Warp wrote:
> Chambers <Ben### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>> OK, good point.  Allow me to clarify: it's the IDEA that annoys me, and 
>> not the movie per se.
> 
>> The reason being that the idea is supposedly based on Mayan beliefs, but 
>> 5 minutes of research will show that the idea is flawed.
> 
>   Why? Speculative fiction is all about "what if?"
> 
>   "What if the Mayan calendar really predicts the end of the world in 2012,
> like some people believe, and that it will really happen?"
> 
>   If you always go with "hey, that's not true, that can't happen", then you
> ruin most movies for yourself.
> 

The key bit being: "like some people believe". We have enough idiots in 
the world already. Making a moving that plays to not just the kooks, but 
the vast number of twits likely to look at the kooks for advise on if 
its true or not, instead of say.. historians, is imho, always a bloody 
stupid idea. And, its made even more idiotic when you run ads constantly 
saying its true (even if its only an ad), and running a web site for the 
"lottery" to "win a place on the ship, when it all happens".

Another case in point. When are these people going to finally give up 
and decide their nonsense is BS, instead of selling the idea to more people:

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/10/you_only_have_a_few_days_leftt.php

Its like if the Mayan calender had predicted the end to be 4 days ofter 
it was found, according to the wackos, and they kept going, "Ah, well, 
maybe we just read it wrong and its 4 days from next Wednesday..."

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