What do you do if the Change of the World doesn't happen?, page 1
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Topic started on 3-6-2009 @ 02:40 PM by scraze

What would you do if the Change (End/New Beginning/etc.) of the World as it has been predicted, does not come to pass?



Like a lot of others, I've been wondering about the nature of the predictions and followers - simply because it seems to be a large part of our culture (many papers&tabloids have horoscopes, for example). So this thread is mainly here as some kind of social-dynamic open survey, or a platform to share experiences.

I know there are a lot of predictions out there about a changing world - an ending world/a new beginning, world peace, an era of enslavement, etc. - and maybe you subscribe heavily to one or a little bit to all of them, etc.
What does it mean if one passes without the predicted events? What is the relevance of such a failing prediction?

Would you reflect on why this prediction might have been wrong? Do you discard all other predictions that share this flaw? Maybe you discard the whole line of thought, or discard nothing, or just look for better sources? Do you party like bananas if it's a scary prediction (like 2000)? Or do you recheck all your sources to see if you could have known that it was a false prediction?

Basically.. what would you do? And if you have had a prediction fail on you before, what did you do?
If it's not too much trouble for you, it would be cool to know how much you know/knew (in a nutshell), how concerned you are/were, how much you believe(d) in it and the emotional relevance - for example:


Back in '99 I was pretty concerned if computers would really crash/error on the so called
millennium bug of the year 2000; it could heavily damage our administrations (imagine getting wrong dates for everything). However, I did not know whether it was true or how it would work exactly, just that computers might go haywire: so I was placing my bets 'n hopes on some kind of urban legend. I wasn't really scared of anything, went out as I normally would (didn't party like it was 1999 at that time yet ;]) - but I was actually quite relieved when nothing seemed to happen; it was very nice to be sure the big scare was bogus.
Since then I've been checking on the theory and indeed the 'big scare' doesn't make a lot of sense. The problem would only arise for programs using just the last 2 digits to indicate a year, but in most cases it was no problem - although some were affected. The millennium bug was just based on bad programming design! Even the early Macs from 1984 had an internal clock of 32 bits, allowing them to run up to 2038. By that time, we should really have switched to 64 bits clocks (sufficient for more than 4,000,000,000,000 years), otherwise we could be facing some real trouble.
You can read more about the real 2038 bug on this site.


Thanks to anyone posting their experience!

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reply posted on 3-6-2009 @ 03:07 PM by scraze
reply to post by WickettheRabbit



Quite ashamed that I didn't find that thread - however, it is about 2012 specifically, whereas I'm interested in all predictions about the world or society in general.
Thanks for the link though and quick too!

edit: great link actually! Indeed it has a lot of food for thought; 2012 is such a broad subject that almost all lines of thought must be represented though I hope this thread will be even more generic (?). Thanks again!

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