21.” Chinese authorities recently arrested 500 members of a doomsday cult that was noisily predicting Dec. 21 as the day. The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos writes that “China is more taken with doomsday talk than you might expect,” something the government takes very seriously. “China has a long history of religion-infused political rebellions,” he writes.

A new, award-winning book by historian Stephen Platt documents the Taiping Rebellion, a 19th-century religious insurrection that ended in tens of millions of deaths. Osnos writes, “But these days the Party is especially uncomfortable with obscure religious beliefs because, in the post-Socialist era, many in China have begun to hunt for something to believe.”

The government’s fear of religious groups, both extremist and non-extremist, still develops into action at times, some of it quite severe. The Post’s William Wan today reports on an astounding official campaign “quietly directing universities to root out foreigners suspected of plotting against the Communist Party by converting students to Christianity.” Here’s Wan:

The document suggests that despite small signs of religious tolerance in recent decades, China’s ruling officials retain strong suspicion of religion as a tool of the West and a threat to the party’s authoritarian rule. And with the country’s top leadership in transition and looking to consolidate power, Chinese religious leaders worry that the stance is unlikely to change in the near future.

As in the U.S., most people in China probably do not take the Mayan apocalypse prediction too seriously. Still, if the discussion in China around the Mayan calendar and its adherents seems a bit more fraught, now you’ll know why.

For more, see the posts on China's Almighty God Doomsday cult (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1202531#post1202531)


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[Drake]

why u say that mang

If you are strong, you never have to explain yourself.

[bawang]

If you are strong, you never have to explain yourself.

r u scare to explain

u poosy

[Drake]

r u scare to explain

u poosy

I already did.

A poosy would be worried about having to justify his every statement or action.

[David Jamieson]

I'm going to say it again, because it bears repeating.

The world ends every day for someone, somewhere.
In many cases, the world ends for a group of people, every day, somewhere.

That is all.

[Syn7]

@ SYN

By "same line," I was referring to what I presume is your predominately European ancestry, not Canada's small roles in abetting the U.S.A.'s imperialist actions.

By "engaging in satire," I can't speak for Drake, of course, but I suspect his comments about which tribes he wanted to wipe out may have been tongue in cheek. At least I hope so, because I don't want him to rip my arm off and beat me to death with it! :eek:

I don't really wish to go back to the Appalachian eugenics programs that Hitler was so fond of; but I do fear for the future. Never have we had so much information readily available at our fingertips, there is no excuse for ignorance nowadays...yet it seems the masses can't be bothered to pull themselves away from porn and FB for 20 minutes a day to better themselves. It's worrisome.

Anything Bawang says? Who can tell???

My feelings...no offense taken. Your preaching to the choir. I really do love my country and I am really ashamed of a lot of the bad things we've done. I know other countries do horrible things too. I really hate it when that's used as an excuse for what we do. It doesn't justify it. If we are the richest, most powerful country in the world, perhaps we shouldn't allow our CIA to engage in the crap you'd expect from a banana republic dictator.

What am I doing?...I'm always posting about current events, debating with people who disagree, trying to educate those who are clueless, if they have any interest at all in these matters. It's not much and maybe just a bit better than complaining; but I feel we have no recourse politically and if I start blowing up those responsible, I'm not really becoming the change...so I guess I do what I can from my limited platform.


Nah, I'm 99% sure that Drake is dead serious. He's said stuff like that before. He makes blanket statements then another statement rather than a reasonable answer to any questions about the first statement.

Meh, "intelligence", what are you gonna do? They are evasive by nature..

How's the loss tasting Drake? You wipe out the Taliban yet?

Kisses.

[Drake]

Largely, yes. OBL is dead and Karzai is pres. ANA and ANP are taking the lead as we leave. Not a bad end state if you ask me. Did better than the Russians, that's for sure.

[Syn7]

Largely, yes. OBL is dead and Karzai is pres. ANA and ANP are taking the lead as we leave. Not a bad end state if you ask me. Did better than the Russians, that's for sure.

That means nothing until you leave and we can look back after a few years. Don't get me wrong, I think it's great women get to go to school and no doubt the Taliban sucks. But unless you invade Pakistan and pretty much every other country in the area, you rally aren't gonna have the lasting effect to justify the price tag.

As soon as you leave, these people are gonna have to keep fighting this war. I'm not so sure they are up to the task. Look at all the deserters. Look at all the defections. So basically you have trained one more force that can be used to teach a new generation how to hurt those they disagree with. This isn't a problem any American can solve. It will take time, blood, sweat and a ton of Afghan cajones. We'll see.


Just how many times do you have to arm and train a force juist to have it come back and bite you before you learn to stfu and stay out of other peoples biz, even when it is hard to watch. Imagine what could have been done socially with that money. You spent trillions on a bandaid and an attempt at manipulating public opinion. Time will tell, but I think I have a pretty good idea as to what will happen based on every other freakin example in the history of mankind. But no, of course, this time it's different. :rolleyes:


SO what is your background, Drake? Why does your line deserve to exist?

[Drake]

So where is the loss you described? You sound like it's still up in air.

[Kellen Bassette]

Nah, I'm 99% sure that Drake is dead serious.

Kisses.

I'm still new here...it can be pretty tough to decipher someones core beliefs from type and the occasional emoticon sometimes...:rolleyes:

[Syn7]

I'm still new here...it can be pretty tough to decipher someones core beliefs from type and the occasional emoticon sometimes...:rolleyes:

Yup, just takes time.

Drakes alright. Just has some ideas I disagree with.

[bawang]

I already did.

A poosy would be worried about having to justify his every statement or action.

a man justifies his actions. a woman doesnt justify her actions. women are emotional and irrational.

when you say something confusing, perplexing, and outright stupid on the internet i expect answers, because humans are thinking creatures. only beasts dont need to ask why.

[Syn7]

Naw, he's a bad ass. He doesn't have to explain anything to anyone to participate in a meaningful way. His awesomeness is more than enough explanation.

[Drake]

Naw, he's a bad ass. He doesn't have to explain anything to anyone to participate in a meaningful way. His awesomeness is more than enough explanation.

See, Bawang? At least somebody here gets it. :D

[Drake]

a man justifies his actions. a woman doesnt justify her actions. women are emotional and irrational.

when you say something confusing, perplexing, and outright stupid on the internet i expect answers, because humans are thinking creatures. only beasts dont need to ask why.

Beasts don't need to know why. Humans prefer answers that appeal to their ego, biases, and preconceived notions.

Religious people believe the acts of their gods need no explanation. Figure that one out.

[bawang]

Beasts don't need to know why. Humans prefer answers that appeal to their ego, biases, and preconceived notions.

Religious people believe the acts of their gods need no explanation. Figure that one out.

no. you were basically the woman that says "ive had such a bad day" and then says "i dont wanna talk about it". if you dont wanna explain further you shouldve kept your mouth shut.

[Drake]

no. you were basically the woman that says "ive had such a bad day" and then says "i dont wanna talk about it". if you dont wanna explain further you shouldve kept your mouth shut.

Why don't you shut it for me, vato? :cool:

[bawang]

Why don't you shut it for me, vato? :cool:

are you challenging me?

[Drake]

are you challenging me?

It's more like daring you. Same meaning, I imagine, though.

[Subitai]

It just rolled past Midnite into Dec 21st but it's not over untill the fat lady sings.

So what are doing right now at this moment?

For me...
I've kissed my family goodnite, wrote some Xmas emails and getting all nostalgic with my easy listening favorite by Gerry Rafferty:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSIw09oqsYo


If it be the end then I say "Peace Love and Chicken Grease Man"

God bless, "O"

[Drake]

I would be honored to fight you, though.

You would fight like a warrior, not a poosy.

[JamesC]

I'm at work. Apparently all the stores forgot the world was ending. Gearing up for the holidays and sending out lots and lots of milk

[Kellen Bassette]

I would be honored to fight you, though.

You would fight like a warrior, not a poosy.

A Bawang vs Drake, honorbound warrior death match! :eek: The Mayans were right!!!

[rett]

I've got my camera ready. Hope to get pics of the asteroid or whatever comes and try to sell them to a newspaper before it's too late.

[David Jamieson]

I'm working.

Happy Solstice pagans.

[MightyB]

He really did it! The Doctor saved us all! Apocalypse Averted!

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/382160_4465060702210_513505734_n.jpg

[MightyB]

Another point for the good guys! Looks like there's going to be a 12-22-12 after all!
http://thewriteaholicblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/supernatural-cast-cw-season-6.jpg

[wenshu]

http://i.imgur.com/VgeEG.jpg

[Scott R. Brown]

Nice to see we all made it to heaven, or at least purgatory, so we don't have to hang out here all by our lonesome!:)

[Lucas]

The world ended over here where I am. :mad:

[GeneChing]

Lio nailed it for me, although there's a storm coming here and the weather is rather gloomy.

http://assets.amuniversal.com/9eb4cef022e90130039d001dd8b71c47

[bawang]

on my way in my helicopter right now

[Lucas]

I don't know about you guys but all the end of the world fire and brimstone I'm dealing with right now is annoying. Not to mention the lakes of fire and these little red hoofed guys that keep trying to poke me with their pitch forks...

[MightyB]

I don't know about you guys but all the end of the world fire and brimstone I'm dealing with right now is annoying. Not to mention the lakes of fire and these little red hoofed guys that keep trying to poke me with their pitch forks...

Sucks to be you... I'm currently surrounded by sex starved virgins on a beautiful endless white sand beach. Lions are chillin' with lambs, and Ghandi's singing a karaoke duet with Elvis. It's pretty awesome actually.

[Drake]

on my way in my helicopter right now

I will prepare by oiling my body.

[Lucas]

On the plus side I've realized I can do what ever I want here. I found this run down anarchic city full of degenerates, theifs, murderers, harlots, and other various scum of society types. I've decided to become their king.

[Lucas]

..........

[wenshu]

A 125 lb Asian with minimal terminal hair follicles and underdeveloped sweat glands? Drake's probably done worse on a good day.

[MightyB]

All the sex has made me too weak to fight. That and the endless supply of pork ribs. These virgins really like the sex. Weird thing is that they somehow stay virgins.

[Syn7]

****, I'm already halfway through my bag and I have yet to see one ball of fire fall from the sky. I feel totally let down!!! I only have enough weed to last till tomorrow!!!

[Syn7]

on my way in my helicopter right now

What? You can't afford a G-5? Psssht, whatever.

[Syn7]

Lio nailed it for me, although there's a storm coming here and the weather is rather gloomy.

http://assets.amuniversal.com/9eb4cef022e90130039d001dd8b71c47

All that time with the whetstone, and for what??? Atleast you have sharp spades now!

[GeneChing]

If the apocalypse happens before this fight takes place, it'll be the biggest let down for for this forum ever.

Oh, and we can't officially endorse any sort of challenge matches here, so take that outside to somewhere else on the internet.

[GeneChing]

Sadly, unlike other survivalist suppliers that I've been reading about on the web, we didn't have a run of sales on monk spades (http://www.martialartsmart.com/dvdk-yr001.html).

:(

Maybe next apocalypse.

[Samwise85]

Sadly, unlike other survivalist suppliers that I've been reading about on the web, we didn't have a run of sales on monk spades (http://www.martialartsmart.com/dvdk-yr001.html).

:(

Maybe next apocalypse.

Don't worry, there will probably be another one in a couple of months :rolleyes:

[wenshu]

Fight? ..... ....

[Syn7]

Sadly, unlike other survivalist suppliers that I've been reading about on the web, we didn't have a run of sales on monk spades (http://www.martialartsmart.com/dvdk-yr001.html).

:(

Maybe next apocalypse.

That's cause they aren't fully automatic.

Spades involve, like, you know.... skill.

Who wants to get off their fat Walmart ass when they can just tool up and hunker down. You can even use one from an "extra-wide mobility scooter".

An entitlement cheque, a cheap bottle of mash, some KFC and an AR-15 w/ teflons!!! Anything less is just un-American!!!

[Syn7]

I will prepare by oiling my body.

Don't forget the bronzer, sweetheart! ;)

[GeneChing]

That would make a great name for a rock band, yes?

I didn't make the Monk Spade thing up. It was Max Brooks. I'm just trying to capitalize on it. You know, when you sell something as obscure as Monk Spades, you do whatever you can to sling 'em.

Here's a reference from Zombie Wiki:

Monk's Spade (http://zombie.wikia.com/wiki/Monk%27s_Spade)

A Monk spade, also called a Shaolin spade, is a Chinese polearm consisting of a flat spade-like blade on one end and a crescent-shaped blade on the other. In old China, Buddhist monks used to carry around spades for two purposes: one was to bury any corpses they came across on their travels and give them Buddhist rites; the second was to fend off bandits if attacked. Eventually, they were stylized and given a crescent blade on the other end.

The weapon is most effective against the undead when used as a thrusting weapon (particularly to the face); it is slightly less effective as a slashing weapon, where attacks to the neck can sever the spinal column. Max Brooks controversially calls this the best hand-to-hand weapon in event of zombie outbreak.

Pros

Essentially a polearm; very effective for keeping zombies out of reach.
Has two blades on either end so you can use both of those in combat.

Cons

Bulky and sharp, so carrying it around will be hard.
Rare.
Weighted and used differently from many other melee weapons. Somewhat steep learning curve.

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[Lucas]

All the sex has made me too weak to fight. That and the endless supply of pork ribs. These virgins really like the sex. Weird thing is that they somehow stay virgins.

I got a bum deal, and the internet connection here is kind of slow...However I did meet this pretty cool guy....I mean once you get past the horrid smell of rotten flesh and ****, the walls and floors made of living perpetual bleeding people writhing in agony, the flowing streams of blood and puss, and the throne of skulls and bones he was sitting on when I first met him...but you know, once you get past all that superficial stuff, he's a pretty down to earth guy. He's been showing me the ropes and introducing me to all the must knows and so on. He's taking me under his wing, said he has been looking for a new protege for a while and I have potential. Wish me luck!

[bawang]

A 125 lb Asian with minimal terminal hair follicles and underdeveloped sweat glands? Drake's probably done worse on a good day.

im trong. i work out wit bowflex.

If the apocalypse happens before this fight takes place, it'll be the biggest let down for for this forum ever.

Oh, and we can't officially endorse any sort of challenge matches here, so take that outside to somewhere else on the internet.

do not be scares my brother. it is merely a mental and spiritual battle. im christian. christians are most peaceful peaceful people in the entier world.

[Drake]

Gene, with the amount of revenue we can bring in, you should have "KUNG FU TAI CHI" banners everywhere, along with numerous martialartsmart.com catalogs for spectators.

[Raipizo]

I'm still alive what's going on here.

[Lucas]

I'm still alive what's going on here.

No you arent. :eek:

[Raipizo]

No you arent. :eek:

Oh..yeah..*soul ascends to heaven*

[Syn7]

UUUgh, the next scenarios are already coming out. :rolleyes:


We get no break! da dum duuumb!

[Drake]

As of 1700 Mountain time, I have lost the spiritual battle with Bawang. He appeared in my dreams and drove a diamond crucifix into my heart while performing a monkey beak strike on my soul.

I have lost.

[Syn7]

As of 1700 Mountain time, I have lost the spiritual battle with Bawang. He appeared in my dreams and drove a diamond crucifix into my heart while performing a monkey beak strike on my soul.

I have lost.

You mean he didn't finish with the yellow dragon?

[bawang]

You mean he didn't finish with the yellow dragon?

he had mistaken the dragon beak for the monkey beak. the technique was "yellow dragon splits cave". if he trained under a real sifu, he would have known the correct term.

[Syn7]

he had mistaken the dragon beak for the monkey beak. the technique was "yellow dragon splits cave". if he trained under a real sifu, he would have known the correct term.

That's what I thought. I mean, what's a "finish him" without yellow dragon techniques.... I mean, come on!!! Winning a fight means you get to take/mount your trophy....!!!

[GeneChing]

Gene, with the amount of revenue we can bring in, you should have "KUNG FU TAI CHI" banners everywhere, along with numerous martialartsmart.com catalogs for spectators.
Another missed opportunity. And I thought missing out on monk spade (http://www.martialartsmart.com/dvdk-yr001.html) sales was bad.


As of 1700 Mountain time, I have lost the spiritual battle with Bawang. He appeared in my dreams and drove a diamond crucifix into my heart while performing a monkey beak strike on my soul.

I have lost.
Honorable of you to concede. Didn't expect that. Good on you! ;)

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[Syn7]

Yeah the new ones and the "revisions" are getting ridiculous already. It's like they all had excuses ready for when the inevitable failure of their earlier predictions have them steppin all over their own dicks.

[Lebaufist]

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/64983_534802883220153_1833265084_n.jpg

Ok lets get jobs.

[GoldenBrain]

It would appear that doomsday is still a go! :eek:

According to
(http://www.2012.com.au/Father_Christ.html) the actual date after recalculating the precession of the equinox is March 21, 2013. :rolleyes:

I'm still waiting for this Nibiru or 10th planet fella to arrive. I look for it every time I pull out the ol maksutov-cassegrain but alas it's just not there. Maybe it's a dark star, those are fun to theorize about.

[Syn7]

Yeah I have heard like ten new theories since. Some people are just dumb. Like normally intelligent people being swayed by emotional retardation! Ok, some are just str8 retarded. But not all.

I feel the same way about natural design. It's bread from ignorance. We attribute weird theories to stuff we don't understand. It's cool when it's presented as just an idea. And I have no issue with personal beliefs. But there is no getting around it. It's a view based on a position of ignorance. Just like much of string theory, for example. But in this case it isn't spouted as fact and is not used to control others. That's why I love real science. It's all about ignorance. You live on the edge of ignorance and challenge everything. Where would we be if Newtonian mechanics were looked at as the end all of knowledge? We wouldn't be talking on the net, that's for sure. So to believe in one concrete spiritual philosophy automatically limits your spiritual growth to the limits built into the philosophy, and since you can't show it's true, you are willingly basking in ignorance. Some people say they know, but they don't. They just want it bad enough to fool themselves into believing they know. In science, personal experience is the lowest form of evidence. Whereas in much spirituality, it's the foundation. Scary.

While I agree it's natural to assign bull**** to what you don't know. We are at a point where we are able to use reason to deny ourselves our more unreasonable instincts. Instincts that help us to be sure, but not in this case.