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Mayan apocalypse: panic spreads as December 21 nears
The London Daily Telegraph ^ | December 7, 2012 | Nick Allen, Los Angeles, Malcolm Moore in Beijing and Tom Parfitt in Moscow

Posted on 12/07/2012 7:10:55 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Ahead of December 21, which marks the conclusion of the 5,125-year "Long Count" Mayan calendar, panic buying of candles and essentials has been reported in China and Russia, along with an explosion in sales of survival shelters in America. In France believers were preparing to converge on a mountain where they believe aliens will rescue them.

The precise manner of Armageddon remains vague, ranging from a catastrophic celestial collision between Earth and the mythical planet Nibiru, also known as Planet X, a disastrous crash with a comet, or the annihilation of civilisation by a giant solar storm.

In America Ron Hubbard, a manufacturer of hi-tech underground survival shelters, has seen his business explode.

"We've gone from one a month to one a day," he said. "I don't have an opinion on the Mayan calendar but, when astrophysicists come to me, buy my shelters and tell me to be prepared for solar flares, radiation, EMPs (electromagnetic pulses) ... I'm going underground on the 19th and coming out on the 23rd. It's just in case anybody's right."(continued)

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Science; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: apocalypse; archaeoastronomy; emp; endtimes; godsgravesglyphs; maya; mayancalendar; mayans; ohsomysteriouso; panic; weathington
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1 posted on 12/07/2012 7:11:05 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

My FReeper birthday

I’m a FReeper of the epoxy clips.


2 posted on 12/07/2012 7:12:54 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
My “prepping”, such as it is, has nothing to do with December 21, 2012, and everything to do with (by God's grace no more than) the time between now and January 20, 2017.
3 posted on 12/07/2012 7:14:47 PM PST by ExGeeEye (I'll give y'all 90 days for the wounds to heal; then we start on 2014. Carpe GOP!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Mayan Calendar does not have an ending


4 posted on 12/07/2012 7:15:29 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’ll be on a ship in the middle of the Caribbean..

I guess the Bermuda Triangle might be a danger...

other than that...

Do the Mayans know about this ???


5 posted on 12/07/2012 7:15:51 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This is good news!

Usually, the stupid people don’t suffer any consequences for their stupidity!


6 posted on 12/07/2012 7:16:36 PM PST by G Larry (Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No one can possibly know what will happen. There is significance in an end of a culture’s calendar, however.


7 posted on 12/07/2012 7:16:49 PM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (IMPEACH OBAMA)
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To: GeronL

My calendar ends on December 31st.


8 posted on 12/07/2012 7:17:44 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: cripplecreek

My daughter’s birthhday. She’s put up with this nonsense for the past fsw years and she’s pretty sick of it.


9 posted on 12/07/2012 7:18:57 PM PST by Ol' Sox
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m putting my money on some kind of Obama-caused s_ _ _ storm.


10 posted on 12/07/2012 7:19:01 PM PST by John W (Viva Cristo Rey!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Going to have my hair done and go to a party that evening. Nothing messes with my hair appointments or parties. Nothing.

I just think those Mayans or whoever just ran out of room on that calender of theirs. Then too, this 2012 year thing? Different groups figure different times from the birth of Yashua. Who's to say who is correct? I say just party on.

11 posted on 12/07/2012 7:19:01 PM PST by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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I am not panicked about the Mayan Calendar thing. I am more worried about what my wife is doing with her credit card and what the simpletons in Washington are doing with the public’s credit card.

The apocalypse will be fully realized when I get the post Christmas bill and when the people of the US realize that their credit card is maxed out.


12 posted on 12/07/2012 7:20:10 PM PST by 3Fingas (Sons and Daughters of Freedom, Committee of Correspondence)
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America

even crazy Wikipedia has debunked it.

There is no ending to the Calendar...

as a matter of fact....

1 Alautun is 63,081,429 YEARS

It hasn’t been needed yet though.


13 posted on 12/07/2012 7:23:38 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Santo y Blue Demon will save us:


14 posted on 12/07/2012 7:24:14 PM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I have way to many things to worry about to be concerned about the end of the world.


15 posted on 12/07/2012 7:24:29 PM PST by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Matthew 24:36

But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

No reason to panic. If you live everyday as if the return of Jesus is imminent, you have no reason to either panic or fear.

If your life doesn’t reflect a daily anticipation of the return of Jesus, then get right with G_d and fear no more.


16 posted on 12/07/2012 7:25:50 PM PST by doc1019 (Women have a choice, unborn babies don't.)
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I don't really have much of a concern about 21 December. My Russian wife, on the other hand is quite nervous. We have Russian TVoIP in our house and the Russian stations we watch have been talking up this apocalypse nearly non-stop. She wants us all to uproot from Florida and buy a home in Novosibirsk where she is sure we'll be safe.

With the impending American financial apocalypse, Novosibirsk is looking more and more like a not so bad idea. Who knows? My navy pension might go a long ways!

17 posted on 12/07/2012 7:26:30 PM PST by Drew68
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Get saved .. born again .. and

VOILA !

No more panic.

18 posted on 12/07/2012 7:27:03 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're truePRIMO !!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Mayans missed it by 45 days or so.


19 posted on 12/07/2012 7:27:37 PM PST by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/?)
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To: GeronL
The Mayan Calendar does not have an ending

...but the time_t apocalypse is a reality in 2038. I'll be long dead by then so I'm not real worried about any of my applications going back to The Epoch on 32-bit platforms. :-)

20 posted on 12/07/2012 7:28:51 PM PST by re_nortex (DP...that's what I like about Texas.)
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