2012... why does this have so much support?
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There are certain Christian sects that are waiting for this exact event to happen. Also I read a quote saying that if you say something long enough and loud enough, people will believe it (e.g. "the world will end in the year 2012"). Also, these people saw the end of the world (and dated it pretty precisely), but could not foresee their own culture's destruction by the Europeans? Doesn't seem too credible if you ask me.fluffylandmine said:
EDIT: [PS] Also, I'll be sitting on my porch on January 1, 2013 laughing my behind off at anyone who believed this 2012 nonsense.
What's really funny is that there is no evidence of any other major upheavals of ANY KIND during the previous 12 age transitions in the Mayan Calendar
so...it's more of another vote for the "people are stupid and unfortunately loud enough to be heard"
so...it's more of another vote for the "people are stupid and unfortunately loud enough to be heard"
You know, maybe the Mayan Calander ends on that date because the calander "ends". Maybe it's like a calander that you can buy from any book store just the Mayans managed to add more, but they couldn't figure anything else out past 2012? I don't know, just joined to the forums because of this thread.
The really funny thing is, they never did. That date in 2012, whatever it is, is just the date that the calendar they designed ends. They probably never expected the world to end on that date; they either thought (correctly) that their society wouldn't be around that long, or that they would just start a new calendar on that date and have a big arbitrary party.Amnestic said:
It's weird how "end of the defined calendar" got twisted into "end of the world by some unspecified means"...I don't know how that happened. The whole thing makes about as much sense as thinking (pre-2000) that the Earth would explode because of the Y2K bug.
Whats with all the Y2K is a conspiracy bull?
Y2K wasn't some fabrication, it was a computer bug that could have been very distructive, espically in old banking systems ( my uncle made a fortune fixing those). It was addressed and fixed. If it would have been ignored very bad things would have happened to your money.
And thats just in banks where I can vouch for.
The fact that the media kept fuelling the fire after most of the major systems were fixed and that the public went a little hysterical is a diffrent matter.
Y2K wasn't some fabrication, it was a computer bug that could have been very distructive, espically in old banking systems ( my uncle made a fortune fixing those). It was addressed and fixed. If it would have been ignored very bad things would have happened to your money.
And thats just in banks where I can vouch for.
The fact that the media kept fuelling the fire after most of the major systems were fixed and that the public went a little hysterical is a diffrent matter.
Agreed. Humanity, as a race, are total morons. The idea of the end of the world is a stupid idea. The world has been around for billions of years. Unless George Dubya pushes the shiney red button, or global warming FINALLY kicks in, it's gunna be around a long time moar.Amnestic said:
2012 is not going to be the end of the world because the Mayans didn't predict that would be the end, that just developed by some paranoid and misinformed idiots trying to make some money and reputation from it. december 21, 2012 is the day that the mayan calender changes and we go from the 12th age to the 13th, there is no end of the world. However, the mayans believe that when a new age arrives some drastic change happens in society and they may have actually been onto something.
The Mayans did manage to predict something special happening with their impressive calenders. They managed to predict the precise date that our planet crosses onto the horizontal plane of our galaxy. The last time this happened was around 26,000 years ago... around the same time the first major civilisations showed up. There's no way of telling what will happen, most probably nothing, but it's still incredible that they managed to predict a truely rare astrogical event occuring.
http://www.crystalinks.com/2012.html
The Mayans did manage to predict something special happening with their impressive calenders. They managed to predict the precise date that our planet crosses onto the horizontal plane of our galaxy. The last time this happened was around 26,000 years ago... around the same time the first major civilisations showed up. There's no way of telling what will happen, most probably nothing, but it's still incredible that they managed to predict a truely rare astrogical event occuring.
http://www.crystalinks.com/2012.html
The Mayan deep space observatory complimented the Mayan optical and high EM spectrum satellites so well. Who knows what they learned with that kind of equipment? I mean the Mayan radio telescope alone gave them a 1000 year leg up on us Western devils.WhitemageofDOOM said:
In seriousness though, they where slightly more then cavemen. They had gotten agriculture and where working towards discovering Iron. Their only notable achievement is getting pretty OK results from absolutely terrible theories and equipment. Your statement is beyond ridiculous.
Fucking Lakato medicine and casinos and glamorizing a stage of societal development as a lifestyle and birds and.... *goes off grumbling*
