Meet me back here on Dec 22, and we will discuss the false prophecy problem.

Bring a notebook and pen, because there will be a test following the lecture.

The biggest misconception is the fact that the Mayans calendar "stops" on Dec. 22, 2012. Everybody thinks there's going to be an Apocalypse. It (calendar) simply "ends".

That's it although it did end saying something "big" is going to happen. A lot of people think Jesus Christ is going to rise again or we'll have real contact with aliens and others think the big bang (as in meteorite) will hit.

I'm with Disabled Voter. See you back here on Dec. 22nd.

Have a nice weekend...

Can I have you car and bank account?

Be careful what you ask for. That fantasy thinking may have extended to his finances, in which case you'll get a junk heap and an overdraft.

I knew it wouldn't be long before corollary illusion thinkers would appear and confirm the end of the world.

The universe is a violent and indifferent place. To those people I would say to learn to live within it.

Physical planetary events don't "mean" anything.

Aw come on, don't spoil the fun.

It has nothing to do with a Mayan calendar and everything to do with that GD fracking they started in PA and now NY wants to do the same. NJ has never had so many small earthquakes until that fracking in PA started. What the hell did they expect? You can't drill in the earth's bedrock and not cause cracking in fault lines hundreds of miles away.

This is exactly what happened in Guy Arkansas and Fayette OH when they started fracking there. The Guy Fracking was felt 200 miles away in Memphis.

This is about as nuts as it needs to get. I've lived in NJ over 6 decades. We've never had so many earthquakes in one year's time. It wouldn't surprise me that NJ becomes an island detached from mainland by freaking fracking earthquakes.

When money is more important than human life, it's time to rethink what our futures will be like.

Frickin is safer than Frackin, but nobody listened to me, did they?

frankly as a fellow follower of faults...talking frick'n frack'n this find friday...friend i find the fact's fail... for freak'n earth fart info...try fanny fun facts...

I'm gonna be here with Disabled and Creek Dog. The end of the Mayan calendar is simply the end of it and you start over again from the beginning. Just like when we get to the end of the year on Dec 31, we start over again the very next day on Jan 1. We just reuse the same dates but change the year. Bunch of retards thinking the world will end on the 21st. Judging from the people in line to buy Christmas presents, they all believe we'll still be here on the 25th so the 22nd is no contest.

Yeah just like the world supposed to be end in May 21st, 2011 then October the same year. Can you tell me what went wrong that time I guess not. According to the real Bible NO ONE would know the day, date, hour, and year. Please stop with the non sense.

Aw, come on folks! That was caused by Chris Christie falling out of bed.

ma·ya (mäyə)

1. The power of a god or demon to transform a concept into an element of the sensible world.
2. The transitory, manifold appearance of the sensible world, which obscures the undifferentiated spiritual reality from which it originates; the illusory appearance of the sensible world.

Maybe the power of God's turn is next? December 21st I hope.

Ma·ya (mäyə)
n. pl. Maya or Ma·yas

1.

a. A member of a Mesoamerican Indian people inhabiting southeast Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize, whose civilization reached its height around A.D. 300-900. The Maya are noted for their architecture and city planning, their mathematics and calendar, and their hieroglyphic writing system.
b. A modern-day descendant of this people.

2. Any of the Mayan languages, especially Quiché and Yucatec.

Yes, these are the folks who made that calender.

lee-936758

What's your problem? This has nothing to do with race. You have plenty of drug addits whatever your race. Did you give thanks that you are alive? Or maybe just that you weren't born another race? Go wash your mouth and mind your business.

Just checked you out...I think you'll be on full time ignore...see ya racist like being.

Same old-Same old...............Answer my question. If my Gov. Christie were black would you attack his weight? Of course not,you would be called a racist!!!!!

My brother can fart out a 2.1er at will, but the mega blast he did at mom's house one day, I think was more than gas...if it was just gas, it set a world record for linger time.

Guess after Sandy I would be a bit on edge as well. But an earthquake under a 4.0 is nothing. We get 100's of those out here all the time. I don't even notice them anymore. A 3.0 wont even set off a car alarm out here.

Here in northern NJ, I didn't feel the one from this morning but earlier this week, we had two loud "explosion" noises in succession that shook my house and caused my dining room chandelier to rattle. They weren't caused by transformers or blasting.

I agree with ewent (1.7).

To those of you with your silly Christie "fat boy jokes" ... gosh, you're really soooo funny! (not)

Lee; you ain't too good at word association are you.

If you know of an event that happened where a Black politician/leader lives - post it. My bet is you can't post it in a way that makes it funny.

The mark of a person is their ability to laugh at them selves, not everything needs to be taken seriously.

lee-936758#1.17~~If your Governor Christy were black, you would be calling him a mooslime, food stamp gov, further confirming, your racism and bigotry.

Happen at 12:30AM..was all the black Friday shoppers running into the stores after midnight!

Herewego again- I completely agree. I just checked out lee-935758 and the comments are offensive, one-dimensional and racist. I'm putting lee on ignore as well. Lee - you are a sorry excuse for an American. Good luck with your hate filled life.

I'm in magnolia and I felt it n it was a different sound than the bigger one last year I also live only 25 miles from the epicenter of that one it cracked my foundation in 5 spots

Louie B... ((((STANDING OVATION)))) You took the words right out of my mouth. Well done, my friend! That fat bast*rd TRAITOR is a blight on the political arena. Too bad Hostess went out of business, huh, you disloyal SOB piece of sh*t...go have a salad, Michelin Man a$$tard, Christine Chrissie....

Gee Bdog...earthquaking is kinda like a hobby to me. I empathize with people outside California everytime y'all have one.

Being a native San Diegan from Iowa...I remember the terror I felt the "first time". I actually felt an earthquake back home in the early 60's. It was centered on the New Madrid fault somewhere in Missouri. I was sitting on a bus stop bench looking up at the sky outside an 8 story building. Was like a 'thump, thump, thump' more a feeling than a sound; then I thought I was seeing things as the building seemed to move back then forth one time. I looked at people around me, afraid to say anything, then an older guy said, "Darn, I think that was an earthquake." Said he had felt one when he was in San Francisco during the war.

I got up and walked down to the next bus stop in front of a one story building.

The first "real" earthquake I felt here in San Diego, I was on the 3rd deck of a barracks hastily built for WWII in 1981. Wood frame construction. I had just gotten out of the shower. When it started, I grabbed my parrot and hauld ass out to the parking lot in my skivies. I was so freaked out I didn't care about the people laughing at me.

I've gotten better since.

But I feel somewhat vindicated from all the sarcastic remarks about the country being better off if California slid off into tlhe ocean. We have earthquakes in the 1000's every year.

Seems the country needs to put the east coast, your area in particular, on anti-rejection drugs. Y'all have gone from a decade count of 170-250 since tracking counts started. Between 2000 and 2010 you had 563. Since 2010 your count is still high....but the magnitudes are much higher than your previous average of 3.0 to 4.0.

Send me a post card from Iceland if you go.

REPUB ONE: You are part of what's making the Republican Party extinct. Gov. Christie is a traitor?????

Traitor to who? He put politics aside to help the people of his state in a crisis.

So cooperation and compromise, compassion and understanding are the earmarks of a traitor?

It is people like you who think politics is more important than accomplishments and progress who are crippling this country. Tell ya' something. Your hatefullness and negativity accomplishes nothing for anyone....including you.

The Mayan calendar ends what they call the "long cycle" on this solstice. Each long cycle is considered a new world. 5,200 years ago, the date their present cycle started, major cataclismic climate changes took place, ending the world as it was known before and birthing the world we know today. They just might have been onto something.

So no, the world is not going to end on this solstice, but the way things are looking we might have a new world climate to adjust to, just as they did 5,200 years ago.

A 2.1 and all of Jersey is freakin out? Pussies!

wilman they still exist. They are not extinct. Bet you believe all the Native Americans where killed off as well. That is a myth as well.

Today, the Maya and their descendants form sizable populations throughout the Maya area and maintain a distinctive set of traditions and beliefs that are the result of the merger of pre-Columbian and post-Conquest ideas and cultures. Millions of people speak Mayan languages today; the Rabinal Achí, a play written in the Achi language, was declared a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO in 2005.

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wilman -- for the same reason your financial planner is still working past age 65.

Dec 21 2012 is the day when they come home.

Mabey it's different on the East Coast, the plates that is. We also get the hurricanes too remember.

Yeah, but they had a hurricane AND and earthquake. With the doomsday date next month, they are now in the same place Virginia was last year. May 21, earthquake and Irene. We're still here so I think they will be come Dec 22. Still, the Left coast does get bigger shakes than we do...

It isn't news where his happens everyday. But it is news where it doesn't.

How much a quake is felt depends on many things, but if you consider it would be in a different type of rock different type of quake, and the buildings aren't the same as those out west it makes sense that they felt it more than some might in other parts of the country.

I am in AL and we had a pretty small quake years ago that we heard as a loud boom, felt as jolting, and all the windows rattled pretty badly. When I lived in CA I would feel small quakes and nothing much moved with no sound, either. Just a totally different experience than the one here, and if the magnitude had been much more we would have had some damage, whereas not so much in CA.

A quake that small wouldn't really be mentioned on the West Coast. 

This wasn't ON the West Coast, Einstein.

But we do realize that most, if not all news stations think everything is about the East Coast.

Ah, so that's it! East Coast envy! Maybe if you work and study real hard, one day you'll be able to move East. In the meantime, feel free to be as pissed-off as you wish.

It probly has more to do with something sounding like it blew up then any actual shaking. If my memory serves me there was something like this a month ago, but they did not call it a quake then.

For -god you are slow on the uptake of information. Thats right, I see it is a negative god!!

This poster was saying this quake, if it happened in California, would not get any press. which they would be corrrect in saying. The rest of your post id just as stupid.

Sally Ann You are funny. California is doing so well with
its liberal policies that it is dead broke. Feel free to break away at any time
we don’t like carry all that dead weight anyway. Oh and take Nancy Pelosi and
Kim Kardashian with you please.

marty:

This poster was saying this quake, if it happened in California, would not get any press.

I know what they were saying, and it was an idiotic statement. 

As is your entire comment.

I love how Californians are always like "Oh..that's nothing". I will laugh when California breaks away into the ocean during the next major earthquake.

And yes, I think the the majority of the states West of the Mississippi River would be better off without the East Coast personna.

Sally, does it hurt to have that much empty space between your ears?

Technically, "personna" is not a word. Spelled correctly, "persona" (plural personae or personas), in the word's everyday usage, is a social role or a character played by an actor.

In the context of your comment it is a poorly chosen term. All you had to say was "would be better off without the East Coast people." Then we could move on to the real issues dealing with your prejudices and general lack of intelligence regarding the respective financial and cultural health of the east and west coasts.

Vinny, that is a geologic impossibility.

The "end of the world" coinciding with the end of the Mayan calendar is merely a gross improbability.

Destroying the integrity of the geologic substratum and associated groundwater resources in our heedless rush toward energy development is a likelihood.

Sorry Vinny we aint a-goin'. We may be pretty well flattened by one but we will be still be here.

SallyAnne...you are a TYPICAL left-wing DUMBocrat whack job, whose shoe size is larger than your I.Q. Keep your hand out while you can, beause once Blowbama realizes that his entiltlement (see: freeloading welfare pieces-of-sh*t) program is taking all the money from his Union a$$hole cronies, his special interest Vote stealers and his Chicago gangster thug butties slush fund, the gravy train will be OVER.

vinny-2249640 The probability of California breaking away into the ocean is mute. The San Andreas might some day in millions of years split off. But that is a small part of the state. And a 2.0 out here is NOTHING here is a link they happen daily it seems http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqscanv/Quakes/quakes_all.html

The one to worry about is the Madrid fault line. In the heartland. That they say could split the Nation in two. And the buildings in that area are not built to withstand higher level Quakes

When did it become a contest and why do people have to make fun of or dismiss things that don't seem to be a big deal for them? I have lived on both coasts and the ones in the east feel different than the ones in the west. So yes, considering in CA you have so many and they are often gentler (the small ones can be pretty subtle there) and affecting differently built structures with different kinds of substrate it makes sense the east, who aren't as used to earthquakes, have less sturdy structures, and more jolting types of quakes in general would notice it more.

sandwich101

dudes, it's a freaking earthquake didn't we one on the east coast not too long ago

Ummm i dunno "dude" if "WE" ( meaning you) did dont you think you would notice? but then again.."dude"....smoke much?.

sandwich101....tsk tsk... how uncareing of you.....

ummm...rose... its black friday, shouldn't you be stocking up on new tinfoil hats at bargain basement prices?

T.R. Hose...this is God's way of punishing the DUMBocrats and their LYING, HYPOCRITICAL, ARROGANT, PIECE-OF-SH*T Pretender-in-Chief for crimes against humanity and for MASSIVE voter fraud and election malpractice. KMA, Libtard. He never forgets...a$$holes like you.

If you're a card carrying Republican they really need to take your card away and boot ya out in to pasture with Mitt. Go look in the mirror and see the reason your party lost this election. Remember what happened to the dinosaurs? The GOP is following the same path thanks to neanderthals like you.

Geez, Republican, you need to take some anger management classes or more meds or something. So you lost the election? So...lots of times people don't get their candidate in office and thankfully most don't become how your posts make you look. Do you really think your attitude would convince anyone to vote for the person you back? You will survive..it's just politics and not the end of the world, and ranting and cursing won't change anything for the better.

Republicanone; petty disgusting profane nonsense.

Has it occurred to anybody that "RepublicanOne" probably is STILL on the short bus-for all we know, it's not his fault he's in love with himself-

Taz Mage...I so agree. When you've all your life in NJ and suddenly there are a half dozen earthquakes where none had been for decades, how wouldn't that point to fracking? Some people out there only care about money. They really don't care about anything else. They'd endanger the lives of everyone in NJ just to make a few billion dollars.

"[The mantle] is the engine that drives how our planet works and why we have earthquakes and volcanoes and continents. We have the textbook cartoons but detailed knowledge is lacking

http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/01/tech/mantle-earth-drill-mission/index.html

While it may be only opinionated, the Fracking alarmists who claim that fracking is causing all these issues may want to do some research into fracking technology to better educate themselves before making public opinionated comments without substantial legitimate proof to back up their claims. Fracking has been an on going way to retrieve gas and oil from tight embedded formations for 5 decades and never before seen the scrutiny and negative twisted media attention that it receives now. The big draw backs of new Fracking Technology is the amount of water needed and the lack of recycling methods not being utilized with the flow-back water, instead they haul it off and dump it into saltwater disposal wells.

What the FRACK did you just say??

taz and ewent....dont let the FRAKING FACTS that Midwest posted get in your way...rant on...

Maybe you frickin' frackin' f_ckers should read this USGS article on New Jersey earth quakes.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/states/new_jersey/history.php

Hey Einstein,

The Maya didn't use the Gregorian calendar (ours)... they had their own which was much more complex than ours and more accurate as well. The measured a complete year as 365.24 days, whereas our current time table is based on an atomic clock, which is measured as 365.22 days. Hence the need for the leap year, which the Maya did not use since they took into account the cycles of Venus and other celestial bodies. No. I don't believe the world will end. It's just a reset of their calendar, but it's pretty impressive that they calculated the day the sun would rise in alignment with the center of the Milky Way galaxy, which only occurs every 25,800 years. And these people barely grasped the concept of the wheel...

The Mayans had it going with the time thing. The wheel would not have been so important in the kind of terrain they lived in, I think.

Hahahahaahhahahhah....man that is funny. Fat bast*rd TRAITOR Christine Chrissie.

I'd call Christi a patriot and a fine American. Oh, but then I'm not clouded by partisan politics or sore loser syndrome.

The gop establishment, has already thrown Christy under the bus, for working with and thanking the POTUS Obama for all the federal help given to the NJ citizens. Same treatment they gave Gov Christ (R) Fl and forced him out of the party.

That fat bast*rd TRAITOR, Christine Chrissie is a NOBODY. He has become as IRRELEVANT as Miley Sorea$$...

How about as irrelevant as... Mitt Romney?

Who's Mitt Romney???

That explains it.

I live less than 5 miles from the area and I didn't feel any shaking, so I'm pretty sure that the roller coaster 50 miles away is still there.

As for the "accident waiting to happen" unless you're in the ocean alongside the coaster (doubtful in this weather) what kind of accident do you think is going to happen? The people in the area are more interested in taking care of their homes and cars than the boardwalk right now. But thanks for caring!

My poor spouse...sat dejected on the couch and mumbled in disbelief. The life of a Jets fan is like being on a roller coaster that mostly runs down hill...

Really? So he is unhappy with every place that has earthquakes, then? Do you know how many earthquakes there are every day? Is he unhappy with the oceans, too? There are many earthquakes out under the oceans every day...what did the oceans do to displease him?

Ah geez and here lately I thought he was pissed at the Middle East. Come on brother he's way to busy controlling the cosmos to pay attention to our piddly arses. Anyway America has come a long way toward toward righting many wrongs we were engaged in and will now continue on that path. I'd say he's a bit happier with us now than he might have been pre 60's... but then in your view I guess I'm a reprobate. Put on your tin hat and get ready for 12/21/12!!

Reprobate..........there's a fi dollah word in a 1 dollah sentence.

And on the flip side of your argument, there just might be a lot of people who are unhappy with God right about now, too.

Yep, just as the pre-election MTSU poll found the large majority of Tn voters would vote family values/ anti-abortion. Tennessees' 4th district voted for REP, Dr Scott DesJarlais(R) who encouraged/consented to his wife having 2 abortion, and at least two of his many mistresses having an abortion, during his adulterous affairs, which included his patients. DesJarlais, won re-election with 57% of the vote. Republicans are Bible thumping, family values, anti-abortion hypocrits, preaching hatred. Now the republicans, from Gov Haslam on down to every republican voter, say "the people have spoken, no need for him to resign. But they will not say the people have spoken and elected President Obama. They label him, Muslim, illegitimate, born in Kenya, not an American, food stamp president, anti-christ and on and on.

Yes Fly I agree, they are buying Christmas presents and stocking up on booze and cigars for the New Year parties.

RepublicanOne you are an mad, sad, small man. I feel sorry for you. Every comment you make is laden with hatred and anger. I hope life gets better for you.

Just look at who they voted for...God's wrath is forthcoming to idjits like New Joysians..

Well, god hand-picked Herman Cain, Michelle Bachmann and Rick Santorum, remember?

god is an idiot, and he should stay the hell out of politics.