"So, who are you voting for?"

[jerkface11]

Does anyone really want to live in a world where you don't know what day it is on the Mayan calendar?

[Evil Queen]

Well... when all the days attack you at once, does it really matter?

<<<This poster currently has no idea what day it is. All she knows is she has to go to work. As usual. crud.

[Bramblerose]

Yeah, I've seen those booklets. Chick Publications. I'm suing them to get my religion back.

Good luck and I wish you well. I agree.

It's so weird- someone with little education strings up some weird timeline in the Bible that no one in the previous 1700 years has done and now it's a major part of the political process of the US. Hep me.

[SuperB]

If he's predicting the end of the world he obviously doesn't know his Bible very well at all.

[Misanthropical]

I'm voting for Spongebob SquarePants, so there!

[HawaiianShirts]

As far as voting goes, if I'm at work, I just tell customers that I haven't decided yet. If I'm off the clock and get asked that by a stranger, I'll tell them that I'm thinking about running as an independent jumping into the race at the last minute and ask if they'd like to make a donation. (Sadly, I don't get to do that second one very much, and it's never worked.)

I guess I'm lucky. I don't get many doomsday theorists at my current job. They're more likely to just be babblers who'll talk to anyone about anything. I get those who are overly paranoid about computer viruses and hackers and government espionage, but they're usually harmless.

Actually, I kinda like listening to the crazies and their theories. That is, if I'm doing so on my own time or I simply have nothing better to do at work. You get a lot of crazies if you ever do work for a church, even if it's just volunteer work, which I did back in 2002.
- On the morning of the 9/11 attacks, a man crossing the street opposite me said cheerily, "Lovely day for the first day of the apocalypse, isn't it?!"
- Met a woman in north Idaho who asked me for a free Bible. She'd lost hers, and she couldn't function without it. You see, when she read it, she believed God spoke to her... and told her what to make for dinner every day, what to watch on TV, and when to do the laundry.
- Met a young guy also in Idaho who said he had a vision in which God told him to ask the Mormons for money to fund his establishment of a new church / guitar and music shop in which he would sell CDs of his music and warn the world about the evils of Mormonism.

uh... the bible supposedly dates back to before the Mayan calendar. So... the Mayans aren't in it.

Yeah, that and the two were developed on different continents separated by several thousand miles worth of open ocean!

[erasily_ani]

My answer to "who are you voting for" has been the same since 2000, the first year I got asked that question. "Dumbledore".

I mean, really, it's none of their business. Besides, there is no "right" answer to that question and whether you like their candidate or not, that's just not something you usually want to get into with random strangers.

[Gurndigarn]

Yah, but there's something special about this election. I'm not sure what it is, but I've been hearing more conspiracy theories about candidates in this election than in the past five presidential elections combined. It's never quite the same conspiracy, either, which is what really gets me.

[zzapp the witch]

Off topic: The boyfriend's still cracking up at the members of my mother's church (LDS) saying, "Oh! You're a Lamanite!" when they first met him. (Very obviously Native American).

On topic: Woot Chick Tracts! Send em here, I collect them. I keep them in a binder right next to my Tijuana Bibles.

[penguingeekgod]

You see, when she read it, she believed God spoke to her... and told her what to make for dinner every day, what to watch on TV, and when to do the laundry.

*shudders* I dated a girl like that... *shudders*

[RayvenQ]

Yeah, that and the two were developed on different continents separated by several thousand miles worth of open ocean!

Like a simple thing like common sense and truth is going to get in the way of SC logic

[JLRodgers]

The nice little Dec 21, 2012 date.... actually it's said that the Myan calendar doesn't end it repeats -- they didn't believe in a linear timeline.

[StormCMage]

*falls over laughing at all the prospective candiates everyone is voting for*

honestly I wanna vote the Henry Rollins/John Waters ticket, so far I am the only one to come up with it but its logic and insanity for the masses

[BookstoreEscapee]

I'm doing what I did last time - write-in vote for Pablo. Siestas and milkbones for everyone!

And people should read the news. Doomsday was June 12.

[AriRashkae]

April 9th (12th? not sure on the day) 2012. Apophis swings by, and depending on where exactly it passes us, it may come back and whallop us in the 2030's, also in April.

ETA: Sounds like a way to go!

(2 year old "helped" post before I was done)