December 21, 2012 - How Are You Spending Your "Last" Friday?

[ratssass]

I don't know... but if it doesn't end as advertised I guess I'll have to start Christmas shopping.

...please don't just stand in the aisle,gawking....can't you see i'm already behind the 8 ball???!!!!

 

[AgentDrex]

Believe me, I am not one of those end-of-the-world believers. Nor am I one of those David Icke followers that believe there will be a hyper-dimensional-reptilian-kitten-eater take-over of our minds.

I am one that wants a spiritual revolution to happen come this Friday. I would be happy to live in a world where, while bad stuff happens, people are able to deal with it properly instead of ignoring/denying it.

It'd also be nice to live in a logical society where I am free to smoke what I want in the privacy of my own home (or the home of a friend obviously) without intervention by some money-mismanaging, gun-on-the-hip weenies. I do not attempt to harm others. I do smoke my ciggies outside (I roll my own, so any one that says I am polluting the earth must remember, paper and tobacco are highly bio-degradable. I do not use filters.) There's no reason to believe I give second-hand smoke to people (which always turns into a silly argument with non-smokers when they say second-hand smoke is more dangerous for them. As if somehow I'm not inhaling the second-hand smoke myself as well as first-hand, and I'm holding them down blowing it in their non-smoking faces.) As for the argument that my smoke pollutes the air, I remind them that the effective volume of our atmosphere is 4.2 billion cubic km. I'm pretty sure I have little to no effect on the air compared to everything else we subject the atmosphere to. For those that say that I will end up being a burden on society and the healthcare system, poo on you. We'd have plenty of money to "coddle" me in my emphysema years if some people knew how to manage the money they steal from us (yes, that's right, I went there and said steal. Who in their right mind would voluntarily give money to people who have no clue how to spend it and argue over it while people starve, go without homes and jobs).

So, on Saturday the 22nd, I will be looking forward to reading about how the world didn't end, that the date of the apocalypse got pushed yet further away (as always) or that a spiritual awakening did happen but not over here, wherever the here is to the author (as I am sure someone will write). I'll be "polluting" the earth, my body, YOUR body with my ugly cigarette habit while getting a buzz smoking an illegal plant, taking photos and being kind to those around me as usual.

And maybe have one bourbon, one scotch and one beer.

 

[leeroix]

bartending... more like babysitting a bunch of drunks. im sure they will be out that night...

 

[AgentDrex]

bartending... more like babysitting a bunch of drunks. im sure they will be out that night...

Oh they'll be out for sure. There may even be ones that truly believe the world will end and decide to drink for the first time as a YOLO. That'll be fun. Good luck and stay safe.

 

[panblue]

Interesting to read..Y2K deserves a thread of its own and Rick's post jogged my memory. I find it curious actually that "where were you 01/01/01 isn't often a conversation I've had. It was quite a significant moment for any adult of the 20th century..and the was quite an expectant/optimistic feel to the later 1990s, with a solar eclipse right at the finish IIRC. 01/01/01, I had been out all night; I sat on top of a hill, looking East as the first light of 2000 permeated the mist covering the fields below and I thought about it all.

I remember Y2K. I was working as an overnight contract custodian at a local department store (won't mention the name but it's the place where stuff "came apart"). About ten minutes before midnight, I stopped working, grabbed a cart and headed over to electronics (specifically the TV section). There was a clock nearby and I watched it slowly tick by. Since most of the power stations were controlled by 'puters, everyone was worried there'd be a wide-spread grid blackout. I was planning on this happening as this would give me time to take as much stuff to my car as I could without fear of camera or alarm (I was young and most likely wouldn't think about doing that at my age now). Well, clock struck midnight, nothing happened. Waited another ten minutes and still nada. So I pushed the cart back to where I got it from and went back to work heavily disappointed.

If I have to be disappointed again, so be it. It would be awesome though if there was some truth to this silliness and we all take part in a mass exodus from stupidity and hate. I guess we'll see Saturday if there is less dumbness in the world. Either way, I'll be taking photos.

 

[panblue]

21/12/12..hope it heralds a massive consciousness shift for positive change. Doubt it lol. I might go shopping. Drink coffee.

 

[AgentDrex]

Drink a kind of coffee you never have before. Sing a song you've never sung. Dance a dance you never have. Do something new and random for the simple sake of doing something new and random (make it something positive thought obviously. Go out and tell a random stranger thank you for being here with us. Good luck and may peace guide us all.

 

[panblue]

Just to clarify, as I say the word "us", do I make a sweeping gesture with my hands and roll my eyes like Marty Feldman?
I can give it a try but my David Icke jumpsuit is at the dry cleaners until the 23rd.

Go out and tell a random stranger thank you for being here with us.

 

[AgentDrex]

 

[DannyLewis]

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[DannyLewis]

dec 21st 2012 is the end of the age of picses and the start of the age of aquarius, no more no less....remember the old song this is the dawning of the age of aquarius...well here it is

 

[DannyLewis]

throw a suit of clothes out next to your car and the neighbors will think WTH he made the rapture and were still here???

 

[Psytrox]

Not to ruin the fun or anything. But I read somewhere, that whoever calculated the date 21st of December, being the end of the world forgot to take into account leap years. With leap years, the world ended some time in June, if it wasnt June last year.

In any case...

I decided not to do my xmas shopping until after the 21st of december... just in case it does end...

 

[Derrel]

I hope to do a 12-hour newborn lifestyle shoot, using only natural light rays from the Sun of The Apocalypse as my light source. Oughtta' be a sweet deal! I plan on shooting 1,468 frames, and of course, fully processing ALL of them using the KickAssMWACD and GWAC Fab-U-Less Action Pack action sets, using Lightroom 4 on my Mac Pro Laptop, and then burning all the images onto DVD discs (multiple discs!) and providing my clients with hundreds of killer piccies!!! RAW images, JPEGs, web-sized JPEGs, and print-optimized files. Should take pretty much the whole last day of my life. But it'll be worth the $75 I earn doing it!!! If it's worth doing, it's worth doing all fricking day long! Right???

 

[John27]

The Mayans didn't predict the end of the world. This is the end of the cycle, and a new cycle will begin, the calendar was a wheel, it took us a long time, but we've come full circle.

There are still small tribes of people who practice the mayan traditions, and they are having a celebration on the 21st to celebrate the new cycle. Apparently someone forgot to tell the mayans that the mayans predicted the end of the world.

That said, I intend to spend my 'last friday' trying to find something that gets Derrels knickers in as much as a twist as newborn lifestyle shoots. This has got to be the 8th or 10th reference to that he's made in a couple weeks. I think I can do better! LOL (Just messin' with ya man)

Hey Derrel, I just got my first camera, A Canon Coolpix Nikon version. I think. How much should I charge for the wedding I'm shooting this afternoon? Also how do I do it? I'm going to play with the camera some after it charges, I just got it.