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There have been so many predictions on the date at which the world would end, including:

-2800, -634, 1000, 1600, 1658, 1700, 1794, 1836, 1843, 1844, 1899, 1910, 1914, 1936, 1982, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2011, and now 2012 (C.G.P Grey).

And of course, everyone now believes that December 21, 2012 is the real deal...

Now, where did this date come from? This date came from the Mayan calendar, which recorded not only days and years, but cycles of about 5 millennia. And, the Mayans recording of thousands of years to the future happens to stop at the date of December 21, 2012. Now, can we assume that the end of a calendar is equal to the end of the world? Is it even logical to assume this?

Along with this, the end of the world means just the end of our planet Earth. What is the possibility that these unusual scientific phenomena (or at least as I have heard it) will occur solely onto our planet Earth? And most of all, how can anyone predict this in depth end to only our world, through scientific means? Actually, scratch that, how would the Mayans predict the end of the world through scientific means? I'm pretty sure we are making quite a large assumption that the Mayans would foresee and predict the end of the world, when they couldn't foresee and predict the Spanish crossing the atlantic.

There have been sayings: Alien invasions, a collision with the not even known Planet X, or even geomagnetic reversal, which occurs over a longer period of time than one day.

In fact, everyone has been asking so many questions about it, NASA wrote a question and answer page for everyone. Check it out. www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/feat…

But of course, this time, theres gonna be some unusual and out of the ordinary happening. Just this time. Just because it is December 21st, 2012.

P.S. - There will be a winter solstice, so don't get freaked out about that.
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Recently, I've been taking a digital imagery course, and the teacher advises us to share our pictures on as many sites as possible, so I might share a few pictures on DA.

Heres some of my digital imagery websites (follow me!), as well as the school photography website:

My Tumblr: danielfang7.tumblr.com/

My Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/74426205…

Internatonal School of Beijing 2012 Photography Website: isbphoto2012.wikispaces.com/

YHS Art Department Website: yhsartdept.ning.com/profile/Da…

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I might not be writing as much due to spending more time on the photography course, school work, and music editing but I'll try to write some more if i can.

Thanks to everyone who is still watching me and commenting on my works, I appreciate it a lot!

Also, to my fellow ISB students, check out the 2012 photography website and YHS, you might find many familiar faces in there.

Cya!
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First of all, congrats to everyone for the amazing work they put up with for the contest! It was so close, so close i had to tie two poems for second place. It was just too hard to choose between them, so I gave up in the end. Each poem was amazing in their own way, I will critique them very soon and send them as a note to all of you! Great job!

Here is the ranking each poem got:

1. The Truth by Bminus ([link])

2. Nobody Wept for Julie by ColetteBabb ([link]) and Sir Tibbles Topum by SlimT ([link])

3. Insomnia by Bminus ([link])

4. Struggling with CDO by ColetteBabb ([link])



Good job everyone who participated! What a turnout.

I will write a critique for all of them and send them as a note, and everyone will recieve their winning rewards as well as an additional feature of your poems to many of my friends and affiliates of PoetryLive!

The next PoetryLive contest may not be too long away from now, so keep in touch with PoetryLive!
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Alright guys, its gonna happen now. The moment you've all been waiting for...

2nd PoetryLive Contest has now started!

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1st Topic: Disappearance

2nd Topic: Struggling

You can choose between those topics, and anything among those lines is fine! *Any type, as in emotional, nature, horror, anything!*

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RULES:

:pointr: Maximum of two submissions, only poems are allowed to be submitted.

:pointr: Only submit original and own work.

:pointr: No poems that have recently won another competition.

:pointr: No poems that are not regular "poem" length.

:pointr: Poem must correspond to one of the two topics.

:pointr: No co-op poem writing.

:pointr: Must include that the poem you wrote is for the PoetryLive contest in the description.

:pointr: Submit to the contest folder. (Disappearance or Struggling Contest Folder)

Contest deadline: January 1st.
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REWARDS-

1st Place: -Special Feature in Group Contest Winners Folder
                 -Feature in the "Featured" Folder (without needing votes)
                 -A 1st Place Certificate
                 -Feature in my Journal Entry in "Contest Winners"
                 -Possibly a Llama Badge
                 -Feature in group "Favorites" folder
                 -Watch from me, Favorite from me, Comment from me

2nd Place: -Special Feature in Group Contest Winners Folder
                  -A 2nd Place Certificate
                  -Feature in my Journal Entry in "Contest Winners"
                  -Possibly a Llama Badge
                  -Feature in the "Featured" Folder (without needing votes)
                  -Watch from me, Favorite from me, Comment from me

3rd Place: -Special Feature in Group Contest Winners Folder
                 -A 3rd Place Certificate
                 -Feature in my Journal Entry in "Contest Winners"
                 -Watch from me, Favorite from me, Comment from me

Pretty much the same rewards as last time's contest.

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Judges: Myself

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Have fun writing! :D
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In order for more submissions, the deadline has changed to July 15th. I haven't been on DA too much, so I can't always check who is submitting and who is not.

Please try and submit a poem to the contest folder!

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Meanwhile, it's been really busy for me in Cali. Although I have a lot more free time, I have three classes every week, for one hour and thirty minutes each. That's not a lot compared to school, but it does get pretty annoying over a summer break. (Geo, writing and physics)

I probably can't write as many poems as I wanted this summer, but I guess I'll try.
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Featured

Why 2012 WILL NOT Happen by danielfang7, journal

Poetry + Photography? by danielfang7, journal

Disappearance or Struggling Contest Winners! by danielfang7, journal

2nd PoetryLive Contest! by danielfang7, journal

Poetry Live Contest Deadline Change! by danielfang7, journal