Believers in Mayan apocalypse wonder where it all went wrong
Doomsday believers tend to pick up and get on with their lives more successfully if they have strong networks of family and friends, Kent said. The grassroots nature of the Mayan apocalypse predictions is therefore troubling, he said.
“The isolated individuals who encounter these predictions on the Internet may be terribly alone,” he said. Some may be “really quite lost” in the wake of the uneventful day.
“It’s not just the usual suspects,” said DiTommaso of the 2012 apocalypse believers. “Lots of people can buy into 2012 for different reasons.”
Part of the reason that failed doomsdays can be so traumatic, Kent said, is that they appear to be a way that people grapple with their mortality. Believers usually think they’ll survive the end, whether by being one of God’s chosen people, by building an underground bunker, or by hitching a ride on a friendly UFO. If you survive the end of the world, Kent said, you never have to face your own death.
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Ummm…they believed in the Mayan apocalypse?
catmman on December 22, 2012 at 10:27 PM
It has been funny watching so many ridicule these people.
Especially, when many of the finger wavers say Jesus is coming back someday. Crazy is in the eye of the beholder, or something.
Moesart on December 22, 2012 at 10:28 PM
Plan B?
Fallon on December 22, 2012 at 10:29 PM
As a registered Republican, I know how they feel. Boy, do I know how they feel!
NavyMustang on December 22, 2012 at 10:33 PM
No one with a brain bought into this Mayan silliness. THe friggin Mayans didn’t even have the wheel … except for the one they used on their calendar. LOL. Geniuses.
But I think it’s clear that the failure of the prediction was because there weren’t enough human sacrifices to kick it off. Without thousands of flayed innocents, Mayan stuff just doesn’t work. You can’t do Mayan stuff half-way. That’s how things were in the peaceful land before the nasty Europeans came. The way lefties want to see things returned to.
ThePrimordialOrderedPair on December 22, 2012 at 10:35 PM
Heard some guest on coast to coast (yeah..I can’t sleep more than 3-4 hrs at a time), say that it was calculated wrong and theres something like 180 days to go.
Its always something.
Mimzey on December 22, 2012 at 10:35 PM
What a bunch of maroons. Until very recently I didn’t think people really believed in it. I thought it was just an internet meme that people played along with. I suppose you really can get people to fall for just about anything.
dczombie on December 22, 2012 at 10:36 PM
Here we go with the false narrative – most Preppers weren’t getting ready for Dec 21 – they are getting ready for the Donks and the dear leader to run the country into the ground.
Watch the Leftist Media now use this lie as a justification to condemn getting ready for the inevitable.
Juno77 on December 22, 2012 at 10:37 PM
Didn’t the Mayans poison their own water supply with human sacrifices?
But the Left tells us all cultures are equal – except ours, it’s worse in that case they tell us.
Juno77 on December 22, 2012 at 10:40 PM
I wonder whatever happened to this Staten Island guy from the Harold Camping doomsday cult, after May 21st, 2011 when he humiliated himself in Times Square:
Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on December 22, 2012 at 10:42 PM
People have been making Doomsday jokes like there’s no tomorrow.
Norwegian on December 22, 2012 at 10:49 PM
Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on December 22, 2012 at 11:01 PM
Not the Mayans. INCANS!
Oh, well.
locomotivebreath1901 on December 22, 2012 at 11:08 PM
Well, they can always look to Nibiru for some inspiration.
Dongemaharu on December 22, 2012 at 11:19 PM
Did you know the word “gullible” is not in the dictionary? Go ahead; look it up…
RoadRunner on December 22, 2012 at 11:38 PM
I like the way this immediately follows the Fox News item, “Second look at forcibly committing the mentally ill?”
Shy Guy on December 23, 2012 at 2:37 AM
Two words that may indicate you are on the road to ridicule: “Ancient”, “Wisdom.”
They’re like a dog whistle for new age ninnies.
Kenosha Kid on December 23, 2012 at 2:42 AM
I read that they never predicted the end of the world. It was all misinformation, much like comes out of Washington.
DanaSmiles on December 23, 2012 at 4:48 AM
Heh. You almost made me run to my Funk & Wagnalls. Excellent!
Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on December 23, 2012 at 5:01 AM
I guess it wasn’t a good idea to listen to a bunch of people who were ignorant of the date of their own demise to foretell the date of our demise, huh?
I mean, you have to have some kind of track record on these things to be taken seriously.
turfmann on December 23, 2012 at 6:46 AM
Exactly, I keep hearing over and over on the news how preppers were planning for the end of the earth…more like end of liberty.
trs on December 23, 2012 at 7:33 AM
Jesus is coming back some day.
davidk on December 23, 2012 at 8:22 AM
I think it was just because they ran out of them big rocks they used.
Oldnuke on December 23, 2012 at 8:37 AM
Why should anyone believe a doomsday prediction? So far, every one of them has failed.
Bigfoot on December 23, 2012 at 9:00 AM
I wish the word had been Obama instead.
vityas on December 23, 2012 at 9:46 AM