Is 2012 - The End Of The World (Marketing)?

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Hi Fellas,

You maybe thinking whats gone into me haha.

I am not sure if all of you has heard about this, as I was surprised when this topic fired up a few days ago while chatting on a forum that a few people where nop aware of this. As we know that some prophecies suggest that the 2012 date marks the end of the world or similar catastrophes, like the Mayan Civilization had there calendar end at 21st Dec. 2012, Nostradamus, and many other famous names suggested similar phenomenon.

Since the earth is still here, all the prophecies about the end of the world till now have failed!
But this theory about "2012 end of the world" is freaking some people out.

I was just curious to know what ya all fellows think about it?

Is it metropolitan legend?

Prophecy?

SF?

Great marketing promotion of survival-kit suppliers?

Just BS?

Found some interesting pictures and talk on other IM portals about it. I thought there could an interesting discussion at the Warrior Community and maybe get some product ideas



well it can end ..... or just be transform into something ....



that makes people change their principals... cause so many catastrofic, warming and IT will need just HUGE SOLAR FLARE



and it can reach the earth's atmospher and destroy its magnetic field



and from references from the BIBLE as it say all thing on earth will be end in FIRE..



SUN's activity is steadily increasing as noted by scientists from around the world.. (or could a volcano can end live on earth?)



Let's say that maybe we all have just 1 year for MARKETING...

So let's get on it and make some ...$$$$$$ MONEY!!

So what do you think?
Please do share you views..

I personally don't freak out, well atleast not yet cause I am simply busy making money haha.



Praney
Peace
#2012 #end #marketing #world
  • Profile picture of the author magiclouie
    Thanks for sharing all of these.

    Personally, I won't bother this kind of things, instead I am going to focus on things which are valuable to me.
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  • Profile picture of the author Will Edwards
    Yawn ... time for my morning coffee.

    It's another one of those hype things.

    I'd be prepared to make a wager that it won't happen for any sum you care to name.

    Of course, you'll have problems collecting if you're right

    Will
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  • Profile picture of the author RatRaceWatch
    This is sort of off topic and probably belongs in another section, but the truth is, no one knows when the world is going to end, so just keep doing your thing. Or go crazy and write me a check for all your money dated after the day the world is suppose to end (joking) ;0.

    I know a lot of people were taking advantage of this during the previous doom day scenario, there were even people on craigslist providing insurance for like $500 to take care of the people's pets since thoese people believed that they were suppose to be beamed into the sky during the rapture lol.
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  • Profile picture of the author dadamson
    Well.. the pictures were amusing.

    I can safely bet the world will not end in 2012.

    That's a good way to market it.. I bet 1 million dollars it won't end...

    If it does end, I owe you...

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  • Profile picture of the author Dennis Gaskill
    I built a bomb shelter. I have 5 years worth of food stored already, and will have 20 years worth before December of 2012 arrives. I have 23 guns, over $27,000 worth of ammo, and an escape tunnel leading from the shelter room in my basement to three different hidden exits, with one over 1/4 mile away.

    My bomb shelter has 2 foot reinforced concrete walls, with a 1/2 solid steel plate in the middle. The bomb room is over 900 square feet, and also has it's own hand-pumped deep well for fresh water, a windup shortwave radio and a several windup flashlights.

    There are tools, a bed, books in case I have to stay there a while, including many books about survival and living off the land. I'm ready for just about anything.

    Just kidding.

    In 2013 we'll all be laughing about 2012.

    I've already got a head start on that.


    Shouldn't this thread be in the Off Topic forum? Why yes, it should.
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  • Profile picture of the author calhoun
    This has been going on since the dawn of time. Mad dooms day prophet convinces people to hand over their credits. Been happening in the 70s 80s 90s double-Os.

    What makes people hand over their money is desperation. The idea that something greater than themselves is coming to eat them up makes them cough up dollars so that they have a chance to survive. It's sad that they want to believe in it but if it makes them feel better, let them. Negativity only breeds more negativity which could make them doomers. Can we call them doomers?

    Recently, after the tidal wave in Japan, there was that fuss over the nuclear power planet. I remember reading about these experts coming out of the sticks to show thier face on Fox or CNN. Than they started about how radiation can float over to America and that the people in California could be in danger and the things you can do and take to prevent radiation poisioning. Like taking iodine tablets.

    I bet you an iodine tablet supplier was happy that day.

    So if you can benefit from 2012, go for it, no one is stopping you.

    It's September 2011 already, better get moving.
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  • Profile picture of the author tpw
    I used to worry about all of that "End Of The World In 2012" stuff...

    I don't anymore....


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    • Profile picture of the author scsheldon33
      Originally Posted by tpw View Post

      I used to worry about all of that "End Of The World In 2012" stuff...

      I don't anymore....


      Afroman - Because I Got High - YouTube

      This is cool dude

      No one knows when will the world ends....that's my belief too
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  • Profile picture of the author AngryBird141
    Things like this shouldn't be taken too seriously. For all you know, it may just be one big marketing gimmick...just like the "millennium bug".
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    • Profile picture of the author myob
      There are huge numbers of people who do take these kind of things seriously. You can take that to the bank.
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      • Profile picture of the author tpw
        Originally Posted by myob View Post

        There are huge numbers of people who do take these kind of things seriously. You can take that to the bank.

        I have thought about that, but finding the right angle while maintaining my integrity is tough.
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        • Profile picture of the author myob
          Originally Posted by tpw View Post

          I have thought about that, but finding the right angle while maintaining my integrity is tough.
          My angle is debunking this stuff, and lampooning it. A lot of people get pissed off, but they usually buy my recommended Amazon books for the real "facts". Also, many people buy just out of curiosity. Of course the 2012 niche has an expiration date, but others like UFOs, catastrophes and conspiracies go on and on ...
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          • Profile picture of the author tpw
            Originally Posted by myob View Post

            My angle is debunking this stuff, and lampooning it. A lot of people get pissed off, but they usually buy my recommended Amazon books for the real "facts". Also, most people buy just out of curiosity. Of course the 2012 niche has an expiration date, but others like UFOs, catatrophes and conspiracies go on and on ...

            Every time I see Erich von Däniken on TV proclaiming"The Chariots of the Gods", I wonder if I am in the wrong business.
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            • Profile picture of the author myob
              Originally Posted by tpw View Post

              Every time I see Erich von Däniken on TV proclaiming"The Chariots of the Gods", I wonder if I am in the wrong business.
              Despite the fact that scientists and historians have rejected von Däniken's highly imaginative ideas, pseudoscientific evidence (most of which has been demonstrated to be fraudulently fabricated, and under illogical premises), this belief persists.
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          • Profile picture of the author shaunyb1
            I saw a hugely funny picture a week or 2 ago.

            2 Mayans were in a room. One was carving his calendar and ran out of space after doing all his carvings on it.

            The last date he managed to squeeze in was 2012.

            He turned to his friend and laughed as he said "ha ha I bet that freaks them out"

            made me laugh anyway!
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            • Profile picture of the author tpw
              Originally Posted by shaunyb1 View Post

              I saw a hugely funny picture a week or 2 ago.

              2 Mayans were in a room. One was carving his calendar and ran out of space after doing all his carvings on it.

              The last date he managed to squeeze in was 2012.

              He turned to his friend and laughed as he said "ha ha I bet that freaks them out"

              made me laugh anyway!

              That is funny...

              But I have run out of Thanks buttons...
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    I bet $2 Million the World doesn't end in 2012.

    ;-)
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    • Profile picture of the author tpw
      Originally Posted by Jonathan 2.0 View Post

      I bet $2 Million the World doesn't end in 2012.

      ;-)

      It will for those who die in 2012...
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      • Profile picture of the author Jonathan 2.0
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        Originally Posted by tpw View Post

        It will for those who die in 2012...
        As far as I know the World still exists when people leave it. And don't be a smartass /Kidding
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        • Profile picture of the author tpw
          Originally Posted by Jonathan 2.0 View Post

          And don't be a smartass /Kidding

          Do you even believe that is possible? :p
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          • Profile picture of the author Jonathan 2.0
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            Originally Posted by tpw View Post

            Do you even believe that is possible?
            (Haha) Pass. : )
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          • Profile picture of the author mantrixx
            Maybe it shouldn't be taken too literally and it could mean a change/death of/to a certain state of collective consciousness?
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  • Profile picture of the author onegoodman
    First, i do believe the end of the world will come one day,

    Now, since i don't know where, or where , i will focus on doing what i am doing for now
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  • Profile picture of the author electroglyder
    I have never seen so many people with there heads stuck up their assquse me !


    The Jap nuke is still sending out radiation,and is still poisoning the ocean surrounding the island.
    Take a minute to actually look at what is going on around the planet,and then come back with an educated answer to the mans question.
    There is a helofa lot happening,that is hard to explane. Birds and fish dying all over.
    Harp?

    So get your heads out,and come back for an intelligent discussion.
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    • Profile picture of the author Dennis Gaskill
      Originally Posted by electroglyder View Post

      I have never seen so many people with there heads stuck up their assquse me !


      The Jap nuke is still sending out radiation,and is still poisoning the ocean surrounding the island.
      Take a minute to actually look at what is going on around the planet,and then come back with an educated answer to the mans question.
      There is a helofa lot happening,that is hard to explane. Birds and fish dying all over.
      Harp?

      So get your heads out,and come back for an intelligent discussion.
      Since you're so educated about it, why don't you "explane" it to all us dummies?
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  • Profile picture of the author Don Schenk
    Gall durn ya' Bill. I listened to the Afroman on here about an hour ago and that song is stuck in my head - over, and over, and over, and over, and over...

    When this happens to me, the song often stays there for days. AAAAARRRRGggghhhhhhh.

    :-Don
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  • Profile picture of the author Hazz
    I don't really believe it to be honest as the world was supposed to end so many times before.
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  • Profile picture of the author gammon
    I think no matter the world is going on,all we need is be ourself.
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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    Have we heard about it? Do a search. It's been beat to death.

    I have never seen so many people with there heads stuck up their assquse me !
    Bite me. Real hard.

    I've been doing scientific research and reporting it here for years. Wanna tell me about all the earthquakes - ya know the things that people think are going so crazy and are barely more than there were two decades ago? Go tell the media how inane their sensationalizing is.

    We're in a magnetic pole shift, dude - what'dya expect to happen when land re-aligns with shifting poles. It happens every hundred to two hundred years. Somehow we populated to almost 7 bil after 2 pole shifts since 1700.

    You run and hide. I'm busy.
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    • Profile picture of the author Roaddog
      Originally Posted by HeySal View Post

      Have we heard about it? Do a search. It's been beat to death.


      Bite me. Real hard.

      I've been doing scientific research and reporting it here for years. Wanna tell me about all the earthquakes - ya know the things that people think are going so crazy and are barely more than there were two decades ago? Go tell the media how inane their sensationalizing is.

      We're in a magnetic pole shift, dude - what'dya expect to happen when land re-aligns with shifting poles. It happens every hundred to two hundred years. Somehow we populated to almost 7 bil after 2 pole shifts since 1700.

      You run and hide. I'm busy.

      Damnnnn...you go Big Bad Sal...


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  • Profile picture of the author kathycurtis
    If I keep on thinking about it, its just a waste of time for me. I just dwell on the things which I believe in and I just keep my faith.
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  • Profile picture of the author wackiin
    Theres alot went crazy the last time this came around thinking computers around the world would stop
    Now its 2012
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  • Profile picture of the author YasirYar
    You all would be surprised how many people take these kinds of things seriously.

    I recently met a man in a subway station who told me he was repenting for all his sins since the end of the world is near i.e. next year..

    It never fails to amaze me..
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    • Profile picture of the author tpw
      Originally Posted by YasirYar View Post

      You all would be surprised how many people take these kinds of things seriously.

      I recently met a man in a subway station who told me he was repenting for all his sins since the end of the world is near i.e. next year..

      It never fails to amaze me..

      You should not be amazed!!

      According to the 2002 "Roper Poll: UFOs & Extraterrestrial Life, Americans' Beliefs and Personal Experiences":
      • 7-of-10 Americans believe that the U.S. Government is hiding information about UFO's and Extraterrestrial Life;
      • 37% of Americans believe that man has already interacted with aliens;
      • 2% of Americans claim a personal interaction with aliens life forms; and
      • 1.4 percent, or 2.9 million Americans, say they have experienced at least four of five key events that believers of UFO abductions have identified as being of particular interest in examining whether UFO abductions might actually have taken place.


      Source: CFI - Roper 02
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      • Profile picture of the author YasirYar
        Originally Posted by tpw View Post

        You should not be amazed!!

        According to the 2002 "Roper Poll: UFOs & Extraterrestrial Life, Americans' Beliefs and Personal Experiences":
        • 7-of-10 Americans believe that the U.S. Government is hiding information about UFO's and Extraterrestrial Life;
        • 37% of Americans believe that man has already interacted with aliens;
        • 2% of Americans claim a personal interaction with aliens life forms; and
        • 1.4 percent, or 2.9 million Americans, say they have experienced at least four of five key events that believers of UFO abductions have identified as being of particular interest in examining whether UFO abductions might actually have taken place.


        Source: CFI - Roper 02

        HAHA! Wow.. oh well.. that proves my point even more..

        People are believing all kinds of things these days
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      • Profile picture of the author myob
        Originally Posted by tpw View Post

        According to the 2002 "Roper Poll: UFOs & Extraterrestrial Life, Americans' Beliefs and Personal Experiences":
        • 7-of-10 Americans believe that the U.S. Government is hiding information about UFO's and Extraterrestrial Life;
        • 37% of Americans believe that man has already interacted with aliens;
        • 2% of Americans claim a personal interaction with aliens life forms; and
        • 1.4 percent, or 2.9 million Americans, say they have experienced at least four of five key events that believers of UFO abductions have identified as being of particular interest in examining whether UFO abductions might actually have taken place.
        ^
        That is why you've just gotta love this business!
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  • Profile picture of the author Exel
    Let's say that maybe we all have just 1 year for MARKETING...

    So let's get on it and make some ...$$$$$$ MONEY!!

    So what do you think?
    Please do share you views..

    I personally don't freak out, well atleast not yet cause I am simply busy making money haha.
    I like your attitude

    The issue is very simple here - just check the history of world end prophecies,
    and you'll see that they have been wrong countless of times. For me, it is just
    unfathomable how people can even consider the possibility, like there is some new
    and revolutionary discovery about it.

    For me, the revelation moment was the year 1999. and great solar eclipse.
    There were also prophecies, ideas and whatnot how 999 is reversed 666
    and the sky will go black, devil will come and world ends. But then, nothing
    happened. I was thinking, wait a minute. If nothing of that happened in
    year 666. and 1666. why would it happen now. From then on I dropped all
    that as nonsense and they are still to prove me wrong.

    In the worst possible case, that the end of the world really comes,
    there's nothing really to be worried about - nothing will exist any more.
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  • Profile picture of the author SweetCarroll9
    Nah, not a believer myself, but I'll still go market crazy, i'd quite like a yaught just incase this happens ...
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