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This recent 2012 phenomenon is getting rather annoying.

For the uninitiated, the 2012 phenomenon = everyone thinking they are going to die because of some silly forecast made by people with extreme cases of necrophobia.

It's received some major media attention over the past few months and has even spawned a movie! Don't get me wrong, the movie 2012 looks awesome (Adam Lambert sings the soundtrack = epic already!) but the situation gets out of hand once people start taking this for real and start worrying and all when there is no conclusive evidence that we're all gonna die.

Heck, this doomsday prophecy is based off the end of a calendar! The Mayan calendar apparently ends on the 21st or 23rd of December 2012 and so therefore we're very likely going to be either (according to theories at the moment):

a) hit by a planet

b) destroyed by multiple natural disasters happening con-currently (brought about by the reversal of the north and south poles)

c) torn apart by a black hole

However the fact of the matter that makes this whole issue so silly is that in the end, it is based off a calendar created by Mayans thousands of years ago!

Back then they didn't have computers, televisions, telescopes and all that kind of technology! They probably didn't even have toilet paper (I define toilet paper as something that can wipe your ass without ripping it apart in the process)!

There are multiple reasons why their calendar ends in 2012.

Maybe they got bored of adding more dates? Calendars don't sound fun to make...

Maybe they ran out of ink? On second thought, did they even have ink?

Maybe they all just died before they could finish it? Maybe Neanderthals predicted their doom with THEIR calendar?

But I digress. I guess what I'm trying to say is that it's sad when people take these kinds of prophecies, which are purely speculative in nature and base their lives around it (i.e. young children making bucket lists, that's just really sad).

Instead of hugging your stuffed baby Jesus toy to sleep every night while praying Liverpool will win a title before 2012 (FAT HOPE!), why not embrace life and everything it can and will give if you're willing to live it?

Oh fuck this pseudo-moti/inspirational shit.

I'll go back to being racist.