2012

[averygoodun42]

"I've had two teenagers who were considering killing themselves, because they didn't want to be around when the world ends. Two women in the last two weeks said they were contemplating killing their children and themselves so they wouldn't have to suffer through the end of the world."
-- NASA Astrobiology Institute scientist David Morrison, on 2012 fears


Okay, the kids and teenagers should be protected from their parents or themselves, but the adults? Seriously, could we just accept their loss of life for that reason as instant nominations for the Darwin award? Except that some of them have already reproduced... Hm. Honorary nominees?

For the record, I will not be killing myself or my child because of an irrational, unproven fear that the world will end suddenly - more than TWO YEARS FROM NOW. I know you're all disappointed, but I'm resolute in this.

Besides which, if the world actually does end, I'll cease to care about living anyway. And at least there would be a guaranteed adrenaline rush to guide me out. Some people pay lots of money for that rush, and we'd all be getting it for free! I call that a sweet deal!

Not that the world actually will end. At least, not as we know it. ;-)

Comments

[droxy.livejournal.com]

Yes, the nuclear flash will incinerate us instantly so there's no need for ending it early..XD (sarcastic joke)

People are so effing stupid. Everythime i think the bar can't go lower i am proven wrong.

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

I'd heard it was mistranslated and should actually be 2102 instead, though alas this may be a rumor. But my favorite quote on the subject: Mayan archaeologist Jose Huchm complains that, "If I went to some Mayan-speaking communities and asked people what is going to happen in 2012, they wouldn't have any idea. That the world is going to end? They wouldn't believe you. We have real concerns these days, like rain."[

[millennia2.livejournal.com]

I find it amazing that people actually believe the world is going to end in 2012 and are willing to kill themselves and their children. What is this world coming to?

[zalena.livejournal.com]

Where did you find this?

I'm not at all surprised by this because I grew up with the rapture-doompacalypse. Considering the kind of cosmology that considers the only world worth living for is the next one, I'm surprised suicide cults don't happen more often. This, in my opinion, is the reason for the serious taboo against suicide in most Xtian cultures.

After 9-11 I considered sterilization because of the fear of seeing my children suffer and/or starve, not in any far-out doompacalypse kind of way, but in the ordinary ones that happen all the time, anyway. I don't know if I feel that way now, but I am facing the real, default, possibility that I will not have biological children of my own.

What makes me sick is our fascination with imaginary doompacalypse at the expense of real world---often preventable---tragedy.

P.S.

[zalena.livejournal.com]

That being said, I have a secret glee every time I see NYC go down. I don't want this to happen in the real world, obviously, but the fantasy of wiping that city off the planet is an occasional comfort to me. I suspect I'm not the only one who feels this way.

Also: the Eiffel Tower. Who needs it? I wonder if the designer of that tower (who also built the Statue of Liberty) realized that he was building such recognizable symbols and such frequent targets of imaginary destruction?