>Ah yes. The end of the Mayan calendar. It's what doomsday predictors have been using for a couple of decades at least now. Entirely possible. Maybe not the decline of civilization but a natural filter?
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And George Bush's fault ! ( thought I'd save Tore a post <g> )
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>>Hi all
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>>I half-jokingly think I've stumbled on to proof of the decline of civilization. According to some it'll all be over December 2012.
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>>Creativity seems to be going away. Everything seems to be a rehashing of something from before. Sampling music, Terminator the TV Series and now a new Knight Rider series. Cmon people. Do something new!
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
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Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.