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rstevenson wrote:Oh drat. I just renewed my driver's licence and now I won't need it. Waste of money!

Rob

Chris Peterson wrote:

bystander wrote:You could celebrate the beginning of a new baktun!

Mmmmm... baked tuna.

Ann wrote:Anyway, if galactic alignment is what does you in, don't you think this galaxy should have come to an end already? Doesn't it look perfectly aligned to you?

Ann

Beyond wrote:

Ann wrote:Anyway, if galactic alignment is what does you in, don't you think this galaxy should have come to an end already? Doesn't it look perfectly aligned to you?

Ann

Ah, but what's it aligned to It's tilted, to us.

Ann wrote:Okay... so what is that galactic alignment stuff anyway that's supposed to kill us?

bystander wrote:

Ann wrote:
Okay... so what is that galactic alignment stuff anyway that's supposed to kill us?

http://www.universetoday.com/30762/galactic-alignment/

http://www.universetoday.com/30762/galactic-alignment/ wrote:There has to be a moment when everything’s in perfect alignment, but the timescales are so long that astronomers couldn’t calculate it. Of course, this alignment with the center of the galaxy doesn’t have an effect on the Earth or the Solar System, it’s just like crossing an imaginary line in space, like traveling from Canada to the United States in your car.>>

saturno2 wrote:The Mayan Calendar places the end of his long count cycle on December 21, 2012.

• • 2012 Dec 21 (13.0.0.0.0)
    2012 Dec 20 (12.19.19.17.19)

bystander wrote:Maya Calendar: Long Count

December 21, 2012 is simply the day that the calendar will go to the next b'ak'tun, at Long Count 13.0.0.0.0

• • 2012 Dec 21 (13.0.0.0.0)
    2012 Dec 20 (12.19.19.17.19)

 13.0.0.0.0 : Mayan end of the world
 1 / 1 / 13 : Fiscal Cliff

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triskaidekaphobia wrote:

[b][color=#FF0000]Stall numbers at Santa Anita Park[/color][/b]

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<<Triskaidekaphobia (from Greek tris meaning "3", kai meaning "and", deka meaning "10" and phobia meaning "fear" or "morbid fear") is fear of the number 13. Triskaidekaphobia may have also affected the Vikings—it is believed that Loki in the Norse pantheon was the 13th god—more specifically, Loki was believed to have engineered the murder of Balder, and was the 13th guest to arrive at the funeral. This is perhaps related to the superstition that if 13 people gather, one of them will die in the following year. Some French aristocrats would hire themselves out as the fourteenth diner at an event, because it was believed that when thirteen diners sat together, one of them would later die. Another Norse tradition involves the myth of Norna-Gest: when the uninvited norns showed up at his birthday celebration—thus increasing the number of guests from ten to thirteen—the norns cursed the infant by magically binding his lifespan to that of a mystic candle they presented to him.

Ancient Persians believed the twelve constellations in the Zodiac controlled the months of the year, and each ruled the earth for a thousand years at the end of which the sky and earth collapsed in chaos. Therefore, the number is identified with chaos and the reason Persians leave their houses to avoid bad luck on the thirteenth day of the Persian Calendar, a tradition called Sizdah Bedar.

On Friday 13 October 1307 the Knights Templar were ordered to be arrested by Philip IV of France. It was suggested, in the book Born in Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry by John J. Robinson, that the Templars went underground among masons in England and later developed into Freemasons.

In 1881 an influential group of New Yorkers led by U.S. Civil War veteran Captain William Fowler came together to put an end to this and other superstitions. They formed a dinner cabaret club, which they called the Thirteen Club. At the first meeting, on Friday 13 January 1881 at 8:13 p.m., 13 people sat down to dine in room 13 of the venue. The guests walked under a ladder to enter the room and were seated among piles of spilled salt. Many Thirteen Clubs sprang up all over North America for the next 40 years. Their activities were regularly reported in leading newspapers, and their numbers included five future U.S. presidents, from Chester A. Arthur to Theodore Roosevelt.

Vehicle Licence plates in the Republic of Ireland are such that the first two digits represent the year of registration of the vehicle (i.e. 11 is a 2011 registered car, 12 is 2012 and so on). In late 2012 there were concerns among members of SIMI (Society of the Irish Motor Industry) that the prospect of having "13" registered vechicles may discourage motorists from buying new cars due to superstition surrounding the number thirteen and that car sales and the motor industry, (which is already ailing) would suffer as a result. This concern prompted SIMI to approach the Government of the State and request that 2013 registered vehicles have their license plates age identifier string modified to read "131" for vehicles registered in the first six months of 2013 and "132" for those registered in the latter six months of the year. As of August 2012 the government, bearing in mind the potential loss in VRT (Vehicle Registration Tax) revenue on new cars, are considering the proposal for inplementation.>>

THX1138 wrote:Does the idea of the world coming to an end on December 21st 2012 scare you? Or how about a meteor taking out the whole planet or a 1,000 year nuclear war, does that scare you? If so ha, imagine this IF YOU DARE
My mother-in-law lives with us

Rothkko wrote:

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