Day's not over yet!

And speaking of irrational beliefs, I'll be doing my best tonight to make sure the sun comes back. You can thank me in the morning.

Day's not over yet!

Yeah, but it's already Saturday in Australia!!

And I'll be joining you, NicoleK, so here's wishing everybody a Cool Yule!

(PS new drink in place of the ale: Disaronno Amaretto and Prosecco, yum!)

Flynne:

But the Mayans weren't Australian.

(OTOH, if they were better about predicting the future, we'd still have Mayans.)

But, but, it was based on Mayan math and stuff, so it has to be troooooooooo!

So you supposed the descendants of the ancient Mayans get tired of all this claptrap? They do.

Dan Piraro had it right as well.

By the way, the links above were found by searching the phrase "Annoyed Mayans 2012."

But don't you know I'll stop the world.

Happy winter solstice. May all your days get longer.

> A big raspberry to all the wildly irrational
> beliefs out there, especially those that lead
> people to slaughter those who don't believe in
> the same unfounded crap they do.

Well, I think you're being unfair.

I'd bet the people who do the most slaughter do it amongst those who share the irrational beliefs. When it becomes practical (in the illiteracy of our times, "orrrrrrgonized" [with California finger quotes]) it becomes an economic enterprise, and that's when things really start to rock. Pickpockets work their own neighborhoods first.

Well technically we have until noon central standard time, as that is the modern time zone the Mayans resided in, that or 11am or 1pm, living in AZ I can never remember when daylight savings is, or which way the clock shifts.

But in LA that would be 10am without daylight savings shifts

or would it be midnight local time?

"I'd bet the people who do the most slaughter do it amongst those who share the irrational beliefs."

Stalin; Mao.

Damn! Now I have to clean house before my guests arrive! I was really banking on this being the end of the world.

@Sheepmommy -- I wonder how many people woke up this morning thinking, "Damn, we're still here. I guess I gotta go to work after all." Or, "Whattya mean, 'hand in our algebra homework?' I didn't think I had to do it!"

> But for the existence of neighboring Israel the Sunni
> would be completely busy slaughtering the Shiites

Zackly

Apparently, the end of the world only happens in American time. We still have until 12:11 CST. according to facebook anyway. So, you know, it must be true.

Flynne beat me to it, but here it is anyway:

"Stop worrying about the world ending today. It'a slready tomorrow in Australia." ~ Charles M. Schultz (Peanuts)

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose in the Mountains of Mist. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.

The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan

And where I sit (although not in the Mountains of Mist), the wind is rising...

Not all irrational beliefs are bad. Some of them got us where we are today.

“All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need...fantasies to make life bearable."

REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

"So we can believe the big ones?"

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

"They're not the same at all!"

YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET — Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"

MY POINT EXACTLY.”

~ Terry Pratchett (Hogfather)

[Sorry for the shouting, but Death talks in all caps.]

Conan!! I LOVE Terry Pratchett! I have ALL the Discworld books!! WoooHOOOO!

I thought Death talked like Norm MacDonald.

May all your days get longer.
Unless you're in the southern hemisphere, of course.

The Doctor Saved us!

A big raspberry to all the wildly irrational beliefs out there, especially those that lead people to slaughter those who don't believe in the same unfounded crap they do.

Agreed. While the slaughtering part is, of course, the worst, I find it amazing that any religious person believes that "God" (assuming, of course, that this "God" exists) would favor people in one religion over another.

And, speaking of people in Mexico, I'm almost finished with an interesting book: Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall. It's about the Tarahumara, who live in the Copper Canyon and are amazing long-distance runners.

I just noticed my calendar ends December 31, 2012...I think the Mayans just got it a little wrong. Maybe didn't account for leap years correctly or something.

I'm sure somewhere, some world just got swallowed by a supernova or knocked into an ice age by an asteroid.

Also, it's 5 o'clock somewhere.

Some friends say the Doctor saved us others say it was Buffy.
Personally I just want to know who was the hottie on June 1877 of the Mayan calendar, rarrr.

I guarantee this day ended for a whole lotta people. Just not for everyone.

Some friends say the Doctor saved us others say it was Buffy. -- Joe J at December 21, 2012 9:13 PM

I thought it was Angel and friends when Angel took the thirty thousand on the left…

By the way, this is a newly famous anti TSA blog written by a very well versed former TSA agent

https://takingsenseaway.wordpress.com/

The worst part of this non-event is that everyone who actually believed in the apoc was fucking their brains out on Thursday night. That means that in 9 months time, genetic inheritance being as it is, we're going to have to put up with a whole generation of gullible morons.

"have to put up with a whole generation of gullible morons."

With a slight adjustment in perception, you can see those gullible morons in a better light: gullible customers!

"I LOVE Terry Pratchett!" ~ Flynne

Yep. Nobody combines physics, philosophy, and sarcasm the way he does.

Too bad about the Alzheimer's.