"So, who are you voting for?"

[Antisocial_Worker]

silly mortals, 12/22/12 isn't the end of the world, it's the mana level reaching it's threshold and magic returning to the world.

oh boy I'm either playing too much shadowrun or not enough..............................

I live in a very weird, new age, crunchy/hippie/etcetera blibbity blah sort of town where more than a few people believe exactly that.

(And not the bit about you playing Shadowrun, either)

Naturally, I plan to vote for the candidate I'd bet money was being labeled the antichrist by the person bugging the OP.

[RetailWorkhorse]

The Mayan Calendar?

As far as I know, it's called the Long Count calendar. I think the Short Count or whatever it was called was like days of the week, and the Long Count dictated the years and decades according to their cycle. I may be getting muddled up with the Mexica/Aztec calendar but these two calendars intertwine, and every day has a number up to...about two hundred thousand or something like that? When all the permutations have been run through they start again, and 22/12/12 is the Gregorian equivelent of the next time this happens. Of course some bozo who thinks ancient civilisations were so much better than today's caught on this and said the world was going to end...I mean, seriously, who wants the world to end? Pain, fire, ow, death spring to mind!!!

We're gonna have a DOOZY of a New Year's Party, aren't we?

[Crow The Robot]

I'm voting for Hypnotoad. It commands me.

[friendofjimmyk]

Wow. I've never seen anyone take on being a religious wacko in two religions before. Seriously, what in the name of Osiris does the Mayan calendar have to do with the coming of the Antichrist?

That's what I was thinking. The Mayan calendar is not in the Bible, nor is it something most Christians would believe in because the Mayans were "uncivilized" compared to the people who conquered them.

So, this guy is looney tunes. So is his wife.

When I waited tables, I used to HATE, I mean HATE getting those stupid tracts as tips. Assholes!

Not to step on Zaphod's toes, but I think Mickey Mouse has a much stronger record and is overall more electable so I'm voting for him.

For some reason people keep assuming that I'm a good person to ask about conspiracy theories and where to score good drugs, I had a woman in her 50s pull me aside this morning to ask where she could get shrooms, she was shocked when I told her I don't know where to buy drugs other than your local pharmacy.

I can't stop laughing at this post! You know, dispatch, if you cut your damn hair you wouldn't look like such riff-raff! (just kidding - but its the long hair you know - you look like a damn hippie!)

I'm voting for Spongebob SquarePants, so there!

The senior counselor where I do my intership has a bookshelf dedicated to Spongebob. When asked about it, he said its the only thing that makes sense in the world.

At times, I don't think he's so far off...

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.

Yeah there's something special, for the first time, there is a nominee who is not an old, white male. That's special.

For the first time, a woman ran and almost won the nomination. That's special.

(the mods are going to kill me - I don't know how to combine my posts into one happy one! Sorry)

[DarkProwler]

I'm voting for Megatron. Why vote for the lesser of two evils?

[draftermatt]

Some friends asked me who I was voting for, I explained who and why, and they both said "Well I'm not voting for anyone"

Why? Because they nothing about McCain and don't wish to research it, and "Obama's Muslim background scares me"

And then got a little miffed that I had an argument against the Muslim thing.

Le Sigh

[Evil Queen]

I'm voting for Megatron. Why vote for the lesser of two evils?

Why indeed?

I change my vote to Satan. Get the worst so you know it can't get worse!

[Record Store Tough Guy]

When I waited tables, I used to HATE, I mean HATE getting those stupid tracts as tips. Assholes!

Did they ever leave the ones that looked like a five or ten dollar bill?

I actually had a woman give me one at the record store who said "Here, you look like you could use this." She buggered off before I could give the whole "Judge not, lest ye be judged" argument.

[Dilorenzo]

My usual responses to "who are you voting for" are, long version:

"Despite the fact that your country charges me taxes on everything the same as you, and that they occasionally drop another charge on me just so I can stay here longer, I don't actually get any say in any ways this country gets run. I also don't actually care about politics, please point me to the nearest beer."

Short versions:

"I don't care, beer."
"Batman."

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

It's hard to say which binder I'd rather read first, really.

[Saydrah]

Why indeed?

I change my vote to Satan. Get the worst so you know it can't get worse!

I'm voting Cthulhu!

On Topic:

I've gotten that line, too, because of the button pinned to my purse. SO came up with the perfect response, in case you're ever faced with a "CANDIDATE A IS THE ANTICHRIST" rant again:

Raving Lunatic: "Candidate A is the anti-christ!"

SO: "I disagree, but if s/he is, it doesn't change my vote-- why not give the other team a chance once in a while?"

[the toy guy]

Ralph Wiggum in '08!

[Pagan]

I'm voting for Bill the Cat and Opus.

Was it a Chick tract that they left you? (highly religious, but in the crazy way, comic books. It's googlable). They can be really scary/crazy. They can also be funny if you look at them right...but I still think they're scary.

I find them to be absolutely hysterical!

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.

*hugs* I'm right there with you. With two weeks to go, buncha exams, and taking the PTCE on 18 Aug, I don't know if I'm coming or going. And I keep forgetting to eat!

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.

I find it a little curious that that's the date for Yule that year....

We're gonna have a DOOZY of a New Year's Party, aren't we?

"Yeah, they say two thousand one one party over
Oops out of time
So tonight I'm gonna party like it's 2011
Yeah"

That doesn't really work, but y'all get it!

I can't stop laughing at this post! You know, dispatch, if you cut your damn hair you wouldn't look like such riff-raff!

Huh, he doesn't look anything like Riff Raff!

Some friends asked me who I was voting for, I explained who and why, and they both said "Well I'm not voting for anyone

I've had people tell me that I wasted my vote because I didn't vote for who they voted for. The only way you waste your vote is if you don't vote at all!

[wagegoth]

I believe that Candidate A is the Antichrist comes from the Tim LeHaye books. Warning: I have not read them, this is just what I've been told. One of the signs of the end of days and the Rapture coming is the election of a black president. So, from what I've heard, the eager Rapturists are looking to vote for Obama in the hope of bringing on the end times. It's related to those Christian groups that give money to Israel because they believe that Israel must exist or Armageddon will not come.


I'll be making some offerings tonight to the Goddesses for my sanity.

[cinema guy]

(And not the bit about you playing Shadowrun, either)

I'm voting for Dunklezahn.

[Amethyst Hunter]

I believe that Candidate A is the Antichrist comes from the Tim LeHaye books. Warning: I have not read them, this is just what I've been told.

Don't bother. Your brain will thank you immensely for it.

Fellow CSers, lend me thine ears! You should all vote for...ME. I will tax the shit out of you and blow all the money on things directly related to my own personal amusement, I will enforce my personal beliefs on all of you (meaning you will all have to worship pizza and chocolate or else face disembowelment at the hands of the 867 Nunavuters), I will bring back public hangings and guillotinings, I will invade any place that pisses me off, or even just for the fun of it, and use weapons of mass distraction to annoy any competition enough to make them drop out of the race.

Hey....at least I'm *honest* about my dictatorial ambitions.