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This sticker was spotted on a bus stop at Union and Van Ness this morning on a 2012, advertising what seems like a site with a serious discussion of Mayan mysticism, Maya-Portal.net.
The film, which hits theaters this Friday, is about the end of the world based on the on Mayan calendar, which stops at 2012.
Are Mayan mystics taking advantage of the movie 2012 to advertise their own pet projects? Because that would be pretty awesome. Or, is the movie setting up fake sites and fake graffiti with these commonly used stickers in an effort to sucker in more people? Because that would be pretty awesome too. (Although the film's studio, according to Wikipedia, also launched a "viral marketing website" supposedly operated by the film's fictional Institute for Human Continuity, "where filmgoers could register for a lottery number to be part of a small population that would be rescued from the global destruction." However, David Morrison of NASA, it seems "received over 1000 inquiries from people who thought the website was genuine." Morrison slammed the site, saying "I've even had cases of teenagers writing to me saying they are contemplating suicide because they don't want to see the world end. I think when you lie on the internet and scare children in order to make a buck, that is ethically wrong." So, you know: oops.)
Another question: are we all going to die in a couple of years in the year 2012?
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That site looks more like a gimicky Hollywood production than anything else.
FWIW, the site has been around for almost 3 years
My desk calendar doesn't go past December. Ergo, the world is going to end in two months.
I don't know how you can argue that the world won't end in 2012. I mean, besides the incredible research I have done in world wide interweb forums and YouTube comment areas, THEY MADE A MOVIE. How much more warning does one need?
Also, a lot of celebrities died this summer. Hello? Did everyone forget that? Everyone knows when more than 6 celebrities die over a 6 month period, the world will end in 3 years. FACT. You can learn more about this phenomenon on Yelp talk boards.
Actually the end of everything starts on May 21, 2011, according to a Oakland/Alameda-based Bible teacher.
Ugh. The gullibility of the human race has no limits.
I already had my 'sick-to-stomach' about this 3 years ago, and when I saw the movie coming out, it just made me sigh.
Considering the director's obsession with apocalyptic films and schadenfreude, it was not a surprise at all.
Haha, the celebrity thing made me laugh and cleared my ire. If anything it tells our generation to be a lot healthier and question what we put in our bodies for sure. All 6 died of cancer or related illnesses, didn't they.
Yeah, im more worried about cancer and global warming than I am about another movie that tells me i could die, unless I follow John Cusack around and get on his big boat.
Want some more laughs? Try http://skeptoid.com/
Another fellow skeptoid listener I see? Glad to see another logical thinker frequents sfist.
Concerning the topic, the 2012 stuff is just the 2000's rehashing of the same random pseudo-religious predictions of armageddon in the 90's and the 80's and so on.
Here's a good article on some failed end of the world predictions.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/end_wrl1.htm
and one concerning the topic of the 2012 conspiracy:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/end_wrl20.htm
Basicly this all seems like baseless hysteria which is mainly affecting Americans for the most part, the rest of the world seems less interested in the whole thing.
At least the whole Y2K bonanza had at least some merit behind it all. This 2012 stuff however, is just silly disinformation.
The 2012 new age cult thing has been around for a while. They still have regular conventions in town that tend to bleed over into the "9/11 Was An Inside Job" social circles.
There’s a few funny things about 2012.
It also crosses over with Peak Oil apocalyptic scenario. The Peak Oil theory is that we’ve already used almost half of the oil on the planet, we’ve picked all the low hanging fruit, and that going forward each barrel of oil will be harder and harder to get. Planet earth currently consumes 11 BILLION barrels of oil each 12 days (source : Mike Ruppert) and when we hit 2012 that’s when we fall off the cliff. That’s when blackouts become permanent, food production stops, the industrial revolution comes to a screeching halt and we all live in a Mad Max movie.
Funny thing about Peak Oil is that a lot of people say it’s a hoax created by the oil industry.
Funny thing about 2012 is a lot of people, even Mayans, say it’s a typo. The real number is 4000 something but 2012 just caught on, probably because it’s a sexier number.
Personally, if I was Rothschild or Rockefeller kind of guy and I had my man-made H1N1 2.0 virus in the pipeline I would drop it on Dec 21 2012 and blame it on the Mayans. Perfect boogieman.
Also, the guy who predicted the 1987 stock market crash and the fall of the Soviet Union is saying 2012 is the year the economy falls apart.
http://www.infowars.com/celente-predicts-revolution-food-riots-tax-rebellions-by-2012/
So 2012 also ties into Finical Armageddon scenarios.
And it’s the next year that Charles Manson is up for parole.
Let's not forget this movie's real crime: snubbing the Golden Gate Bridge.
http://buboblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/what-you-dont-love-us-anymore.html