Posted on 12/19/2012 10:19:13 PM PST by doug from upland
SAN DIEGO - With his gas mask on and machete in hand, Nikko Sanchez is ready for December 21.
"It does possibly mean the end of the world," said Sanchez. "I do know about the Mayan calendar, I have done some research."
The Mayan calendar only extends to December 21, 2012. Some people interpret that as a prediction for the end of the world on that date.
"I've seen how horrific people can be when they really want to be," said Sanchez.
Sanchez is a Gulf War veteran and he's ex-law enforcement. Now, he's a "prepper" -- prepared to survive the worst. He trains others to do the same, and he founded a company called SOC Tactical that, among other survival skills, teaches you how to pack a "bug out" bag, complete with medication, a self-generating light source and food for a year.
It's growing phenomenon, and Sanchez is one of at least 102 confirmed preppers in San Diego.
"People getting prepared for December 21st this year should be prepared for anything, whether it be the end of days, civil unrest, nuclear attack, hurricane, earthquake," said Sanchez.
10News met with Maya archaeologist Mark Van Stone, Ph.D., at the Mayan ruins at the Museum of Man. He's a leading scholar on the subject and author of the book "2012: Science and Prophecy of the Ancient Maya." He's also one of the few who can actually read Mayan hieroglyphs.
Click here to visit Van Stone's website
"It's gotten so out of hand because we live in a world that loves the end of the world," explained Van Stone. "The Maya did not predict an end to the world or the calendar on December 21st, 2012, but they did predict things would go on for thousands of years after 2012."
Still, for Sanchez, it's not a risk he's willing to take. He showed 10News a photo of his 10-month-old boy and said there's too much on the line.
"I would rather be looked at as a kook and know that my family has a chance at survival than them not have any survival chances at all," said Sanchez. "People ask me all the time why I prep. I prep for my family."
So, can we have fireworks when the earth goes under, or is that unseemly?
Well, MY calander goes to December 31st. I Predict that will be the end..........of 2012......
I read the first sentence and burst out laughing.
So the world is going to end, but if I’m prepared for it I’ll be alright?
So...does TSHTF at *midnight* tonight?
12:21 AM?
PM?
What time zone?
Daylight savings or standard time?
Greenwich Mean Time?
Sidereal time?
Naval Observatory time?
Time after time?
With all the leap years and 11 Gregorian calendar days missing, shouldn’t it already have come?
[does anybody really know what time it is? does anybody really care?]
Time is an artificial construct created to keep everything from happening at once.
Time has no meaning....and a narrow purple beak.
[okay...I’m done]
:)
Chiller TV is having an ‘end of the world’ Horrorpocalypse marathon followed by ‘We Survived!’ marathon the next day.
I’ve got the DVR set just in case.
http://www.chillertv.com/schedule?date=2012-12-21
I was channel surfing last nite and on the Discovery channel they had this Mayan stuff on. They had this company who bilk people out of their money for survival Houses that with stand nuclear bombs and other catastrophes. Some of their clients have ordered 20 million dollar Arcs!
Do we know what time the world is supposed to end on Friday? It could effect my meeting schedule that day.
Back when I was in San Diego 56-60 it used to be quite a good little town, with great liberty if your weren’t 21 (Tijuana), nice weather etc.
They talk of all the groups preparing for the ‘end’...
Remember “Heavens Gate” few years back?
Of course, one of these days one of these fools will be correct and be able to tell us “I told you so”.
Like the hypochondriac had on his tomb stone:
“I told you I was sick”
Yeah does it happen at GMT first and then hour by hour?
So in Alaska I have to wait 9 hours before I see anything, I hate waiting.
So...does TSHTF at *midnight* tonight?
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
We all know the world will end tomorrow.
Since tomorrow never comes, we have nothing to worry about.
Wouldn’t you know it? Our new timesheets have “End of the World” as a line item right under Jury Duty and Unpaid Furlough. If I ain’t gettin’ overtime I ain’t goin’.
Mayan calendar ends on December 21, 2012
Thank God I am not a Mayan............
I was at their pyramid in the Yucatan and have a shiny brass Mayan calendar. It's really pretty - has an ugly face in the middle and all kinds of symbols but I can't tell what time on Friday we all go down the tubes. I would say expect to make your meeting schedule and if we fall in a hole while you're doing that, well we fall in a hole.
So set your clock forward.
:)
It’s always tomorrow somewhere.
[and yesterday somewhere else]
/existential head fake
;]
The opposite of Mayan is Urine.
/sorry
If I remember correctly, the closest ‘we’ come to tomorrow is when crossing the International Date Line, even then you either lose a day (going) or pick one up (coming).
Just makes your head explode, doesn’t it?
:)
[I used to wonder about finding a way to keep going west at the right speed to perpetually avoid being anywhere “today”...nearly drove hubby nuts asking about ‘the math’]
I think we should table this discussion till SATURDAY.
If for some reason no one is here, it won’t really matter now will it.
That going West fast enough etc is like I say
“I am so far Right I am almost Left”.
Anyone that believes that crap I have a bridgee for sale!
Probably government funded.
I’ve always known that high pressure clear skies follows a cold front, but now we know that high pressure clear skies also follows a flaming/searing/scorcher front.
Not all of us. I plan to play golf on Saturday, December 22nd.
I for one, am counting on the accuracy of the Mayan Apocalypse.
(If they were wrong, I’ve got a hell of a lot of shopping to do over the weekend!)
Well, since the Mayans themselves went out of business centuries ago, there was really no point in having the calendar extend even this far.
I’m actually looking for the guys selling all their stuff cheap to get party money before the doom arrives. I have yet to find such person willing to do that. I guess they aren’t serious.
I did read of a guy in Hong Kong that sold everything. He isn’t going to be happy on Saturday.
My birthday is the 22nd, and as usual I am not looking forward to it. This year I’ll take it. ;)
The Bible says that when Jesus was asked when the world would end, He said that no one knows but his Father, (and he ain’t telling the Mayans.)
If the Mayans were so smart, why are they extinct?
I CAN GIVE AN ABSOLUTE, MONEY BACK GUARANTEE THAT THE WORLD WILL NOT END ON THE 21ST.
If I am wrong I will pay in cash......
The terrorist had an attack planned based on that orchestrated news story encouraging civil unrest.
Don't be surprised if there is another terrorist attack planned since the “spontaneous” lie with Libya fell through.
The world ends precisely at 5:11 a.m. CST, 12/21/12. I will probably sleep right thru it.
I’ll probably be standing in the backyard waiting for the dogs to pee.
What an ignominious end.
Still here, here.
You there, there?
:)
Still got five and a half hours left according to my Alaskan/Mayan countdown clock.
of course
Papua New Guinea has already declared the Mayapocalypse a bust.
Go to bed.
:)
We’re still he
At 03:11 this morning. We’ve been LEFT BEHIND!
Just noticed TCM running movie at 7AM - “The Lost Missile” a 1958 about a rogue missile heading for NY, and 1030 “The Last Man on Earth” - self description....
Nothing like scheduling a ‘survival’ movie or two for the couple of people that are (supposedly) left behind.
Well, I should have learned my lesson from “Heavens Gate” but, alas, I spent another fortune on credit cards just KNOWING that today wouldn’t come.
Time to break out my “DECEASED - No forwarding address stamp” for the plethora of bills that are heading my way.
Oh well.....Can’t LOSE all the time - I thought.
Guess will have to live in squalor waiting for the next ‘can’t miss disaster’ and continue on my rampant overspending..
Just think how BO, his favorite Boner, Pelozi, and Reed feel today.
THOSE DUMBIES BELIEVED THE MAYANS and have really left us in a quandary
The REAL PROOF is they sent their fellow travelers “HOME” to face the disaster and the only disaster they SHOULD see is their constituents tar and feathering them for ‘Blowing their allowance’ - (OUR MONEY).
BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME....
Wait’ll NEXT YEAR.
LOL
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