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Post by Action Ace on Dec 28, 2015 19:54:58 GMT -5
Those were my first two issues of Marvel Team Up. I haven't read a Killraven or Deathlok comic since. So, is that because they represented a Gold Standard of Excellence, or because they were so wretched that they put you off the characters forever?  The issues weren't terrible, but I had no interest in the characters. Post-Apocalyptic ANYTHING hasn't done much to ignite my interest over the years. Not even Thundarr... |
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Post by spoon on Dec 28, 2015 20:17:52 GMT -5
And the Mayan 2012 thing was hilarious. I mean if they were smart enough to predict the end of the world, why are they extinct? True, true! But in their defense, it's not the Mayans who predicted the end of the world for 2012, it's the Nostradamus-Reptilian Overlords-Bermuda triangle crowd who decided to interpret the end of a cycle in the Mayan calendar as the end of times. The same bozos tried to prove that the Egyptians had somehow included the date of World War II in the specs of the pyramid of Gizah while passing over things like the end of their own empire. One has to marvel at the richness of human imagination, but it often acts like an excited colt stung by a bee! Yup. Every actually expert on Mayan culture said that the Mayans didn't consider the end of calendar cycle to be an apocalypse. Around 1985, I was a little kid and I had a picture of Mikhail Gorbachev from the newspaper on my wall. Pop culture and the news seemed to push the idea that there was a real threat of the Cold War turning hot. I felt powerless at the possible of nuclear war, but Gorbachev seemed like somebody who could be reasonable and curb all that bad Soviet stuff I feared. I was either underemployed or unemployed throughout 2009, so that was a scary time. |
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Post by dupersuper on Dec 29, 2015 8:20:04 GMT -5
1984 passed with no Big Brother, the 90's passed with no Eugenics War, 1999 passed without the moon getting blown out of orbit, 2,000 passed without planes falling from the sky, 2,012 passed without lizard gods eating us, every year crackpot preachers predicted the endtimes would be upon us passed without anything happening to change my atheist viewpoint, 2,015 passed without any one noticably stealing a sports almanac...I think we're fine. I mean, the supervolcano under Yellowstone is overdue and we're heating the planet dangerously and killing off vital ocean life and have no workable asteroid defense, but the specific number we assign to our solar rotation from an arbitrary startpoint doesn't seem to help us predict anything.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Dec 29, 2015 8:42:10 GMT -5
... 1999 passed without the moon getting blown out of orbit.... You win a CCF no- prize for that reference!  |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Dec 29, 2015 10:05:50 GMT -5
1984 passed with no Big Brother, the 90's passed with no Eugenics War, 1999 passed without the moon getting blown out of orbit, 2,000 passed without planes falling from the sky, 2,012 passed without lizard gods eating us, every year crackpot preachers predicted the endtimes would be upon us passed without anything happening to change my atheist viewpoint, 2,015 passed without any one noticably stealing a sports almanac...I think we're fine. I mean, the supervolcano under Yellowstone is overdue and we're heating the planet dangerously and killing off vital ocean life and have no workable asteroid defense, but the specific number we assign to our solar rotation from an arbitrary startpoint doesn't seem to help us predict anything. Fear controls people whether it is the name of religion, politics, or social movements. I was born into a religion that taught the generation of 1914 would not pass away before Jesus' second coming. Now I am old, married with two children, and not hide nor hair of any supernatural intervention for man's benefit. If any year should be feared, it is some distant date where man has finally brought upon their own extinction and the inhabitability of Earth due to their wasteful, violent and destructive way of life. |
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Post by DE Sinclair on Dec 29, 2015 10:48:56 GMT -5
...every year crackpot preachers predicted the endtimes would be upon us passed without anything happening to change my atheist viewpoint... Oddly enough, if the crackpot preachers bothered to read the book they claim to be preaching from, they'd realize it says in Matthew, "But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father."
So if Jesus and the angels don't know, then some guy with bad hair on a TV or radio show certainly doesn't know.
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Post by Crimebuster on Dec 29, 2015 12:32:03 GMT -5
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Post by BigPapaJoe on Dec 29, 2015 13:39:03 GMT -5
As a seventh grader I thought the world was going to explode in 2000 due to Nostradamus. I decided to spend my final hours watching some marathon on the Sci Fi channel.
In 2012 I was too concerned with life's other problems to care if the world did end due to the Mayan's predictions. At the time I had student loans so if everything went to shit at least that would be off my back.
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