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[nixer]

That had a lot more to do with sanitation than alcohol consumption.

Mind that beer tends to be about 8% or less alcohol.

then there was all the torture
scurvy
bloodletting
killing for science
i didnt know they actually had a survey that gave a persentage of ppl that consumed in the middle ages, but then again im sure someone even then sold chickens cheaper than the guy down the street

[Oxylepy]

Or worse yet... If the world or life as we know it happens to end in 3 years.. You just never know..
So eat, drink, breed, and be MERRY!!!

Mesoamerican Long Count calendar

December 2012 marks the ending of the current baktun cycle of the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar. The Long Count set its "time zero" at a point in the past marking the end of the previous world and the beginning of the current one, which corresponds to either 11 or 13 August 3114 BC in the Gregorian calendar, depending on the formula used.[4]

The Long Count kept time roughly in units of 20, so 20 days made a uinal, 18 uinals, or 360 days, made a tun, 20 tuns made a katun, and 20 katuns, or 144,000 days, made up a baktun. After 13 baktuns, according to various inscriptions,[5] the baktun place resets and the count moves to a higher order.[6] So, for example, the Mayan date of 8.3.2.10.15 represents 8 baktuns, 3 katuns, 2 tuns, 10 uinals and 15 days since creation. Today, the most widely accepted correlations of the end of the thirteenth baktun, or Mayan date 13.0.0.0.0, with the Western calendar are either December 21 or December 23, 2012.[7] Even before the dating issue was settled, the early Mayanist and astronomer Maud Worcester Makemson had written in 1957 that "[t]he completion of a Great Period of 13 baktuns would have been of the utmost significance to the Maya".[8] After the correct date was determined, the anthropologist Munro S. Edmonson added that "there appears to be a strong likelihood that the eral calendar, like the year calendar, was motivated by a long-range astronomical prediction, one that made a correct solsticial forecast 2,367 years into the future in 355 B.C. [sic]".[9]

In 1966, Michael D. Coe more ambitiously claimed in The Maya that "[t]here is a suggestion . . . that Armageddon would overtake the degenerate peoples of the world and all creation on the final day of the thirteenth [baktun]. Thus ... our present universe ... [would] be annihilated on December 23, 2012, when the Great Cycle of the Long Count reaches completion."[10] These apocalyptic connotations were accepted by other scholars through the early 1990s.[11] But more recent academic scholars have specifically disputed the apocalyptic interpretation of the Long Count calendar end-date, saying instead that it would be a cause for celebration but that the cycle would continue uninterrupted by any cataclysmic event.[2]

These scholars argue that the Long Count does not end on 13.0.0.0.0.[12] In their seminal work of 1990, the Maya scholars Linda Schele and David Freidel, who reference Edmonson, argue that the Maya "did not conceive this to be the end of creation, as many have suggested."[13] They cite Mayan predictions of events to occur after the end of the 13th baktun, and note that creation date was inscribed at Coba as 13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.0.0.0.0, with twenty units above the katun. According to Schele and Friedel, these 13s should be treated as 0s, so the Coba number would be read as if it were 0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0, with the units of each column beyond the second (counting from right to left) equal to 20 times those of the previous one. This number represented "the starting point of a huge odometer of time". Schele and Freidel calculate that the date at which this odometer would run out lies some 4.134105 × 1028 years in the future, or 3 quintillion times the scientifically accepted age of the universe.

Don't be scared. just go outside and try and figure out if you can see the planets.

[nixer]

Don't be scared. just go outside and try and figure out if you can see the planets.

why would we be scared its not like anyone can stop it if it does happen

[Haydenphoto]

Don't be scared. just go outside and try and figure out if you can see the planets.

OMG Noooooooo

[Oxylepy]

why would we be scared its not like anyone can stop it if it does happen

The end of your life is a natural fear of humans. Prophets have played on this for millennia, and they currently are by telling you that the end of the world is coming in 2012, which is dumb. I have coworkers who are building bomb shelters and stocking up on food. As well as refusing to leave a neighborhood they hate (crackheads live near them) because they don't want to lose their fresh water supply (natural spring)

[nixer]

The end of your life is a natural fear of humans. Prophets have played on this for millennia, and they currently are by telling you that the end of the world is coming in 2012, which is dumb. I have coworkers who are building bomb shelters and stocking up on food. As well as refusing to leave a neighborhood they hate (crackheads live near them) because they don't want to lose their fresh water supply (natural spring)

well i must not be human or i am unnatural.
fear is the biggest controlling factor its started and ended wars, cause genocides and many many other things throughout history.

[Oxylepy]

well i must not be human or i am unnatural.
fear is the biggest controlling factor its started and ended wars, cause genocides and many many other things throughout history.

You are unnatural. you have a learned mechanism to cope with fear, notably you aren't fearing that which others do because you have taken up a specific view of fear.

Personally I'm not afraid because I think the general public is filled with gullible people who are falling for something that is a whole load of hogwash.

[Foschi Exotic Serpents]

Don't be scared. just go outside and try and figure out if you can see the planets.

LMAO!!! Obviously im not the only one on here who has seen Zeitgeist or keeps up with viewzone.com....

Something universally amazing and potentially destructive IS going to happen in Dec 2012. Thats scientific fact. But since this combo of things has never happened before in recorded history, there is no way to know if it will even be bad at all.. So like i said..

You cant worry about something that may never even be more than a cool display in the sky.. You definately cant let it make your decisions on life right now either..

If i was truly worried about that, i would not be buying the snakes i am lol

[nixer]

You are unnatural. you have a learned mechanism to cope with fear, notably you aren't fearing that which others do because you have taken up a specific view of fear.

Personally I'm not afraid because I think the general public is filled with gullible people who are falling for something that is a whole load of hogwash.

surely that is also a leading factor in me being a union ironworker. i risk my life every day a work.

[Oxylepy]

surely that is also a leading factor in me being a union ironworker. i risk my life every day a work.

Sounds more and more like a coping mechanism that is helping you be successful. But it does fly right in the face of nature. The only reason a viewpoint like that is successful is because of our current society. If you had that attitude and were living in Africa and a lion walked into your home, there is a good chance you wouldn't react as quickly as you should, reducing your own ability to survive. I'm not saying you'd die but you would have a higher likelihood of it. (note that this is an example and an extreme one)