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What’s on Your End of the World Bucket List?

Some people are convinced we all have less than week left to live. Whether or not you believe the purported Mayan prophecy, what would you do if you knew you only had a few days left?

Suppose the Mayan apocalypse prophecy that the world will end on Dec. 21 is real. What would you do if you had a few days left before the end of the world?

Would you travel? Find a long lost love? Go on some sort of binge? Tell your boss what you really think of them? Learn how to cage fight?

What would you do in La Jolla? Eat a dozen Cups cupcakes? Empty out your bank account to buy a Lamborghini at Symbolic Motor Car Co. Walk your dog on the beach? Listen to the ocean?

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Please share your mini-bucket list in comments, but keep the ideas that would result in felony arrest to yourself.

Southwestern College professor Mark Van Stone said the doomsday prediction that the world will end this week is a misinterpretation of ancient Mayan text by German scientists.

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Like NASA scientist Dr. David Morrison, Van Stone has been busy this year trying to calm nerves and prove the claims of apocalypse wrong, but despite all evidence to the contrary, some still believe.


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